Ruwan Hapuarachchi B.Eng Mba Mbb Pmp Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Leading Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement culture deployment, specializing in the transformation and management of information technologies, as well as work organization, process optimization, continuous improvement, and performance management with the Lean Six Sigma approach.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Improving the employee experience and building capability in our employees to continually improve the business toward delighting our customers.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Leading strategic continuous improvement and facilitating change. Introducing and implementing best practices, tools and processes.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Head of Supplier Engineering, and Restricted Substance Management (RoHS, REACH), Spearheaded new technologies, engineering design and processes with our vendor network towards building the very best life saving point.
• Established a cultural change at APOC for an increased sense of urgency and for holding critical suppliers accountable for quality and delivery.
• Successfully managed and sustained 20+ company owned multi cavity plastic injection molding lines. Increased raw material output by 10% without additional capital expansion by the end of 2017.
• Developed and executed a multi-million dollar 3-year capital program for company owned assets at our vendors.
• Evaluated multiple molding suppliers, and selected a new strategic partner – Executed the molding capacity expansion, and replacement plan.
• Standardized new mold validation and verification processes. – Reduced one to two months from each new injection mold project timeline.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Headed the Operational Excellence (OE) Program across the Company owned and Co-Pack Manufacturing Network, Central Planning and Transportation. Represented Canada on The Coca Cola Company OE Global Masters Council, and.
• Orchestrated a cross Silo Multi Year Strategic Plan with a prioritized set of initiatives base on business gap, impact, cost and effort.
• Developed the 3-year capital and infrastructure master plan for CCR Canada.
• Consulted by the US OE team on key inputs to their multi year plans, approach and strategies.
• Spearheaded the turn around of the 5th largest North American manufacturing plant previously thought to be an unfixable poor performer. Improved employee engagement, ownership, and sense of urgency, 10%+ efficiency.
• Developed and introduced Tactical tools and methodologies to improve and sustain day to day efficiencies and waste elimination. Replication across the US and Canada.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Headed the Operational Excellence program across the Manufacturing Network, Central Planning and Transportation. Developed a continuous improvement culture and engagement across all levels. Annually recurring savings.
• Masterminded the Canada Region Operational Excellence Vision, Strategy, and multi year plan, Site OE Leader “Brand”, employee engagement on OE projects through dedicated project and Lean tool training time. This became.
• Recruited the right talent for the Canada Site Operational Excellence Leader roles – Lean or Six Sigma experience with a strong track record of accomplishment, or internal top performers with an intellectual curiosity.
• Directed a forum for plants to “Share, Learn, and Collaborate” through the monthly Regional OE Steering meetings. Fostered inter-plant collaboration between Management team members.
• Championed lean tools training and cross silo workshops targeting Health & Safety, Environment, Quality, People, Production/Delivery, and Maintenance across all Canada Manufacturing facilities completed in the first 2.
• Pioneered the development and deployment of the Lean Six Sigma program at Coca-Cola Refreshments North America in year 3.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Consulted and led strategic initiatives across the consumer foods manufacturing network optimization initiative, representing a multi-million dollar improvement to the bottom line.
• Orchestrated the big picture scope for the design and construction of a high efficiency super plant as well as retrofits to existing facilities, resulting in alignment across all functional stakeholders at all levels..
• Designed capacity models to predict production equipment and raw material storage requirements for the super plant and retrofit facilities.

• Developed and implemented Tactical and Strategic solutions to complex problems. Drove positive changes to the Enterprise business as a leader on the Service First supply chain transformation team and as a Lean Six.
• Championed the CallPilot Messaging product supply chain simplification and manufacturing transfer. Responsible for US$ 50M Annualized revenues.
• Stabilized and Managed the Operations of the Enterprise Unified Messaging portfolio post Chapter 11 filing.
• Led a Lean project, shortened the New Product phase in phase out cycle time by an average of 30 days, effectively delivering in year cost reduction benefits 30 days sooner. Margin Improvement US$ 1M Annualized.
• Reduced Excess & Obsolete material waste resulting from inefficient Product Manufacture Discontinue practices. Benefits US$ 2M Annualized.
• Crafted and championed a successful sales program to mitigate US$ 1M of Excess & Obsolete (E&O) voice messaging products. Realized margins of US$ 3.1M.

• Managed New Product Introductions, coordinating all aspects of the global supply chain infrastructure setup, the managed global supply chain up to launch +60 days. Led geographically spread cross-functional.
• Introduced Voice and Data products into the supply chain. Managed the contract manufacturer selection process. Managed the product life cycle within the supply chain from cradle to grave. Revenues from US$ 5 to 100M.
• Managed Cost Improvement programs. Established an outsourced integrator model with Contract manufactures. Annual cost reductions/margin improvements from US$ 500K to 5M annualized.
• Pioneered low cost high volume enterprise product manufacture in China.
• Managed the Unified Messaging hardware portfolio conversion to align with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) European Union Environmental Directive.
• Headed the New Delhi supply chain team to ensure local vendors complied with the project schedule and mitigated US$2M per week liquidated damages on the US$.5B BSNL India Wireless project.

• Assisted VP of High Technology products with Strategic planning, Product development road map, and Business case analysis. Successfully completed the Cambridge University co-op MBA program while employed at TS Telecom.
• Promoted telecom equipment in Hong Kong and China. Included coordinating trail sites at customer premises.
• Designed hardware and software for remote data monitoring products.

• Wrote test software for the RADARSAT Remote-Sensing satellite project.
• Produced PCB layouts for the Servo-Power Amplifier redesign project for the Space Shuttle CANADARM.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

B.Eng, Electrical/Electronic Engineering - Robotics/Control Systems And Telecommunications