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Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

Designed and implemented a continuous improvement (CI) system focused on engaging the creativity and knowledge of internal employees to power the turnaround of the largest oil refinery on the East Coast with over $12 billion dollars in annual revenue.• Directed department that closed over 80 continuous improvement projects with over 250 internal team members, generating $300MM of financial benefits in under 4 years while removing significant organizational risks.• Created a Lean Six Sigma Training Program with over 170 students, resulting in over 50 Six Sigma Green, Black, and Master Black Belt certifications.• Trained and mentored 6 Master Black Belts to facilitate improvement initiatives across the company, participate as core instructors in the training program, and assume key leadership positions at the company.• Developed a CI Root Cause Failure Analysis program that utilizes the DMAIC framework to prevent repeat failures, successfully removing key organizational risks across 8 of our major refinery process systems. • Leveraged the Lean Six Sigma framework to rebuild two departments from the ground up in under 2 years, creating a foundation for our internal Training & Development and Operational Excellence departments.

Rochester, New York

Founded Meliora to bring continuous improvement and Lean Six Sigma skillset to small and mid-sized businesses while working with international private equity firms to leverage the continuous improvement framework to power corporate turnarounds.

Rochester, New York Area

Redesigned financial reporting and analytics package to quickly identify variances and process changes along with the impact to company financials; Spearheaded organization planning process across all facets of the company.• Streamlined financial reporting package generation through consolidating data streams and aligning resources, improving detail level, accuracy, and timeliness of reporting packages.• Redesigned corporate planning process to ensure consistent detail level for both the planning process and analytics, drive planning ownership to individual business units, and facilitate communication and coordination across multiple departments and locations.

Rochester, New York Area

Identified, lead and coached process improvement efforts across multiple functional areas and company locations; designed and taught Six Sigma, DMAIC, Lean, and technical seminars throughout NAB and the network of KPS sister companies.• Earned Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification while coaching and leading over 14 multi-functional project teams across five different departments and multiple locations, generating over $1MM in annual savings.• Developed Continuous Improvement Intern Program in order to support organization-wide analytics projects, attracting top-talent to NAB and resulting in two interns ultimately joining NAB full-time as business improvement specialists.

Wayne, New Jersey

Prepared financial reporting analytics across international operations while supporting multiple directors with ad-hoc analysis. Redesigned store-level reporting analytics package for international organization, automating data feeds and designing macros to ensure accuracy and timeliness while cutting generation time from 3 days to 4 hours.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance And Competitive & Organizational Strategy, Gpa 3.6, Gmat 710

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics