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Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States

Leader and change agent for evolving business.

Leading & Empowering Teams, CapEx Project Management, Change Agent, Lean Six Sigma

United States

Streamlined product flow, eliminated waste, cadenced communications with all stakeholders at both GE Shops and suppliers. Applyied A3, Lean fundamentals, Six Sigma, Constraint Management and Change Acceleration skills, collaborating with site teams and leadership to put in place strategic and sustainable improvements meeting schedules and Customer needs.

Madisonville, Kentucky, United States

Transformed plant leadership by putting data and analytics at the fingertips of everyone enabling faster data based decisions. Led a team of 2 developers in delivering 127 digital products aligned to business goals in 10 months. Defined Personas, utilized daily scrum and 2-week sprints to deliver MVPs and tracked all releases in Rally (project tracking)...recognized as a best practice across the supply chain. Key member a matrix organization of data source owners, data lake managers and other site brilliant factory leaders to deliver fresh data at intervals that support business rhythms. Connected machine data to local historian enabling analytics containing real time machine performance and improving the digital thread across shop processes and products.

Madisonville, Kentucky, United States

Led a team of over 150 employees (both salaried and hourly) and responsible for delivering HW to Commercial and Military Customers. The shop environment consisted of multi-skilled teams. Team development, technical development and personal growth were part of my mission, as well as safety, quality, cost and on-time delivery. Collaboration was required across the supply chain, engineering and all levels of leadership. Worked closely with the site union executive board to assure compliance to all local policies and contracts.

West Chester, Ohio, United States

Created a new role to assure data quality of engines manufactured, delivered and in-service. Led a team of 5 exempt employees and 36 purchased service employees. Responsible for accurate data on over 40,000 engines and supported global Airlines, Air-framers, Airworthiness Agencies, and Flight Safety. Mission was to improve business confidence in the data used for business processes.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Responsible for quality of repaired aviation engine components, as well as compliance of our processes and practices in accordance with global airworthiness agencies. Required strong relationships with Primary Inspectors from the agencies, vendors, customers and all levels of GE Aviation Services leadership. Led a team of 4 site Quality Engineers.

Evendale, Oh

Collaborated with supply chain value streams to reduce losses and non-conforming material. Mentored 18 Black Belts to certification and participated on the certification review board for other Black Belts. Prepared and led VP Supply Chain weekly quality review of Value Streams and Air-framers. Also led a quality synergy team across GE Power, GE Wind, GE Water and GE Aviation identifying opportunities to lean our processes.

Rutland, Vermont, United States

Responsible for large parts forge shop and small commercial & military vanes machining cell. Led a team of 135 hourly across 3 shifts and 3 exempt team Coaches. Mission was to deliver $2MM/wk and maintain safety, quality and cost metrics. Led a Shingi event on Military vanes to reduce waste and improve rate.

Springdale, Ohio, United States

Responsible for hardware to support the CF34-10 engine program from definition thru EIS (entry into service). Managed hardware in the booster, all structures, all rotating parts and all turbine hardware. Assured all paperwork for hardware certification was compliant and complete. Worked with global suppliers to deliver to rate and on-time. Managed a master project plan to assure capacity analysis, labor planning, equipment, tooling and raw material planning were complete and sufficient to support the program thru all certification requirements.

Worthington, Ohio, United States

Led Stable Operations initiatives to deliver $1MM in productivity in a mature workforce. Developed personal knowledge of manufacturing loose diamond and diamond tooling. Applied Six Sigma methodologies to determine critical variables to yield, engaged workforce to buy-in to the efforts and set new process entitlements of at levels 23% higher.

Mason, Ohio, United States

Supported migration of $1.5B purchased assets; reducing cycle-time from 180d to 90d with seamless service to the card holders. Member of a Corporate Consolidation team combining common processes across 4 businesses and implemented Business Process Management. Participated in remittance processing due diligence efforts. Trained 330 Exempt Six Sigma Green Belts. Led Call Quality/Training team of 16 members.

Salem, Virginia, United States

Led project to reduce cycle time on assembly of motor controls and testing. Developed Six Sigma Gold Belt training for hourly work force. Supported Motor Plant in Dothan, AL focused on reducing losses and improving yields across shaft machining.

Whitehall, Michigan, United States

Responsible for aviation engine hardware manufacturing and conformity to design and specifications. Worked with various tooling shops building wax injection molding dies, gauges and fixtures. Authored manufacturing operation instructions from raw material to shipping. Studied ultrasonic wave travel thru single crystal lattices. Spent 6 months in the tooling and part layout, 3 months as temporary supervisor. Developed relationships with Customers across the aviation industry.

Muskegon, Michigan, United States

Project Lead for procurement and installation of $5M high speed slitting machine. Researched and due diligence on web processing machine companies across America and Europe. Selected, negotiated price, delivery and support. Coordinated site prep and machine testing and installation. Identified technology for advancement and improvement of processes.

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Pursued BS in Mechanical Engineering. Chose MTU for the cost, recognition as top engineering school and successful job placement program.

Accounting

Pursuing BA in Accounting in consideration of a career change. Acceptance of work for GE Company required more time and focus. Completed.

Associate'S Degree, Veterinary/Animal Health Technology/Technician And Veterinary Assistant

Building knowledge base to better manage our equine breeding program.