Matthew Wright Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Launching Operations for GLV International in the United States, starting first with a manufacturing site in Nashville, TN

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Matrixed leadership structure, where the GM is fully responsible for P&L of all Lighting Sales- Revenue and Margin improvement - COGS ownership- Labor efficiency & Capacity planning- Facility Management- Inventory turns and cash balance

Nashville Metropolitan Area

- Responsible for all headlight remanufacturing (6 facilities) - Responsible for aftermarket distribution locations (4 facilities)- Increased Capacity of network- Closed 4 facilities and opened 2 new facilities- Developed Standard Work documents and library- Established regular Sales Inventory & Operations planning sessions

Nashville Metropolitan Area

- Identify opportunities for standardization across facilities- Develop metrics for capacity and productivity- Launched SQDIP meetings daily at each facility

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Lead the corporate quality group that supported all 14 manufacturing sites. Also responsible for quality teammates within each facility. - Established quality scorecard for each facility - Maintained ISO 9001 compliance - Lead the customer quality team to collaborate with manufacturing when field quality incidents occurred - Collaborated with Process Engineering to optimize production for reduced cost and higher quality standards

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

The Six Sigma Master Black Belt is an essential resource for Six Sigma and Integrated Quality Strategy deployment and works across the entire BSAM enterprise. This individual is responsible for training, coaching, and guidance of project work for belts at all levels. This position will interface with all levels of management to ensure that selected projects are aligned with business objectives. This candidate must be adept at scoping problems, applying statistical techniques, and leading individuals through the obstacles of process improvement. In addition, this candidate will be heavily involved in Enterprise Quality Education curriculum development and project work.Responsibilities: • Training and coaching of Six Sigma candidates throughout the Enterprise• Other education related to continuous improvement, including DMAIC and FTA• Oversees the certification process for belts and works with Project Champions• Performs project work on an as needed basis• Leads best practice sessions and Yokoten activity• Mentoring of Continuous Improvement champions and professionals• Leads FTA and Daily DMAIC Problem Solving activity• Involved in Instructional Design and Development of courses for Enterprise Excellence• Involved in project work and planning related to Principles of Excellence• Facilitation of Principles of Excellence courses

Carmel, In

The Industrial Engineer at Firestone Building Products will work with the 15 maufacturing plants of different building product materials. This position will work through 6Sigma problem solving to improve processes and leverage best practice sharing across multiple facilities.Some of the main responsibilities of this position include. 1) Identifying Six Sigma projects and completing them with the goal of helping the manufacturing plants. All Six Sigma projects that the Industrial Engineer leads follow the DMAIC cycle and has a validated cost savings associated with it.2) Training Yellow Belt classes at all of the manufacturing facilities. This includes developing a problem statement with the Plant Manager (Voice of Customer) and then building a team and preparing for a 1 week training event. The leader of the Yellow Belt class will then train 4-8 Operators / Supervisors / Maintenance Tech's on the basics of Lean & Six Sigma knowledge. The Yellow Belt course also is directed at improving upon the initial problem statement, and allows the operators to apply Six Sigma & Lean tools to complete improvement actions by the end of the week.3) Support the plants in all of their Continuous Improvement tools. This includes projects and lead by the Industrial Engineer to assist in 5S, Standard Driven Process (SDP), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Asset Sustainability (TPM), Six Sigma.4) Support and mentor trained belts within the organization. This means following up and coaching a majority of the trained green and black belts to help these students finish their projects and utilize the tool set learned in Lean & Six Sigma training.

The Industrial Engineer at LeanCor has a main focus of improving operations of the current facility. Projects of improvement included creating a stable process for smaller lots sizes to be delivered to the plant from the warehouse, developing checks for increased inventory accuracy, and develop recording measure for receiving exceptions to help decrease process time.

The Engineering Team Lead will function both in a leadership capacity and as an operational member for the customer teams for which he/she is responsible. This individual will be the main point of contact for customer on-sites on issues related to the engineering function, and will be expected to drive the team’s completion of standard work and continuous improvement activities.