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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Responsible for P&L, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and developing high performing teams that engage and empower their teams to deliver exceptional results that impact the bottom line for 3 manufacturing sites in Matamoros Mexico (1,500 employees), 2 sites in Juares Mexico (1,458 employees),1 Warehouse in Harlingen Texas (32 Employees) producing automotive remanufactured parts for aftermarket and OE customers.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Responsible for P&L, Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost for a 300-person warehouse in Brownsville Texas that supports operations in Mexico.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Senior consultant for operations leadership (Supervisor through Sr. Vice President). Focused on training and modeling behavioral coaching practices centered on company values, technical efficiency, and patient impact.

Leading continuous improvement and facilities initiatives in a 55 employee defense contract manufacturer of support equipment for the military.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Front End Pharmacy Benefit Management Director at the Bensalem site (300+ employees). Responsible for budget, Continuous Improvement, Efficiency, Accuracy / Quality and delivery / turn around time. Consistent results obtained by using lean enablers and CI tools to engage every technician and Pharmacist in the pursuit of continuous improvement. A firm believer that people are the most valuable asset to an organization with a strong commitment to develop leadership and employees.• Increased employee engagement and empowerment through use of lean enablers, resulting in sustained efficiency improvements from 88% to 118% in 6 months.• Recognized in 2016 as top-performing pharmacist team in enterprise with months, performing over 143%. • Provided training on effective use of problem solving tools to identify root causes, using data and applying effective countermeasures, which sustained incremental improvements in prescription accuracy. Also, decreased defects per million opportunities from 65 to year-end 6.8 with several months at 0.

Walton Hills, Ohio, Us

Recruited as a turnaround sustainable lean change-agent to develop and improve the production, quality, continuous improvement and preventative maintenance systems. Successfully changed the operations culture at AXIOM AUTOMOTIVE from making uncontrolled and undocumented changes on the fly to a systematic process controlled organization driven by data and metrics resulting in over $2 million in annual savings.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Managed the customer core return process including receiving, crediting, sorting, inventory and shipping cores to manufacturing according to the daily production schedule. The operation consists of 7 warehouses with 7 direct reports and 380 employees along with having global oversight responsibilities for set up and execution of core operations in one plant in Texas and two plants in Europe).Made significant improvements to the value stream by developing, training and implementing new technologies that provided live inventory updates; significantly improved order fill; reduced core purchase requirements and generated additional revenue. Trained and developed the leadership team in Servant and Situational Leadership - resulting in significant efficiency, quality and employee morale improvements - (successfully turned a plant where every employee walked off the floor to the union office into a high performing team with the best engagement and morale in the division)

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Directed team of production supervisors,technicians, engineers as well as unionized workforce.Managed the following cross functional areas; four product lines, design and product engineering and finishing operations comprised of 14 direct reports and over 600 employees – while having cross-functional responsibility for capacity planning, acheiveing and maintaining (QS9000 and TS 16949 quality certifications), capital improvements, operational budgets, Lean implementation and continuous improvement inititatives including equipment utilization.Initiated and proofed a postponement strategy that reduced 15,000 finished good stocking locations; reduced raw material purchasing requirements by 30%; eliminated the re-boxing of finished goods and improved customer order fill from 96% to 98% for the highest volume production line in the brake division. Awarded the "Presidential Citation" for leading a cross-functional team through a complete product line re-design in 6 months. Received the "Guardian Award" for obtaining a 50% reduction in OSHA recordable injures in the Brake Division.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Directed team of 4 manufacturing leaders, 1 finishing supervisor, 4 technicians and 300 workers – producing 32,000 units on a single shiftInstilled and inspired a sense of urgency in meeting customer requirements - resulting in setting a new customer order fill record - first time ship of 100% for 110 consecutive days in our highest output product line in the Brake Division.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Responsible for quality improvements in the Air Vane Injection Pump remanufacturing porduct line. This included training, creating workstation doucmentation that met ISO 9000 requirements, reduction of internal non conformances, warranty correctivie action implementation, cost reduction initiatives, machine set up, tooling improvements, fill rate improvement and core utilization.

Sales were increased by 50% in a three-year period. Trained 12 new drivers over a three - year period Supervisor: Ron Stokes

Bachelor Of Arts

Pre-Physical Therapy Studies