Parth Shah, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

•Responsible for leading the digital transformation agenda and initiatives for the Global Supplier Quality organization. •Development and deployment of Supplier Performance Dashboards from insights from data and digital tools to facilitate the proactive identification/mitigation of risk, while driving business needs.•Lead strategic initiatives to identify unmet digital needs within the organization, prepare/present business cases for approval, and execute global deployment and maintenance.•Implementing new technology (Multi Enterprise Collaboration), an enterprise wide End to End unified collaboration and communication portal that will create significant value for large & complex supply chains.

• Responsible for leading the digital transformation agenda and initiatives for the Global Supplier Quality organization.• Development and deployment of Supplier Performance Dashboards from insights from data and digital tools to facilitate the proactive identification/mitigation of risk, while driving business needs.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

•Part of the Quality Leadership Team responsible for continuous improvement & operational excellence through the Johnson & Johnson Production Systems (JJPS) model.•Finance duties - Responsible for Budget, Headcount, CAPEX & OPEX responsibilities for the Quality Team. ($5M-$10M).• JJPS Lead - Lead JJPS in Managing Lab Activities (scope: demand & capacity, testing optimization, KPI mapping) and identified opportunities contributing to 5,300 manhours reduction annually and $120K USD working capital reduction.•End-to-End Proactive & Agility Scorecards - Development and deployment of IM & EM Proactive & Agility Dashboards through collaboration with key Supply Chain Stakeholders and business partners. •Drive Proactive Quality Culture & Mindset - Successfully reduced 20% quality issues by deploy proactive quality program - Quality Good Saves, Gemba Walk, Quality Talk at site involving cross functions. Continue monitoring post- deployment to ensure sustainability of the program.•Lead Quality Cost Improvement Program (CIP) - Successfully achieved cost savings of $167K USD in 2020, delivered $226K in 2021 and $250K CIP in 2022.•Audit Readiness Program - Support audit readiness program by involve in GMP gap identification and remediation plan determination, for all area across the site. •Quality Excellence - Monthly site performance reporting to regional team (CAPEX, CIP, Non-Conformances, Product Quality Complaints, Pest Control, Proactive Quality Culture)•Change Management Lead - Develop change communication tools, templates and processes that support and align to the change management methodology and strategy. •Regional Support – Lead and facilitate the Performance review meeting and publish the site and regional monthly dashboards within the organization for the NA Quality Leadership team. •Employee Resource Group (ERG) & Credo Support – Lead for the United Way Guelph Team & North America lead for the Global Credo Team.

•Directed the implementation of a $5M plant and oversaw end-to-end responsibility for of manufacturing, quality, process improvement, and shipping & receiving that scaled to support over 85 employees (80 production staff & 5 supervisors).•Developed an optimization model to better define performance with KPI & OEE metrics to track production, safety, cost, delivery, quality, waste, process and people for over eight manufacturing lines that led to $0.4M savings, 20% increase in efficiency and waste reduction by 26%. •Facilitating Lean Six Sigma & Kaizen throughout the production floor to ensure maximum efficiency. Reduced overall quality defect rate by 14% in less than 100 days.•Managed Labor attendance and cost data and increased efficiency by 24% and reduced tardiness by 39%.•Supply Chain Management: Digitalized all inventory including WIP ensuring 100% transparency of goods.

• Transform the company culture to focus on continuous innovation and collaboration.• Review and evaluate present and future opportunities, threats and risks in the external environment and current and future strengths, weaknesses and risks relating to the company.• Determine strategic options, select those to be pursued, and decide the means to implement and support them.• Determine the business strategies and plans that underpin the corporate strategy.• Ensure that the company's organizational structure and capabilities are appropriate for the chosen strategies.

Greater Boston Area

New Product Development design verification and validation for production testing on 10+ programs for NPD stage gate processing through multiple engineering builds supporting Keurig HOT, Keurig KOLD & Keurig International Incorporating Lean Six Sigma techniques to reduce time, increase efficiency, improve testing and create tractability methods using Zero Defect techniques.Lead the efforts in creating a Formalized Test Request Portal and an NPD Quality dedicated page to increase efficiency, productivity and enhance communication.Manage all procurement of equipment and SAP related transactions including Capital Authorization Requests (CAR) for NPD QualityCreated a Resource Allocation Plan incorporating all NPD Appliance Quality resources for handling all resource request, resource optimization (“what-if scenarios”) and show visibility to capacity and demand planning.Support recruiting efforts along with the University Relations Team at various Career Fairs in recruiting engineers.

Greater Boston Area

Designed model macros and created automatized data collection in Minitab, thus reducing data compilation time by 20%. Perform statistical analysis of test data, including process capability analysis, comparing to established metrics.Conducted and coordinated tests procedures on Software and Hardware Verification Analysis for the new generation Keurig brewer platforms.

Conducted process mapping and time/capability studies to improve throughput by 26%, eliminating unnecessary steps and ensure adherence to customer specifications.

Rochester, New York Area

Teaching Assistant and Grade.

Internation Student Services, Rochester, Ny

Improving the orientation program for international students, including creating a FAQ database and providing support to over 50 students as a welcome guide.

Rochester, New York Area

Responsible for participating and organizing Career fairs at RIT accommodating about 300 companies and helping 3,200 + job requiring RIT students.

Created a unique manufacturing process to investigate various properties of “sustainable plastic” using rapid prototyping techniques. Built, assembled & configured 3D printer to manufacture using sustainable plastic as part of a research project for the National Science Foundation & presented findings at a research symposium.

Doctor Of Engineering, Engineering Management And Systems Engineering, 3.7 Out Of 4.0

Dissertation Title: Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and its Impact on the US Defense Acquisition Methods and Programs Engineering.

Master’S Degree, Manufacturing Leadership, 3.80 Out Of 4.0

Activities and Societies: National Society of Leadership & Success (NSLS) - Recipient of The National Excellence in Leadership Award &.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering Technology

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Pi National Honors Society - Delta Alpha Chapter - Vice-President, Executive Board and Executive.

High School, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Computers.

Activities and Societies: •Volleyball Team - School, District, State and National Level Player • Field Hockey - School, District, State.