Todd Finkbone, Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Lexington Park, Maryland, US

Supporting the MQ-4C Triton program for NAVAIR PMA-262.

Hollywood, MD, US

• Built purchasing and material control teams to scale-up within a quickly growing aerospace contractor with multiple UAV programs.
• Led the company in areas of purchasing, material control, material planning, sourcing, and supplier performance management through a mix of organizational changes, hiring, mentoring, process implementation, and direct.
• Created schedule management practices to improve order turn-around time from 10+ days to 3 days and past dues from 400+ to 20.
• Introduced and led a SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operation Planning) process to coordinate planning across departments.

Hollywood, MD, US

• Program-managed a micro-UAV swarm program.
• Directed engineering, quality, sourcing, procurement, contract assembly, in-house manufacturing, and contract services for UAVs, deployment device, and flight test.
• Coordinated strategically with major stakeholders to maintain program timeline within budget and successfully execute flight testing.

• Led the Honeywell Aerospace global supplier rate readiness program with process ownership and program management responsibilities.
• Led the organization to hit 243 assessments in 2018 vs. 87 assessments completed in 2017.
• Contracted 5 full-time resources to complement 50+ internal resources supporting part-time.
• Deployed analytics to improve supplier identification and make the process more intuitive, efficient, and result-oriented.

• Project managed business team initiatives by engaging with suppliers, supplier development, procurement, commodity management, transition team, and Honeywell site management.
• Selected metrics and reporting to track quality and delivery improvements in the supply chain.
• Reported weekly to Honeywell Aerospace Supply Chain Leadership.
• Collaborated with IT to optimize data collection and reporting.

• Developed relationships face to face with supplier leadership, lead detailed assessments/kaizens, and otherwise guided improvements to business processes, productivity, capacity, quality systems, and manufacturing.
• Developed a “RPS” Rapid Problem-Solving tool that was subsequently used to guide the global supplier development organization’s engagements.
• Led a disaster response team which carefully prioritized Honeywell’s most urgent needs and worked to generate additional capacity.

• Realized a 52% reduction of customer risk score from 38 to 18 through leadership, strategy, and execution on customer-specific quality improvements.
• Managed and promoted quality improvement projects which resulted in an award for leadership of a diverse cross-functional team and an award for management of a contractor.
• Provided outstanding customer service as the customer’s primary point of contact for the Rocky Mount site as evidenced by two awards received.
• Avoided a line down situation at a customer via tight coordination and creative project management of a complex $7M recall effort. Saved $100,000 and reduced quality risk.

• Exercised design authority for a portfolio of 40+ fuel controls, providing technical expertise/mentorship, and leading quality investigations.
• Improved yields on the site’s highest volume fuel control program from 44% to 94% and received an award for leadership of the cross-functional investigation team.
• Implemented design changes at 2X the rate of my peers with recurrent annual savings of $230K.
• Developed an automated first pass yield tracking system which reduced time necessary for collection of first pass yield data by roughly 50%.

Developed drawings, manufacturing processes, manufacturing programs, and fixtures for the manufacture of aerospace brackets and tubes.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace And Mechanical Engineering