Manufacturing Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Manufacturing professional with 30+ years of operations management experience.
Great leadership, teamwork, and organizational skills in difficult situations.
Diverse Quality experience across various industries.
Extensive Knowledge of Lean Tools (implementation of work cell design, one piece flow, value stream maps, current state and future state maps, waste reduction / elimination).
Experience in leading Quality s (QS, TS, AS and ISO).
Implementation of Quality Tools and Systems utilizing SPC, CpK and Process Audits.
Conducted Lean Simulations for several groups (English / Spanish).
Excellent Customer relations skills (negotiating, strategic alliances, relevance)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Manufacturing Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Provide mentoring and coaching for Plant Managers and management team in manufacturing environments.
We conduct Confidential projects for our clients in short periods of time.
Services to include Lean implementation, Severe Ramp - ups, Quality Programs (re-design and implementation), providing specific management tools and systems to manage change in behaviors.

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

VP of Operations / Continuous Improvement Officer

Responsibilities:

Restructured Organization to meet the growing needs of our customers
Improved Quality performance by implementing a formal program
Improved on-time delivery by upgrading personnel and planning system.
Installed Data Collection System to capture critical performance data (real time data)
Leadership Development of department managers and front line leaders.

Manufacturing Consultant

Confidential, San Diego

Responsibilities:

Re-designed the Quality System to in corporate product ownership philosophy & upgraded the quality program.
Conducted Kaizen events to address various issues (the management team was taught to perform Kaizen events in a Lean Manufacturing environment)
Improved financial performance (from break even to 8% EBITDA in three years)
Increased capacity to meet customer requirements - 80% (18 months)
Reduced lead time from 22 weeks to 8 weeks (6 months).
Reduced scrap rate by 50% and improved labor efficiency by 25% (annual savings $1.4m).

Confidential

Owner

Responsibilities:

Leadership (program designed for Front Line Leaders and Middle Managers
Process Improvement / Cost Reduction
Maquiladora Start-up (Permits, Legal, Accounting, Customs, HR recruitment)
Shelter Operations (provided referral services
Sub-Contracting
Joint Ventures (found companies that complemented each other and structured relationship to create win/win situations).

Director of Quality / Plant Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

220 million labor hours without a loss-time accident.
Improved yield from 77% to 93% in 10 months (changing company culture and behaviors, process improvement,, upgraded supervision).
Improved profit margin from 3.2% to 9.5% by driving quality initiatives.

Manufacturing Manager

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities: