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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Entrusted to lead a site family to a safer, more engaged and productive workplace while optimizing processes to improve overall margins.• Drove corporate KPIs to sustainable results: increased manufacturing efficiency by 24%, reduced rework from 23.3% to below 6%, and reduced absenteeism from 28.8% to 13%, all favorably impacting absorption costing. • Increased production margins from 24.8% to 32.4% in 2019 by systematically focusing efforts on indirect/direct labor and fixed/variable overhead costs, adding $3.6MM to the total net income.• Improved employee net promoter score from 4.7 to 6.5, a 38% increase, a metric describing how employees feel about the workplace utilizing team engagement activities, inclusive decision making and driving a teaming environment.

Lake Oswego, Oregon, Us

Directed the operation of aerospace fastener manufacturing, including machining, forming and functional treatment. Provided leadership to 250 employees and responsible for the success of key business targets: EHS, Quality, Productivity and Cost. • Identified and solved key operational gaps with process flow and machining operations, increasing overall productivity by 63% and reducing part cost by 41%, from $0.22 to $0.09.• Piloted and launched kaizen system for critical tools and supplies, reducing expediting and overtime spend by over $150,000 annually.

Boston, Ma, Us

Accountable for operational, functional, business and broad company objectives, in addition to with long-term planning, segment growth and overall business strategy. Led 27 direct employees while managing a $3MM operating margin.• Drove strategic service operations to improve capacity, increasing gross sales by over 25% from $12MM to $16.1MM in 2016.• Reinvented site Environmental Health and Safety training program to alleviate delinquent compliance related training, increased labor hours and lost revenue opportunities, savings exceeding $250K per year. • Introduced Radio-frequency identification system for past-due calibrated equipment mitigating warranty risk and reduction in expenses of $1,500 per occurrence.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for the development of advanced manufacturing methods for the PMC and Ox/Ox applications, involving design consultants and manufacturing experts on initial composite part design. • Nominated for and completed RISE: Global, corporate sponsored development program targeting the top 1% of high performing emerging leaders across the GE businesses. (1 year)• Identified certification and quality gaps, simplifying certification and training programs, resulting in reduction of potential quality escapes and 50% increase in applied resources.• Implemented resource allocation and asset capacity forecasting model to proactively meet development and production deliverables, leading to strategic resource distribution and talent pipeline development.

Boston, Ma, Us

Executed on integrating and developing advanced manufacturing processes to meet business commitments across the organization. Managed complex issues and long term planning within functional areas of expertise while contributing to overall business strategies.• Spearheaded the development program of finite element analysis modeling in order to reduce resource extensive experiments and trail runs, resulting in expeditious innovation at substantially lower cost per run, eliminating multiple $7.5K trial runs. • Streamlined operations across production engine hardware in order to meet aggressive schedules and cost restraints which exceeded $750K in equipment savings. • Recruited, coached and led top talent, driving a collaborative effort across a diverse, cross functional team to focus on cost out and innovation while meeting schedule deliverables. Achieved a reduction in tooling design and build time by 35% and a cost savings of 20%.

Boston, Ma, Us

Led business goals, programs, and processes within the Test Systems team while providing direction to the organization, meeting production, component, flight test, development, and overhaul engine test requirements. • Leader of Workforce Succession, a group focused on identifying and mitigating potential risks of skills gaps across the organization while maintaining an integral relationship with Human Resources to strategize pipeline development and talent recruitment. • Standardized onboarding across organization to reduce the process from two months to two weeks.• Redeveloped PLC hardware architecture for main compressor facility using a systematic approach to standardize future layouts, facilitating engineering design and enabling a future reduction of troubleshooting and cost.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Oversaw the replacement and maintenance of the entire DP&L underground distribution system. Managed six contracted crews and several DP&L union workers for boring and injection processes. Responsible for maintaining DP&L’s compliance with the PUCO with regards to the inspection processes for both overhead and underground distribution. Voluntary participation on the DP&L Power Outage Restoration Team.• Managed an $8.25MM budget to within 1% of the budget for addressing aged underground distribution cable.• Achieved breakthrough savings of over $520K yearly through negotiating with suppliers and creative strategies.• Improved budget efficiency and cable reliability through executing the introduction of underground cable injection within DP&L, resulting in a 5% increase in total underground cable addressed.

Juno Beach, Fl, Us

Operated and monitored all electrical and mechanical plant equipment. Ensured that all equipment operated in a safe manner that guaranteed continuous operation using strict procedural compliance. Identified vulnerabilities in systems, mitigated unexpected plant transients, and captured erroneous procedures and/or hazards. Certified Fire Rescue Brigade member.• Supervised and trained employees providing technical oversight and functional assessments of newly written procedures.• Led several Root Cause Analysis Teams to determine causes of system failures and abnormal behaviors.• Reclaimed 6MW of lost thermal performance by implementing an operational plan to vary condenser tube cleaning cycles. • Developed Safety and Compliance videos, reducing hands on training time and increasing awareness across the site.• Acting Field Supervisor delegating work assignments and hosting safety briefs to field operators.• Conducted on-the-job training to 25 new Nuclear Safety Operators.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Wireless sales expert; achieved various sales and customer services objectives by assisting customers with the purchase of phones, plans and options. Handled several administrative aspects of the sale including completing customer contracts, running credit checks, pulling product inventory, and filing finished orders to ensure accurate and efficient processing. • As a part time employee, achieved sales exceeding 100 new cellular contracts in a 30 day period. • Developed innovative sales tactics which resulted in an overwhelming increase in total data plan sales amongst clients.