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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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.