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Blacksburg, VA, US

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

• Re-imagined the New Product Development Process, leveraging lean product development stage-gate processes, resulting in a 30% reduction in complexity, establishing multi-functional training assets and standard work for.
• Implemented the organization’s first Product Lifecycle Management system, with a suite of capability including project management, document management, engineering change management, SAP integrations with master data.
• Coaching the management team world-class strategy deployment, developing three 3-5 year breakthrough objectives and corresponding annual improvement priorities. Developed and deployed a visual management system (Obeya).
• Managing prototype motor manufacturing department, providing custom motor solutions to customers, fostering DfX with design and manufacturing teams, and managing associated material acquisition.
• Creating and managing a new mix-model agile manufacturing capability, developing new systems and processes, establishing required footprint, deploying new equipment, and managing the advanced manufacturing processes.

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Area

Managed with 3rd party subcontractors to produce product for US DoD requirements.Managed inventory levels; consigned, supplier finished goods, customer finished goods.Executed kaizen activit to improve supplier output by 20% and reduced scrap by 90%.

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Area

Business consultancy service.

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Developed and led an operational excellence team of four senior professionals, supporting a $1B Group operating with 49 entities operating in 22 countries, employing 5K people; defined, developed, and deployed lean management, strategy deployment, and policy deployment systems. Established and led a guiding coalition of 15 professionals, from multiple.

Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Designed and directed an integrated supply chain organization for this $400MM Operating Group. Supported due diligence activities and integration of acquired businesses. Designed and implemented multi-jurisdictional compliance processes and procedures. Developed and delivered negotiations training for sales and supply chain personnel. Designed and deployed.

Murphy, North Carolina, United States

Led a geographically distributed team of supply chain professionals, focused on leveraging organizational spend, systematizing compliance, and optimizing supply chain and operational execution processes across the organization.

Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Selected to establish Northrop Grumman’s first manufacturing operation in China, transferring sales, application engineering, and manufacturing from two divisions operating in the US (Massachusetts & Missouri) and UK (Scotland), in support of multinational telecommunications customers. Established business license, registered capital, secured import/export.

Murphy, North Carolina

Lead a team of supply chain and production control professionals for this $40MM business.

Business Administration

Electronics Tech

Northrop-Grumman Financial Management