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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Leading engineering support and Continuous Improvement for the Consumer Division of GXO North America. Providing deep expertise and thought leadership in Engineering Solutions, Automation, Implementations, Inventory Control, Analytics, Quality, Maintenance, and Operations Excellence. Proven expertise with leading site startups and major turnarounds. GXO’s Consumer Division is the 3PL partner behind some of the largest brands in the world, and my team of industry experts supports all phases of the customer relationship - from solutions, through implementations and ongoing world class operations.

Leading Solutions and Operations support teams to develop game-changing solutions and lasting continuous improvement in a highly demanding omni-channel environment. Developed daily operations routines that are now standard for the division. Led multi-million dollar continuous improvements that improved customer experience as well as division's bottom-line.

Greater Atlanta Area

Change agent across several verticals within XPO driving engineering solutions and massive performance turnaround

Greater Atlanta Area

Lead team of Solutions Engineers, Business Intelligence Analysts, and System Configuration Specialists supporting global operations for key account. Develop process and reporting solutions, game changing technologies, and global process standardization in critical customer facing role.

Auburn, Indiana

Key member of SCP's executive management team providing leadership role in bringing products from design to mass production. Responsibilities over all manufacturing operations of the company, reporting to VP & COO, and having direct interaction with SCP's Board of Directors. Role encompassed all aspects of production, material planning, manufacturing costs, process improvements, engineering, and quality. Integral part in new product development and strategic planning of company's product portfolio. Developed company wide processes and systems that result in effective execution of company's business strategy. Took SCP from lab to market, achieving 400x volume within the space of a year.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

Envisioned the layout and flow for a brand new manufacturing facilty, and brought the vision to reality. Complete ownership of plant startup project.- Engineering Manager with responsibilities over Engineering and Maintenance, Quality, Continuous Improvement Activities, and Product Costing.- Developed layouts and processes for brand new manufacturing facility- Oversaw plant consolidation project and activities- Led Material Utilization kaizen project that generates quarter million savings annually- Key member of six sigma project team that led to a complete re-engineering of a major process- Managed Engineering and Maintenance budget- Created semi-automated tools to optimize and standardize product costing- Developed and implemented SMED concepts to machine centers - Led OEE improvement initiatives

Peachtree City, Ga

Key member of transformation team that fully revolutionized production methodology at PASA through Lean Implementation. Traveled to Japan multiple times for hands-on Lean training and deployed new manufacturing processes that allowed company to achieve vision of being #1 supplier for our key customers.* Lead Industrial Engineer responsible for over 20 separate model family launches at different levels of difficulty. Six Sigma Green Belt certified.* Designed and developed sixteen new manufacturing lines. Challenges included using minimum factory space, material presentation for wide range of lines (15 second to 4 minute takt time), minimizing quality issues faced on previous models using poka-yokes, increasing use of automation, introducing new manufacturing techniques* Planned and implemented Cell Manufacturing Lines and U-Cells for different models that enforced One Piece Flow, increased operator expertise through cross training, reduced downtime and headcount, and improved efficiency by reducing changeover time to under a minute.* Significant experience in Lean implementation and continuous improvement. Saved over $1.5M each of last two years.* Implemented advanced manufacturing techniques on new lines. Assembly Robots, Screw Counters, Parts Verification System, Operator Flexing, Selective Soldering, Full Unit Vision Systems.

Ms, Industrial And Systems Engineering

* CAD model of an SLS machine using Unigraphics, chosen best project of the year. Conducted failure mode analysis, cost analysis.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering