Strategically collaborated with Regional, Campus, and Service Line Institute Executives to manage regional projects, achieving $17 million in savings within one year – exceeding initial targets by 23%. The approach involved monthly/quarterly tracking through assigned Champions and Owners within the IDN.

•Optimized medical nurse floor inventory over two years, elevating line fill from 89% to 99% and reducing overall inventory value by 13%, with an impressive annual turnover of 18.•Established a systematic method for optimizing supplies in ambulatory clinics, leveraging the existing ERP infrastructure.

Franciscan Health System Tacoma, WA; •Cultivated a robust internal customer service culture, empowering Supply Chain control for Perioperative Services and reducing on-hand inventory by 17%. This collaboration with top executives resulted in monthly/quarterly tracking of initiatives with assigned Champions and Owners within the IDN, saving $11 million.•Successfully executed the most impactful total joint pricing campaign across six regions and over 50 Acute Settings.

Manage supply chain and material acquisition for mid to large size health system.Established excellent internal customer service culture facilitating Supply Chain control over supplies for Surgery Services, Interventional Radiology, Laboratory, and Cardiac Catheterization Lab, while maintaining excellent customer service ratings for in-patient care areas.Cultivated a culture of “What’s on contract?” among internal clinical customers, improving GPO contract compliance by nearly 30% in two years.Reduced on-hand inventory in Surgical Services by over 17% in one year, generating over $700,000 in free cash.Negotiated capped agreement for total joints prostheses, saving &1,500,000/year.Implemented Lawson ERP system.Championed cross-functional value analysis teams with active participation of virtually every member of C-suite staff as steering committee. Established Surgical, Clinical, and Contract Compliance teams to address multiple product usage issues simultaneously.

Manage all plant operations producing 0.3ml, .05ml, 1.0ml insulin syringes and alcohol swabs. Manage a plant budget of over $100MM including R&D. Lead under performing operation through 1.9MM dollar turnaround in one year, resulting in favorable financial performance while lowering standard product cost.Restructured planning horizon for high flow finished goods improving inventory turns from 7 to over 20.Championed cross-functional teams utilizing six-sigma techniques and data-driven projects resulting in: Sustained increases in assembly/packaging production of 14%. 12% improvement in budgeted performance in injection molding, facilitating a 10% increase in downstream assembly production. 50% improvement in Alcohol Swab production with no additional capital. Lead international project team relocating Pen Needle assembly and packaging operation from Nebraska, USA to Dublin, Ireland. Fully validated, the project came in on time and under budget

Operations executive responsible for planning, engineering, manufacturing, warehouse, shipping/receiving, and facility.Increased capacity to facilitate 26% increase in sales.Improved gross margin 35%.Achieved 8% volume neutral productivity improvement for 2-years running.Through lean manufacturing, and moving from MRP to sales orders, lowered finished goods inventory 35% while achieving on-time delivery of 98%.Achieved ISO-9001 certification

Worked closely with Research and Development and Engineering departments developing consumer optical products. Highly complicated processes involve close tolerance injection molding, clean rooms assembly, gas plasma coating, and ultra pure water/chemical extraction. Developed operations systems, planning models, and ramp up plan for technology transfer.Established SPC charting, and quality control systems for clinical trials and manufacturing shop floor.Project Supervisor, High Volume Autoline 1995-1997Technical Liaison between manufacturing and engineering for new, automated contact lens manufacturing facility. Managed the startup of all manufacturing operations and $25,000,000 operating budget.