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Sarasota, Florida Area

Sarasota, Florida

Leading international multi-disciplinary teams charged with successful completion of tasks required to develop new products from feasibility to registration through commercial launch in relevant global markets. Responsible for managing cost-savings initiatives, continuous improvement projects and other projects with significant business implications. Creating integrated project plans and schedules, proactively driving the identification and mitigation of projects risk, performing ongoing project monitoring, and ensuring adequate dissemination of information to project stakeholders.

Lima, Ohio Area

Providing functional project management services of new product development projects, from design through production launch, as well as internal process improvement projects and defining SOW.Acting liaison and company representative performing communication activities between a variety of cross-functional areas, both internal and external.Assumed complete ownership of budgetary expenditure oversight; monitoring costs and timelines ensuring that project scope, milestones and success metrics are well defined, understood and reported effectively.Leading, coaching and motivating project team members to perform at their fullest potential, using the ability to adapt to virtually all personality types. Following various customer quality plans such as FDA, PPAP, and other validation procedures and protocols using launch gate processes. Maintained cost metric, project timelines and reported status for executive management.Accomplishments:Accepted responsibility of over 12 product development projects within the first four months as project manager.Accepted responsibility to investigate, plan, and initiate corrective actions from customer non-conformance reports within the first two months of employment.Currently working on multiple new product development projects primarily for surgical medical device customers.

Coordinate and oversee the implementation of new, additional, and/or unique manufacturing and production programs - primarily for the US Army Stryker vehicle. Responsible for ongoing manufacturing programs to ensure technical, cost and schedule performance requirements are met. Responsible to develop and coordinate the appropriate cross functional teams to ensure implementation of innovative technologies and processes to meet the specific project or program requirements. Serve as the primary liaison between internal and external customers, organizations, and groups. Responsible for coordinating cost estimation and schedule development.Monitor cost and schedule performance in accordance with the Earned Value Management System (EVMS).

Program management, problem solving, process improvements, managing team subordinates, cost analysis and cost reduction initiatives, reporting status to upper management, resolving customer issues, maintaining metrics and interfacing with cross functional groups, interfacing with customers and their needs.

Design, analysis, and quotation of new products, product costing, design review, quality improvement, tooling and test equipment, production support, customer liaison.

Process improvement of standards and methods through time study analysis, continuous improvement, resolving quality and process related issues, certified lead auditor performing internal quality assessments in compliance with QS9000 and ISO 9OO1 requirements.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Organizational Leadership

Activities and Societies: Delta Mu Delta - International Honor Society in Business

Ba, Business Administration

Cum Laude

Associate'S Degree, Industrial Engineering