Siddarth Ramkumar Email & Phone Number

Kent, Ohio, United States

I manage the Kent operations team which includes - Machine shop, assembly, quality control, engineering, shipping, inventory management, and planning/expediting - Implementing a $1.5 MM automated grinding cell for Pulverizer Disk Grinding - Consolidated a 7MM spare parts business into the Kent facility from an acquisition - Consolidated 5MM gear pump business into the Kent facility from an acquisition - Consolidated a $350K vendor operation into Kent after the vendor announced retirement.

Kent, Ohio, United States

Deployed 0Dover OPEX system for two manufacturing locations focusing on (1) multi-tier SQDIP reporting (2) bottleneck analysis and (3) improving inventory accuracy

Mansfield, Ohio Area

- Responsible for all continuous improvement initiatives by deploying a variety of lean tools, processes, and concepts that improve business performance. I work with business leaders to drive transactional, manufacturing improvements and oversee all lean operations to ensure coordinated progress toward the completion of Goal Deployment objectives. -Direct, coordinate and actively participate in the Lean project ideation funnel, the evaluation, and ranking of projects, the project initiation and execution, and regular project tracking, updates, and visual posting.- Responsible for growing Warren Rupp's excellent CI culture by investing a sizeable portion of my time towards developing and sustaining an employee-driven improvement program. -Lead two major CAPEX projects ($800K total) from project/idea initiation to implementation.

Norcross, Ga

• Implemented and trained 5S and Kanban in 6 manufacturing facilities. - Deployed a division-wide standardized Kanban system and 5S, first at Norcross, and then built a framework of best practices to be applied at other sites.- Reduced packaging on-hand inventory at Norcross facility to 2 weeks from 1.2 MOH and reduced lead time for supplies to 2 days from 5.• Eliminated workplace clutter, reducing the time taken by Operators to find tools from 3 minutes to less than 30 seconds. - Reduced downtime by 20 minutes, per production line.• Prioritized startup activities and developed point-by-point checklists, successfully reducing daily start up times by approximately 50%, from 45 mins to 20 mins for 8 extrusion lines. • Managed all activities and audits for transition from ISO 9001:2008 to ISO 9001:2015 with zero non-conformances. - Built an entire top-down risk analysis study for the entire division.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Responsible for full plant P&L. Managed Quality, Production, Warehousing and maintenance. 7 Direct reports and 45 indirect reports.• Increased daily production time by 1 hour in a 10-hour day by staggering start times of different work cells.• Served as liaison between Customer Service, Scheduling, and Shipping. • Reduced the number of shipping errors by 50% from Q2 to Q3 by introducing efficient quality checks.• Reorganized warehouse space by removing and rearranging racks to create dedicated spaces for LTL, Full Truck Load, and Stock Transfer products. - Improved workflow resulted in a reduction of shipping errors of 50%.

Irving, Tx

• Developed a three-tier customer complaint process to manage, prioritize, analyze and reduce customer complaints based on 80/20 framework and 8D RCA methods. - Reduced cost of quality complaints by $25,000, year-over-year.• Mentored an Understand, Simplify and act study on Customer Service operations to reduce the time consumed from entering an order to delivery in the ERP system by 30%.• Built a Strategic Matrix for the entire business as part of the Front to Back 80/20 analysis to improve understanding of core markets and to deploy growth strategies more efficiently for the management team.

Irving, Tx

• Developed a Go-to Market strategy for the newly formed ITW Electronics Assembly Equipment division ($176 million). - Removed Siloed sales structure to organic top down sales structure, resulting in revenue growth of 2.9% CAGR in 2017. - Turnaround of two brands from -13.8% and -11.7% OI to 17.3% and 12.5% respectively.• Managed the Irving, Texas Quality Lab with 3 direct reports.• Led the ISO 9001:2008 QMS recertification of all 5 manufacturing facilities as the Management Representative.

111 S Nursery Road, Irving, Tx,

12271 Monarch Street, Garden Grove, Ca, Usa 92841

Muumbai, India

Worked on the design and scale up of spray drying operations.

Master Of Science In Engineering, Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Chemical Engineering, 8.45/10