Dr. Thomas Samuel

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Vice President - Operational Excellence at BW Forsyth Partners @ BW Forsyth Partners
clayton, missouri, united states
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Greater Milwaukee, United States
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About Dr. Thomas Samuel

• 20 years of experience in various leadership roles with broad based experience in Continuous Improvement (CI), Mergers & Acquisition Integration, Operations leadership, Product Development, Manufacturing, Quality and SG&A environments.• Proven track record in leading Corporate Continuous Improvement and Business Systems offices to deliver CI strategies across global organizations.• Significant experience in the global deployment of Six Sigma, Lean and Project Management Programs.• Well versed in leading multicultural teams, identifying cultural nuances and immersing myself into different cultures to ensure delivery of business targets.• Skilled negotiator who looks to identify the interests of various stakeholders and at developing win-win solutions with individuals at various levels within the organization.

Dr. Thomas Samuel's Current Company Details
BW Forsyth Partners

Bw Forsyth Partners

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Vice President - Operational Excellence at BW Forsyth Partners
clayton, missouri, united states
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bwforsyth.com
Employees:
11
Dr. Thomas Samuel Work Experience Details
  • Bw Forsyth Partners
    Vice President - Operational Excellence
    Bw Forsyth Partners Oct 2019 - Present
    Greater St. Louis Area
    • Responsible for operational transformation, acquisition integrations and working closely with senior leadership to deploy sustainable business systems resulting in organizational transformation in addition to working with the deal team to identify and evaluate new acquisition opportunities.
  • Rexnord
    Sr. Director - Rexnord Business System
    Rexnord May 2017 - Sep 2019
    Düsseldorf Area, Germany
    2018 - 2019:• Global Acquisition Integration Lead for the integration of CENTA GmbH into Rexnord. CENTA is a global leader in the design and manufacture of flexible couplings located in Haan, Germany with an annualized sales of €120M and ‘300’ global employees.• The integration efforts have led to a double digit increase in EBITDA within ‘10’ months of close of the deal.• Leading the Lean Transformation of the Haan facility. This has delivered operational efficiency improvements that enabled significant additional incremental core sales with no increase in direct labor and a significant reduction in OH.• Led numerous kaizens to facilitate the lean transformation of the Haan facility. This involved designing and setting up value streams by core customers, shortening the supply chain lead times and improving OTD. These activities led to a reduction of €3.5M in production backlog in a ‘10’ month timeframe.• Deployed RBS Leadership Training and Lean Transformation Training to CENTA leadership to support the operational transformation.• Led 3P events to design the future foot print of Haan operations with significant optimization in floor space to support future expansion of manufacturing capability.2017 - 2018:• Led the Corp. RBS - Operations team to achieve hard savings targets in Global Operations and increase organizational RBS maturity.• Championed the deployment of Shingijitsu Kaizen events across the global Rexnord organization with a total of '7' events yielding over $5M in annualized hard savings• Rolled out the virtual RBS training as a standard part of all employee course curriculum to increase the reach of RBS across Rexnord • Trained and certified over '50' YB candidates resulting in savings of $1M• Conducted RBS Summits to support engagement of the global RBS community and increase participation in the Corp. RBS Strategy
  • Rexnord
    Director - Rexnord Business System
    Rexnord Apr 2015 - May 2017
    Greater Milwaukee Area
    2016-2017:• Acquisition Integration Leader for the Rexnord acquisition of Cambridge Engineered Solutions (CES), the global leader in metal belting with an annualized sales of $85M and 250 global employees.• Led commercial and non-commercial integration activities for all functional areas (HR, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, IT) to enable functional alignment of the organization within 9 months of the acquisition (3 months ahead of schedule). This led to an overall significant year-over-year Sales and EBITDA growth.• Transitioned the CES leadership team into the Rexnord Strategy Deployment and Business Process management processes within 3 months of the acquisition with standardized operational and synergy metrics. This played a significant part in helping obtain the growth targets listed above.• Led '10' kaizen events within a '6' month timeframe to achieve $2M in operational synergy hard cost savings that directly led to EBITDA growth.• Worked directly with C-suite executives to manage the acquisition performance to the BOD business case.2015-2016:• Developed the deployed the RBS global strategy to improve RBS engagement and performance across the organization.• Created '5' Centers of Excellence globally which resulted in a 50% increase in RBS maturity for the participants of the COE events within 90 days of attendance.• Designed and implemented methods for online training content creation and deployment that resulted in over $0.6M in annualized savings and enabled the content to have RBS centric messaging.• Developed and rolled out the RBS101 training for all frontline associates across the organization.• Led a 3P kaizen event in the Czech Republic resulting in over 27% reduction in floor space utilization, 65% of wasted travel and 10% reduction in inventory• Developed and globally deployed the Six Sigma YB program which formed the basis of Foundational Problem Solving capabilities across the organization.
  • University Of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Member Of Industry Advisory Board
    University Of Wisconsin Milwaukee Apr 2014 - 2018
    Greater Milwaukee Area
  • University Of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Adjunct Faculty In School Of Engineering
    University Of Wisconsin Milwaukee Aug 2014 - Jan 2016
    Greater Milwaukee Area
  • Harley-Davidson Motor Company
    Continious Improvement Manager
    Harley-Davidson Motor Company Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
    Greater Milwaukee Area
    • Lead the HDI Six Sigma program that has delivered cost savings of over $58M to the organization with the training and certification of over 12% of the workforce within HDI.• Developed a ‘3’ year strategy for HDI CI, with a strong data driven approach, to support increasing the organizations maturity to Phases 3 and 4 in the CI journey.• Responsible for the global deployment of the HDI Six Sigma and HDI PMM programs within HDI. These regions consisted of Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific (AP) and Latin America (LA).
