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Detroit, Mi, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

A Berkshire Hathaway Company with over $12B Revenue | 120+ AUTONOMOUS COMPANIES. 11 DYNAMIC GROUPS. ONE TEAM.

Requested to head up Afreecar.org strategy & operations by the startup founder, an Automotive Hall of Fame inductee, to bring mobility to the world’s poorest people. Rich is involved in all parts of the startup to strategically launch & operationalize the business; strategy, operations, design, patent/IP development, prototypes, software, business development, partner models, apply/receive grants & funding, supply chain, and IoT/Industry 4.0. Rich is cultivating partnerships across the value chain with incubators, suppliers, OEMs, industry, and government.

Management consultant and advisor delivering for clients across industries top-line enterprise growth strategies as well as bottom-line change transformations optimizing business processes & systems during interim, short or long-term assignments. Leveraging experience across Operations and E2E Supply Chain designing then executing & leading Operational Excellence cultures enabled by Industry 4.0 (Industrial IoT, Robotics, Automation, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Materials, Additive Manufacturing, as well as Modeling, Simulation, Visualization & Immersion).•Optimize business process/systems across operations, E2E supply chain, leverage digital/IoT/Industry 4.0.•CPG/FMCG restructure & turnaround; PE/VC research & due diligence; charter school network strategy. •Partner with American Red Cross HQ to create & execute a strategy for global operational excellence.•1 of 1st 10 Industry 4.0 Certified SIRI Assessors (CSA) in North America. {more about Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) siri.gov.sg/about].Umbrex ("UMBRella of EXcellence") is the first global community connecting top-tier independent management consultants with one another. The primary mission of Umbrex is to create opportunities for independent consultants to meet, build relationships, share lessons learned, and collaborate. Additionally, Umbrex helps clients achieve their challenging objectives by connecting the client with the right individual or team of independent consultants. Umbrex membership is highly selective with over 600 members in 30 countries, 85% of whom are alums of McKinsey, Bain, or BCG. Visit www.umbrex.com to learn more.

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Hands-on coach directing operations at one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of branded and private label products. Bottom line P&L focused with responsibility for end to end supply chain, manufacturing, strategic planning, purchasing, product development, maintenance, engineering, and safety/ quality/ environmental compliance. • Plants are high volume 3 shift operations strategically located across US to supply diverse retailers, wholesalers, foodservice, institutional and QSR companies.• Personally identified opportunities and executed optimization initiatives at worst plant doubling and sustaining efficiency in first 6 weeks on the ground.• Cultivating relationships across silos with Sales & Marketing, Finance and HR, to seek a more collaborative approach and shared success.• Designed and implementing broad scale transformation focused on cultural change beginning with safety, quality of life, morale & engagement, recruiting top talent, systems and processes.• Streamlining and standardizing across 3 generations with over 60 years of institutional & tribal knowledge developed in a fast paced entrepreneurial environment.• Prioritizing and directing large capital investments, OEM vendor sourcing & selection, site evaluation, plant expansion or new construction.

Leuven, Be

Led the Supply & Operations activity for the SAB M&A, supporting synergy opportunity definition, planning value capture, integration, carve-outs, execution, and establishing & leading PMO.• Led diagnostic of Best of Both Operational Excellence programs, plan long-term convergence.• Designed organization blueprint, including team and asset evaluations.• Plan and execute “Day 1” activities, including: communication, compliance policies, governance, KPI & reporting, meeting routine & readiness, process & ways of working, and divestiture readiness.

