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Novi, MI, US

Southfield, Michigan, US

Wixom, Michigan, US

Wixom, Michigan, US

• Responsible for optimizing the indirect spend of the company
• Leading a cross functional cost improvement team for logistics, packaging, and MRO savings
• Driving savings with inventory reductions, resin supplier negotiation, and commodity strategy
• Implementing a procure to pay system to drive purchase efficiency, supplier control, and budget oversight.
• Participating in the ERP upgrade to PLEX

Livonia, MI, US

• Continued the duties of a program manager
• Communicated financial results and forecast of the department to the VPs
• Responsible for setting department goals and creating plans and milestones to achieve those goals
• Independently learned, introduced, and integrated Microsoft Teams to the department workflow to streamline communication, centralize data, and make off-site work possible

Livonia, MI, US

• Continued to manage the most important offshore casting programs and related activities
• Designed and productionized a new tuned mass damper resulting in a patent (pending) and $300,000 in sales
• Hired, trained, managed and delegated certain programs to a direct report
• Successfully coordinated an overseas supplier move, including re-qualification of all parts, and inventory management to ensure no disruption of parts to the customer
• Created and implemented a pricing plan for the tariff changes satisfying both customers and suppliersLed a team to enlarge our casting, stamping, and assembly supplier bases both domestically and internationally
• Led the proactive sales team with a goal of increasing the customer base and overall sales of the department by 10% annually

Livonia, MI, US

• Simultaneously managed over a dozen offshore programs of aluminum and stainless-steel castings, as well as vibration control products totaling over $5 million in sales annually
• Coordinated program components including quotes, bids, PPAP submissions, budgets, logistics, 8Ds, and quality concerns for these programs, as well as serving as the primary contact for the customers and suppliers
• Collaborated with SMEs, suppliers and customers to resolve product discrepancies and conduct RCAs.
• Communicated regular status updates of all programs KPIs to key stakeholders to ensure leadership engagement
• Traveled to China multiple times to grow business contacts, conduct supplier quality audits and discuss new product development

GB

• Proactively created business case resulting in design and installation of a $300,000 6-axis robot and peripheral systems generating a labor saving of 75% and a one-year payback
• Designed and executed validation and verification procedures for extrusion, molding, and heat-setting processes to comply with customer requirements to ensure revenue stream, and customer satisfaction including the IQ.
• Completed injection molding training class covering theory, mold and program set-up, and troubleshooting
• Reduced molding scrap from 15% to less than 5% for highest volume product line
• Indexed all mold blocks, tooling, and part numbers to reduce set-up errors and schedule maintenance
• Traveled to Malaysia to train the local team on injection molding practices

Lafayette, Indiana, US

• Created trailer production orders by selecting and designing custom parts, assemblies, and sub-assemblies using complex excel matrices, SAP, Solidworks2011 and Microstation.
• Supported the production team by creating solutions to manufacturing issues.
• Created technical drawings that meet ISO 9001:2008 standards
• Worked with suppliers to ensure all components matched the customer’s order and fit the trailer.
• Participated in an interdepartmental continuous improvement initiative, which included applying 5S principles, improving safety, and material flow.

Dublin, Ireland, IE

• Organized and created a database of heater bands which reduced set-up and down time of the extrusion process.
• Designed and integrated the tool rooms and closed stores of two facilities, which eliminated inventory and created production space.
• Planned, coordinated, and interfaced the transfer of over one million dollars in equipment and material to an international partner. Responsibilities included paperwork such as NAFTA certificate of origins, MROs, POs.
• Learned ergonomic principles and applied them in a proposed plant layout that improved material flow, safety, and workstation ergonomics in two of the most labor intensive processes in the plant.
• Improved ergonomics and operator safety by designing a specialized tooling cart for heavy extrusion screws.
• Designed a fixture that measures scrap thread on a bobbin for a six-sigma project.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering Technology

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)