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Winchester, England, United Kingdom

Denmark - Remote Working

Really happy to be reconnecting with an old colleague from Motorola, and to be part of the Danfoss 'One-PLM" team

Belgium

A Fantastic contract to support a fantastic company to optimise their EOL test process

Andover

Recognition at the highest level. The MD created a new permanent role for me as part of his 4-strong Senior Leadership Team. This role included managing the existing Business Improvement team, specifically to improve their speed of delivery and realisation of benefits. o DDMRP: After more than 2 years of development without completion, we delivered this Material Tracking functionality into the production area in 4 monthso Engage project: Already 12 months late, we delivered phase 1 of this Stair measuring app to UK market in 9 months, by focusing on test and bug resolutiono Collaboration: Got teams working more productively by replacing disjointed methods of data sharing / publishing, consolidating into a single web-based tool – included over 500 users, who created and shared over 12,000 pages of content by year 2o Bug reduction: Reduced the ERP bug-backlog from 500 to 200 in first 2 months

Andover

Beat a stretch 18-month target by 20%. I was contracted in to introduce a full PLM system for this traditional paper-based Engineering and Manufacturing company, who were having difficulties in migrating to electronic control methods across their products – I delivered a full implementation of Windchill PLM over 3 months early.o Speed improvements: Engineering changes implemented into production 32% quicker, despite a 40% increase in change volumeo Quality Improvements: Initial 90% BOM accuracy Engineering vs Production improved to 98.4%

Bradford, England, United Kingdom

Rapid progression. Moved from successfully delivering localised improvements within the global quality team to running global transformation programs reporting direct to the CEO in 2 yearso SW2013 (CEO driven): Reduced licensed tools from 22 to 6 and introduced a single design and release process across14 globally- located teams, o End- to-End optimisation (head office): Key actor in Pace achieving its “3 x 150” Target (deliver $150m savings shared across Engineering, Supply Chain and Production) by mapping the entire order-to-cash process, identifying and then delivering improvements o Six-Sigma Training Program: Achieved £9m savings from projects delivered by Belts I had trained and mentored, across US, EU & Asia.

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Speed of progress. The only Six-sigma trainee to be fast-tracked to Black Belt prior to completion of green belt project. This was in achieved while also performing the core role of running configuration across EMEAo Savings: Ran projects achieving $6.75m cost avoidance/ $3.2m annual savingo EU Configuration Manager: Implemented a consistent change methodology and BOM structure across 7 design sites

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Motorola acquired previous employer Sendo for their European handset division. My role was consolidated on the acquired site and then expanded to cover all EMEA design sites and ultimately to report into the global Product Configuration team, maintaining existing roles as well as being a core member of the newly initiated Process Excellence team

• NDS / Tandberg TV: Configuration Control/PDM Manager• Becta: Created RAID log in Microsoft SharePoint, and then (on extended contract) wrote an Excel VBA program to automated monthly reporting (covering finance, KPI, change log, finance etc) across 65+ work-streams • NHS Trust – Winchester: Wrote and delivered staff training on running successful projects, followed by specific project support and authoring work instruction on project mgmt.