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Rockford, Mi, Us

Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area

• Developed and deployed integrated process for alignment of Strategies, Metrics, Initiatives, Methodologies, Training, and Assessments for Americas. • Lead development and deployment of executive driven regional improvement opportunities system including identification, prioritization, tracking, and sustainability. • Provided guidance and support for deploying regional and global Lean Six Sigma training programs including external resource alignment. • Developed and deployed programs and systems including; Change Leadership, Cultural Growth and Assessments, Performance and Financial Sustainability, Finance Validation, Process and Systems Design. • Provided guidance and insight for developing integrated finance validation process for projects and initiatives. System resulted in regional and global resource alignment for financial expectations and requirements and positive business impacts validation.• Performed quantitative and qualitative evaluations to measure effectiveness of business processes and functional operations.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Develop Lean, Six Sigma, and Innovation Capabilities at Corporate and Distribution Centers, 73,000+ employees, Retail Sales - $17.1 Billion Annual Sales.• Advised leaders on business challenges and strategic opportunities, created alignment with customer CTQ’s, organizational KPI’s, Financial targets, and CI/Innovation solutions. • Developed and deepened relationships with regional executive directors and finance to bridge revenue generation initiatives with performance KPI’s, improvement strategies and projects, and bottom-line impacts. • Provided operations level organizational strategy and structure for identifying, aligning, and deploying performance and innovation improvement initiatives and projects. • Restructured Lean, Six Sigma, and Innovation training and coaching to drive leadership focus and speed of business approach.• Provided business process development capabilities through training and deployment for creating new programs, services, and facilities • Responsible for organization project portfolios for innovation and improvement initiatives and efforts.• Saved $10M+ in costs and reduced timelines by 65% for designing, building, and launching automated distribution warehouses, new store formats, and experimental e-commerce automation warehouse.• Helped reduce project timelines 53% and increased annual impacts 43%.• 71% of certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belts promoted to leadership roles within 2 years.

Findlay, Ohio, United States

• Provided executive and operations leadership coaching and mentoring for creating cultures of engagement, innovation, and performance impacts.• Spearheaded education and training initiatives focused on developing high potential leaders in problem-solving, positive behavior and interactions, and decision-making through implementation of business impact real time learning and performance.• Led global innovation integration and deployment efforts for Lean, Six Sigma, and Innovation teams including the design and deployment of training and development programs for business and performance excellence leaders.• Researched and led investigations into various business and customer solutions needs resulting in creating innovative solutions outside of organization knowledge and experience, creating new processes, and driving performance improvements.• Global financial impact from improvement efforts, shared with shareholders and market analysts, exceeded $450 million in 9 years.• Trained 246 executives, 1003 managers and supervisors, and over 8800+ individual process owners.• Over 4,800 successful strategic performance improvement projects completed.• Eliminated $2B in global penalties through certifications system development and deployment.• Co-designed integrated product, process, and business launch program. o Reduced development time from 18 months to 6 months o Reduced on site launch time from 6 months to 4 weeks o Increased ability to launch newly designed and built facilities 350% annuallyo Successfully designed and launched products resulting in most profitable in company portfolio.

Gaylord, Michigan, United States

• Provided leadership and guidance, including strategic and tactical plans, for performance optimization and cultural transformation.• Helped transition facility from losing $2M annually, to consistently achieving record annual after tax profits at or above 35% (including 62% one year before facility and equipment investments) and increased sales dollar per employee by 275%.• Led operational excellence and innovation transformations that developed performance and innovation capabilities providing reduced costs and innovative products to acquire 70% of global market share.• Provided cultural transformation roadmap, strategies, and tactical plans that provided innovative and interactive processes increasing employee engagement to 94% and reducing supervisor/employee ratio from 1 per 17 to less than 1 per 100.• Co-developed innovative and integrated manufacturing process that was first system and product globally resulting in immediate $17M gain in sales and $84M capacity in facility.• Created innovative equipment development and build capabilities resulting in 350% reduction in equipment costs, and new business model deployment.• Provided benchmark and beta facility used for required corporate leadership development and organizational model for innovation culture and performance improvement strategies and impacts.• Customer led initiative required corporate products to be co-developed and validated at facility due to innovation capabilities and performance results.• Customer quality ppm’s at 0% for over 3 years, 3.2 sigma process capability average, self-directed planning and scheduling with Kan Ban’s based on TAKT, 1-minute SMED press and die changeovers, and 95% preventative TPM.

Mdiv (Masters Of Divinity)

Engineering Mechanics Bs, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics