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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Provide strategic consulting for Manufacturing & Supply Chain within the Aerospace & Defense Industry

Burlington, Ma, Us

Burlington, Ma, Us

• Created a corporate wide integrated operational excellence program called the CIRCOR Operating System (COS) which integrates Continuous Improvement, Quality, EH&S, Operations Management, and Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) disciplines into one homogeneous capability maturity model.• Initiated as leader of EH&S, CIRCOR COVID Response Team which won the 2020 Team Before Self Presidents Award.• Created On-line Yellow Belt training to facilitate remote working employees during the COVID pandemic.• Developed Green Belt and Black Belt training structure and recognition program for 2022 global deployment.• Reported quarterly to the CEO, on site CIRCOR Operating System performance progress with 8 sites achieving Bronze Certification and 4 sites achieving Silver Certification in 2021, and projecting first 2 sites within 2022 to achieve Gold Certification.• Strong focus on talent development and creating high performance teams within Global Operations including Operations, Quality, and Continuous Improvement leaders. • Created a Sales, Inventory, Operations Planning (SIOP) playbook & standard work. Significantly improved site SIOP maturity against monthly recurring 4-cycle (Demand, Supply, Consensus, and Business) review meetings projecting Gold certification for all sites by 2025, equating to a working capital improvement from 31% to 20% of sales releasing $89m of trapped cash.• Developed for CEO a Production Readiness Review risk assessment to drive Operation improvement activities to ensure site Q3 / Q4 2021 increased revenue plans were met. • Diversity & Inclusion: Group performed experimental design to justify the procurement of a Smart Hiring Software Tool that analyzes text for preferred diversity wording when creating new job descriptions. Data showed a statistically significant difference between the number of female applicants before and after the use of the tool.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Quality Leadership Team Executive responsible for the global strategic development & deployment of Advanced Quality Systems within UTAS. Leadership responsibilities include Advanced Product Quality Planning, Production Preparation Approval Process, Design Quality Assurance, Quality Culture transformation, Quality Fellows program, Quality Corrective Action Boards, Quality Clinic Systems, Material Review Board Administration, and the College of Quality and Process Excellence.• Launched UTAS Quality Culture transformation program consisting of developing a new UTAS Quality Culture vision “My Quality Lives On”, President Leadership Team message creation & engagement workshops, and comprehensive global communications for all employees to significantly improve personal accountability for quality throughout all levels & disciplines within UTAS. Progressing towards improvement targets of 40% improved employee survey & customer satisfaction scores and 30% reduction in Cost of Poor Quality.• Integrating predictive & preventative quality tools, APQP, Process Certification, and PPAP, into existing Engineering standard work, Operations standard factory, and Supply Chain playbook to improve product transitioning into production with a zero-defect mentality.• Designed & implemented a methodology to monitor maturity for Quality Clinic and Corrective Action Board Systems across all UTAS Strategic Business Units to significantly improve relentless root cause analysis and applying mistake proof solutions.• Leading the implementation of a UTAS Quality Fellows program and development of the College of Quality & Process Excellence to strengthen the overall health of UTAS Quality discipline.

Hillsboro, Oregon, Us

Quality Executive responsible for Quality Assurance & Control, Continuous Improvement and Supplier Management & Development reporting to the Senior VP of Operations. Quality leadership responsibility for ClearEdge Power manufacturing facilities in South Windsor, CT. and Hillsboro, OR., global supply chain management & development, and field service support issues.

Senior Executive leader with multiple site responsibility for quality assurance and control, supply chain performance management, change management, developing a Continuous Improvement program for our internal factories and Supplier Excellence program for our supply chain.Implemented new Quality & Continuous Improvement strategy and Organization with focus on improving Customer loyalty, Operational performance and developing a culture that strives for Performance Excellence.Reduced Customer Escapes by 46%, Cost of Quality by 25%, and Supplier Escapes by 38% from 2010 to 2013.Developed a benchmark internal Continuous Improvement program, CORE (Competitive Operations Rising to Excellence) and Supplier Excellence program, SCORE (Suppliers Competitive Operations Rising to Excellence). Both the CORE and SCORE programs are based on a Capability Maturity Model Matrix structure and requires each manufacturing or supplier site to drive the maturity of 10 key attributes towards excellence. The 10 attributes consist of Change Management, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma type elements.Established regular CORE & SCORE communications through various media (videos, newsletters, publications, pamphlets, workshops and conferences) both internally within DRS and within the Customer and Supply base.Created CORE Academy, with comprehensive, on-line self-guided training modules including tests and executed through the HR Learning Management System. Employee progression consists of three (3) levels (Awareness, Practitioner, and Master).

