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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Created Global Product Pricing Dashboard demonstrating list price, ASPs and profitability for all regions in the Medical Products Division• Completed Certified Pricing Professional training and certification• Visualized Pricing metrics in Quarterly Business Review Dashboard for the Cardiac business • Enhanced data quality by partnering with Customer Service team on case pricing codes• Led repricing project for the Soft Tissue Repair Portfolio• Organized and led Annual Pricing Review for key products for US and Canada• Primary pricing support for launch of 2 new products

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Completed Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification program, reducing low output pitches by 50% and resulting in an annual profit increase of $1.7MM• Managed seven staffing trials to validate calculations for appropriate number of operators based on monthly build plans. Personally observed each of the trails and took minute-by-minute observations on associate and line behaviors, number of devices on the line, and when and why manufacturing associates leave the line. This work directly influenced the decision to postpone $1.5-2.0MM capital investment. • Organized route updates for 2021, resulting in a 19% decrease in standard cost for trunk devices and 23% decrease for aortic extender devices. This work helped validate and predict future standard costs, and informed future gross margin for business leadership.• Developed work balance chart for handles and crush cells to visualize bottleneck workstations, aid in workflow optimization activities, and ultimately prioritize improvement projects with the technical engineering team• Sponsored summer intern on improvement of process discipline metrics data collection and visualization. The enhanced dashboard allows users to analyze rejects, throughput, and yield by size, shift, and product type.• Improved capacity model staffing accuracy from +/- 30% to +/- 5% by creating new model format and reducing number of model assumptions. This model allowed business leadership to confidently commit to increase product mix by 15% in US• Core team member on effort to create a just-in-time inventory system based on takt time, by implementing electronic communication method to inform raw-material runners of low on-line inventory. Personally responsible for data collection and analysis of idle time due to raw material runs. This resulted in a 91% reduction in idle time due to raw-material runs, and saving $282K annually.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Supported divisional team focused on projects, programs and standards supporting all medical manufacturing locations around operational excellence, training, system support, leadership development, industrial engineering, workforce management• Determined cost and FTE impact of increased time-off benefits from 2018 to 2019, leading to a $3MM FY20 adjustment • Executed analysis to support shift differential project to increase manufacturing capacity, gaining 2.5 hours of production time from every 2nd shift operator in the medical products division• Collaborated with OPEX team on Standard Work Training to create standard work sheet, time observation sheet, standard work combination sheet, and work balance chart, resulting in a balanced line to achieve consistent delivery • Created and sustained COVID-19 dashboard to allow supply chain leaders to make data-driven business decisions• Implemented divisional tools such as 5 Year Capacity Plan and Shift Schedule OPEX tool to simplify and standardize communication within Medical Products Division manufacturing teams• Guided intern through investigation of current shift changeover procedures to determine best practices to optimize production time, leading to a new shift-changeover standard across the medical products division. This positive internship experience resulted in the intern returning for second internship within the company the following summer, and joining Gore full-time in 2021𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐭, 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 (𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭)• Founding member of the facilities strategy team• Developed team from a part-time commitment to a formal, valued team by exposing the business need and receiving buy-in from divisional business leadership• Responsible for user-requirements document for Phoenix Support Building (180,000 sqft.), Phoenix Training Center, and parking garage

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Created value stream map for the movement of parts from centralized distribution center to manufacturing floor• Reduced de-trashing time by 30% through packaging improvements• Minimized floor space requirements of storage hubs by over 40% by remodeling storage areas

Climax, Co

• Programmed lime-slaking machine PLC using company standard routines and objects• Designed a human-machine interface to monitor valves, level sensors, and motors• Authored process control narrative for lime slaking system to match PLC and HMI using technical language

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Systems Engineering, Gpa: 3.76

Activities and Societies: Society of Women Engineers (Social Chair - 2015), Alpha Delta Pi Sorority (New Member Coordinator - 2016.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Ski & Snowboarding Club, Student Council