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Chicago, IL, US

St. Paul, MN, US

St. Paul, MN, US

St. Paul, MN, US

• Manage and lead group of 8 direct reports and 130 indirect reports.
• Led Ecolab at Elk Grove Village to become the 1st Ecolab plant in North America to achieve TPM Bronze status.
• Led Ecolab at Elk Grove Village to be recognized as plant of the year in 2019

St. Paul, MN, US

• Managed and led team of 2 direct and 3 indirect employees.
• Supported Supply Chain Service goals by actively working with our contract manufacturing vendors to improve service, resulting in a 72% reduction in late deliveries and a 38% reduction in stock outages.
• Implemented ABC classification and period of supply days which decreased lines received by 30%.
• Collaborated with RD&E to approve alternate vendor for $23k in direct savings. Also partnered with recycler for a rate increase on scrap credit resulting in $44k in annual savings.
• Lead transition to a new 3rd party warehouse for dish machine storage, resulting in $344k in cost avoidance.
• Supported Supply Chain savings goal by leading our FI Pillar to complete 4 breakout projects in 2018.

St. Paul, MN, US

• Managed and led team of 1 direct report.
• Supported Service goals by working with our contract manufacturing vendors to improve inbound service levels to the plant through implementing vendor scorecards and vendor managed inventory.
• Supported the procurement savings goal by achieving savings through an RFQ and package type optimizations. Also reduced tanker truck demurrage and waste removal fees.

St. Paul, MN, US

• Managed non-conforming material and determined rework plans for 4 departments.
• Managed introduction of tech transfers to the plant.
• Used loss analysis to reduce batch adjustments and bad batches.
• Completed internal and supplier ISO audits.

St. Paul, MN, US

• Managed and led a group of 13 union employees in daily operations; accountable for meeting all safety, quality and shipping/receiving objectives while working with manufacturing to support them with inventory needs.
• Implemented safety and quality improvements in the warehouse through monthly team problem-solving meetings.
• Created and updated SOP’s.
• Developed documented training process to ensure consistent and effective training across all shifts for new hire warehouseman. Also created matrix to help track training verification.
• Implemented process change from unloading totes in batches and staging in warehouse to production unloading as needed. This resulted in a labor cost savings of $5,550 per year, a warehouse pallet space required savings.

St. Paul, MN, US

• Managed and led a group of 12 union employees; worked closely with planning to execute the MPS and was given autonomy to modify the plan as production and inventory needs changed.
• Worked with CATSWeb and the CAPA process to improve procedures and prevent quality issues.
• Managed all of the departments work requests and PM’s.
• Lead LSS Green Belt Project to reduce down time related to batches held up by poor hot box management. Reduced non-value added clerical time to complete the hot box requirements list by 95%.

Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Internship as a Research Assistant.Performed research on travel demand management factors and the social impacts congestion charging can have on residents using System Dynamics simulation for a project funded by the NSF.

Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering