Planning/Scheduling two finished assembly lines which produce 9 different finished assemblies. Manage four load sheets shipping to three locations. Responsible for communications between departments to meet customer demand and build changes.● Successfully transitioned from managing one final assembly to both final assembly lines.● Maintain Kanban loops on 178 raw parts, no raw part outages and updating PFEP.● Maintain inventory for 190 shims across 9 operations.● Create and communicate weekly build plans, responsible for daily load plans and hot sheets to production.● Work daily with suppliers on resolving supply issues, updating forecasts, requesting SOP and standard work documents to close /resolve open issues.● Coordinated increasing bulk oil tank capacity by joining unused tank doubling capacity from 8,000 to 16,000 gallons. Managing two grades of bulk oil delivery for all plant production from May 2020 to current without outage and without delivery in-route delays to the carrier.● Managed MMOG/LE transition from manual file to online platform for plant and other AAM facilities in 2020.● Standardized bearing re-certification resulting in cost savings of 150k in 4 months, allowing for evaluation of justification for re-certifying over scrapping bearings.

Planning/Scheduling two finished assembly lines which produce 9 different finished assemblies. Manage four load sheets shipping to three locations. Responsible for communications between departments to meet customer demand and build changes.● Successfully transitioned from managing one final assembly to both final assembly lines.● Maintain Kanban loops on 178 raw parts, no raw part outages and updating PFEP.● Maintain inventory for 190 shims across 9 operations.● Create and communicate weekly build plans, responsible for daily load plans and hot sheets to production.● Work daily with suppliers on resolving supply issues, updating forecasts, requesting SOP and standard work documents to close /resolve open issues.● Coordinated increasing bulk oil tank capacity by joining unused tank doubling capacity from 8,000 to 16,000 gallons. Managing two grades of bulk oil delivery for all plant production from May 2020 to current without outage and without delivery in-route delays to the carrier.● Managed MMOG/LE transition from manual file to online platform for plant and other AAM facilities in 2020.● Standardized bearing re-certification resulting in cost savings of 150k in 4 months, allowing for evaluation of justification for re-certifying over scrapping bearings.

Over entire employment held several positions for the company, from Sales Associate to Customer Relations Manager and Special Projects Manager. Played an integral part of establishing and improving core processes for the company and participated in Kaizen events.● Handled initial consumer complaints on warranty and possible FDA issues with regards to product failures.● Worked on updating internal MDR report tracking and resolution including coordination of investigational results● Generated internal reports for warranty issues and identifying possible trends.● Worked with corrective actions to reduce product failure and address nonconformance to ISO 13485.● Project planning and procedures improvement including: Warranty and MDR complaints on product failures.● Identified inefficiencies and made recommendations for process improvements as a key member of kiazen events.● Responsible for accounts receivables clean up and reconciliation.● Inspection and reduction of distributor product returns by properly classifying and communicating results with distributors.● Demonstrated understanding of standard accounting costing systems and activity-based costing ● Responsible for accounts payable vendor relations, significantly improving relationships and response times.● Reducing cost by negotiating shipping contracts.● Strong strategic sourcing and negotiation skills adding new vendors to meet production schedule.● Strong analytic skills with the ability to gather and analyze data to generate detailed reports.

•Set up databases using MySQL to deliver expiring web content.•Created site maps and reports for web sites belonging to Kalamazoo Valley Community College to aid in making recommendations and improvements to site flow and usability.•Updated information on websites to reflect current information, converting site content to database driven application when possible.•Worked with faculty and staff on issues varying from software training to the implementation of a customized portal.•Contributed to the implementation of the Valley Information Portal, assigned to working with the management interfaces to add content and layout information.•Learned and applied information about the portal content management for issue resolution.•Assisted with daily monitoring of portal use, login issues and database use, to streamline applications when possible.•Frequently work with Dream Weaver MX, Excel, Access, databases, Visio, Smart Draw, ADSI Edit.