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Skills

  • Kaizen Event Leadership
  • Team management
  • Business process reengineering
  • ISO 9001 compliance
  • Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt Certification)
  • 5S implementation
  • Cross-functional team collaboration
  • Relationship development
  • Numerical controls understanding
  • Engineering/project management experience

Work Experiences

  • Collaborated with the IT department.
  • Used lean principles to improve workflow, quality, and waste reduction.
  • Achieved a 26% reduction in scrap rate.
  • Achieved increase without additional headcount.
  • By switching equipment to new products, I was able to ensure that customer requirements were met.
  • Collaborated with the operations team.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deploy automation initiatives, resulting in a $18 savings in labor costs and improved consistency in service delivery.
  • Was in charge of managing and allocating $6 in production budget funds, as well as approving expenditures and overseeing spending.
  • Achieved $13 in cost savings.
  • Achieved a measurable 61% reduction in lead time by implementing demand-driven flow strategies in collaboration with operations and sales teams.

Summaries

  • Checking forecasts and orders for new directives is results-driven and forward-thinking.
  • Dedicated leader with outstanding analytical, decision-making, and project management skills.
  • Certified Continuous Improvement Leader with a proven track record of reducing operational costs by 80% and increasing throughput by 15 through strategic Kaizen event leadership, predictive maintenance, and process optimization initiatives.
  • Adaptable Continuous Improvement Leader has a history of evaluating orders and updating procedures to meet new targets in order to meet changing specifications.
  • With a strong understanding of Salesforce use, he is focused on closely monitoring safety and quality.
  • Dedicated to learning, growing, and succeeding in Miscellaneous.
  • Excellent track record of resolving issues, increasing customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements.
  • Manufacturing manager with a strong commitment to thorough leadership and process streamlining.
  • Achieved a 75% decrease in cycle times.
  • Advanced workforce agility by 46%.

Accomplishments

  • Successfully reduced operational costs by $4 identified during weekly Gemba walks focused on eliminating waste and inefficiencies.
  • Designed a standardized process flow for compliance that enhanced cross-functional communication, reducing cycle time by 56% and increasing output.
  • Championed process improvements across 3 manufacturing sites, reducing total on-site variation by 59% through Lean methodologies.
  • Reduced average product defect rate from 45% to 75% by implementing quality control checkpoints and real-time monitoring.
  • Drove savings of $2 by implementing value stream mapping techniques that identified non-value-added processes in team leadership.
  • Implemented a Six Sigma initiative across operations, achieving a 39% increase in throughput with no additional headcount.
  • Standardized operational procedures across 12 locations, improving cross-site consistency and reducing duplication of efforts.
  • Led Business Process Reengineering (BPR) activities that restructured key workflows, decreasing lead times by 31% while maintaining quality control.
  • Led cross-functional Kaizen workshops that reduced lead time by 76% and improved first pass yield by 75% within one year.
  • Developed and deployed a multi-tier process documentation system, boosting cross-training efficiency and knowledge retention by 73%.

Affiliations

  • Lean Accounting Summit – Applied lean accounting for CI financial management techniques designed to measure lean projects' impact on operational costs.
  • Society of Human Resource Management
  • Supply Chain Management Professionals Association (SCMA) – Contributed to integration of lean supply chain management theories and tools for logistics optimization.
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) – Supported the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification efforts to track CI projects using Agile and Lean principles.
  • International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE) – Utilized knowledge-sharing platforms for achieving measurable productivity improvements using lean tactics.
  • National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) – Collaborated with manufacturers on deploying lean enterprise solutions and workforce development strategies.
  • Manufacturing Leadership Council – Focused on advancing leadership competency in digital transformation and CI efforts throughout the manufacturing ecosystem.
  • Lions Club
  • TWI Institute – Completed Training Within Industry (TWI) certification to enhance standard work and job instruction techniques in continuous improvement.
  • Change Management Institute (CMI) – Practiced integration of change management principles to ensure smoother implementation of CI programs.

Certifications

  • Certified Public Accountant
  • ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor
  • Apple Certified Associate (ACA)
  • ISO/TS 16949 Internal Auditor Certification
  • ServSafe
  • Statistical Process Control (SPC) Specialist Certification
  • Operational Excellence Certification
  • Certified Facilitator of Continuous Improvement (CFCI)
  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Practitioner
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)

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