Reed Howell Email & Phone Number

Ladson, South Carolina, United States

3rd Shift Coach for VAB Joint Venture facility between GE Aerospace and SKF. Focused on delivery, team communication and changeover, as well as lean transformation work.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

As a member of the Operations Management Leadership Program (OMLP) at GE Aerospace, I will rotate through three roles within the company in 2 years. As a Sourcing Specialist for the Sourcing organization, I will focus on purchasing shared hardware for customers and fixing unplaced requisitions. I will also support the creation and implementation of data analysis tools that support Sourcing's efforts to reduce unplaced requisitions.

Mcallen, Texas, United States

As a member of the Operations Management Leadership Program (OMLP) at GE Aviation, I will rotate through three roles within the company in 2 years. As the Lean Transformation Leader for McAllen, I will focus on leading Kaizen continuous improvements events, solving quality issues, creating lean layouts, and reducing TAKT times across two manufacturing lines.

Florence, Kentucky, United States

Helped facilitate 5S and Lean transformation for the site by modeling and creating 26 foam tooling shadows using NX (CAD software) for various tools and engine parts, as well as designing and modeling a cart for the LPT Strongback. Created VBA based Excel training tracker. Worked with the GEnx Hours Council to analyze data and create a 2020 baseline for GEnx applied engine hours.

Clemson, South Carolina, United States

I work with the Watson in the Watt artificial intelligence program to help bring artificial intelligence and Watson systems to various undergraduate and graduate research teams across the University! I am currently working on a Virtual Rapid Response program to help train nurses and doctors using VR and speech-to-text Watson recognition systems!

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Learned the fundamentals of jet engine propulsion, supply chain management systems, Six Sigma, and Lean. Cost Leader for business simulation project; balanced all financials for the introduction of a new product (NPI) and maintained all demands under budget.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Inventoried, organized, and processed $3.1 MM in return to vendor (RTV) parts; Project lead for RTV process and handled and moved hardware from years of buildup. Managed supplier relations and visits, as well as participated in shop physical inventory. Developed new RTV process using electronic tickets in eNMS to decrease RTV cycle timeby 96% (762 days)