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Xenia, OH, US

Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

Dayton, Ohio Area

NEXT LEVEL Partners®, LLC (NLP) capabilities and proven methods will help you drive accelerated business performance resulting in sustainable competitive advantage - and continuing growth in revenue, profit, and cash flow. We are original architects and practitioners of one of the most successful and respected business operating environments, the Danaher.

Huber Heights, Ohio

Enginetics (parent company is Standex) provides superior manufacturing solutions to the world’s major aircraft engine manufacturers, airframe builders, system integrator and their Tier1 suppliers, applying solutions in both commercial and military applications. As Vice President of Operations, Sam spearheaded the company's Operational Excellence system..

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for Lean implementation across 13 manufacturing sites, driving strategy deployment, providing Lean training and expertise; striving to position and sustain the company as a world-class leader in Lean transformation.Created and administered a process for transformation planning and tracking across the business unit, resulting in non-material.

India

Introduced and led lean system to manufacturing plants producing optical fiber and fiber-optic cable. Introduced TPM to restore equipment; utilized value-stream maps to reduce lead times and inventory; introduced pull system with markets and kanban; introduced recycling of plastic bobbins between plants with $450,000 annual savings.

Reynosa Area, Mexico

• Promoted to manage Lean / Continuous Improvement efforts across five hardware and equipment plants in Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, Mexico, and Dominican Republic. Introduced Lean principles and initial training at.
• $24 million annual savings achieved in 2007 and $31.4 million in 2008 by developing, deploying, and driving Lean Strategic Plan for five global manufacturing sites.
• $730,000 savings realized from Lean Six Sigma effort to remedy inefficient shipping process causing high levels of customer complaints by implementing balanced one-piece flow, increasing shipping capacity 60%, reducing.
• Adapted DMAIC methodology to add rigor to keep Lean transformation projects on track, which increased project capacity and annual savings by 25%.
• Created Lean simulation workshop using Lego’s to demonstrate benefits of line balancing and one-piece flow; $43 million in productivity savings in 2007 and 2008 directly resulted from implementing these two Lean tools.
• Co-founded corporate Lean Council to provide strategic direction, priorities, and resources across the organization. Deployed on-line training website covering basic and intermediate Lean tools, certification.

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Magna Cum Laude

High School, Magna Cum Laude

Magna Cum Laude