Integrated Business Planning and Demand Shaping Process TransformationInternal consultant driving cross-functional business transformations for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (servers and other Internet/Intranet related devices).Integrated Business Planning Process Deployment: Led program team of 50 professionals over 9 months to implement the companies first worldwide Integrated Business Planning process (enabled by SAP's IBP IT system) aligning business plans across the supply chain, sales and product management for improved customer experience and lower costs.Demand Shaping Process Deployment: Led project team of 6 professionals over 12 months to implement the companies first demand shaping/steering process aligning supply chain, sales & product management on a more focused product portfolio for improved customer experience and lower costs.

Strategic Planning/Deployment, R&D and Marketing Process Improvement Internal consultant using Lean methods to drive business process improvements for marketing, R&D and strategic planning functions. Corporate Strategy Process Improvement: Reduced the cycle time of the corporation’s strategic planning process by 20% (6 weeks) by planning and facilitating kaizen events utilizing A3 Thinking, Value Stream Mapping, Quality-At-The-Source and Catch Ball.Problem Solving Capability Deployment: Led deployment of the A3 problem solving capability building strategic initiative to the team of 100+ R&D scientists by persuading the Sr. VP of R&D to make the initiative a priority, customizing training material, teaching the 4-hour course to over 70 scientists and coaching an indirect staff of 10 champions to identify and eliminate waste across manufacturing and innovation processes.Marketing Process Improvement: Planned & facilitated the product launch & promotion process kaizen event that identified and eliminated waste improving on-time completion of key marketing team deliverables. Feedback- "the best continuous improvement workshop I have ever attended".R&D Process Improvement: Achieved a 10x cycle time reduction (from 50 days to 5 days) of the new product plant trial process by planning and facilitating a 3 day Kaizen event utilizing A3 thinking, value stream mapping, workflow re-sequencing, handoff reduction, mistake proofing and establishing a steering committee to hold the process owner accountable to follow through with the three-phased implementation approach over a 9 month period.R&D Process Improvement: Planned & facilitated the R&D pilot plant mini-kaizen events utilizing A3 thinking, Pareto, CTx Tree, Fishbone, 5-Whys, Idea-Trigger, Affinity Diagrams and Impact/Implementation matrix resulting in project plans to improve raw material supply and cross-functional communications expected to double the R&D pilot plant capacity within 1 year.

Product Development Process ImprovementExternal consultant using Lean methods to drive business process improvement.Product Design Process Improvement: Planned & facilitated the 3-day Lean Savings kaizen event utilizing A3 thinking and value stream mapping to create a standard product cost reduction process. Led subsequent change management to ensure the standard process was utilized across all business units resulting in $21 million in incremental annual profit.Accepted offer to become a Sara Lee employee.

Government Efficiency: Getting more for Less.Led the village board to balance the budget while lowering property tax rates three years in a row by identifying and cutting wasteful spending and supporting efforts to attract new businesses into the village.

Product Innovation Process TransformationInternal consultant driving adoption of best practice product innovation and product portfolio management processes across the corporation.Innovation Process Deployment: Led deployment of the "Six Sigma For Product Development" global strategic initiative across all Motorola business units using influence skills to grow the client pipeline from 1 to 12 cross-functional teams within 2 years.Innovation Project Leadership: Led 12 cross-functional teams to apply best practice Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) innovation methods such as Contextual Inquiry, Kano analysis, KJ analysis, QFD and Contextual Design resulting in the creation of breakthrough product innovations such as the Mission Critical Wireless Earpiece recognized with the Red Dot Award for high quality in product design and the Real Time Video Intelligence system used by the FBI and police forces around the world to reduce crime by up to 15% per year.Product Portfolio Mgt Process Deployment: Led the creation of Motorola’s “Portfolio Development For Six Sigma” process and led adoption across the corporation by assessing the company’s needs, benchmarking best practices, designing the process, redesigning the stage-gate system, developing the training curriculum, authoring 24 hours of adult learning based courses, training over 1,000 employees and mentoring application of the approach within each Motorola business unit.

Innovation: RAZR. iPhone before the iPhone.Leveraged best practice design methods to drive the creation of some of Motorola’s most profitable and innovative products including the worlds top selling RAZR phone, the world’s first music phone (ROKR), and the China market’s top-selling E680 touch screen phone (iPhone precursor).Product Portfolio Strategy: Instrumental in the growth of Asia region annual sales from $1 billion to $7 billion by leading a direct staff of 3 and additional indirect staff of 6 in the ongoing collaboration of sales, marketing and engineering executives from seven different countries to create and optimize the Asia region’s innovation pipeline.Innovation Process Improvement: Led 8 six sigma projects resulting in improvements such as the selection of the Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) approach to improve innovation and regional deployment of DFSS methods resulting in a faster time to market with better quality products.Selected to be an internal consultant deploying the "Six Sigma for Product Development" initiative across the corporation.

Innovation: 1st Chinese Language Cellphone. Led team to understand consumer & customer needs and authored the detailed technical requirements for 20 new product designs and 14 new software solutions including a redesigned user interface and the world’s first Chinese language cell phones and messaging services.Customer Marketing: Created regionalized channel and go-to-market plans, product literature, promotional material, retail artwork, user manuals and delivered product training for 12 new products. Presented at Customer Events.Marketing Process Improvement: Led 10 six sigma projects resulting in reduced waste and higher customer satisfaction.Promoted to Sr. Marketing Manager

Lean Manufacturing Process DesignLean Manufacturing: Designed e2e manufacturing production lines, test stations + quality systems for China & Australia factories using Lean principles such as line balancing, kanban, 2-piece flow, quick changeover and quality-at-the-source to match production capacity to regional demand while minimizing cycle time, inventory, scrap and rework. Conducted on-site Lean assessment of a local Asian supplier.Project Management: Led indirect staff in the purchase, shipment and installation of all manufacturing equipment. Trained the Chinese and Australian employees to use the equipment.Manufacturing Process Improvement: Proactively used six sigma methods such as Pareto, Fishbone and 5-Why’s to identify & solve the root causes of top failure modes at Asia facilities resulting in lower defect rates than that of the main USA facility.

New Product Design ValidationEvaluated the reliability of all new innovations. Process Improvement: Used six sigma methods to improve the lab’s internal processes. Promoted to Sr. Engineer.