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Picatinny Atsenal NJ

Contracted through UIC /Bowhead Government Support Services, Inc. as Operations Manager for PM Close Combat Systems. Reports directly to the Product Director, D&CM.

Picatinny Arsenal, US Army, Morris County, NJ

• Contracted through Wits Solutions, Inc.Contracted as Program Manager and Project Manager for the Armament Center Project Management Integration Directorate (PMID). Report directly to PMID Director & Deputy Director..
• Proactively investigate opportunities to integrate processes and develop policies, governance, templates, tools, metrics, and training, bringing about impactful and compounding positive change.
• Analyze competitive environment, consolidate, and streamline activities of business development and production units into a single overarching process, eliminating duplication and accelerating processes by 3 months.
• Continuously improve PMO framework to drive projects using consistent processes, employing best practices to maximize workforce agility, minimize cost, exceed quality standards, and accelerate technology to the field.
• Developed change management strategies from the perspective of “people-side of change” incorporated into plans that influence stakeholders to embrace and adopt continuous improvement initiatives.LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.
• Author engaging content encapsulating the vision and paths of transition from a current state to a future state for Senior Leadership presentations, training, and publications, distributed through communication.

North Atlantic District

• Transportation Industrial Engineer Supervisor for the global leader in logistics and delivery services in the most competitive area of North America.
• Applied Lean, Six Sigma, and trend analysis to optimize efficiency of intermodal assets, hub sortation, and distribution facility operations, delivering multi-million dollars in cost avoidance.
• Secured multi-million-dollar clients as a member of the Business Development team by conducting transportation cost benefit analysis to develop mutually profitable logistics solutions.
• Instituted and authored Corporate-wide Transportation Industrial Engineering SharePoint Training site enabling new-hires to be immediately productive with zero or minimal supervision.

United States

• Project – ATS Consulting, NJ – Strategic Continuous Improvement Consultant (2015–2017)Offered services to corporate, government, retail, manufacturing, non-profit, matrixed, and union/non-union organizations. Maximized.
• Trained, mentored, and coached 500+ clients in continuous improvement methods and strategies.
• Formulated successful programs and training using stakeholder surveys and scorecards to analyze feedback.
• Drove five underperforming $3M annual stores to exceed sales targets (average increase 21%) within six weeks.
• Reduced 20% to <3%, decreased yearly operating and overtime by $250K in government processes.
• Won $250K facilities management bid for women-owned start-up by developing a 5-year business plan.

Ledgewood, New Jersey, United States

• Selected as the Compliance and Sales Manager of a firearms and explosive materials retailer routinely subjected to numerous unannounced federal and state inspections. Managed department of 15 specially licensed direct.
• Developed, implemented, and managed a comprehensive compliance program, which flawlessly passed regulatory records and safety inspections.
• Built collaborative relationships with federal and state regulatory agencies through leveraging expertise and understanding of government processes.
• Shortened time-to-market by analyzing data to coordinate inventory levels, buying policies, manufacturer production runs, and logistical assets in the movement of goods domestically and globally.
• Pitched product modification proposal to major international manufacturer, leading to the award of an exclusive sales trial, establishing proof of market for national trials and modification to other global product.
• Transformed $65K of old stock into sales in two months by applying critical inventory sales strategies.

• Provided Program Management, Project Management, Continuous Improvement, and Training services to private and public sector entities.
• Conducted analysis for the post-merger impact research of alignment and performance for the proposed T-Mobile and AT&T Merger.
• Guided cost-benefit analysis and national vendor contract review to evaluate security services and coordination for Microsoft Security Program, ultimately leading to the North American Central Security Station.
• Delivered project management, Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Kanban, and 5S seminar training to government agencies.
• Recovered $1M in existing budgets through cost avoidance, scrupulous procurement, and to-market time reduction strategies.
• Led compliance, risk, SWOT, safety, security, and gap analysis. Provided and aligned training for a productive, safe work environment.

• Fatal Forensic Investigator – Instructor | Special Projects OfficerLed and assisted multi-government agency teams of engineers and other forensic investigators (OSHA, NTSB, DOT, FAA, and FRA) in the reconstruction of.
• Conducted root cause analysis employing scientific and statistical techniques: Statistical Analysis, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Design of Experiments, Structural Crush Analysis, Destructive Testing, and Computer.
• Reduced costs by +$100K in fleet management of 300+ vehicles used in 24/7/365 emergency response services by leveraging vendor relations, contract analysis, policy procedure review, grants, and effective procurement.
• Decreased division overtime 20% ($200K), increased productivity 18% by researching personnel records, identifying employees with specialized work experience to create a CBA-compliant 25-person specialized unit.