Farmington, Ct, Us

Senior Executive leader responsible for Global Supply Chain Performance Management with a total product spend of $1.92B consisting of approximately 5000 suppliers for both our Aerospace and Industrial businesses.Implemented UTC Supplier Gold program with key and critical suppliers across North American and European Aerospace Operations, including Industrial sector.Lead UTC Quality Clinic System as co-chairman developing an innovative Quality Management System that rapidly responded to value chain issues from the Customer through to the Supply Chain.Created Supplier Performance Improvement tool & process matrix to drive the appropriate kaizen, value stream mapping, or quality system development activities.Experienced a 59% reduction in internal supplier escapes and 48% reduction in external Customer escapes within the Aerospace business units over a 2 year period.Nominated the Hamilton Sundstrand (HS) Quality Clinic Systems program for the 2009 UTC Rentschler Memorial Award.HS Supplier Development & Management program benchmarked by all UTC Divisions and major Customers such as Boeing, Airbus, Government, Embraer, Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, and Rolls Royce.

Directed and Managed Quality Team consisting of six business unit Quality Managers on all aspects of HS Quality Management System during the transition of two Electronic Manufacturing Facilities from Farmington, CT. and Rockford, Il to Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico and Phoenix, AZ. Coordinated Executive Passport Reviews to manage & mitigate risks.Development of Quality Strategy & Plans for internal / external CustomersDirected all activities of transition to ensure product & process integrity and a seamless integration to Aerospace Customers.

Named as UTC High Potential Executive; participated in UTC Emerging Leaders Program.Nominated by HS Executives to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Executive Master’s Program.Identified as UTC Corporate mentor for Future Leaders Program.Managed Advanced Quality Systems, Quality Clinic Systems, and Supplier Management Systems implementation throughout HS facilities and supply chain. Management responsibilities included: HS Quality Management System (QMS), Global Ito University conferences, FAA/Government Liaison, Continuous Improvement/ACE, Reporting Cost of Quality Metric activities and MRB System.Mentored Business Units / Enterprises in team based Cost of Quality (Six Sigma Blackbelt) projects.

Managed Quality Engineering, Metrology, Continuous Improvement/ACE, MRB, FAA/Government Liaison, Internal Audit, Policies /Procedures, Reporting Cost of Quality Metrics and Rig Maintenance activity for the Windsor Locks Electronics Manufacturing facility.

Promoted into Technical Career Ladder Program by Senior Management.Responsibilities: Quality Engineer Mentor to new hires; Managing EC&A quality escapes driving root cause corrective/preventative actions; Coordinate and develop HS position papers and perform Customer presentations on major/critical investigations; Perform technical presentations to UTC Consultant, Mr. Ito; Lead Electronics facility to successful ISO9001 registration and re-audits by UL; Develop comprehensive process Certification plan and lead deployment; Develop and maintain supplier investigation process (SIP); Deploy proactive quality initiatives for Electronics Escapes Team including UTC House of Quality/QCPC training to suppliers; Perform Pratt & Whitney Designated Quality Representative and FAA Designated Manufacturing Inspection Representative functions.Quality Representative on the Integrated Product Development Teams for the F-22 program (P&W F119 Engine Advanced Tactical Fighter) responsible for driving process variability reduction techniques (PFMEA, SPC, DOE) to continually improve the processes and product integrity from initial development through production. Responsibilities: Material Review Board Quality chairperson; Purchasing Corrective Action Board member involved in managing supplier base; Manufacturing Corrective Action Board member involved in reducing process variability; Review of Customer contracts to develop manufacturing/quality control plans; Customer liaison (P&W, Rolls-Royce, G.E., FAA, Government); Supervisor/Technical Support advisor for Military product line In-process and Final Inspectors.

Managed the Receiving Inspection Electronic Component Test Facility in Windsor Locks, CT. Responsibilities: System Manager for the LTX/Trillium and Gen-Rad, GR-16 VLSI Semiconductor Test System; Provide software training and direction to Engineers on various Semiconductor Test Systems; Developed interface and handshaking capabilities between test systems and automated handlers; Generate calibration procedures and operating instructions for all Automatic Test Equipment ( ATE ); Developed test plans and inspection methods for various Electronic/Electro-Mechanical Devices (resolvers, motors, clutches, transformers, LVDT’s). Generated capital appropriations for, procured, and designed ATE floor plan for a new Electronics Test Facility in Farmington, CT.

Designed and developed specialized hardware for an ATE System to perform Functional Acceptance Testing (FAT) of a custom CMOS Microprocessor based LSI component used in Brown & Sharpe’s 1st Digital Hand-held Caliper.Responsibilities: ATE System Design & Integration including specialized hardware, IEEE interfaces, and HP-85 computer. Created ATE operating system level software in machine code & FAT execution software in BASIC for LSI component testing.

Master Of Science (Ms), Executive Masters In Business

Utc Emerging Leaders Program

Bsbme( Biomedical Engineering), Biomedical/Medical Engineering