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Freeport, Illinois, United States

Freeport, IL, US

Janesville, WI, US

• Enabled a continuous improvement culture across the organization to support top line growth and exceed bottom line financial goals while leading the Quality and Project Management Teams to achieve step change.
• Enabled Team to achieve a $900,000 reduction (>75%) in the cost of poor quality over 2 years by identifying gaps in project performance, improving forecasting of upcoming expenses, and driving systematic problem-solving.
• Empowered a cross functional team to improve the planning and execution of quarterly and monthly business performance. The improved planning and flow have decreased month-to-month variability and significantly.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US

Accelerated progress of top priority initiatives in all 4 business Segments (Fire & Emergency, Commercial, Access, and Defense) to accomplish strategic goals by providing continuous improvement, quality, and transformational change support to Segment and Functional Teams across the Enterprise. Led and coordinated corporate wide initiatives such as the.

Appleton, WI, US

• Led teams across 8 sites through Oshkosh Operating Systems (OOS) Implementation. Enabled contagious Continuous Improvement (CI) Culture by building problem solving capability through experimentation, recognizing.
• Drove improvements for top priority initiatives (new product launch, cost reduction efforts, manufacturing/distribution process optimization, and full value stream problem solving) by identifying, training, coaching.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US

• Enabled safe production of ARFF vehicles at reduced cost of manufacturing while meeting customer requirements. Led and drove key long-term improvement initiatives:
• Decreased mfg labor hours over 19% with new product launch by identifying and executing key improvements in design, manufacturing, & materials.
• Addressed key customer complaints and ensured ISO compliance by integrating ARFF value stream into Pierce quality systems/culture & making key improvements across design, procurement, manufacturing, and customer.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US

Mitigated excessive reprocessing costs exceeding $2 million with outside services by created and executing Truck Flow strategy.

Irving, TX, US

• Guided and empowered multi-functional teams to deliver key strategic business objectives. Overseeing key decisions to manage capacity, portfolio prioritization, and working capital for $4.2B Personal Care Business.
• Drove top line growth to higher margin product in North American & European Markets, yielded $1.5M in cost saving through strong machine start-ups and $2M annual expense savings in modified equipment technology.

Irving, TX, US

Drove significant long-term improvements that were adopted by other North American Plants due to success by developing Operations Engineering Infrastructure as member of Plant Leadership Team indirectly overseeing Plant Operating Budget of $210M and Net Asset Value of $90M.

Irving, TX, US

Obtained zero injuries and top performing production asset within global disposable diaper production plants by instilling safety as a value, managing all manufacturing objectives for multiple machine assets (shared net asset value of $65M) through empowering a team of engineers, maintenance, and operations team members.

Irving, TX, US

Irving, TX, US

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