Smith, Ryan is a Senior Director of Procurement at ATW at ATW. He possess expertise in value stream mapping, kaizen, lean manufacturing, six sigma, 5s. Colleagues describe him as "Ryan was an important member of our team at Unilin. We counted on him for delivering very analytic solutions. Ryan is very professional, patient, and very easy to work with for anybody. That makes him an ideal cross functional manager who has to work with multiple departments and personalities to get things done. That also makes him ideal person to get things done through others without direct control over them unlike through direct reports." and "It is my pleasure to work with Ryan, as global sourcing manager, Ryan not only can manage global sourcing projects sucessfully but also always can generate very good strategic sourcing initiatives. On the other hand, Ryan fulfilled his day to day tasks very well in matric organization due to his culture awareness and communication skills. In 2010, with his frequent travels to India, Europe and other international operation sites. he smoothly/quickly built up very healthy working relationship with our international sourcing groups and other functional groups. There is no double that Ryan is a truly global supply chain professional."