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Lenexa, Ks, Us

Salina, Ks, Us

Responsible for Safety, Compliance, and Process Improvement across all departments within the company.• Develop an internal audit program, and team, to ensure compliance across 150 locations with nearly $180 million in inventory. • Responsible for enhancing the Safety Department to reshape a positive, proactive safety culture. Implement tools to reduce safety KPIs and enhance workforce development through training.• Provide rapid response support for Operations to avoid commerce interruptions and process improvement and standardization.• Serve as Management Representative for SOX compliance audits.

Responsible for providing world-class quality improvement initiatives to client organizations of varying in size and industry.• Guide multiple, cross-functional teams of 8+ in quality improvement initiatives by driving engineering design changes yielding a 20% cost per unit reduction while maintaining a 120 day to close project window.• Design critical to quality inspection gates and processes to streamline production flow while increasing quality yields.• Foster organizational change management through hands-on training and tool development throughout the entire organization. Implement various tools such as 5 Why, supplier scorecards, change review, and ISO systems.

Salina, Ks

Hired to establish a robust quality system to deliver industry leading branding while exceeding customer expectations. Member of the Senior Leadership team to outline and achieve company directives. • Migrated Customer Care to the Quality department and developed tools such as supplier scorecards and processes and software that reduced data collection time by 97%, improved customer satisfaction, and quality.• Manage a multi-layered team of 14 employees including; Inspectors, Customer Service Reps, and Managers. • Reduced quality defects by 33% by implementing MRB reviews, quality gates, and practical problem solving.• Direct Quality and Customer Service groups in transition from QC to QA organization.

Brought on as second member of the regulatory team, having authority over plant level operations and quality, to streamline all compliance activities for the multinational, lighting organization. • Assessed and improved Philips’ global certification strategy by proposing a reverse consolidation from UL to CSA to save $100,000 annually and strengthen the company’s ability to market compliant, quality lighting globally.• Analyze the business impact of over 20 current and proposed regulations to all levels of the organization, globally. • Consult C-Suite leadership in regulatory directives that positively impact company sustainability and commerce.• Ensure all 1,900+ lighting products meet the regulations set by over 12 North American government agencies.• Direct surveillance of product testing of over 3,000 samples annually, with authority superseding Operations.

Salina, Kansas

Served as second-in-command to QA Manager and was responsible for bringing QA activities to a QC organization.• Develop KPI’s crucial for driving industry-leading quality to monitor and improve scrap, rework, and repair.• Implement six sigma tools including 5 Why, Pareto Analysis, and PCAS reviews to enhance quality focus• Reduced COPQ by 48% in three months for the entire plant through Root-Cause / Corrective Action methods.• Established supplier controls for internally supplied parts through process audits, defect analysis, and scorecards.• Utilized new quality tools to reduce defects by 29% with an overall savings of 35%.

Hired on to bring fresh, outside-the-box concepts to an ailing, union workforce. • Led 100 employees in a unionized production environment spanning 3 generations. • Through leadership and communication, the team achieved a record 92% production efficiency.• Reduce part shortages and line stoppages by 70% implementing visual stocking levels with Supply Chain.• Initiated Kaizens to improve the processes of the King Air wing and stabilizers to reduce production time by 25%.

Recruited to serve as a co-Project Manager to be company representative on-site with partnering university. This position also performed R&D and marketing activities.• Co-Project Manager with international team to outline and achieve project milestones in R&D and trial phases.• Conducted industry market analysis to economically test the project’s market potential. Developed customer-centric investment models of project designs and implementations.• Create, allocate, and maintain a fiscal operating budget of over $100,000.

B.S., Engineering Technology Management

Activities and Societies: SGA Treasurer 2004-2006 Activity Center Manager 2006

A.S., Applied Business

A.S, Mechanical Engineering Technology

A.S., Computer Science Technology

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