Kevin Kunkle Email & Phone Number

Greer, Sc, Us

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

- Drove Digital Transformation and Developed 100+ Live Dashboards for Engineering, Operations, Finance, Capacity Planning, Sales, and Customer portals to support Revenue Growth.- Developed 80/20 Strategy and identified “80” Customers and “80” Products to focus Sales and Product Management to increase growth. Used my newly developed Sales Dashboard. - Leader and integration manager for ERP/CRM system transformation from Salesforce and home-grown tools to D365, resulting in 0-week delay in operations.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Fixing companies by creating a Data Culture and Data driven Decisions. Through interactive Dashboards of ERP, Salesforce, Snowflake, Azure, SQL, D365, Smartsheet, Pandas, and open source datasets. Using Power BI and Tableau to show the data, use the Data, Analysis the Data and give businesses action plans to correct the Business.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Business Intelligence Leader for the Executive Staff, and builder of digital transformation for the Company. - Developed 100+ Live Dashboards and reports, for all divisions of the company. Ranging from Sales to Operations/Shipping dashboards, and everything in between. - Utilized 80/20 to Identify the prime customers and prime products for Product Line Reduction. Increasing overall Margin%- Developed the Dashboards for IOT (Internet of Things) products, allowing insights to be autogenerated and delivered to the customer for the subscription product. - Developed Product Structuring and option optimization for the 4 primary products. Used data analytics to find options that were decreasing the profits. Eliminating these reduced margin erosion- In-lined and Kanban 2 product lines on the shop floor. Decreasing operations costs.- Built a new company-wide Data strategy after a new ERP system rollout.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Director of Training and Development for 47 Centers and Corporate Office staff. Manager over two Leadership Programs for internal and external hire leadership staff. Pushing growth within through small step growth plans. Identified a major problem with Employee retension and developed a skill ladder system for new employee to level up skills and drive to next level in career. Developed with HR a new standard interview template to weed out short term employees through behavior based questions. Developing a culture of Learning through 70/20/10 strategies. Managed a staff of 4 direct reports and 50+ indirect reports

Greenville, South Carolina Area

As the Training Manager for the Edison Engineering Program (New Hire development program), Kevin was manager of the technical training program that helps young adults gain knowledge about GE Power Engineering Sciences. The program lasts 2 years and works with local colleges to have the students earn a Master’s degree in Engineering and teach GE processes and leadership skills that will help them further their careers. Kevin managed a staff of 2 learning coordinators and 130+ SME instructors.• Developed the curriculum of 87 classes spread across two years of training and mentored 130+ global SME instructors. • Served as logistic manager of a classroom that is telecast to 5-time zones and 10 different countries.• Rebuilding a LMS system with a new curriculum utilizing a MOOC builder (Edcast) to integrate, video, knowledge checks, TEDtalks and YouTube to entertain and capture the attention of the students. • Integrated free online training, like Coursera and EdX, and developed own training programs to build a top of the line contemporary online learning and in person training program to meet the needs of the business and student growth. • Used Camtasia, Sony Vegas, and Edx to build and maintain online training modules.• Incorporated contemporary learning techniques like flipped classroom, On-demand learning, blended learning and project based learning as the new norm. Converted 10 “podium lecture” classes into blended classes using Edcast (online LMS) and new hands-on classroom experiments instead of typical lectures. • Progressed classes to be full MOOC based to allow for many more users to be able to access the training, and to allow all global employees to learn at their own pace. • Career Coached 70+ students, guiding them with grad school choices and career path decisions.

Decreased engineering hours spent against each project by 50%, by changing the engineering execution process while also decreasing the engineering cycle by 2 weeks.- Invented new engineering processes that drove part and drawing direct release and quick release from 30% to 85%, leaving only 15% to be completed by the engineering team.-PLM Integration Leader for GE Power Engineering. Impacting 300+ Engineers. -Built a 2D and 3D configurator using only the prime options, allowing the customer to configure a power plant in 20 minutes with a cost accuracy of 95% compared to the original 2000 options.-Studied market trends and analytical data and analyzed best design spaces and products to be presented to customers.

Greenville, Sc

Multiple process improvements in the areas of Direct Release, configuration management PLM Change processes, configuration control, and configuration control board.

Developed new system designs for gas turbine liquid and gas fuel designs. • Awarded 3 patents on liquid fuel systems.

Installed Gas Turbine powerplants as a Mechanical TA and later Site Lead TA. Managed a team of 8 people and a 2+million-dollar budget.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

On the side, YouTube Creator with over 500 videos. First channel that was created with son the day after he said, "we cannot do that". Turned that into a learning lesson to never say "I can't".

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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