Senior level executive experience in general management, P&L responsibility, global supply chains, large site manufacturing, preventive quality systems, operations planning and plant management, product commercialization, and global network customer service operations.Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with 25 years of experience in rapid-impact Single Minute Exchange of Dies implementation, Pull Systems for Global Supply Chains, Shainin Red-X, and Classical Toyota Production System implementation. I am an APICS certified CPIM instructor for global supply chains as well as an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer and Certified Quality Manager.Broad industry experience in the areas of plastics, chemicals, and fertilizers; food packaging, package printing, steel production and converting, paper mill operations, building construction materials, and snacks and beverage.Lean expertise focused on flow: SMED to enable smaller lot manufacturing that matches customer order size, pull systems to match manufacturing sequence with customer shipment sequence. My primary rapid improvement technique is to reduce inventory, fix the problems, then repeat. These techniques are the enablers of world class customer service levels combined with world class levels of inventory turns.
Listed skills include Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and 46 others.