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Irving, Tx

Developed and directed worldwide commercial governance program for company’s annual pipeline of 200+ growth initiatives having individual values of $1M+ and total annualized revenues of $684M.• Right-sized program, simplifying approvals and eliminating one FTE, 50% of stage gates, and $300,000 in annual costs while improving program integrity.• Doubled throughput over four years to 469 annual reviews without increasing staffing while expanding services, adding oversight of technical designs, and improving global and functional exposure.• Streamlined and standardized processes creating job aids, a qualification scoring tool and process, eliminating 0.5 FTE.• Created complex Excel application with “one-click” interface for on-demand reporting.

Irving, Tx

Established and directed global Project Management Office. Assumed ownership of global organizations managing worldwide facility startups; standardized processes and staff into one PMO. Established and directed Research & Development department.• Halved PMO budget by eliminating 5 FTEs and $800,000+.• Managed workload peaks without sacrificing quality or velocity or introducing risk by utilizing 3rd-party resources (and Neovia’s proprietary processes for consistency).• Directed 25 start-ups enabling $20M+ in additional annual EBITDA.• Directed development and implementation of company’s first mobile apps.

Irving, Tx

Drove development of company’s strategy. Developed and executed project portfolios closing strategic gaps and moving metrics to target. Drove Lean Six Sigma disciplines mentoring employees in DMAIC and Lean / Neovia Operating System (NOS).• Facilitated development of post-divestiture strategy, its strategic imperatives, and core values with C-level and key global leadership.• Developed global communications and change management plan and led global team in strategy roll-out.• Successfully managed thorny “prior works” Intellectual Property issue threatening divestiture.• Facilitated creation of Commercial and Accounting divisions’ strategies.• Established and directed Operations Excellence department, driving consistent approach to operational excellence via NOS.• Realized $7.8M in benefits coaching 13 Black Belts on IT, warehouse operations, and transportation projects.

Morton, Il

Developed and executed project portfolios closing strategic gaps and moving metrics to target. Drove Lean Six Sigma disciplines training and mentoring employees in DMAIC and Lean.• Established and chaired Structural Period Cost Reduction team resulting in $3.8M savings.• Improved employee engagement scores of failing supervisors by average of 15% by developing and implementing process to address employee concerns.• Developed communications plan for and led rollout of “Six Sigma Tools for Everyone” curriculum, garnering best survey scores, 20% voluntary attendance, and 4% improvement in key index.• Created process for and initiated Six Sigma “Gallery Walks” socializing key projects.• Realized $21.7M in benefits coaching 22 Black Belts on IT, warehouse operations, and transportation projects.• Taught (as lead instructor) 4-week DMAIC training, 31 attending.• Taught Project Sponsor curriculum, 250+ attending.

Peoria, Il Area

Developed and executed project portfolios closing strategic gaps and moving metrics to target. Drove Six Sigma disciplines training and mentoring employees in DMAIC and DMEDI.• Led development of “best in class” communications plan to orchestrate delivery of Six Sigma messaging via multiple channels.• Realized $34.3M in benefits coaching 33 Black Belts on IT projects.• Created and deployed employee-engagement improvement process utilizing “teachable points” delivered by senior leaders via various channels.• Taught four 4-week sessions of DMAIC training, 108 attending.• Taught four 3-week sessions of DMEDI training, 90+ attending.• Taught Project Sponsor curriculum, 400+ attending.

Peoria, Il Area

• Led project to consolidate server and hardware usage in company’s Solution Center resulting in $1M+ savings.• Led project to reduce discretionary IT product support resulting in $250K savings.

Peoria, Illinois Area

• Led project eliminating chronic bugs driving four-fold surge in Help Desk calls – resulting in 69% decrease in call volume, elimination of 6 FTE, and $1M savings.• Architected and implemented transformative SGML-based authoring system for parts and service literature.• Staffed and led critical SQL performance-tuning initiative.• Established and led team to develop dealer e-Business capabilities.