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Erie, Co, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

At Capella Space, I lead the manufacturing strategy and operations for our satellite production. I focus on developing scalable processes, tools, and systems that ensure high-quality manufacturing while supporting new product introductions. As the company’s first dedicated manufacturing leader, I’m responsible for building a skilled team and implementing best practices to drive operational excellence and production efficiency. My role encompasses optimizing resources, improving facility capabilities, and ensuring we are well-positioned for continued growth in emerging markets.

Louisville, Colorado (Co), Us

Created Industrial Engineering team at Sierra Space to implement manufacturing best practices including lean daily management systems, KPI establishment and performance monitoring, continuous improvement initiatives, process streamlining, build plan optimization, visual controls, organizational design, and leader standard work.Launched and led the operating cadence and business rhythm for Production Operations team including performance to plan, functional excellence, and organizational effectiveness reviews to drive business goals and objectives. Led operations team on optimal use of factory floor spaces, requirements definition for new facilities, factory layout design, and business case development for capital equipment purchases.Launched production scheduling team, redefining optimal manufacturing planning for dynamic production environment. Created visual management KPIs, dashboards, and reports to drive production efficiencies. Ensures all support functions are aligned on program priorities for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Innovation.Led critical special projects as needed to ensure program milestones are achieved by integrating across business units and functional teams.

Arlington, Va, Us

Senior leader for Industrial Engineering functional excellence and program execution. Implements program-level initiatives and facilitates problem-solving across functions and organizational boundaries for process improvement methodologies, cost reduction, labor forecasting, production rate readiness, and future-state production planning.Led Production System Design and Value Stream Optimization for 787 production site consolidation initiative. Oversees development of facility layout re-design, work statement balancing across business units, and execution planning to ensure smooth transition to single-site operation.Developed and empowered cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement and lean culture in all production processes. Recruits, coaches, and mentored teammates to realize their full potential and achieve career goals.Responsible for developing and implementing advanced tools, analytics, and processes for engineers and analysts to optimize product flow, eliminate waste, and improve business performance for manufacturing operations.

Arlington, Va, Us

Industrial Engineering leader for 787 Final Assembly. Responsible for all process improvement, capacity planning, production scheduling, operations performance analysis, rate readiness, and labor forecasting.Led factory transformation between Charleston and Everett Final Assembly lines to achieve an identical production system, leveraging best practices from each system and building an optimal build sequence and integrated cycling plan.Created and led the preparation, transition, and execution from the production rate of 12 airplanes per month to 14 airplanes per month. Developed requirements for new production rate including tooling, people, material flow, and support processes.Built relationships and fostered a culture of collaboration within factory leadership team to provide clear goals and vision for factory future-state. Aligned leadership priorities to achieve target KPIs across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost metrics.

Arlington, Va, Us

Led team of Industrial Engineers in production system design, factory layout, production scheduling, forecasting, process improvement, capacity analysis, performance metrics, and visual controls for 737MAX propulsion systems manufacturing line.Created and implemented factory transformation plan to increase output from 4 units/month to 140 unit/month in 2-year timeframe, including improved manufacturing processes, optimized product flow, and efficient use of people, tools, equipment, and facilities. Designed optimal factory layout and product flow in alignment with One BPS principals.Led South Carolina site Industrial Engineering skill team. Developed skill requirements, training plans, career development pathways, and led staffing decisions and workforce distribution for 100+ Industrial Engineers and Lean Practitioners.

Arlington, Va, Us

Conceptualized initial design and launched a $24 million project for a new automation strategy using multiple synchronized robots with cutting-edge drill and fill end effectors for fuselage assembly operations, increasing process throughput by 100%.Appointed as Project Manager to implement “Quadbot” into production in an accelerated timeline. Determined priorities, defined milestones, and created integrated project plan for multifunctional group of engineers, programmers, technicians, machine operators and mechanics. Led successful mitigation of multiple mission-critical risks and issues during project lifecycle.Appointed as EDGE team manager for production system startup. Led team of machine operators and support personnel from Low-Rate Initial Production to full rate implementation.

Arlington, Va, Us

Successfully led cross-functional team of operators, managers, engineers, and support personnel to double output of an automated drill/fasten work center in a period of 18 months, reducing product flow by 4 days.Provided decision making analysis for factory staffing requirements, future capital and tooling expenditure, factory layout, product flow, and long-term cost strategy.Led Industrial Engineering team in deployment of best practices for project management, cost/benefit analyses, flow time reduction, machine optimization, performance monitoring, rate readiness, and capacity planning.Selected as member of REACH Leadership team. Organized events focused on professional development of employees through trainings, workshops, guest speakers, career counseling sessions, and special events.

Perrysburg, Ohio, Us

Operations Management Development ProgramEnsured product safety and conformance to customer specifications by developing and executing quality assessments on new design, customer issues, and special projects. Implemented SPC solutions to reduce defects and increase throughput.

Chicago, Il, Us

Developed facility layout for optimal handling of cargo at Newark Liberty International Airport. Implemented lean tools and improvements to material handling systems and processes, reducing total labor requirement by 10%.

Master Of Science, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Systems Engineering