Coach, mentor, and teach continuous improvement principles. Provide strategic leadership for the Oshkosh Continuous Improvement Academy and Quality Academy. Establish strategic education deployment strategies that addresses team member training needs.Lead the development of eLearning and classroom education modules that engaged audiences and result in professional development and cultural changeDeveloped and deployed the Oshkosh Continuous Improvement Maturity Assessment process. Organize our enterprise-wide continuous improvement council.

Website Development, IT Infrastructure, Marketing, PR

Responsible for leading the overall strategy, implementation and adoption of lean sigma across six global design centers.Convinced senior management that lean was the direction the company should headCoached and mentored senior managers to integrate lean sigma principles into their day to day activities to ensure they are key proponents of Lean Sigma.Led the development and deployment of lean sigma tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, A3 and DMAIC.Lead by example through demonstrating Lean Sigma principles in day to day activities. Developed train materials and provided training to enable the entire organization to understand and use the lean sigma tools and methodologies.Lead, mentor, coach, direct, and influence the lean sigma champions club to ensure that a lean sigma expert is available at each site to assist with training and cultural adoption of Lean Sigma.Facilitate lean sigma events (Kaizen, VSM, A3, etc) to ensure they are effective. Mentor others in facilitating lean sigma events to promote culture change within the organization.Focused on changing the culture. Using lean tools where appropriate to support the culture change.

Managed $11 million Class III medical device development project involving over 30 engineers across five design centers and three countries from concept through FDA approval.Completed Intercompany Exchange Program in Plexus–Manufacturing Solutions.

Functioned as team lead on several large FPGA and board-level projects.Served as a mentor to new hires.Involved in the digital group’s hiring process.