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Over 20 years as a manufacturing professional with an emphasis on lean systems implementation. Motivated self starter trained by Toyota Motor Corporation for implementation of the Toyota Production System. Experienced in providing training and implementing Standardized Work, 5S, Quality at the source, Kaizen activities, one piece flow, line balancing, OJT and cross training. Creative problem solving skills and the ability to pull people together to work out conflicting issues. Great organizational skills as well as good follow through to keep programs on schedule. Also competent in the areas of: welding, supervision, scheduling, project management, budgets, assembly system, cell and tool design as well as process analysis..Selected Skills and Accomplishments•Successfully managed $48M assembly system budget with an additional $8M in engineering changes •Lead Engineer responsible for design, build and install of $14M assembly line addition brought in on time and within budget. Managed additional $3.4M in engineering changes.•Designed assembly processes with lean principles of waste elimination such as; one piece flow, layout optimization (muda), quality at the source (eg pokayoke), ergonomics (muri), standardized work (mura)•Developed design standards for assembly systems•Managed operations area with 96 product technicians

Listed skills include Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System, Kaizen, Poka Yoke, and 10 others.