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Buffalo, New York, United States

Buffalo-Niagara Falls Area

Managed startup operations for contract manufacturer site. Created organizational processes, implemented workflows, and brought stability to inefficient processes. Developed and executed programs to improve communications enterprise-wide. Established KPIs and reporting structures; taught employees to deploy lean concepts and tools to drive efficiency; set up cost measures and invoicing protocol to reduce spend; and handled all capacity planning and analysis. - Established missing KPIs to better understand processes and costs, including OEE (how to report, setting baseline and targets); changeover optimization; and inventory processes.- Increased chemical bath life from 4 to 8 days by instilling bath life tracking.- Reduced line change time from 22 to 16 hours due to changeover optimization by eliminating unnecessary procedures.- Reviewed and reduced spend for all line modifications and capital equipment; developed project scope and review process before implementation, reducing unexpected expenses from 10K to under 1K per month.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Directed team of industrial engineers focused on doubling factory output within 5 years. Handed capacity analysis, cost justifications, and Kaizen activities in support of expansion, increased productivity, and reduced bottlenecks. Program manager overseeing factory automation, MES, and IoT deployments. -Expanded final finish capacity from 3,500 to 8,000 tires per day (TPD) without capital; began project with 40K tires backed up in finishing and achieved workflow consensus with key stakeholders.- Increased barcode scanning reliability by removing touch points and optimizing program to eliminate extra or unnecessary processes.- Enhanced unit flow by adding station for visual enhancements and modified equipment to test multiple times in-line, resulting in faster and more efficient data and improvements.- Provided production tools to monitor associate output and drive accountability.

Buffalo, Ny

Promoted from Manufacturing Control Manager. Led team of 3 (grew to 12) with 5M annual budget through corporate merger of Goodyear plant into Sumitomo Rubber USA. Managed system and process developments to work with both Sumitomo and local legacy systems. Handled production budgets, sales and operations alignment, production planning, customer fill rate and delivery process, and warehouse operations. - Oversaw SAP and MES systems design, scope, and implementation to balance between existing systems, expectations, and Japanese/Sumitomo processes.- Optimized extrusion departments without capital, resulting in 50% capacity increase; led optimization of all extruded component line speeds, setting up KPIs to ensure process monitoring.- Established best practices for changeovers (SMED), reducing changes from 40 to 16 minutes.- Implemented screw PM process to ensure that lines were running at maximum fill; set target speeds by line.

Buffalo

Promoted from Flow Specialist. Supervised small team in daily production planning activities and assisted with systems development and implementation at other factories in North America. - Led transition from paper planning to electronic system; key player in MES enhancements and upgrades for North American Tire (NAT); revised weekly and monthly ticketing process to align with systems.- Improved balance out process with 40% reduction of scrap, routinely recognized as best practice for NAT.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Implemented GFS (Goodyear Flow System) in Buffalo plant; proprietary Manufacturing Execution System (MES) encompassing all components from rubber mixing to tire building. Set up network locations and workstations plant wide; handled system programming and troubleshooting; worked with Business Centers to establish correct inventory levels and run sizes; training Operators and Area Managers plant-wide in system use; and change management to move from legacy systems (paper tags and spreadsheets) to GFS for scheduling requirements.

Buffalo, Ny

Managed shift operations for the consumer tire business center building and cutting areas, with staff of 20-25 union employees. Enforced all company policies and procedures, monitored and improved production efficiencies, coordinated stock deliveries and production schedule, and coached employees to meet production goals.

Olean, Ny

Wore many hats in multiple rotating supervisory positions as deemed necessary for production. Oversaw production planning, safety, quality, delivery, cost and inventory improvements within assignment area.

Mba, Project Management Concentration

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Science