SUMMARY

• Innovative and change - oriented leader with a proven ability to organize and motivate others.
• Adept at managing complex projects requiring involvement of multiple functions.
• Exceptional technical aptitude with teh ability to understand and guide teh resolution of complex manufacturing and engineering challenges. Areas of expertise are:
• Manufacturing performance improvement Strategic Planning & Policy development
• Lean Manufacturing Practice ImplementationProject Management
• Employee Development / Team BuildingTechnical Problem Solving
• Stamping and Metal Fabricating ManagementQuality Management
• Labor Union RelationsMulti-Cultural background

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Engineering Group Manager

Responsibilities:

• In addition to leading Stamping Integration, leading Manufacturing and Strategic Planning for General Motors stamping operations TEMPhas been added to my responsibilities. dis entails managing teh near term capacity utilization of teh 15 stamping plants, allocating new program work to those facilities and leading teh journey to achieve our stamping long term vision.

Engineering Group Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of Stamping Integration Engineers. Our team assesses teh current infrastructure, operating practices and performance level of GM’s 15 stamping plants and determines teh changes to teh plant’s infrastructure and/or enhancements to their operating practices required to enable them to improve their competitiveness. We has established a competitive infrastructure “vision state” and utilize a set of lean operating practices as a reference for our assessments and then manage teh investment and providing guidance to help teh plants achieve their performance.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop manufacturing strategies and capacity plans for General Motors North American Pickup Truck, Sport Utility, Van and B-Segment car programs. Balanced capacity with demand and provide business case guidance for all current and future programs located in teh U.S. and Mexico.
• Consolidate manufacturing capacity plans for all General Motors global pickup truck, sport utility, van and B-segment vehicle programs around teh world. Coordinate production and sales plans for North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Lead Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a team consisting of Manufacturing, Equipment & Facilities Engineering, Production Control & Logistics, Real Estate, Tool & Die, Finance, Labor Relations, Past Model Service Parts and Human Resource personnel commissioned to terminate production operations in four existing GM metal fabricating facilities. Relocated over 2000 sets of tools and related processes occupying over 4M square feet of manufacturing floor space. Scope of responsibility included relocating all production work without customer business disruptions, terminating all supporting activities, decommissioning teh facilities and resolving employment obligations on site. All facilities were closed 6 to 12 months ahead of schedule which pulled ahead teh structural cost savings of $650M for teh corporation.
• Concurrent with plant closure project, supported amalgamation activities of Canadian Automotive Manufacturing Incorporated (CAMI) into General Motors LLC. Structured and maintained a project management process that kept all progress and issues visible to teh team. Assured cross-functional coordination where tasks affected more TEMPthan one area of teh amalgamation effort.

Confidential

Technical Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated efforts to reduce manufacturing investment and improve both teh dimensional and surface quality of teh vehicle Body-in-White
• Provided guidance to teh implementation of lean manufacturing principles in die design and construction
• Advanced teh collaboration of teh Tool Design, Construction, Stamping and Body Shop engineering organizations
• Assisted Korean expatriate functioning as Executive Director of Global Body Manufacturing Engineering in carrying out his U.S. assignment

Confidential

GMS Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Taught and implemented teh General Motors - Global Manufacturing System (Lean Manufacturing)
• Hosted educational visits for non-GM guests at teh Lansing Grand River assembly plant
• Supported GMS implementation projects at various GM manufacturing sites

Engineering Group Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintained teh ten-year manufacturing strategy for teh Metal Fabricating Division. Optimized equipment and factory floor space utilization to reduce structural cost. Decommissioned 137 stamping press lines, closed one major stamping site and commissioned four new contiguous stamping plants
• Allocated all new program stamping, blanking and metal assembly production work to seventeen factories
• Developed globally common stamping measures (North and South America, Europe, and Asia) with identical definitions, interpretations and calculations to enable a common, global assessment of stamping performance.
• Co-led teh restructuring of teh headquarters Industrial Engineering function to become an integrated, more effective and efficient organization. Consolidated four sub-functions into one department, reduced staffing by 30% and provided single point contacts for all teh stamping plants
• Oversaw teh administration of all asset disposals (stamping and assembly equipment, mobile equipment and miscellaneous assets) for teh division, in accordance with corporate policy
• Developed all new program metal fabricating piece cost and investment estimates, responses to specialstudies and statements of sourcing policy for MFD
• Assured teh appropriate retention, re-allocation or disposal of past model tooling and parts
• Developmental Assignment (4/98 to 6/98)

Engineering Group Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with seventeen GM metal fabricating plant organizations instituting best practices and a common performance measurement system
• Worked with teh plants and teh Machinery and Equipment group to launch new stamping press installations; equipment start up, throughput attainment and targeted staffing levels leading up to system buy-off
• Accompanied stamping division leadership on plant visits as advisor regarding plant operating efficiency issues

Senior Industrial Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintained teh Metal Fabricating Division’s performance scorecard. Compiled and audited safety, staffing, throughput, quality and cost data from all 17 stamping centers
• Compiled and submitted teh General Motors stamping data to Harbour and Associates for teh annual industry report
• Developed and rolled out plant throughput improvement initiatives
• Lead teh development of teh initial Metal Fabricating Division Hoshin Plan

Confidential

Senior Industrial Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and refined teh plant’s approach to Hoshin Planning
• Instituted lean manufacturing practices in teh stamping and sub-assembly departments
• Facilitated numerous joint activities to advance union / management cooperation
• Led a teh quality department consisting of 4 supervisors, 70 inspectors and 30 skilled trades metrologists
• Oversaw production quality control of 600 parts: roofs, deck lids, door components and assemblies, hoods
• Managed new vehicle program part certification from initial tool buy-off to production readiness
• Introduced teh use of Coordinate Measuring Machines