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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Leading team of 19 salaried engineers, achieving a year over year DPPM reduction of 29% YTD• Integrating 16 former Eaton Hydraulics manufacturing locations and 10 additional employees into the Danfoss Supplier Quality Team and operating model • Create and implemented standard work to resolve systemic supplier quality issues• Core team member to achieve IATF certification for Supplier Quality Team

Eden Prairie

• Provide guidance and coaching to 31 manufacturing locations on the creation, and execution of site level strategic quality improvement plans focusing on eliminating systemic root causes of customer failures and the cost of poor quality• Created and implemented business group level standard work to address customer concerns regarding potential safety or high financial impact• Created and implemented standard work for lessons learned to gain valuable insight on past project execution and supplier shifts resulting in tangible changes to project management standard work for future projects• Led team to create and update standard work for plant level MRB process• Created and provided MSA training for engineers and quality professionals at corporate and plant level positions• Providing overall quality leadership and quality strategic planning for Danfoss/Eaton 3rd party sale and transfer of manufacturing and assets for 3 product lines• Core team member driving organization to reduce customer DPPM by 19% in the first year and 45% the second year

Pueblo, Colorado Area

• Reduced Initial Customer Quality DPPM by 30% in the first year• Increased FPY by 26% in the first year• Implemented standard work for PPAP, Advanced Quality Planning, non-conforming materials, vendor recovery & CAR/SCAR quality processes• Provided direction and coaching to the manufacturing engineers on the creation, and implementation of process flow maps and pFMEA’s identifying opportunities and risk• Provide coaching to the engineering team on the implementation and creation of key manufacturing initiatives: Braze Excellence, Wiring Excellence, Torque Excellence, Coil Excellence • Provide overall direction and leadership to a team of 37 manufacturing, quality, and test engineering team members• Created business continuity risk register to highlight capital equipment needs and depreciation/replacement schedule

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed strategic quality plans for the two North American manufacturing locations • Provide coaching to cross functional teams as the Subject Matter Expert on quality tools and systems for customer issue resolution• Created and implemented Rapid Response Team process to ensure quality issues impacting strategic accounts and/or multiple products lines are addressed and communications are timely and effective• Created standard work processes to cover: Campaign approvals, Escape Management, & Product Safety• Reduced Initial Customer Quality DPPM by 57% achieving a $12MM Cost Of Poor Quality savings to the business as a leader on the core quality team• Provide coaching and mentoring to plant managers and their direct reports on transforming to a quality based culture• Serve as quality leader on North America Dealer Advisory Council• Core team member on development and implementation of EtQ Quality Management System

Chanhassen, Mn

• Responsible for global strategy regarding supplier development of Rosemount’s 1300+ active suppliers with annual purchases in excess of $500MM • Responsible for Rosemount’s global sourcing strategy regarding customers’ material of origin and manufacturing concerns• Lead and coordinate creation and review of supply chain global standards development and implementation• Provide guidance for supplier and regulatory audits• Have ownership of seven European manufacturing sites during an employee’s extended medical leave with 10 indirect and 4 direct reports• Drove four product companies and 18 manufacturing locations to a globally consistent material/product certification process• Represent supply chain to ensure DFM at product company design reviews• Defined and implemented supply chain strategy for exotic metal alloys for all product companies and manufacturing locations • Sponsor for creation and implementation of preferred supplier scorecard • Responsible for driving A and D part total lead time reduction. Reduced A part lead time by 37% in one fiscal year

Chanhassen, Mn

• Responsible for overall quality of $120M product line at six global manufacturing sites• Utilized Root Cause Analysis tools such as 5Why and technology such as SEM, to led teams to diagnose and resolve complex customer facing quality issues in materials and processes• Updated and verified: quality plans, work flows, and process control documentation were current and in accordance to the ISO9001 quality system• Reduced customer returns by 28% over one year period• Verified and reviewed proper SPC methods, analysis and problem solving tools were effectively and correctly used to reduce the overall cost of quality throughout the value chain• Led application testing and qualification of over 150 circuit board assemblies due to supplier natural disaster recovery• Responsible for purchasing and specifying test equipment & machinery needed for circuit card assembly, testing, and building to establish manufacturing at two new vendors costing in excess of $1MM

Chanhassen, Mn

• Developed comprehensive transfer plan to integrate existing manufacturing processes and quality systems to 7 existing and all future global product service centers• Lead effort to develop and implement global backward chaining process for the identification of Critical To Quality parameters for current and future products • Lead new product pFMEA’s; responsible for all New Product Development Gate 7 reviews • Active member of design implementation team for new ISO 9001:2008 required global Corrective Action/Preventative Action software system: Process mapped current state and future states; tested software application before release; trained employees on use of system• Developed new vacuum decay and pressure decay leak check processes for low volume global production sites, saving $50K worth of capital investment per site.• Worked with vendors to resolve equipment issue and implement global standard and pricing agreement for electrical test equipment• Worked with design, procurement, and manufacturing to create and implement electrical component reliability test and test methodology to provide early reliability warnings• Project Manager for identification of root cause and recovery efforts for internal and external global quality incidents affecting customer perceived reliability, product safety and customer service level• Lead cross functional team to recover from electronics component supplier quality event resulting in production stoppage of $1B product line, reducing initial scrap by $4MM with minimal customer service level impact• Lead bi-weekly quality conference with 8 global manufacturing sites, reporting out to companywide executive leadership• Created and implemented Lessons Learned process, now required for all CAPA incidents

Chanhassen, Mn

• Lead cross functional team consisting of procurement, design and manufacturing to qualify and approve 4 new suppliers• Designed and implemented new process control software utilizing X-Bar S, I-MR control charts and process capability studies to continuously monitor quality of product being produced and predict downstream defect rates• Lead cross functional team consisting of manufacturing, IT, and product database to create and implement business unit product traceability software• Reduced process discrepancies by 34% in one fiscal year, using six sigma methodology• Project manager for production equipment purchases; total expenditures in excess of $2M

Chanhassen, Mn

• Independently supervised assigned production areas ranging from 30 to 50 employees • Reduced safety incident for production areas by 15% over prior year• Reduced scrap by an average of 24% per product line• Lead lean initiative to implement a product supermarket, reducing lead times by 4 days

Hopkins, Mn

• P&L responsibility for fabrication and plastic cast molding division• Reduced customer rejection rate to less than 1% • Reduced direct labor cost by 18% over two year time frame• Provided technical support to sales force and management on product availability, design and application• Guided purchasing to achieve inventory reduction goalsInside Sales Representative• Managed complete quotation process from material selection, machine usage, labor and sourcing rates• Increased division sales by 7% annually• Reduced finished goods inventory by 50%

M.S., Management Of Technology

B.S., Physics

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma

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