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Conrad, Iowa, United States

Waterloo, Iowa Area

Led Quality Team with 9 associates. Direct contact with top 10+ customers and sales representatives. Focus on relationship building, resolving customer quality issues, and driving plant efforts to improve the customer experience.Build and support Quality Management System - launched gage calibration, web-based storage of work instructions, control plans.

Marshalltown, Iowa

• Led 280-person plant manufacturing residential cooling equipment with 8 direct report supervisors.
• P&L responsibility for Cooling Business Unit. Productivity improvement of over 10% in 3 years.
• Led Value Stream Mapping team to develop continuous improvement roadmap. Efforts drove all production metrics to record levels: productivity, quality and delivery compliance.

• Supervised and led 8 person quality team and management representative in support of ISO Certification.
• Six Sigma team completed 12 projects to improve First Pass Yield by over 20%.
• Drove leak reduction of 33% through product design and improved test equipment and protocols.

• Supervised 10 person engineering staff. Tightly linked engineering activities to production goals through productivity based projects and daily support of Managing for Daily Improvement process.
• Target assembly line productivity improved 24% over 2 years through focus on equipment uptime and setup of visual material flow to the assembly line.
• TPM efforts reduced annual maintenance costs by 31% across 7 critical fabrication cells.

• Directed 3-shift production operation averaging 70 direct labor personnel with 6 supervisors. Drove total product cost reduction of over 25% during the last 3 years. Yearly labor productivity increases of 12.5%, 7.4%.
• Drafted and negotiated contract language eliminating seniority and start of a 1-step grievance process.
• Improved and balanced throughput – reduced lead times from 10+ days to 3 days.

Master Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Lambda - founding member, Treasurer, Vice President, Academics and PRAlpha Kappa Lambda Fraternity.