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Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Mason, Ohio, United States

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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

I was privileged to serve as the Director of Operations for North America at PowerSonic Industries, overseeing a $35 million business encompassing two facilities in North America. My role was marked by a commitment to operational excellence and a relentless pursuit of efficiency and transparency.Key Achievements:- Standardization and Innovation: Spearheaded the creation of standardized documents, fostering consistency and efficiency across operations. Led Kaizen events to drive continuous improvement and enhance processes.- Employee Engagement: Initiated townhall meetings to enhance employee engagement and foster transparency within the organization. Employee ideas implementation resulted in a 25% increase in employee-driven improvements through a streamline transparent process.- Strategic Transition: Successfully transitioned production operations from the USA to Mexico within a tight 9-month timeframe while simultaneously launching a new customer startup.- Operational Improvements: Achieved a remarkable 30% increase in operational efficiency, measured by a reduction in labor per $ hour. Improved on-time delivery and boosted First Pass Yield.- KPI Development: Developed organizational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure and drive performance excellence, including metrics for new product introduction releases.- Leadership Alignment: Fostered leadership alignment through data transparency, defining 'rocks,' and adopting the principles of the 'Traction' book. Focused on the 1&3 year plans to ensure alignment of major strategies and strategic alignment.

Cincinnati Ohio (Fos)

I specialize in project launches, Root Cause Corrective Actions (RCCA), supplier management, and AS9102 compliance for risk management.Key Focus Areas:- Project Launch: I excel in ensuring smooth project launches with a focus on drawing accuracy, supplier risk mitigation, and continuous follow-up for timely deliveries and product quality.- RCCA: I identify root causes of quality issues and implement effective corrective actions, resulting in substantial quality improvements.- Supplier Management: I foster strong supplier relationships, optimize performance, and drive quality improvements.- AS9102 Compliance: I ensure compliance with AS9102 documents for risk management.Achievements:- Mitigating Supplier Failures: Successfully addressed major supplier failures through gemba walks, risk assessments, data-driven root cause analysis, and multiple Design of Experiments (DOE).- Project Success: Emphasized drawing accuracy, supplier risk mitigation, and rigorous follow-up for project success.- RCCA Impact: Improved quality and customer satisfaction through dedicated RCA and corrective actions.- Supplier Collaboration: Achieved mutual improvements and strengthened partnerships through collaboration.

Mason, Ohio

Responsibilities:• Responsible for 5 value streams of low volume / high mix production. 40,000 individual part numbers with potential of Millions of configurations• Created departmental budgets, performance reviews, training, and continuous improvement for 7 direct reports and 80 indirect reports• Budget of $3.5M personnel budget / $1.5M operational budget / $1.5M purchasing budget / $4.5M building expansion budget• Ensure Mission, Vision, Values, and Core / Leadership competencies are trained and implemented• Development of PDCA’s to ensure Safety, Environmental, Quality, Delivery, and Cost for Production are on target and reported to Global Leadership• Training, Implementation, and sponsor of all production personnel related Lean & Events ensuring Scope, Target, and Outputs are achievedKey Achievements:• 9.7% additional output in pieces with same production hours • 37% improvement on delivery performance (50% to 87%) • 12% Productivity increase • Improved through put time from 2.1 days to .9 / Reduce cycle time from 6min. to 3.5min • Implementation of Visual shop floor management tools (Daily standup meetings, output boards, issue logs, FYP, PDCA, 8D)• Decreased equipment release KPI by 40% • Trained 100% of production team members (80 people) in Lean Simulation training (cycle time, tact time, value add, non-value add) by being local certified trainer for Lean Operational Excellence Events and materials

Mason, Ohio

Responsibilities:• Responsible for 5 direct reports from Quality Technicians to Quality Engineers• Responsible for customer, internal, corporate, and surveillance audits• Incoming goods inspection, product inspections, calibration, and control of non-conforming material• Performed product, process, and compliance audits• Development and distribution of a Quality controlling report within the company to executive leadership• Quality Planning for new and changed products for production• Responsible to maintain all ISO related documents and control global changes• Manage, control and minimize all environmental, (health and safety) impacts of the company’s activities, in compliance with Federal, State, and township responsibilities• Plan, implement and control Safety, Quality, and Environmental actions and KPI’sKey Achievements:• Launched a green field facility for Quality, required all Quality team hiring, process development / release / & training, calibration, auditing, and SAP implementation• Performed all onboarding training for each new employee for Quality, Environmental, Health, and Safety orientation• Certification achieved on 1st visit of TUV for ISO 9001:2015 and 14001:2015 • Maintained Annual Quality Risk assessment for Global Festo• Decreased Customer Quality PPM in production by -37% within 1st year of production and -10% 2nd year (1600ppm  900ppm)• Developed Local “Long term planning” Quality Strategy 2020 to reduce launch ppm through improve APQP, improve process capability, and drive Lean activities• Increase First Pass Yield (FPY) by 17%• Implementation of complete 6S process, procedures, and training within 2 years of opening maintaining an average 4 out of 5 rating annually• Managed all ISO required Management reviews on a monthly basis (PPM Internal / PPM External / Scrap / Rework / FPY / Calibration / Sorting cost / Audit Status / High Impact customer complaints)• Safety & Environmental performance improvements & Awards

Florence Kentucky

Responsibilities:• Commodities: Machined Parts, Rubber, Plastics, Stampings, Springs, Fasteners, Rack Bars, Tie Rods, Sub-Assemblies, Magnesium Castings, High Pressure Die Casting and Labels• Direct Reports: Eleven – 10 SQE’s, One PPAP coordinator• Manage approximately 200 APQP part launches per year with Safety Critical Features• Manage all escalated quality / delivery concerns to completion• Reduce PPM based on complex quality strategies, and supplier development• Report KPI’s to Executive Management and Board Members• Created, Updated, and maintained Department Procedures and documents per TS16949 requirements• Created departmental budgets, performance reviews, training, and continuous improvement• Direct involvement with all technical discussion for price negotiations• Cost recovery due to cost of poor quality by suppliers• Review of design specifications to identify the best supplier for each material or componentKey Achievements:• Created and Implemented complete APQP process, structure, and forms (Supplier Selection / Part release / Supplier Development Program)• Created and Implemented (8D) Supplier Corrective action process, structure, and forms• Achieved 87% PPM supplier reduction 525 PPM to 69 PPM• Reduction of $1.25M of supplier non-conforming material inventory to $0• Avoided a $1M cost avoidance by managing the risk of a supplier in financial default• Led the implementation of Quality commodity strategies with SQE team• TS16949 & VDA 6.3 Certified Auditor• Reduced people turnover in the department from 200% to 0%• Restructured department to focus on (Program launch (Expert Knowledge of commodity) vs. CAPA process (Value Stream)) gain efficiencies of both groups with increased internal customer satisfaction. These processes were adopted by Bosch organization worldwide, to increase overall efficiencies.

Hillsboro, Ohio, United States

Associate'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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