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United States

Reporting to the Director of Operations Technology & Development, Created multi-year, $50M smart factory transformation plan for the Avionics division. Accountable for plan execution and associated productivity savings plan. Ensure alignment with operational priorities including new product development, workforce objectives, and corporate alignment.Key Contributions•Create and maintain a strategic roadmap that leverages I4.0 technology to improve operations across my business unit.•Develop annual project plans for 10 manufacturing sites that establish smart factory infrastructure and deliver over $80M in savings over the investment period.•Grew the Advanced Manufacturing team from a group of 5 individual engineers to an organized department of 20 focused on deploying new technology to meet future business needs.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Reporting to the Director of Advanced Manufacturing, Develop technology roadmap to support Industry 4.0 transformation. Maintain $25M portfolio of advanced manufacturing projects. Drive functional excellence in Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering across 13 sites worldwide.Key Contributions• Established a functional excellence team to improve collaboration, standardization and discipline growth across all divisional sites• Standardize technology development across sites with scalable solutions • Manage Project Portfolio. Manage $25M portfolio of advanced manufacturing projects. Ensure active projects align with strategic plans and local goals and objectives.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering with a dotted line to the Director of Operations, Lead a team of 5 managers and 92 engineers in support of 26 product lines. Defined organizational structure. Set mission, vision, and goals. Developed strategic plans, and ensure cross-functional alignment. Improved project execution, including new product introduction. Key Contributions•Stabilized the team during organizational transition keeping attrition < 2% through open and honest communication and employee engagement trough my tenure.•Defined Roles and Responsibilities with other members of the site leadership team.•Drove improvements in company culture and employee satisfaction as a core team member of site cultural transformation leadership team by modeling strong ethical leadership, individual empowerment, and accountability.•Ensured robustness in new products and processes through development and application of standard work and design for manufacturability concepts.•Achieved labor savings of 22,000 hours in 2018 through continuous improvement and providing focus on project execution.

Burnsville, Mn

Challenge: Deliver Robust, predictable processes through innovation, technology, process flows, and product improvements to reduce cost, improve quality, and delight our customersLevel of Authority: Manage a team of up to 14 engineers supporting 6 product lines and the in house machine shop. Set priority for staff based on urgency and impact. Ensure proper project execution to maximize impact for level of effort.Contributions:• Improve employee satisfaction by fostering a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and empowerment.• Achieved 30% reduction in scrap in 2017 through use of data analytics to drive impactful action.• Improve machine shop turn around time through application of job tracking and FIFO implementation.

Burnsville, Mn

Challenge: Execute new product introductions to meet customer specifications and internal manufacturability requirementsLevel of Authority: Material selection and dimensional requirements to meet customer defined envelope. Definition of development testing and qualification test procedures to meet customer requirements. Release of Design documentation to production. Management of Cost and Schedule performance Indicies. Design to cost estimates for bid and proposal efforts.Contributions:• Develop and implement new business operating system. Volunteered to be the project focal representing Mechanical design engineering • Designed and implemented mission critical sensor used on heavy lift commercial rocket• Improved business relationship with strategic industry customer through proper use of structured root cause investigation tools and continuous customer communication.

Challenge: Deliver Robust, predictable processes through innovation, technology, process flows, and product improvements to reduce cost, improve quality, and delight our customersLevel of Authority: Manage a team of up to 14 engineers supporting 6 product lines and the in house machine shop. Set priority for staff based on urgency and impact. Ensure proper project execution to maximize impact for level of effort.Contributions:• Improve employee satisfaction by fostering a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and empowerment.• Achieved 30% reduction in scrap in 2017 through use of data analytics to drive impactful action.• Improve machine shop turn around time through application of job tracking and FIFO implementation.

Challenge: Manage two product lines and execute production schedules to meet customer demand. Level of Authority: Manage a team of 35 direct labor operators across 2 product lines. Ensure demand aligns with production schedule and execute to master production schedule. Enforce ethical behavior and a safe work environment.Contributions:• Improve on time delivery from 65% to 92% in 3 months by aligning supply and demand, application of lean methodologies, improved cross training and performance management.• Reduce overdue from $650k to under $200k in 3 months through application of FIFO, workforce balancing, and alignment of production schedule to customer request dates• Develop standard work to shorten the transition time for incoming supervisors.

Challenge: Hired to drive cost reduction and production support for the two largest revenue generating product lines in the facility. Level of Authority: Approval of manufacturing and design documentation and MRB. Implement changes to improve cost, quality and throughput. Purchase equipment to ensure production can meet demand projections. Supervise a small team of technicians staring in March 2008.Contributions:• Volunteered to be an ERP transition team member to perform system testing when the company transitioned from Oracle to SAP. Provided user training and post go live support.• Lead a cross-functional team to develop a $1.5M wind tunnel test facility. Project owner from concept development, requirements definition, vendor selection, build, installation, qualification and release to production. End to end process was completed in 14 months.• Achieved 6 sigma green belt certification: for project to define and control key characteristics• Developed new quality system to govern control of special processes per National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) requirements.

• Managed the quality system to maintain ISO 9001 standard. • Initiated process inspection practices to improve overall quality. • Developed and implemented production flows and inspection procedures based on lean manufacturing initiatives. • Responded to customer corrective actions and maintained corrective action system.