EMPLOYMENT
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Director of Continuous Improvement, Operations - 2008-present
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) – Independence, MO & Radford, VA
• Leader of the Performance Enterprise System and Reliability Engineering
• Accountable for bottom-line results and substantial EBIT challenges
• Responsible for policy deployment and strategic objective development
• Leader of Lean Production or Toyota Production System deployment and associated activities
• Implementation of the Visual Factory across entire operational facility, which includes 10 distinct plants and 1300+ employees, with 900+ direct labor
• Responsible for Standard Work implementation and driver of Maynard Operation Sequence Technique (MOST) at facility with development of many engineers as certified MOST analysts
• Leader of Six Sigma activities, including program development, training activities, project leader development, and operational deployment
• Creation of Kaizen activities system for support of the Visual Factory
Managing Director - 2007-present
Process Improvement, LLC (http://www.efficiency100.com/) - Bradenton, FL
• Principle consultant and Operational Management System deployment leader for team of 6 consultants in project activities, training initiatives, and Lean Six Sigma project improvement activities
• Generate new business opportunities, proposal development and contract execution
• Win support and develop commitment from client executive leadership for operational management activities, process improvements, training and project concept and initiation
Manager - Master Black Belt - 2004-2007
Smith and Nephew, Medical Device Manufacturer – Largo, FL
• Operational Excellence leadership
• Responsible for culture change throughout Largo Operations – Six Sigma and Project Management Program development in a cGMP environment
• Led Lean Production and Six Sigma deployment activities at Largo and additional US locations – also strategic partner locations
• Managed more than thirty Black Belts and Green Belts in their improvement project activities
• Created project tracking and updating system to help management receive project status reports and to help manage the multi-project landscape as well as the ever-present resource capacity issues
• Spearheaded an initiative to change the operational efficiency throughout Largo Operations. The $200k project to develop and install a shop floor OEE system was a success and shifted the entire organization operational efficiency greater than 5%
• Conducted 5 waves of Six Sigma Training which include: In-house Green & Black Belts, outside vendors, Green, Black Belts, & MBB’s in Smith & Nephew Orthopedics Division, and NuCryst Pharmaceuticals in Canada. Additionally, the entire management team received Six Sigma DMAIC overview training (Yellow Belt) in bi-weekly sessions of 3 hours each
Black Belt - 1999-2004
IMC Phosphates, Chemical Manufacturing – Mulberry, FL
• Project Manager of various Six Sigma projects in plant operations to increase production and efficiencies and to reduce production variability, defects, downtime, and waste - Completed six projects totaling more than $5M in savings or revenue
• Coached and managed multiple Action Workout project teams to affect process change and achieve bottom-line results in sixty days or less – Quick, schedule-driven improvement projects
• Developed and delivered Six Sigma Green Belt training program
• As part of the first Six Sigma project at IMC, initiated, developed business case, and successfully completed an automatic reagent blending, batching, and delivery system - Reduction in variability of the blended reagent changed from a process capability resulting in 2.5% in-spec product to 99.999% in-spec product
• Successfully managed four Advanced Process Control development projects. The $8M projects spanned three years of implementation
Process Control Engineer - 1998-1999
Boeing – Kennedy Space Center, FL
• Managed development and implementation project for Advanced Process Control strategies for predicting process pressures and flows of liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer during the pre-launch filling of the Space Shuttle’s external tank
• Implemented automatic PLC-based checkout procedures for a high-pressure system - System reduced the time required to pressure check the system from five days to several hours
• Developed application procedures for the testing the system hardware for the engine control unit (ECU) of the Delta-IV rocket
Engineer, and Intern and Fellowship - 1996-1998
NASA – Kennedy Space Center, FL
• As Engineer, developed Advanced Process Control strategies for use during the fuel and oxidizer loading of the Space Shuttle’s external tank
• Developed the engine-start sequence for the Delta IV rocket
• As part of my Master’s thesis, and through internships and fellowships, developed various control and predictive models for use during the propellant loading phases before liftoff.
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EDUCATION
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MBA Current GPA: 3.5/4.0
• Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO
M.S., Chemical Engineering 1998 GPA: 3.87/4.0
• Florida Institute of Technology - Melbourne, FL
B.S., Chemical Engineering 1997 GPA: 3.54/4.0
• Florida Institute of Technology - Melbourne, FL
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ADDITIONAL SKILLS
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Leadership, Team and Meeting facilitation, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Problem Solving, Oral and Written Communication,
College Instructor in Lean Six Sigma, Project Management, Statistics & Minitab
International trainer of: Project Management (PMP), cGMP, Lean Six Sigma and other process improvement methodologies. MS Project, Minitab statistical software, Visio, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, process mapping, Work Breakdown Structures, Resource Breakdown Structures
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