J. Paul Catania Email & Phone Number

Greater Philadelphia Area

OQSIE helps solve Business and Operations Management problems as well as Technical issues in Manufacturing and Quality. Our core competencies include Program and Project Management, Risk Management, Compliance Remediation, Cost Reduction, and Supply Chain optimization. OQSIE’s consulting team consists of former Top Tier Consultants (McKinsey, BCG, etc.) as well as industry experts who have held senior management roles. Whether deploying an individual contributor or a team, we work seamlessly with client staff as a single, integrated team. We focus on building your team's capabilities and skills to ensure improvements are sustainable over time. We help our clients execute cost effectively and efficiently at a cost for value proposition that can’t be matched.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Assessment and improvement of overall Lean / Six Sigma program effectiveness and return on investment. Focal points include governance and portfolio management alignment with overarching business objectives, functional management mobilization, program performance metrics and organizational development. Consultation and / or executional support for process optimization projects in manufacturing and non-manufacturing environments. Operations, Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, Back Office Systems, QA/ QC, Laboratory Management.Training, coaching, curriculum evaluation and curriculum development.

Examples of Projects• Analysis of transportation systems LTL breakpoint optimization and execution strategy development.• Lean assessment and simulation modeling to correctly size pharmaceutical QC laboratory operations to support merging multiple labs and tripling volume within five years. (Lean Lab)• Financial analysis of complex medical device manufacturing operation to advise the client on the feasibility of relocating and/or of cloning it for international distribution.• Establishment of data base to assess financial impact and facilitate change control of master in an SAP environment for a vaccine manufacturer.• Process characterization to identify and correct process variability limiting medical devise sales.• Design and construction of data extraction and aggregation approaches leveraging common tools such as Adobe, Word and Excel to produce relational databases.• Procurement and supplier alliance strategy for outsourcing support services.

• Appointed to newly created position as the result of successfully leading a study group of J&J purchasing directors which had proposed an unprecedented level of cooperation between the highly decentralized operating units. Formulated a consortium/ team based strategy, enrolled top management and implemented the strategy.• Within 18 months coordinated J&J affiliate procurement exceeded $1.5 billion in domestic spending out of a possible $2.3 billion. Validated annual savings exceeded of $150 million. Significant collateral improvements were achieved in service, quality, reliability and financial transaction efficiency.• Principle architect in 1995 to expand this methodology to a global strategy to encompass all spending for the corporation to include supplier category management. • Personally led expansion of non-raw material purchasing strategy to Europe. Staff of 40 deployed worldwide. Budgetary responsibility of $4 million. World-wide procurement span of control in excess of $4 Billion.

Spring House, Pa

• P&L responsible for all manufacturing operations in a solid dosage pharmaceutical production facility.• Presided over successful plant start-up: Personnel, SOPs, training, capital equipment• Zero lost time accidents. Zero FDA, OSHA and environmental observations in several audits.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Chemistry

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Chemistry