John Bauman Email & Phone Number

Le Roy, New York, United States

Greater Chicago Area

• Led 18 large cross-functional kaizen events across the site resulting in a reduction of 158 days in lead-time, reduced travel distance by more than 7,500 feet per work order, and reduced work cells by 1,700 square feet• Collaborated with site leadership to determine next kaizen events• Developed plan to rearrange and co-locate all production cells for two value streams • Site coordinator for implementation of Woodward’s Manufacturing Instruction System• Created visual dashboards using Microsoft PowerBI• Subject Matter Expert for Woodward’s Manufacturing Instruction System and Andon system• Specified, justified, and implemented multiple pieces of capital equipment• Coordinated with facilities on requirements and timelines of new cell designs• Twice nominated for Woodward’s Outstanding Operation Process Innovation award• Created a “Moonshine Shop” to improve kaizen implementation lead-time • Created standard work for creation of Part Quantity Process Routing (PQPR)• Provided training of torque and Woodward’s Manufacturing Instruction System to new members• Updated tooling designs to prevent damage to parts being pressed and so that can only be used in one direction• Collaborated with Boeing to improve Component Maintenance Manual (CMM)

Greater Chicago Area

• Implemented single piece flow in production cell reducing lead time by 85.6%• Implemented improvements in production cell to reduce cycle time by 69.3%• Wrote testing instructions and trained supplier to perform tests, saving approximately $30,000 in scrapped material, and engineering support• Changed ordering method of chemical, saving approximately $30,000 a year in overhead• Led a group of engineers to determine the root cause of hipot failures on the sync lock units, saving approximately $300,000 a year in scrapped material and rework• Worked with group of engineers to implement design changes on sync lock, saving approximately $800,000 a year in scrapped material, rework, and engineering support• Led multiple production readiness reviews with external customers• Responsible for updating work instructions, and verifying BOMs update properly when change orders are completed• Presented in both formal & in-formal settings to executives ranging for vice president to corporate executives

Greater Chicago Area

• Coordinated department move to new manufacturing facility• Developed new procedure for measuring friction torque for brush DC motor, increasing first pass yield from 16% to 98%• Participated in cross-functional Kaizen that reduced scrap of ring stacks by 100%• Updated operations routers to match current production methods• Determined disposition of non-conforming material• Performed root cause analysis of non-conforming material & implemented effective corrective actions • Created visual work instructions

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Main contact for Eaton Corporation, and Square D for Three Phase Pad-Mount Transformers• Main contact for all Canadian sales representatives for Three Phase Pad-Mount, Single Phase Pad-Mount and Single Phase Pole-Mount Transformers• Participated in Sales Force Quote Log Kaizen in which we reduced the necessary fields by 42%• Participated in daily Lean Management System meetings• Perform detailed specification reviews on Three Phase Pad-Mount Transformer Requests for Quotes (RFQ)• Developed quotations per customer specifications and RFQs• Processed orders for Three Phase Pad-Mount Transformers in the Commercial & Industrial (C&I) market• Answered product related technical questions from customers and sales force• Helped sales force with questions about Cooper quoting system

Greater Chicago Area

• Responded to assembly and testing problems on the manufacturing floor• Submitted Engineering Change Orders on production parts and assemblies• Determined disposition of nonconforming material • Authored testing and repair manuals along with ordering and verifying test equipment • Worked with quality engineers and technicians to determine root cause of failures and implement corrective actions to decrease the Cost Of Poor Quality (COPQ)• Worked with engineering from Boeing to finalize service bulletin that provided procedures to prevent functional problems with Boeing 717 speedbrake• Worked with engineers from Lockheed Martin to determine what was causing a binding condition with the F-22 throttle and introduced a new design

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Performed Production Verification testing on cam-phasing valves, and finished 3 months early• Assisted in the building of two different prototypes • Used Pro-E to design different test fixtures• Performed tolerance stack-ups to verify correct tolerances were assigned

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Proofed and corrected AutoCAD drawings and bill of materials to verify proper changes• Performed calculations on pressure vessel designs to verify factor of safety• Created general arrangement drawings for compressors built on-site• Completed drawings for customer specific projects

Masters Of Engineering Management (Mem), Engineering/Industrial Management

Bs, Mechanical Engineering