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Lynchburg, VA

Stand up a Supplier Governance team that provides oversight of key suppliers, lead our supplier diversity initiative, provide regular communications to senior leadership, participate in key initiatives, and partner with internal customers and suppliers for process improvement.

Waukesha, Wisconsin

• Tasked with improving the quality of supplied parts and aligning global supplier quality teams to company strategy, establishing metrics, and standardizing work to measure supplier performance.
• Coordinated cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders, overseeing a team of direct reports with dotted-line influence of global personnel to achieve key performance indicators.
• Spearheaded setup of a supplier audit monitoring program for suppliers, creating all structures, schedules, and accountabilities across countries for transparency and increased First Pass Yield.
• Led turnaround through Lean expertise and root cause analysis to improve ppm significantly for casting suppliers; facilitated Kaizen events to catalyze continuous improvement and sustainability.
• Initiated standard procedures for the Supplier Quality Manual, DPAR, and PPAP programs.

Columbia, South Carolina

• Aligned the global supplier quality program to the Harsco business strategy and stakeholder needs with a focus on delivering key cost savings.
• Collaborated with Global Commodity Managers, along with creating standard work within the value stream for procedures, scorecard metrics, certified supplier list, and Quality-at-the-Source objectives.
• Converted supplier quality initiatives into metrics that translated into supplier cost avoidance and cost savings, displaying a forward-thinking approach that met targets and remediated issues.

Columbia, SC

• Managed a global contracted supply base to provide proactive oversight adherent to Nuclear Regulatory Commission's guidelines including directing a team of engineers to monitor supplier accountability.
• Created and enhanced supplier monitoring program to train, oversee, and measure the performance of the global supplier base which enhanced communication, increased oversight of the supplier’s manufacturing processes.
• Led Kaizen events to eliminate welding issues, identify inspection steps, and improve record accuracy.

• Installed and trained on Lean manufacturing techniques across multiple customer facilities, serving as a strategic consultant and trusted advisor to enact continuous improvement and change management.
• Utilized Lean techniques while operating on the floor of a primary customer to educate on root cause analysis (RCA) and partner with decision-makers for remediating areas of deficiency.

• Reported to VP of Purchasing to manage and promote quality on a domestic and Asian supply base, leveraging Lean techniques and Kaizen events to spearhead strategies for drastic improvements.

• Promoted supplier improvements using Bobcat Production System and auditing suppliers to ISO-9001 and IATF-16949 standards; created cultures of accountability that resulted in quality sustainability.
• Improved a weighted grading system that evaluated supplier performance, leading to targeted projects that reduced overall supplier ppm and a warranty cost reduction.
• Employed Lean expertise to optimize annualized cost savings as well as facilitating Kaizen events that enhanced the supplier’s hydraulic hose process and delivered an improvement in received quality.
• Engaged with circuit board manufacturer in Mexico to successfully lead design and process FMEAs to reduce the highest risk failure modes in the joystick design and assembly.

• Oversaw several reports and owned multiple budgets to oversee start-up of the overall quality systems and philosophies in dishwasher, cooking, range, and OEM product families.
• Cultivated exceptional relationships with German counterparts, facilitating ongoing communications to safeguard strategic alignment and demonstrating adept cross-cultural collaboration abilities.
• Achieved key wins including reducing projected business plan headcount, obtaining the first ISO-9001 certification, and introducing SAP Quality Management Module for recording and trending quality data.
• Started Six Sigma training programs in the cooking and dishwasher factories by coordinating the training of Champions and Green Belts, as well as the project selections for Black Belts.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Co-op Program with General Electric Company

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General