.Executive Profile

Multi-talented professional with an exemplary record of leading operations, supply chain, IT, and project management for a diverse range of companies. Record of improving underperforming operations, creating material management systems utilized nationwide, and developing a scheduling solution that reduced work-in-process WIP inventory by over 50 . Highly skilled at managing large, multi-million dollar, complex supply chain projects associated with relevant technologies. Strong background in serving as a lean coach and leader, launching two new plants with SAP. Extensive experience in lean manufacturing. Academic credentials include: Confidential in Industrial Engineering, Confidential in Supply Chain Management, and Confidential in Computer Science.

Core Leadership Competencies

Managing Multi-Million Dollar Budgets Hiring Training Employees Forging Multiple Strategic Alliances Continuous Improvement JIT Value Stream Mapping Kanban Leveling Demand Implementing Supply Chain Programs/Solutions Monitoring Scorecards Working With Sales on Strategic Customer Development Opportunities Financial Analysis Serving as Liaison Between IT Business Functions Testing Systems Processes Validating Information System Integrity Working with Sourcing, Supplier Quality, Plant Operations Change Agent Strong Business Acumen

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Master Scheduler

• Oversee and optimize the plant production schedule.
• Assess the production schedule for feasibility based on multiple criteria including: product mix, plant restrictions, and part availability.
• Developed several productivity tools and reports using Visual Basic and MS-Access. Some of the tools include:
• Small Parts Manager reduced stock-outs on screws/fasteners by 95
• Parts Set-up Monitor reduced part setup errors by 50
• Inventory Reporting and Trending System
• Initiate cost saving kaizens in support of Chrysler's World Class Manufacturing initiatives.

Confidential

Production Control Supervisor

• Supervise and coach salaried, union represented follow-up analysts.
• Coordinate and setup just-in-time routings.
• Provide inventory management follow-up for inbound materials.
• Manage and provide timely resolutions of inventory discrepancies.
• Initiate cost saving Confidential in support of Confidential World Class Manufacturing initiatives.
• Support SOX requirements by maintaining record integrity and providing required documentation as needed.

Confidential

IT Manager, MP L Operations

• Responsible for business intelligence / data migration for Confidential operations information systems. Managed data extraction, transformation and loading ETL from legacy ERP/MRP systems to Confidential new technology platform.
• Project Management: Developed standardized processes to insure repeatability across several launch sites. Created a standardized sequence load spreadsheet which outlined the order in which each table in the new ERP system should be populated with data from the old ERP system, allowing for successful system testing.
• Led effort to create data maps from legacy systems to new platform, working with third-party companies. Interviewed subject matter experts from various departments to ensure that fields in the new ERP system closely matched fields in the old ERP system.
• Drove sequenced load plan to ensure appropriate system functionality during the launch process.
• Created algorithms utilizing Web-Focus and Visual Basic to extract data from the legacy system and load them into the new system.

Confidential

Supply Chain Manager

• Responsible for global process improvement, lean manufacturing, and optimization. Extensive experience developing advanced programs, plant/line-side layouts, and material flow processes for sequenced just-in-time environments. Key player for special projects and data-mining activities and data analytics.
• Facilitated kaizen events and value-stream mapping workshops that improved process time by 22 in an instrument panel sub-assembly line.
• Provided coaching and training to plant management in lean manufacturing and Synchronous Material Flow SMF concepts.

Confidential

Supply Chain Launch Manager

• Supply chain launch responsibility for two Visteon regional assembly plants in Confidential. Scope included site selection/modification, warehousing layout, material handling equipment, internal and external material flow, and staffing.
• Designed and implemented lean manufacturing processes in Confidential Operations including two multi-million dollar start-up plants.
• Successfully managed a launch budget of Confidential for each plant.
• Hired/trained Supply-chain operating staff for the new plants.
• Designed warehouse layouts using plan for every Confidential to meet target inventory levels.
• Effectively managed customer expectations internal and external throughout the launch process.

Confidential

Supply Chain Specialist Plant Implementation Team

• Held several plant assignments within material control including: Production Control/Scheduling, Material Handling, Bill of Material Management and Transportation. Implemented plant-wide lean manufacturing initiatives including inventory reduction, visual management, error proofing, quick changeover, and Continuous Improvement Workgroups.
• Salary lead for lean plant implementation team. Lead lean initiatives in the plant.
• Project Lead for a team which reduced obsolescence in the material exhaust process. The result of the continuous improvement effort was a more streamlined obsolescence process that reduced obsolescence by 12 in the first year. The team objectives were met by reducing inventory levels across several operations and making the changeovers more efficient.
• Developed a C program that parsed an outside customer's flat file into Ford's common internal format CIF 830 and 862 documents.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

• Responsible for maintaining on-line and batch product distribution and warehousing systems which included coding COBOL , testing and implementing the requirements. Extracted data from mainframe system to populate EDI segments.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

• Responsible for maintaining on-line and batch product distribution and warehousing systems.