SUMMARY:

• An Entrepreneurial executive with diversified global experience leading manufacturing and service companies specializing in best practices for Continuous Improvement with a strong focus on Sales and Operation Planning and World - Class services for sustainable competitive advantage.
• 29 years of overall business expertise
• 18 years of experience in Purchasing, Strategic Sourcing and Out Sourcing
• Certified Transactional Confidential
• Certified Six Sigma Confidential DMAIC/DMADV/DFSS/DSSS/DOE/Regression Analysis
• Diversified analytical skills including data analysis, data interpretation along with a strong ability to define and implement action plans.
• Oliver Wright Trained Sales and Operation Planning Leader
• Lean Expert, identifying Non Value Add, Value Add activities, creating current state and building future Value stream mapping/analysis
• Confidential Trainer
• Process Transformation and Operational Excellence Leader
• Excellent Project management skills, executive presentation, scheduling, project scope, documentation, team facilitation and leadership.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Currently working as a Senior Consultant leading six sigma projects for a major automobile parts manufacture in Ohio and Georgia all information is confidential.

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Primary Consultant

Responsibilities:

• An Entrepreneurial executive, with diversified global experience leading manufacturing and service companies, specializing in best practices for Continuous Improvement with a strong focus Sales and Operations Planning and world-class services for sustainable competitive advantage.
• Lead the implementation of Sales, Inventory and Operation Planning across 9 business divisions.

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Associate consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a six sigma Confidential project leader on Long Island New York for a confidential company. Leading continuous improvements projects.

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Primary Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Corporation is a filtration, separation and purification leader providing solutions to meet the critical fluid management needs of customers across the broad spectrum of life sciences and industry. Confidential works with customers to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies
• While working with Confidential Corp Sales and Marketing teams lead the Confidential process to create non existing processes along with tollgate reviews in New Product Development, Sales and Marketing.
• Worked with the customers in collecting the Voice of the Customer and capturing the requirements/feedback from the customers (internal or external) to provide the customers with the best in class service/product quality.
• We were proactive in constantly creating innovative ideas to capture the changing requirements of the customers over time and lead in creating a House of Quality and translating data into CTQ’s. Performed data analysis and defined key performance metrics and meaningful dash boards.

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Process Transformation Leader - Operation Excellence Manager

Responsibilities:

• To lead and drove a culture of change that instills focus on Continual Improvement.
• With a strong focus on process improvement and customer satisfaction through the use of Six Sigma tools and forward Lean thinking along with other problem solving methodologies.
• While managing multiple value streams, serving as a recognized expert and resource leader for focus areas, process rigor, and delivering significant results.
• This includes providing change leadership in addition to Change Acceleration Process methods and tools across critical business initiatives.

Sales and Operation Planning Leader

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Responsibilities:

• As the Divisional Sales and Operation Planning Leader, the primary focus was to advise the business unit leader and the executive staff on S&OP activities identifying and prioritizing key initiatives while managing change, which helped provide optimum benefits to our customers and drive bottom results.
• The team developed the Sales and Operation Planning processes which include Product Management process, Demand Planning Process, Supply Process, Integrated Reconciliation process and Management Business review process.
• The S&OP tools are used to identify business constrains, manage change and imbalances in Supply and Demand while reconciling the differences in Finance. we used Traditional Business Intelligence tools, including dashboards, forecasting, capacity planning, Sales and marketing intelligence predictive analytics data modeling ad hoc queries and reporting tools that leveraged historical data and in some cases real-time data to identify trends and answer questions related to what happened or why it might have happened.
• Our goal was to translate data into business intelligence. All processes were developed to meet the Oliver Wright standard and were certified as World Class by Oliver Wright.

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Project leader

Responsibilities:

• As a key contributor during the implementation of single piece Flow philosophy, the team created a before and after value stream map to identify key areas of opportunity.
• The cell implementation project used the Lean toolbox to implement 12 work cells within the manufacturing area, which increased productivity by 60% and reduced inventory by 40%.
• While incorporating the Lean Methodology, we applied visual management, standard work for each cell operator, hour by hour board and a host of additional dashboard metrics.

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Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Warehouse improvement/redesign project.
• A cross ­ functional team increased throughput by 100% redesigning the facility layout creating a Slotting database.
• In addition, the team used Six Sigma and Lean tools, which included a 5S, DOE, Kaizen, Gage R&R, Regression analysis and Visual Management tools as well as a list of additional metrics to sustain the gains.

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Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• New Product development, Outsourced eleven different product lines to with savings well over 3 Million dollars in cost reductions.
• This was accomplished in less than six months using a cross functional team, Confidential analysis and Lean Six Sigma methodologies.

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Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented a process improvement redesign of the production layout to boost productivity and increase efficiency. By redesigning the PCB layout, the team successfully reduced scrap, increased productivity and efficiency. This was accomplished by using tools such as, Confidential analysis, Confidential, Confidential Analysis, Regression, DOE and other Lean Six Sigma methods.

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Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Perform P&L checks at category, subcategory and item level and determine which products or services will contribute to overhead and profitability. Identify, cut low
• Created accurate and timely reporting that shows which clients, products, or services produce what margins.
• In addition, developing a Confidential analysis of your key products, services or customers to see which are most and least profitable.

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Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• By continuing to drive operational excellence, organizing and leading several cross functional teams using lean six sigma tools to outsource the entire powder paint shop operation to an Confidential .
• After conducting a Confidential analysis the team contributed a total saving of $950,000.