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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

New York, United States

Greater Boston

We offer a range of services including management consulting, training, and support for manufacturing, operations, and supply chain management to clients across various industries.

Hornell, Ny

Managing Director for the manufacturing of the next generation of very high speed trains, light rail vehicles and Metro train platforms in North America.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Lead global supply chain team including manufacturing plants in Missouri, USA and Florence, Italy. Responsible for plant operations, EHS, PSI, sourcing, manufacturing/test engineering, LEAN and quality. Extensive use of Oracle MRP to fulfill customer requirements on-time and with the highest quality while continually reducing overall cost.

Houston, Tx

Overall responsibility of a field service organization that provides pipeline inspection services to global oil & gas clients. Direct ownership of EHS, operations, quality, sourcing, inventory, facilities and logistics. Fully accountable to execute global projects annually while driving EHS culture, margin expansion and strategic planning.

Houston, Texas Area

Sourcing - responsible for overall supply chain strategy to rationalize the supply base, deliver cost out, minimize inventory and be ready to serve. Implemented ERP (Oracle) based purchasing/planning system to digitize demand, improve controllership and create visibility within the supply chain. Assets - responsible to maximize asset utilization, define deployment/capacity strategy, develop financial expression to secure funding and manage capital expenditures of new assets. Implemented global asset management system (IBM-Maximo) to standardize resource scheduling and create transparency of supply/demand.

Responsible for the daily operations and strategic planning of 4 manufacturing/service facilities in the US, UK and Germany. The operations are high mix – low volume and strictly make to order. Delivered 9% contribution margin improvement and 44% operating margin improvement through variable cost productivity and base cost savings.

Developed highly integrated flexible workforce to improve on time delivery to >95%Through the use of lean/single piece flow techniques reduced WIP by 75%Developed cross training program to ensure bottle-neck equipment use was maximizedExtensive capacity modeling of production processes to optimize demand flow manufacturing

Manufacturing lead for cross-functional new product introduction teams. Responsible to provide DFM, DFT and serviceability input to all new products. Ensure that manufacturing equipment, capacity and procedures were in place to meet first customer ship date.

Mba, Business Administation

Bs, Electronic Engineering