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Hartford, WI, US

Mayville, Wisconsin, US

• Developed and launched a long-range plan, covering strategic initiatives, key performance indicators, team training & development, a technology road map, and a related budget.
• Built and developed an 18-member corporate procurement team prioritizing overarching objectives over individual tasks, fostering a sense of purpose and alignment with the company’s strategic vision.
• Led an engaged and dedicated team that executed over $3M annual cost savings during a period of rapid inflation, drove $5M working capital improvement, initiated supplier scorecards, implemented a procurement board.
• Managed ~$300M of both direct and indirect spend across 22 facilities, balancing regional needs with spend leverage.

Mayville, Wisconsin, US

• Led everything supply chain for the launch and wind down of a ~$120M/year consumer product customer program, including sourcing strategy, APQP, ramp plan and capital plan.
• Created a dual-sourcing strategy for forgings and castings to balance low-cost country pricing with inventory, supply chain, and geopolitical risks.
• Implemented an employee performance management process including goals & objectives, self-assessments, and performance reviews, leading to much deeper engagement and greater accountability.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Collaborated with finance, legal, and executive teams to develop and execute a comprehensive supply strategy during bankruptcy and the subsequent company sale.
• Managed strategic sourcing for a broad range of commercial and residential consumer brands, including Simplicity, Snapper, Ferris, and Billy Goat, with ~$200M of spend.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Mitigated over $600k in Chinese tariff impact during a time of rapidly changing import duties.Shifted ~$70M of spend under contract, driving pricing consistency and transparency.
• Leveraged fact-based negotiation to save over $600k annually by removing material risk premium and adjusting conversion cost to market competitive rate.
• Achieved over $150k in annual savings by sourcing ~100 fabricated deck components, hard tooling high volume items and implementing a returnable packaging program with multiple suppliers.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Led team in achieving ~40% supply base consolidation over two years through commodity strategy development, resourcing, and targeted new product development suppliers.
• Achieved over $2M in cost savings through supply localization, market tests, transitioning low volume stampings to fabrications, transitioning high volume fabrications to stamping, negotiation on scrap sharing, and.
• Developed cost breakdown database with 25 suppliers transparently tracking material-based price updates, productivity improvements and logical standard development based on raw material cost expectations.
• Developed linear pricing model of rocker and roller shafts to provide design input to engineering, commonize on parts and materials and consolidate suppliers.
• Updated tooling/bailment agreements with ~20 suppliers to track and manage tooling risk.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US

• Partnered with strategic sourcing, engineering, and the supply base to achieve material cost targets and meet build milestones for assigned prototype and pilot programs.
• Utilized global sourcing, technical cost reduction, benchmarking, and supplier negotiations to drive significant cost savings at full rate production.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US

• Leveraged quick response manufacturing and lean engineering on a complicated assembly process for Crysteel dump bodies to initiate five kaizen events that led to over 60% lead time reduction and $2.5M annual savings.
• Acted as a manufacturing consultant to Schott Diamondview to ramp armored window production from an initial capacity of less than 10 per week to full-scale production of over 3400 per week in under six months.
• Led the transfer of 22 fuel tanks and 21 straps and brackets from a bankrupt supplier with no advance notice, avoiding any interruption to the production line.
• Selected for Oshkosh’s first international Supplier Development engagement to identify and make recommendations for insourcing of €8.5M to Romanian fabrication facility.
• Collaborated with strategic sourcing, mitigating supply risk at program launch and major ramps in production.

Madison, WI, US

• Lecturer and teaching assistant for undergraduate course on manufacturing processes
• Provided recommendations to Wacker Corporation to shift to make-to-order business, dramatically reducing overall inventory
• Advised student team working with Nemschoff furniture to create manufacturing cells and reduce lead time
• Led student team on lead time reduction project with Cummins, Inc. resulting in greater than 50% reduction in time to quote

Neenah, WI, US

• Streamlined materials operations including receiving product in, storing product in warehouse, and kitting product for manufacturing
• Managed startup of offsite warehouse including designing the materials operations, laying out the warehouse, and purchasing and setting up the shelving, racking, and materials equipment

Kohler, Wisconsin, US

• Purchased over $700,000 of equipment for a new crankcase machining line, including two conveyors, an industrial washer, and two coordinate measuring machines
• Assisted with the purchase of another $5M worth of equipment
• Redesigned an assembly machine, reducing errors to less than 2% of the initial fault rate
• Created a capacity planning model for Kohler’s two most profitable engine lines

London, GB

• Developed competitive methods of manufacturing and suggested production improvements to increase operating efficiency, material cost reduction, and raise the safety of operations
• Performed design of experiments (DOE) on carbon block filters to reduce measurement error of customer specification requirement from ±15% to ±2%, allowing process window to open up by 25%
• Performed time studies and wrote operator instructions for several filter assembly lines