Laura Louis Email & Phone Number

Boise, Id, Us

- Provide lean manufacturing consultation to manufacturing and service organizations.- Develop and deliver lean manufacturing and service operations workshop.- Coauthor of 10% or Die, Using Deep Lean and Innovative Leadership to Survive and Thrive in a Brutal Global Marketplace (to be published late 2008).

- Business process development and optimization for R&D Process Integration Department. - Coordinate and facilitate program management for R&D Process Lifecycle Development.

- Senior planning engineer responsible for global strategic planning and change management.- Drove business process improvement across the manufacturing organization through process modeling and continuous improvement projects.- Coordinated business and financial analyses of future product marketing forecasts.- Provided management with data support to facilitate a cost-effective capital decision making process.- Developed operations improvement strategies such as cycle time and inventory reduction that targeted the bottom line goal of increased wafer output.- Oversaw goal and measurement standardization on a global level.

- Managed the Industrial Engineering Group in a 10,000 wafer/week semiconductor fabrication facility.- Facilitated capacity planning and scheduling, and continuous improvement of a highly complex, lengthy, and re-entrant fabrication process.- Implemented solutions to orchestrate product flow, manage demand, reduce cycle time, forecast yields, improve quality and ensure on-time delivery.- Capital planning responsibility for $500 million annual budget.- Directed IS resources to develop most efficient and cost effective applications to target manufacturing productivity improvement.

Ms, Operations Management

Bs, Electrical Engineering