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Chicago, Il, Us

Deploying Lean and manufacturing best practices at a confectionary manufacturer.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developing and executing strategy projects in the Business Technology Solutions, IT, group of AbbVie. Facilitating teams and projects using Lean, Six Sigma and Agile tools to achieve strategic goals.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Athletico is a healthcare provider with 850+ clinics in 25 states concentrating on athletic training, occupational therapy, and physical therapies. The Project Manager role leads key corporate projects to execute strategic plans and achieve results. Projects use multifunctional team members and use Lean and Lean Six Sigma tools for understanding the real problem, defining solutions, project execution, and process control. Projects are in clinical operations, back office billing, and web automation.- Managing the integration of Mergers and Acquisitions after the deal has closed from HR integration to Operations- Central insurance verification - working with a third party provider that automates the process of insurance verification into our electronics and medical records system- Automation of clinician bio information to the web - Used current inputs from the HR ADP database and used automation to download to Power BI and forward the data to the web developer.- Developing a support call center providing a safety net to the clinics in responding to patient calls and scheduling.- Integration of seven mergers and acquisitions into the Athletico operations from HR systems, contracting, credentialing to Operations using the EMR system

Chicago, Il, Us

The Commercialization group at USG, a manufacturer of building products, focused on accelerating adoption of products in existing key businesses. The approach reduces risk in growth opportunities, maximizes channel effectiveness and differentiates in an undifferentiated market place. - Performed market research to find customer insights and main parameters of value- Translated insights to strategies and communicated through sales playbooks and sales management processes such as project tracking and forecasting- Developed market programs, incentives and sales tools to aid in executing the sales playbook.- Developed market pilots for gaining insights for faster new product adoption

Chicago, Il, Us

Trained and coached senior corporate leaders and plant leadership teams to utilize Lean (Toyota Production System) methodologies to manage their departments and plants, respectively. Led the deployment of Lean at two board manufacturing plants as well as corporate Logistics, Procurement and Planning. The deployment experience includes facilitating and coaching of Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen events, Visual Control, Kanban/Pull systems, Reflection boards, Gemba walks, Employee Empowerment, DMAIC and Standard Work. Trained and coached Black Belts and Green Belts in the Lean Six Sigma methodology in both corporate functions and manufacturing. Strategic consulting to business leaders for strategy and continuous improvement delivering improvements in quality cost and delivery to the business.

Schenectady, New York, Us

Hexion, formerly Momentive, is a $7 billion global leader in the specialty chemicals and materials sector. Key team leader in the Forest Products Division innovation growth pipeline process. Provide financial projection summaries, maintain process metrics, improve the time-to-launch, implement common templates and monitor process throughput. Take ownership of process refinement initiatives.- Manage ideation sessions, development of growth opportunity project roadmap plans, develop strategy for the opportunity, milestone targets and project prioritization. Organize stage gate reviews of growth projects with BU management; maintain the project database and reporting systems.

Mentor, Ohio, Us

Managed the product life cycle and profitability of reflective films and materials used by sign fabricators worldwide for government regulated traffic signs. Provided global product strategy, portfolio management and sales training for the Reflective Traffic and Work Zone market segments. Led and collaborated with functional business leaders; Sales, Customer Service, Operations and R&D. Marketing efforts targeted to direct customers, distributors and end-user government agencies that specify products. Portfolio included reflective and non-reflective films, screen printing inks and overlay films.•Achieved or exceeded plan for top line sales, and net income for 2007 to 2012.•Led the creation and the oversight of Marketing plans for the global business.•Provided training and sales support for the international sales teams.•Initiated and led various product launches such as OmniView, OmniCube – from conception and development to launch: keeping R&D on track, product naming, messaging, collateral and trade shows.•Reviewed and evaluated new product requests pitched by global sales team: basing the decision on many factors such as technical feasibility, operations’ capability and balancing it with the opportunity.•Developed and negotiated partnerships with other companies to provide a solutions approach to customers

Mentor, Ohio, Us

Managed targeted financial savings, project portfolio, reporting, training and usage of Six Sigma processes for the division. Performed this through managing the projects of a team of 5 Black belts and 20 Green Belts. Trained a complete a wave of 40 Black Belts for Avery Dennison and a special session in Advanced DMAIC tools. Attained MBB certification through an outside consulting firm and Avery Dennison.

Mentor, Ohio, Us

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba