John Kim Email & Phone Number

Hercules, CA, US

St Paul, MN, US

Responsible for 3M’s Global Continuous Improvement (CI) program encompassing 180+ manufacturing operations (chemicals plants, continuous flow operations, discreet manufacturing, etc), Distribution Centers and Global Service CentersThe Global CI program supports $35+ billion, 95+k employees, across EMEA, APAC and the Americas:* Transportation & Electronics.

• Senior Director of Global Lean, responsible for Global Lean Six Sigma Strategy, mobilization models, operating mechanisms (metrics/performance) and LSS program/personnel development across the enterprise (Customer.
• Design, development, and deployment of Global Lean program across a $5+billion, 14k+ employee medical device company (Diagnostics, Life Sciences and Environmental Health).
• Transforming the legacy Lean ‘training’ program into an improvement system aligned with Operational (capacity, productivity, lead time, on time delivery, DFx, NPI Value Engineering) and Financial (Revenue, Cost.
• Managing major projects including: (Global Operations) Integration of PKI acquisitions, management/deployment of SAP hardware migration across Global Operations, working with R&D to ensure (drive) RoHS 3 compliance of.

Keynote and Workshop speaker at numerous conferences over the years (International Healthcare Summit, Shingo, AME, CFO, Oil and Gas OpEx, etc). Have had the opportunity to both share experiences and lessons learned with many sectors of the Lean community. Topics have included: - Lean Healthcare (Hospitals, Physician Practices, Home Health, Health Plans).

Lean Transformation model: including Executive, Sr Leader, and Internal Lean/six sigma program development: Hospital systems, Physician Practices, Health Plans, Manufacturing and Oil/Gas.Clients included: Healthcare: Franciscan Health, Martins Point Healthcare, Baystate Health System, Baptist Memorial, Mercy Health System, Thedacare and.

Responsible for Business Development, Delivery and Client Management. Introduced methodologies for Enterprise Wide Lean Implementation, Application of Lean into (Repetitive) Information Flows, Use of Lean in Project Management/Product Development, Lean in Software Development amongst others. Industry expertise provided in Manufacturing, Healthcare, Medical.

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Lean Consulting services company. Over an 7+ year period held positions as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and President. Led development of Lean Implementation models far beyond "Lean Manufacturing." Led Lean Transformation implementations in Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing and International Business segments.

Vice President of Operations for high voltage vacuum products. Responsibilities included transforming operation from batch to flow using Lean concepts and advanced Lean practices. Manufacturing included not only traditional flow-friendly manufacturing technologies such as traditional machine shop, kitting, assembly, test, etc, but also (more importantly).

Muscatine, IA, US

Responsible for Oak Laminate operations (My first true lean transformation). 200+ employee, $24mm operation grew to 243 employees and $72+mm operations over my tenure with ‘0’ outsourcing.Worked with Japanese Sensei (Shingijutsu) to bring structure to "Lean." Converted traditional batch production to semi flow in a laminate case goods operation. Increased.

Design, Manufacture and Service of multistage mechanical pumps. Turnaround situation. 1 of 20+ key individuals (manufacturing engineers, key department managers, plant leadership and operations leadership) brought in the lead, support, implement and deliver a operational (cost, service, quality, cash and safety) and financial (COGS, variances (labor.

Responsible for Manufacturing, Assembly, Testing and Delivery for Linear Actuator Product Line. Built first end-to-end, raw materials to ‘machined, assembled, tested, painted and packaged’ manufacturing cell (Ref mini actuator). Early training, practice and practical lessons learned on quality circles, SPC, Gage R&R, self directed work teams, materials.