Thomas Henderson Email & Phone Number

Pomona, California, United States

In 2014, my role role at Hayward was expanded to drive the effectiveness of the Lean (kaizen) programs in four US manufacturing plants, and our facilities in Wuxi, China and Lyon, France. In that role I: * Introduced the concepts of Lean Strategy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri) and DMAIC problem solving to all plants with savings of $5 million of savings in COGS annually worldwide. * Refocused the lean programs across each facility to drive organizational culture change. This culture change improved our overall understanding of lean concepts, helped sustain the gains resulting from kaizen projects and increased our willingness to change. * Led a strategic project to standardize the training modules we used to teach lean across the globe resulting in consistent practices and processes implementing lean. * Further expanded our organizational knowledge base in lean when I created and led global lean conferences. These conferences provided a forum to learn about the latest trends in lean and share best practices. * Developed common metrics across all the plants to drive ownership and accountability leading to best practices and performance excellence

Pomona, California, United States

In 1999, I was asked to implement a new manufacturing philosophy based on the Toyota Production System, known as lean manufacturing. In that role, I developed the training material and began to lead cross-functional kaizen teams to improve costs, reduce defects, improve on-time delivery and improve safety and ergonomics. * Reduced WIP inventory by $4.1 million (88%) and increased turns to 180 by implementing a "pull" system (kanban) of material replenishment and eliminated essentially all subassemblies * Led projects reducing and/or eliminating non-value-added across the entire facility driving significant productivity improvements. Production levels increased about 50% while headcount increased only 8%. * Led the reduction of setup time on injection molding machines by 79% through mold/machine standardization, process improvements, work balancing and shifting of task sequences * Leveraged Lean technologies to drive 95% sustainment in assembly areas resulting from real-time production monitoring, daily gemba walks, an new suggestion system and the implementation of total productive maintenance (TPM) and OEE metrics * Leadership led to culture change as evidenced by 92% of the workforce participating in at least 4 days of kazien each year and generating over 100 kaizen suggestions per month.

Pomona, California, United States

From 1998 through the end of 1999, I was responsible for calculating the plant's COGS , variance analysis for the facility, analyzing capital expenditure requests, physical inventory reconciliation and the accuracy of product unit costs. * Established and maintained monthly financial and non-financial metrics to identify opportunities for improvement while also driving more timely course correction of issues * Developed a capital request process to formalize and standardize ROI calculations which ensured that investment decisions were made objectively and delivered the appropriate payback. * Championed significant project reconciling the fixed assets schedule with the physical items throughout the facility improve asset security and calculate depreciation expense more accurately

City Of Industry, California, United States

I was responsible for all financial functions including monthly and annual financial statements AR, AP, multi-state sales tax returns, banking and insurance relationships, procurement and product costing * Led the transition from a manual based accounting and purchasing system to a new ERP system dramatically reducing time to close and improving transactional accuracy * Integrated the administrative functions of a Tool and Die acquisition reducing overall G&A expense by eliminating redundant activities and streamlining various processes * Developed monthly key indicators that monitored production performance and drive improvement initiatives toward the projects with the greatest ROI

Buena Park, California, United States

Responsible for product costing, AP, AR, inventory control and monthly financial statements

Santa Ana, California, United States

* Five years as Customer Service Manager managing a staff of nine CSRs who convert customer floorplans into sales orders, handles customer complaints and product inquiries * One year as Cost Accountant establishing product costing and providing customer quotes for new and custom products

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