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Summary
This expert is an operations and supply chain executive with entrepreneurial drive and success delivering quality and efficiency improvements across diverse industries. Based on extensive leadership development at GE, he builds high performance teams that drive cultural change to achieve desired outcomes across multiple sites and disciplines. He develops an enterprise-wide strategy with a detailed path that leads to making a vision a reality at all levels of the organization.
This expert approaches difficult situations in a calm and measured manner and utilizes Lean and Six Sigma principals to cut through complexity and provide value. He is known for thinking strategically across a long-term horizon and reducing waste in all aspects of a business. He excels at knocking down walls that prevent organizations from making progress and identifies optimal solutions.
As a leader, he relishes coaching and mentoring employees to lead their organizations, but also helps them make decisions by asking the right, and sometimes, tough questions. Through a willingness to listen to all aspects of an issue, this expert brings a broad perspective to decision-making.
Highlights
- 20+ years of experience
- 15+ years in driving Operational Excellence and Optimizing Supply Chains
- Six Sigma Black Belt (GE Trained)
- Lean Leader
- Agile Practitioner
- Strategic leader who accelerates business transformations
- Inspiring coach who elevates team performance and business results
- Data-driven problem solver who drives sustainable process improvement
Relevant Accomplishments
- In different roles, have led up to 11 operational sites, 450 employees and managed operations with $180 million in costs as well as had P&L responsibility for a $54 million region
- Led & coordinated the annual strategic planning process for an entire company
- By implementing lean techniques and other continuous improvement initiatives, drove 9% year-over-year labor productivity gains across multiple operations sites
- Established new organization structure to strengthen focus in driving operational improvements and improved talent bench strength
- Reversed a multi-year downward trend and achieved positive operational results through developing an atmosphere of open, honest and consistent communication where all employees were engaged and part of implementing improvements
- Led the global implementation of an integrated cross-functional Sales, Inventory and Operations Process with implementation on four different continents, interacting at all organizational levels, and driving internal ownership to sustain achieved results of increased customer service fill rates by over 16% and improving inventory turns by 58%
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