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Proven abilities in operational restructuring and turnaround management. Over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, operations and customer management. Since January 2016 serving as President of DhruvUS LLC.Between 2006 and 2015, I was with a tier 1 in the truck / auto space (~ $ 45MM) as its Head of Quality - NA locations. In this position, I successfully managed the turnaround of a fundamentally flawed operation of a prior company. Within the first year of the turnaround, the company moved from the bottom 1% to the top 1% of the customer supply base of over 800 suppliers.Prior to this I was with the North American operations of a multinational multi location Swiss spring, wire form and machine equipment manufacturer. As their Quality Manager, we raised the bar to manage and maintain plant performance to near Six Sigma levels which saw customer PPMs dropping from 2450 to 0004 over a 2 year period. As their production manager I led hands on lean practices, implemented work cell and workflow optimization initiatives, set up quality circles plant wide, championed enterprise wide Best Practices enabling unprecedented throughput, FTQ yield while reducing personnel burden at the same time.Specialties: Supply Chain, Logistics, Supplier Development, Operational restructuring, Turnaround management, Continuous Improvement, Lean Practices, Operations and Systems, Motivation, Leadership, Team building, Customer Service

Listed skills include Leadership, Quality Management, Team Building, Apqp, and 35 others.