Leuven, Be

Reduce & Sustain $14B Variable Cost budget using ZBB, VA-VE as functional leader and reference for 40 Operations Directors by leading Operational Excellence programs at 200 plants, 500 sales/distribution sites & corporate functions providing means to overachieve $1B savings, and deliver best in class EBITDA, COS, CAGR. Champion team of global functional owners in Safety, Environment/Sustainability, Quality, Brewing, Packaging, Maintenance & Reliability, Automation/IoT Industry 4.0, Planning & Logistics, Distribution & Merchandising, Transport, Financial, Innovation, HR/People.• Detect corporate gaps through benchmarking; develop strategies to mitigate risks transparently, execute leveraging high change agility, analytics & business intelligence, lean six sigma, operational improvement, capital initiatives, best practice, knowledge management, PMO, Project Management.• Create and implement end-to-end strategies to manage more complexity driven by top-line innovation growth including make-buy, co-pack & contract manufacturing, new product development flow, design thinking, innovation stage-gate, sales & marketing, S&OP, supply planning, demand planning, footprint.• Initiate use of industry methodologies, created simple templates, embedded into internal toolkit; establish functional competency model for roles on career paths, host & instruct at annual Plant Manager Academy (Lean Six Sigma, WCM, ISO, FMC, SMED, TPM, DMAIC, DFMA DFSS, DTV, FMEA, HACCP, GFSI, FSMA, FDA, Leader Standard Work).• Oversee Business Shared Services Center way of working, sharing KPI targets; assess performance Greenfield/Brownfield, major expansion, M&A, joint venture, startup commissioning & certification. • Reduced LTI’s 63%, Number of Days Lost 29% since 2009, 2010 1st year without fatality inside sites.• Reduced Water Usage 19%, Energy Usage 12%, GHG emission 16%. • Improved Gross Line Yield 5%, LEF 9%, Consumer Complaints 37%, Plant Network Productivity 33%, Recycle Rate to 99.2%.

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Recruited to join Operations Practice as an experienced Senior Expert Consultant to partner with senior internal firm and external industry clients how to develop and lead sustainable operations, with high customer focus. Focus areas include operational excellence, strategic frameworks & planning, enterprise improvement, E2E supply chain transformation, network configuration, information management, scenario planning, analytics & business intelligence, reliability & maintenance, capital productivity, distressed turnaround, operational improvement, capability building.Management Consulting Case Examples:• Reduced capital expenditures for 2 major appliance programs at durable/white goods manufacturer optimizing product design, technical requirements, sub-assembly. Benchmark & competitive product tear-down to develop & share industry best practices in design, functionality, performance. Improved process & product design, brand strategy, component make vs. buy, manufacturing, supplier operations, supply chain, low-cost country sourcing.• Created organization transformation plan for private non-profit that has been actively impacting economic development for 40 years. Benchmark similar organizations globally; landscape & stakeholder analyses; Shaped new mission, vision, branding and guiding principles; Developed options for new organization model, studied potential impact with scenario planning, considering public and media implications.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Entrepreneurial drive to create product manufacturing vision & strategy; benchmark and “deep sensing” of global mega-trends. Provoke “Plant of the Future” scenario development to assess future impacts, analysis of global drivers, then prioritize innovation portfolio of hundreds of projects, led by hundreds of engineers and researchers. Developed and led PMO to ensure focused Portfolio Management, Program Management, and Project Management ensuring relevance.• Established global sustainability council; led corporate manufacturing sustainability program.• Licensed technologies to customers driving new business development, organic growth and revenue.• Industry subject matter expert to public policy groups and US government agencies (NIST, DOE, DOC, Federal Labs) to develop manufacturing research technology roadmaps.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Recruited to turnaround 3 different business units resulting in production quota attainment increases of 25% to 55%.• Coach, develop and lead 8 group managers and support staff to exceed performance targets for 300-employee production unit. • Develop and achieve strategic turnaround plans to return units to goal attainment in throughput, quality and budget.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Managed cross-functional team of 10 Strategic Planners. • Developed and managed annual strategic plan for future products & programs, human resources, marketing, scheduling and $400M operating budget. • Led collaboration between purchasing/sourcing, product development, market research, advertising, media, sales, service and industry analysts.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Outstanding year over year improvements for all 5 quality KPIs ranging from increases of 22% to 80%.• Developed and managed BU strategic business plan which allowed department to surpass budget goals for 8 straight months after missing goals for 9 of 12 months.• Achieved 10K additional annual units without increasing manpower, through lean processes and cultural changes. • Led training and implementation activities for competitive manufacturing initiatives for hourly and salary personnel.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• “Best of Best” prize-influenced from 40% to 100% to wear uniform; $260K savings, best 1st time quality.• Spearheaded effort to improve primed panel process realizing $400K annual reductions in material and labor. • Successfully supported changing market demands by making early vehicle color palette changes. • Paint Launch Manager for Pontiac Bonneville GXP, Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne programs.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Principal member of multi-organization team that developed national political strategy and successfully lobbied for the creation of the Assistant Secretary of Manufacturing cabinet position by US President. • Developed and implemented corporate globalization strategies for Global Manufacturing Engineering Council. • Drove strategic process and product improvements based on market demands at Advanced Technology Council. • Subassembly and components from injection molding, extrusion, thermoforming, composites, metal stamping, roll forming, paint & polymers.• Led cross-functional advanced manufacturing & engineering team to develop a stage-gate process for new technology & innovation development. • Led creation of global process for strategically evaluating technology sharing with joint ventures & alliance partners. • Coached and facilitated Value Stream Mapping workshops for global, cross-functional activities.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