  • Harley-Davidson Motor Company
    Manager, Ci Learning & Development
    Harley-Davidson Motor Company Dec 2010 - Mar 2014
    Greater Milwaukee Area
    • Responsible for providing leadership for the CI Learning and Development group and deploying training and competency engagement activities to transform the CI mindset in the organization to support the CI cultural change across HDI. This group has deployment ownership for HDI PMM certification, HDI Six Sigma Certification and all other CI Learning and Development activities.• Developed the CIL&D group from its inception and have led it to increase its scope of influence to support an exponential growth in the number of people seeking CI training across the organization. • Strategically developed and deployed the CI Applied Learning Plan that created an exponential growth in the number of individuals engaging in CI across the global HDI organization. This strategy grew the CI course offerings from ‘2’ to ‘26’, enabled all parts of the organization to grow their CI maturity and support the key strategic pillar.• Significant experience in strategically developing and deploying in-house developed online CI training to grow the reach of CI training to global markets and remote employees. This resulted in an overall savings of over $0.5M.• Developed and deployed the HDI Yellow Belt Certification Program which resulted in ‘155%’ increase the number of certified projects being completed in a ‘2’ year period compared to the ‘5’ years before.
  • Harley Davidson Motor Company
    Operational Excellence Lead
    Harley Davidson Motor Company 2008 - Dec 2010
    Greater Milwaukee Area
    • Program Manager for the Harley-Davidson Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt Certification Program.• Coached, mentored, trained and certified ‘55’ GB and BB candidates resulting in multi-million dollar annualized program cost savings..• Significant experience at leading and facilitating CI events and activities in transactional, engineering and manufacturing organizations.
  • Harley Davidson Motor Company
    Sr. Project Engineer
    Harley Davidson Motor Company 2007 - 2008
    Greater Milwaukee Area
    • Design responsible for the Foundation Brake System on the Sportster (XL & XR) family of motorcycles in the Harley-Davidson product offering.• Responsible for addressing design related warranty, assembly and cost issues to ensure product and projects are meeting cost, quality and timing goals.
  • Harley-Davidson Motor Company
    Sr. Quality Engineer
    Harley-Davidson Motor Company 2005 - 2007
    York, Pennsylvania Area
    • Facilitated Six Sigma, Operational Excellence and Lean training events for various groups within the York facility.• Led the Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt projects that delivered annual hard cost savings of over $1M• Diverse experience in working with the PD groups and Manufacturing to ensure silent launches and right-first-time quality
  • Cardinal Stritch University
    Adjunct Faculty In The School Of Business
    Cardinal Stritch University Jan 2009 - May 2013
    Greater Milwaukee Area
    • Developed course curriculum, lesson plans, syllabus, grading schemes and taught the following classes in the MBA program o ADM 321 – Statistics 1 (Both instructor led and online) o ASB 151 – Applied Math for Business o MGT 528 – Statistical Analysis for Managers o MT 120 – Applied Statistics o CMB 526 – Statistical Methods 2• Highly proficient in usage of the Angel Learning System in setting up online classes and managing distant learners in statistical course curriculum through discussions, online engagements, team activities and assessments.• The course curriculum was designed to help students contextualize complex statistical concepts to their day today work and seeing the value by application.
  • Msoe
    Adjunct Faculty In The School Of Engineering
    Msoe Feb 2012 - Mar 2013
    Greater Milwaukee Area
    • Developed course curriculum, syllabus, grading schemes, project deliverables and taught the Six Sigma Green Belt Certification course • All students were supported to complete an industry level Green Belt project that they could show case to potential employers to illustrate their Six Sigma and problem solving capabilities.• The projects were selected and completed to ensure that they delivered tangible business results and thus helped the students practice their project management and leadership engagement skills.• Coached and mentored all ‘32’ students to the successful completion of the class and the certification.
  • Kennametal Inc
    Quality & Lean Manager
    Kennametal Inc 2003 - 2005
    Augusta, Georgia Area
    • Managed the Quality Program for the Augusta manufacturing facility (consisting of ‘2’ business units) which employs 150 hourly employees and directly supervised ‘6’ auditors, ‘2’ technicians and an engineer.• Responsible for reducing scrap in the Augusta, GA facility from 1.3% of sales to a consistent 0.7% of sales for the HSS Drills division and from 2.23% of sales to 1.44% for the ATT division.• Completed ‘2’ ISO 9001/2000 external audits with NO major or minor non-conformities
  • Kennametal
    Hone Engineer
    Kennametal 2000 - 2003
    Latrobe, Pa
    • Responsible for leading the development and enhancement of global edge preparation processes for carbide insert and solid round tool products and for coordinating product expectations from engineering and R&D with various carbide insert manufacturing locations.• Recipient of the ‘Kennametal Inventor’s Award’ for designing, developing and testing an edge preparation process that allowed large scale applicability of media blasting in the manufacture of edge preparation on carbide drills.

Dr. Thomas Samuel Skills

Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Instructor Led Training Continuous Improvement Adult Education University Teaching Project Management Content Development Program Management Quality Management Problem Solving Competency Based Training Kaizen Fmea Root Cause Analysis Toyota Production System Cross Functional Team Leadership Process Engineering Minitab Training 5s Dmaic Coaching Value Stream Mapping Process Improvement Manufacturing Tqm Operational Excellence Iso Design Of Experiments Automotive Spc Kanban Quality System Manufacturing Engineering Supply Chain Management Jit Manufacturing Operations Management Industrial Engineering Ppap Design For Manufacturing Engineering Management Machining Supplier Quality Tpm Process Simulation Apqp Manufacturing Operations Green Belt Black Belt

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Dr. Thomas Samuel attended London Business School, University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Harvard Law School, Wichita State University, University Of Madras.

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