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I built Email for Experts to help specialized consulting firms create more high-value clients with expertise-driven marketing. Sunsetted the service and absorbed the IP into T. Miller Group.

I helped a wide array (too wide!) of service businesses acquire, convert, and retain customers with email marketing, primarily through strategy and copywriting.

I built phyzzle.com to help college students in Math, Science, and Engineering learn more, faster, and improve their exam scores through concept and problem breakdowns, and study techniques that actually work.

Was responsible for site-wide continuous improvement at AkzoNobel's Powder Coatings plant in downtown Nashville, including:• Downtime reduction on key process bottlenecks, focused on setup and changeover time reduction using SMED principles• Throughput rate improvement on high-volume product lines, aimed at increasing plant revenue and earnings through additional production capacity without capital expenditure• Streamlining production data collection, management, and reporting• Implementing 5S and visual management standards throughout the plant

Built, trained, and managed a Continuous Improvement Engineering Team of 7 responsible for CI project identification, definition, prioritization, selection, execution, and validation at both operations (product/process) and strategic business levels, responsible for $2.9 million in recorded hard project savings, and significant inventory and waste reduction. Main Accomplishments:• Successfully led 20+ complex product improvement projects within a high-volume manufacturing environment, based on data-driven Lean Six Sigma and Red X problem solving methodologies, with financial/operational impact analysis and executive-level reporting completed, resulting in $792k + in hard savings. This included our #1 scrap product, reducing scrap from 26% to 3% with total savings of $114k, and #1 customer quality concern, eliminating sorting and reducing scrap from 13% to < 1.5% with total savings of $144k.• Increased recycled material utilization on plastic product components through testing, analysis, and ERP system inventory management for a 5-year savings of over $950k, and a material inventory reduction of up to 80%.• Implemented a site-wide CI program for injection molded components, with 100+ small Kaizen events completed, achieving a 65% reduction in cosmetic and dimensional product defects, resulting in an estimated $773k in hard savings.• Developed and implemented a CI Lessons Learned tracking database to document product/process improvements, leverage those across other current/future products/processes, and facilitate organizational knowledge sharing. • Led the conception, development, and implementation of a new corporate project management system (MS Project Online) through detailed process mapping and “current state” vs. “future state” analysis, significantly increasing cross-departmental visibility of deliverables, lead times, and resource allocations.

Worked with the Automotive Products engineering group to identify value producing systems, eliminate areas of waste and inefficiency, and improve product development speed, quality and profitability.Main Accomplishments:• Overhauled, re-engineered, and streamlined Bowles’ most important engineering value-added function (vehicle washer system spray study analysis) with standard CAD models, a detailed procedure, report templates, and training, resulting in a 50% + reduction in modeling errors and significant improvement in customer deliverable quality.

Washer system cross-functional team lead and project manager for major automotive manufacturers including GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Honda. Worked hand-in-hand with OEM engineering teams, suppliers, marketing, operations, and upper management to execute profitable product realization and maintain a high level of customer service.Main Accomplishments:• Managed 15+ product development projects in all phases of the product development process (APQP), with successful implementation on production vehicles (e.g. GM K2XX, Acura MDX, Honda Pilot, etc.), responsible for just over $4 million in annual revenue.• Performed product development facilitation and cost analysis, collected and analyzed product performance data, managed project team workload and deliverables, and managed customer communication and deliverables.

Worked with Dr. Elisabeth Smela’s microtechnology research group investigating microfluidic pumping effects (paper published).

Worked at Eaton Aerospace as an engineering intern within the Seals Engineering Group. Responsible for CAD work within ProE/Creo and process documentation, as well as data collection and statistical analysis.