Kendra Cox Email & Phone Number

Bettendorf, Iowa, United States

Platteville, WI, US

Passing my Industrial Engineering knowledge and experience on to the next generation of engineers by teaching Industrial Engineering Courses online. Courses taught include: - Engineering Economy- Fundamentals of Industrial Engineering- Engineering Continuous Improvement

Cleveland, OH, US

- Lead 3-shift assembly plant to provide hose assemblies to large OEM customers. - Own the P&L and KPI for Davenport Assembly Plant- Drive continuous improvement through High Performance Teams, Lean and Kaizens- Develop and implement multi-year strategic plans to reach breakthrough objectives- Coach and develop Front Line Leadership and Managers- Improved.

Cleveland, OH, US

London, GB

Cleveland, OH, US

I am responsible for managing operations in a $35 million a year value stream. This includes managing employees, materials, processes, product quality and employee safety. From FY13 to FY15, our team improved our ROS from 13% to 20.2% through improving our quality, managing our overtime hours and improving our processes. We reduced our scrap rate by 45%.

Cleveland, OH, US

- As a developmental role, I took over responsibility for the Engineering and Maintenance teams- Managed an engineering budget of $400k per month- Completed Requests for Capital Expenditures and put together business cases for new equipment- Ensured that our maintenance department was adequately staffed- Managed our budget through a down cycle, reducing.

Cleveland, OH, US

I lead high performance teams to solve quality problems, did root cause analysis on quality defects, performed SPC, created PFMEA's and control plans, and reduced the scrap rate of my Value Stream by 30%.

Cleveland, OH, US

My job consists of two major aspects -- 1) Dealing with day to day production needs, troubleshooting problems, allocating people to maintain production flow, and handling all the wonderful personel and behavior issues that arise. 2) Working on continuous improvement projects and lean implementation to improve our Value Stream.

- Developed Business Plan and Marketing Strategy- Handled all Accounting and Financial reporting- Managed employees- Sold the business after 1.5 years of operation

Houston, Texas, US

- Perform Customer Acceptance testing on Equipment built by contractors- Wrote Standard Operating Procedures for the Manufacturing Engineering, Customer Service and Sourcing Teams- Lead a Six Sigma Project to reduce the Lead Time on Surface Equipment and Trucks from 15 months to 9 months

Manhattan, KS, US

- Worked with a research team to develop a rural transportation safety institute- Completed a related thesis which aims at improving the response times of Emergency Medical Systems in rural areas through optimizing resource allocation

Houston, Texas, US

· Led a warehouse part location optimization project which decreased pick times by improving the system for how parts are assigned a storage location· Created Microsoft Access reports for quarterly updates to sustain the improvements

Houston, Texas, US

· Manufacturing intern for the Cables Manufacturing group· Led a 5S team to redesign and organize the area around one of the machines· Performed data collection and analysis for a Lean Six Sigma project

Manhattan, KS, US

Researched the effects of pad wear on the chemical-mechanical planarization of silicon wafers

Cincinnati, OH, US

· Engineering intern in International Sourcing/Revenue Share Program· Worked with a Japanese supplier to maintain proper schedule for critical parts· Maintained inventory spreadsheets, tracked shipments and created purchase agreements

M.S., Industrial Engineering

M.S./B.S., Industrial Enginering

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