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Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Throughout my tenure at Steelcase, I consistently deliver material and sustaining impact to the organization, resulting in being sought after and asked to take on new roles with expansive responsibilities and scope. In this role, I cultivate and empower a global 80-person organization in operations strategy, innovation management, advanced analytics, and product development throughout the Americas, Western Europe, and Asia. Selected accomplishments in this role include:► Empowered operational teams to launch over 400 new products/line with multiple increases economic profit and increases speed to market while achieving departmental efficiency on excess of 10% over 3 years► Aligned operations organization and facilitated engineering of overhead fitness transformation and change management program to compress overhead by $20+M ► Built unique and sustained organizational capabilities through orchestrating and implementing an operations strategy roadmap resulting in new capabilities and double digit increases in capacities within 18 months► Inspired, mentored, developed, and created distinctive experiences for team members contributing to 15 employees being promoted into management positions

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Recruited by the Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Executive Officer, I acted on his behalf as multiplier and integrator of his strategic agenda across strategy, order fulfillment, manufacturing, procurement, quality, transportation, and distribution at all 27 global manufacturing and distribution locations. Serving as a thought leader on various strategic initiatives, I architected the operations turnaround strategy and orchestrated implementation team in consolidating two high-cost country plants and opening low-cost country greenfield facility targeting annual savings of $20M.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Orchestrating overall customer experience for health care business, I facilitated and coached customer-facing teams focused on sales, technical application and design, and customer service. With my leadership and collaboration with executive management, I was able to envision and build a new sales deployment strategy focused on smaller geographies and dealers resulting in new revenue sources for the company. Also, by acting as the primary operations liaison responsible for overall quality and service performance, I helped reduced quality defects by 40%.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

I collaborated with the Americas operations senior leadership and empowered functional teams in aligning operations organization in creating, developing, and amplifying new and existing order fulfilment platforms. The new platforms generated several millions in new revenue and efficiencies in excess of $10M were achieved from existing platforms.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

In partnering with the broader organization, I was able to transform the 40-person direct materials procurement and operations product development organization into service organization focused on ensuring adequate supply capacity, diversity, innovation, and technology capabilities to meet company objectives. In this role, I oversaw in excess of $500M in direct spend and instituted supply metrics and accountability system for delivery, quality, and cost goals.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

I empowered teams and technical resources in fostering strategic supply relationships by crafting global commodity strategies, tactical plans, and target cost models. The team’s success included having their strategies and models adopted globally within the organization and delivering several millions in cost reduction.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

In this role, I scoped, architected, directed, and championed internal consulting engagements that focused on company’s most strategic issues intended to provide company unfair competitive advantage. These consulting engagements included establishing off shoring selected processes to internally captive shared service centers in Romania and Malaysia as well as establishing the company’s first lean in the office initiative.

Holland, Mi, Us

I help coach and mentor students to discern their calling, develop their gifts and grow as servant leaders through real world consulting projects for clients. This experiential learning and mentoring also helps students develop their critical thinking, problem solving and team-building skills.

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As a management consultant, I spearheaded daily problem solving and team management for clients in North America, Western Europe, and Asia. My clients were in the automotive, assembly, banking, industrial, infrastructure and construction, private equity, banking, and wholesale sectors. My experiences include strategy, corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, footprint optimization, product development and launch, purchasing and supply management, sales and marketing, and capability building.

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Led problem solving, financial analysis and modeling for residential and light construction company seeking to grow online presence.

Worldwide, Oo

I engineered and executed external and internal audit plans, evaluated accounting operations and internal controls, and managed fieldwork for both publicly traded and private companies. My clients were in the automotive, assembly, banking, industrial, manufacturing, and non-for-profit sectors. My distinctive practice development activities in securing new clients and outstanding human resource contributions resulted in being formally recognized and given two Firm awards.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy And Finance

Ba, Accounting And Economics