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St. Paul, MN

Coon Rapids, MN

Minnetonka, MN

• Orchestrated development of new business processes for adjudication of medical claim appeals.
• Held joint responsibility for the development and launch of a third party workflow tool for processing appeals of medical claims.
• Analyzed the processes of a Medicare Pharmaceutical Assistance Program for inefficiencies, making recommendations for both short-term and long-term improvements.

• Key participant in an organizational assessment of a cargo delivery tracking process, responsible for evaluating and re-engineering internal processes.
• Chief leadership for development of Quality Assurance process for creating and implementing new repeatable portfolio offerings to be used as resources for Sales.
• Spearheaded a multi-organizational team responsible for development of new processes for release of new products to an independent manufacturer.
• Led a multi-function team that significantly reduced installation failures of a large mainframe through process re-engineering, allowing it to be installed by the customer. Achieved over $500K annual savings through.

• Principal leadership for selection and qualification of all components and suppliers used in the Unisys Semiconductor Test System.
• Contributed to the profitability of the Unisys Semiconductor Test System by ensuring the use of high-quality components in a cost-effective manner.
• Directed supplier management operations for all OEM equipment, with responsibility for overall purchased material quality of multiple manufacturing sites.
• Initiated new material quality reporting and supplier process certification processes unprecedented in the Unisys OEM supply base, resulting in a significant improvement in purchased material quality.

• Orchestrated development of third party agreements, negotiating contracts and cultivating client relationships.
• Attained over $500K annual revenue from clients of component services, with a return on investment of over 500%.
• Successfully negotiated agreement and created contract for third party use of failure analysis equipment, realizing $100K in annual revenue.

• Spearheaded supplier management operations with responsibility for overall purchased material quality of multiple manufacturing sites with material receipts of over $250M.
• Management accountability for supplier and component selection, evaluation, qualification and management.
• Planned and launched a supplier reduction program, strategically eliminating half of the supply base, resulting in reduced cost, higher quality and faster delivery.
• Transformed quality processes and systems to ensure capability of suppliers, reduce cycle time, and lower costs. New material quality reporting and supplier process certification processes resulted in an improvement in.

• Led and managed corporate failure analysis laboratory with responsibility for the failure and material analysis of all component failures within Unisys.
• Provided the liaison with Failure Analysis organizations of suppliers.
• Championed the effort to re-engineer the failure analysis process, creating an improvement in turnaround time of over 40% while increasing the capacity and raising the quality of the analyses.
• Conceptualized, planned and launched a plan to provide failure analysis services to outside customers, deploying it on schedule and providing revenue of over $50k to Unisys the first year.
• Seamlessly moved organization from San Diego, California to Roseville, Minnesota, with no impact to service level.

• Oversaw a staff of thirty-five engineers with an annual operating budget of over $2 million.
• Complete accountability for system design, manufacturing interface and introduction into manufacturing of a large mainframe computer.
• Total responsibility for management of ASIC supplier.
• Successfully completed design within budget and shipped ahead of schedule.
• Devised innovative approach to eliminate dependency on ASIC supplier for system debug