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CEI is a full-service consulting firm offering services in Strategy & Advisory, Technology Solutions, Onshore and Offshore Managed Services and Talent Solutions.CEI Strategy & Advisory (formerly Point Management Group) helps its clients operationalize strategy through leveraging critical elements of Business Transformation, Operational Excellence, Supply.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

A strategic role in leading the organization in identifying, designing and implementing business processes across all business units that improve company’s performance by increasing productivity and efficiency, with a focus on reducing cost and complexity. Post Masco aquisition, took on role of integration of Kichler into the Masco Operating System.

Independence, Ohio

Direct all aspects of Business Process Improvement and the Systems that support these processes. Working with functional areas to target and improve business processes. Utilizing BPM and BI tools to support each improvement process. Successfully managed the upgrade of PeopleSoft from 7.5 to 9.0 with no interruption of service to our customers. Introduced.

Fairlawn, Ohio

Responsible for the Business Applications, Purchasing, Customer Service and Logistics for a $130 million dollar subsidiary of Mitsui and Company, USA – reporting to the CFO. NutriScience Technologies is a leading manufacturer of animal nutrition products with business units that focus on Pets, Dairy Ingredients and Feed Manufacturing.

Cleveland, Ohio

Recruited by Ernst & Young to establish the Baan ERP competency center for North America. Immediately took over project management of a multi-plant implementation for Echlin Automotive (acquired by Dana). Selected to be on an automotive enhancement team with Baan, Echlin and Ernst & Young out of Troy, Michigan to identify and eliminate the functional gaps.

Cleveland, Ohio

Recruited by Sealy Inc., market leader of mattresses, from Massachusetts to Cleveland to join a $14 million ERP project as project manager for 3 component plants in 3 states. Managed a full-time project team including three E&Y consultants. Reported to the COO and VP-IT. Successfully implemented manufacturing, distribution and finance at three plants.

East Walpole, MA.

Managed a computing environment comprised of Network Servers (Novell, NT, OS/2), VAX Cluster, AS/400 and RS/6000. Designed and implemented state-of-the art environment that provides redundancy and business continuance for 350+ clients with mixed operating systems.Managed implementation of a quality data management system to replace existing VAX-based.

East Walpole, MA

Project manager for implementation of an ERP solution for 1-U.K. and 4-U.S plants. Developed implementation and training plans, managed team resources, and assured an on-time implementation of the project. Established policies, roles and responsibilities for new business functions, including capacity management, forecasting, engineering change control and.

Oberlin, OH

Warehouse Supervisor, Production Supervisor, Repair Department Supervisor. Reduced Warehouse labor from 13 to 4 FTEs by developing JIT material handling procedures including Kanban. Established GMP documentation in both production and repair departments that ensured highest quality outputs. Received Corning’s ‘Quality Apple’ award for the implementation of.

Brook Park, OH

Shipping Supervisor, Production Planner, Buyer, Receiving Supervisor. Developed skills working in a union environment. Used innovative scheduling approach to achieve a 5% increase in service position while eliminating 3rd shift of a capacity constrained line.