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Madison County, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Managing and coaching team leaders & team members who performed value added process in building automobiles.
• Responsible for meeting daily production goals.
• Developing individuals to meet their professional goals.
• Resolving issues by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending actions.
• Responsible for the Safety, Quality, and Production of the Underbody team for Mazda's CX-50

Tupelo, Mississippi, United States

• Led coordination meetings with all manufacturing areas to ensure any abnormal vehicle flow was understood. Created effective countermeasures to resolve the issues in a timely matter. Developed and maintained production.
• Created complex macros to verify documents matched and reports were correct before sending to our customers (Executive Officers, Shop Leads, and TEMA) Reducing the average number of corrections each month from 17 to 2.
• Led and managed several projects including but not limited to the following: GALC Upgrades, Server HOST Launch, Model Changes, ECIs, and Tact Time changes. Most of these projects ran simultaneously with other projects.
• Created video tutorials to teach how ALC related tasks could be performed quickly and effectively. This helped specialists learn new material while at the same time, helped experienced specialists retain useful.

Tupelo, Mississippi, United States

Held an active role in minor and major model launch projects. Prepared and executed plans based on model launch schedule, optimizing man and machine’s productivity. Prepared documents which reflected data presented to management. Conducted problem tracking activities for each model trial phase. Established work connections with local vendors and.

Tupelo, Mississippi, United States

• Effectively assigned roles and responsibilities to as many as 16 team members at a time to share in decision-making activities by clearly defining actions required with or without constraints to meet deadlines..
• Active role in plant start-up activities- set up RCU (Roof, Cowl, & Upperback) processes, standardized combination tables, process diagnostics, process flow, and standardized work.
• Participated in 3 Jishukens (2 internal & 1 external) all of which proved to be successful.
• Won a plant wide Ergo Competition two years in a row. Taught and promoted teamwork and kaizen skills throughout body shop. Collaborated tasks with Safety, PE, Production Group, Maintenance, Quality Group.

Tupelo, Mississippi, United States

• Production Team Member- Recognized events and situations which required immediate action. Generated ideas for process improvements.
• Trained TPS, Toyota Way and TBP
• Promoted to TL within 4 months