Michelle Ashley Email & Phone Number

Kennesaw, Ga, Us

Richmond, Virginia

Led continuous improvement initiatives to improve ambulatory surgery safety and outcomes, emergency room and critical care unit throughput.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Led continuous improvement initiatives in Medicare and Medicaid lines of business.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Continuous Improvement project leader using Lean Six Sigma methodology

Transformed Transactional and Manufacturing Processes to deliver excellence to customers and impact their bottom line

Richmond, Va

Led Lean Six Sigma projects, Kaizen events, Value Accelerators, and other Continuous Improvement efforts resulting in benefits of $54M. Corporate Leveraged Lean Six Sigma organization led simultaneous projects and improvement activities across the entire Corporation (all Business units), all levels of the organization - Operations Shop Floor level to Vice President level. Managed projects in Transformational and Transactional Process environments. Successful execution of projects depends on demonstrating excellent time management, project management, networking , and interpersonal skills.Kaizen Event and Value Accelerator facilitator• Virtual Kaizen event facilitation skills – led Global team through current state mapping, waste identification, and improvement generation kaizen for transactional regulatory process• Corporate Human Resources and Corporate Security established emergency contact and response procedures for disaster preparedness in United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.• Facilitated Value Accelerators focused on Variable Cost, Fixed Cost improvement, Capacity Release, and Supply Chain Performance improvement• 5S Kaizen focused on Slow Moving inventory reduction (Working Capital Improvement) and Lean Waste reductionCapability Building, Coaching, and Mentoring• Coached and mentored Black Belts, Green Belts • Organizer and Sensei for 6 kaizen events at a manufacturing site- essential development step for 20 Lean trained Black Belts.Lean Six Sigma • Skilled in DMAIC, DMADV, Lean Methodologies (5S, SMED, Standard Work, VSM, Kaizen)• Led project to optimize maintenance staffing and overtime at a manufacturing site which prevented hiring additional of personnel• Led baseline projects on complicated issues to define problem, quantify potential benefits which yielded multiple “child projects”