GM Sponsored Education Leave to pursue full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) & Master of Engineering (MEM) at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Directed design engineers and suppliers to identify and resolve product launch integration issues.• Resolved chassis integration issues ensuring no impact to product timing, throughput, or quality.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Sourcing, negotiations and supply/demand forecasting for outsourcing distribution activities netting a 40% cost reduction. • Negotiated reduction of 9 hourly classifications to only one with labor union, enhancing employee flexibility.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Managed team that doubled production volume and throughput enabling manpower reduction of 65%.• Maintained 100% of all production quotas while relocating all activities of 3 assembly centers to new facility.• Resolved product integration issues working with manufacturing, engineering, and suppliers of injection molded parts, electrical modules & harnesses, interior & exterior trim, and stampings.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Honored with “Award of Excellence” for successful layout development and construction of 5 manufacturing facilities. • Negotiated 50% project cost reduction with union while avoiding outsourcing; win-win for management and union.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Proposed and managed $43M cost reduction consolidating 11 distribution centers -- Received “Show me the Money” award. • Led engineering team to design and engineer reusable containers for vehicle, engine and transmission operations.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Managed all distribution center employees and activities in a 1.3M square foot facility: docks, warehousing, packaging, inventory, kitting, transportation, logistics and supply chain. • Implemented RFID tracking of material within facility. • Led Competitive Manufacturing teams that decreased kitting time from 7 to 4 days and reduced required floor space by over 35% allowing for consolidation of 3 distribution centers into one without increasing headcount.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Supervised skilled employees at Powertrain Engineering Vehicle and Component Build.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Designed layout for new facility and planned move activities for relocation.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led strategic analysis of B2C global wireless payments market for a proposed product line; including investment forecasting, opportunity sizing, planning & footprint, value chain analysis, evaluated potential M&A targets, and expected ROI.• Created B2C strategy report addressing wireless payments market that evaluated early adoption and obsolescence curves, payment patterns by geography, market landscape, competitive analysis, and types of product offerings.• Developed internal B2C core capability product plan for enterprise wireless infrastructure; constructed future business models and identified product opportunities to exploit existing competitive advantage.• "Skunk works" team approach within internal consulting group, to develop corporate strategy for IBM’s offerings in wireless market.• Collaborated with internal and external experts: technical R&D, e-commerce & web developers, financial/banking services, business/product development mobile platform, and hardware & security.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategic Management, Management Of Organizations, Finance, Marketing, And E-Commerce

Master Of Engineering - Mem, Operations, Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering (Bse) - Industrial & Operations Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Lean Manufacturing