Executive IT leader responsible for the vision, the strategy and the delivery of Information Technology services to the Adient Global Complete Seat Business. The Complete Seat business group consists of more than 90 manufacturing and engineering locations globally distributed across 30 countries. The Complete Seat business generates nearly $15B in annual revenue supplying to every global OEM vehicle manufacturer.

Senior IT leader responsible for the delivery of best-in-class business solutions for manufacturing, supply chain and quality across a global footprint of more than 150 locations in 30 countries representing 7 automotive product groups.

IT leadership role focused on business relationship management and strategic IT direction for 42 manufacturing plants in the Americas region.

Strategic IT partner to the North American Electronics business team.

An IT role focused on leading a professional, multi discipline, program management team whose objective was launching IT platforms in plant re-capitalization projects. The team typically delivers 10-15 major programs on an annual basis and had responsibility for the complete IT portfolio ranging from infrastructure to business applications.

IT conduit for 26 US manufacturing plants from 3 business units. The position focused extensively on relationship management between operations and the central IT functions. Led 7 remote IT teams located at larger manufacturing facilities across the country.The role owned SAP deployment planning and business change management for manufacturing implementations in 10 US plants and international implementations in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

Manufacturing and Warehouse Systems lead responsible for:1) Deployment of SAP PP, MM, SD, and WM modules in 6 global manufacturing and distribution facilities. 2) New distribution facilities project core teams focused on facility design and supporting warehouse systems. 3) Leading analyst resources on projects at 4 US plant locations, Singapore, Ireland, England, and Israel. 4) Leading the deployment of an MES ‘Manufacturing Execution System’ in a high volume electronics manufacturing environment.

Led a multi-shift production team of 40, including shift supervisors and hourly workforce. The position reported to the director of operations with responsibility for production attainment metrics, departmental budget, delivery to schedule and employee satisfaction.

Supported the global sales organization and the S&OP process by translating channel demand into master production schedules for US Robitics CourierTM Modem production. Super User responsible for the setup and implementation of I2 Technologies ‘Factory Planner’ finite capacity scheduling software used to optimally schedule bottleneck resources in an electronics surface mount assembly environment.

An Industrial Engineering role supporting the Supply Chain organization; including facility design, material flow optimization and business process optimization.Key member of a Manufacturing core team working on New Product Introduction and design for manufacturability.

‘Process Action Center’ staff engineer assigned to assembly line, material flow and plant maintenance optimization projects. Implementation of ‘Lean Manufacturing Strategies’ primarily in the area of synchronous material flow, including Just In Time delivery, Material Pull Signals, and material sequencing.