Dr. Thomas Samuel Email & Phone Number

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Deployed RBS Leadership Training and Lean Transformation Training to CENTA leadership to support the operational transformation.

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.
• 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.
• 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:

Greater Milwaukee Area

Greater Milwaukee Area

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).

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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

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.
• 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.
• The course curriculum was designed to help students contextualize complex statistical concepts to their day today work and seeing the value by application.

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.

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

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.
• 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.

Mergers & Acquisition

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial Engineering, 4.0

Major: Engineering Minor: Statistics

Harvard Negotiation Institute

• Deal Set-Up, Design, and Implementation – 2012 • Dealing with Difficult Conversations – 2011 • Improving Negotiating Effectiveness – 2010

Ms, Industrial And Manufacturing Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering