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-Led weekly leadership meetings to review the site’s headcount hosted in Sharepoint lists, ensuring accurate reporting and alignment with organizational objectives.-Created and maintained Power BI dashboards using DAX for the tracking of KPIs such as headcount, turnover, team health, and site distribution, facilitating data-driven decision-making.-Documented and continuously improved Operations processes, while automating daily activities such as reminders, emails, reports, forms and database updates via Power Automate flows.-Responsible of ensuring the completion of onboarding and offboarding activities of all employees.-Responsible of the scheduling of hiring events acting as point of contact between the Talent Acquisition team and hiring managers.-Led communications strategies for the site, using Yammer as a platform to spotlight the site's culture, drive initiatives, and spotlight events. As well as curated a monthly newsletter to share updates on initiatives and events to the entire site community.

Led packaging projects, ensuring customer and regulatory compliance while maintaining sales capability delivering regular updates to managers and stakeholders, facilitating decision-making and ensuring project alignment between areas such as warehouse, purchasing, planning, design, sales, quality and production.

-Created and maintained Smartsheet dashboards for the live status available to our clients 24/7 answering to the customer's feedback and requirements.-Implemented a database in Smartsheets to inform of daily shipments to clients through an automated email system.-Created a tracking system for custom components and developed KPIs to monitor their timely availability.

-Created protocols, executed validations, and generated reports for IQs, OQs, PQs and TMVs for the introduction of new products using statistical analysis like ANOVA, DOE and Gage R&R via Minitab for decision-making in accordance to FDA regulations (ISO 13485).-Monitored the progress, identified risks and developed mitigating techniques to minimize timeline delays of projects.

-Created and updated manufacturing and quality procedures, maintenance manuals, routings, BOMs in Agile and flow charts in Visio, while being responsible for the training of the operators on new procedures.-Improved the yield of passing laser marked parts by 25% as part of a Six Sigma project.

-Led high supply chain validation project for molded medical device components, performing measurements with vision systems and performing statistical analysis with Minitab.-Assisted regulatory packaging project by running samples at production floor and documenting the effort.

Customer's point of contact via email and phone for quotations, POs, manufacturing status, shipping updates and invoice receipts. Documenting in accordance to ISO 9001 standards.

Fixture design and work instruction development. Work standardization, time studies and line balancing to drive product output.

Master'S Degree, Project Management

Introduction To Project Management

French Studies

French Studies

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Six Sigma Black Belt

English As A Second Language

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Engineering