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Detroit, Michigan, United States

Initiating independent automotive market studies focusing on exterior coating technologies, appearance and consumer perception.Investigation alternate coating technologies and process options for cost savings and sustainability.Exploring opportunities for new product use in industry

• Lead automotive and transportation activities to increase demand for coatings, and specialties.
• Lead new and emerging applications for existing products
• Develop mid to long term strategies for growth opportunities
• Customer support
• Automotive market analysis

Auburn Hills, MI

• Lead automotive and transportation activities to increase demand for coatings, adhesives and specialties.
• Lead new and emerging applications for existing products
• Develop mid to long term strategies for growth opportunities
• Customer support
• Automotive market analysis

Livonia Michigan

Responsible for review of financial data including income, balance, cash flow statements and annual reports from global suppliers and forming an opinion on the financial health, stability and sustainability.

• Responsible for reviewing current status of dysfunctional material, coordinate corrective measures for inventory control and reduction. Determine automotive coatings cost on developed products or existing product.
• Responsible for costing experimental coatings (base coats). Reviewed cost structure for products and established alternate cost efficient methods. Worked with SAP in the development of an improved system for BOM.
• Reviewed technical formula changes for effect and impact on the product cost.
• Coordinated efforts between Quality, Finance, Product Management, Accounts and Technical to reduce dysfunctional material which resulted in a cost savings in inventory and holding costs. Estimates savings $800K.
• Facilitated Cost of Poor Quality meetings between manufacturing sites located within U.S. Canada, and Mexico.
• Lead in cost of poor quality activities determined root causes and implemented corrective measures.

• Responsible for coordinating evaluations and submission of products to customers for approval and business awards. Strategically plan and coordinate efforts to meet customer deadlines. Review existing or developmental.
• Managed evaluation and development efforts to submit and receive product approval for the OEM automotive coatings.
• Liaison with central office engineering for new product design, developments, and new uses.
• Prepared evaluation reports and status reviews with customers for product approval, or additional product development.
• Developed project management strategy and timelines for successful product evaluations and submissions.

Sourhfield, MI

• Key contact with GM for the identification of opportunities, or issues requiring product modifications or improvements. Initiated efforts at BASF to develop or improve the products performance to accommodate the.
• Responsible for all BASF primer programs for General Motors including formulation modification and new product evaluation approvals. Successful in achieving approval for BASF powder primer hybrid technology.
• Develop new business opportunities for UV cure primer applications.
• Key contact for the Jacksonville etch program with General Motors for evaluations of our current and future products to maintain and obtaining future business.
• Key team member in the development of a lab accelerated environmental etch evaluation and patent award. The evaluation reduces technical exposure evaluations from three months to four hundred hours.
• Completed a Six Sigma Black Belt project to improve new color plant trial success rate by 30%.

Mba & Ms, Accounting And Business/Management

Bachelor'S Of Science, Chemistry