Provide high-level leadership and strategic guidance to the leadership team at Grovtec. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, I am responsible for complying with and implementing labor laws, policies, procedures and best practices, as well as identifying long-term HR goals and objectives. I am a detailed, hands-on and tactical as the company’s strategist identifying and developing Grovtec’s culture throughout the organization, reporting directly to the company’s CEO.In elaboration, I direct the strategy, planning, development, implementation and administration of all human resource management programs, including recruitment, compensation and benefits, employee relations, OSHA compliance, safety and worker’s compensation, wellness, and training opportunities. I advise management in policy and program matters, making or recommending appropriate decisions. As part of leadership staff, I help set the strategic vision of the company and input on HR strategies to support high growth rate plans.

My roles and responsibilities are development, leadership and implementation of key strategies involving Ascentec’s employee development/talent management programs, organizational performance measures, organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and organizational culture. Interact with and support leaders from across the organization, build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with all areas. Interface and identify continuous improvement projects and execution of them. Identify organizational goals and strategies and effectively cascading them down to all levels of employees including developing and delivering solutions that drive organizational, team and individual performance to achieve the company vision. Deploy solutions based on deep understanding of business and talent needs. Lean Champion and manage organizational lean activities (5S, Gemba walks, Kaizen events, etc.). Development, implementation and management of companywide apprentice programs for Machinist and Pallet Design system as some examples of my accomplishments. For Human Resources leadership roles and achievements, my direct driven, accomplished contributions to the company’s success have been: Strategic Alignment & Execution, Organizational Development, Employee Relations, Compliance & HR Administration, Staffing, Retention & Recruitment, Compensation, Benefits & Payroll/HRMS, and Safety & Risk Management.

Manage the company’s 12-member Warranty team in daily production demands to support an average need of 200,000 refurbished and new products to service warranty, domestic and international customers with consistent on budget tracking records, provide the company’s Customer Service Rep. and Sales Managers with technical answers for corresponding with customer and distributor’s inquiries, collect and analyze quality data via the warranty return system for new product development and continue improvement efforts while successfully executing quality/warranty improvement projects with internal cross-functional teams and cross-functional teams from Germany and China. Significant accomplished projects are:1. Develop and execute the refurbished tool replacement program savings the company a yearly average of $1.5 million US dollars. This replacement program also helps the company to bring the awareness of Leatherman and LED LENSER brands to the world market and to generate repeat customer business for company’s new products. 2. Integrate warranty data tracking systems for China, Germany, and the US workforce; providing data accuracy and effort consistency for the corporation while saving the company a yearly $100K US dollar for warranty data entry and handling labor hours.3. Key member of the on-line data entry capability project for end-users and change shipping carrier whenever the competition arises between UPS, FedEx, and DHL shipping companies for lower shipping costs saving the company a yearly average of $150K US dollars.4. Develop essential process work instructions including product repair work instructions, replacement table for over 700 obsolete knives, tools, and lights and warranty related function policies for many processes providing consistency and time-savings that are beneficial for LTG and its subsidiaries.

Directly manage a 28-member team consisting of Quality Engineer, 3 levels Quality Technicians and Warranty Technicians by utilizing the performance management process, including confirming job responsibilities, establishing goals and job competencies, identifying and developing skill gaps, evaluating resources, coaching on a continuous basis and evaluating performance. Develop and lead the company’s quality organization that is data driven as well as utilize root cause countermeasure processes for solving problems. Develop and deploy quality strategies throughout the organization to support corporate strategies. Gather inputs from end users via Warranty, CSR, Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Manufacturing to define and maintain definition and standardized testing of LTG quality standards that satisfy end users at both a product category and product specific level. Lead and manage the quality testing programs as well as ensure good test equipment and processes are in place for product testing. Identify needs and respond to requests to develop and teach quality tools throughout the organization. Major accomplishments are:1. Complete the original Quality Manual2. Develop and train all levels of employees as part of the Leatherman Operating System (LOS) requirements on Project Management including Effective Action Plan & Countermeasures, Blueprint Reading Basics and Problem Solving Basics3. Successfully lead, complete and implement the strengthen jaw assembly project for the 4” platform tools saving the company a yearly warranty replacement cost of $500K US dollars. The project has also qualified me to be certified for the Six Sigma Black Belt. Leatherman has greatly benefited from this accomplishment for the last 4 years. It will continue to save warranty costs as 4” platform tools are the core products the company continues to make, sell, and warranty on.

Manage and lead manufacturing and accelerate product development (APD) projects involving cross-functional teams in order to develop and implement improvements for various LTG products and/or process, focus primarily on specific moderately complex issues where project scope and team membership will not always be easily defined. Work with teams to determine root cause issues, and develop & implement issue resolution. Plan and direct schedules, propose project budgets, and assist with resolution of budgetary issues. Monitor projects from initiation through delivery, and organize interdepartmental activities to ensure that completion of the project is on schedule. Unravel, define, document, organize, plan, review, and communicate project related issues with LTG technical and business staff, including all levels of management. Plan, develop, implement, and manage quality procedures and quality related educational programs. Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering to provide feedback to Design Engineering for manufacturability of products, and for reducing "engineering rework" during product development. Accomplishments are: 1. Lead a team of engineers and specialists to the grand completion of the New Product Development of Leatherman’s Skeletool line, one of the company’s core product lines that has since generated millions of dollars in revenue and will continue to provide bread and butter for the company over the next 5 - 10 years.2. Successfully lead cross-functional teams to the completion, on-time and on the budget of identified strategic $3+ million dollar manufacturing cost saving projects consisting of punch press operations, assembly operations, creation of in-house files manufacturing, handle polishing using an entirely new robotic machine, and Kaizen events.