South Portland, Maine, United States
Six Sigma certified Continuous Improvement/Operations Leader with proven success overseeing kaizens and long-term problem-solving teams to achieve cost savings and process improvement objectives. Successfully led teams remotely and in person within the Aerospace, Lab/Medical, Food/Beverage, and Industrial Manufacturing industries. Recognized as an adaptable facilitator able to navigate a team through change and utilize critical thinking to achieve and sustain results.
Coordinated the daily operations of the Value Stream to ensure success within key metrics of Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost and created a future state value stream map to ensure future success. • Increased On-Time Delivery from 28% to over 58% through continuous improvement bursts, sustaining through seven consecutive months. • Achieved engagement score of over 82% in first year of managing value stream of 70 associates including Assemblers, Team Leaders, Production Supervisors, Manufacturing Engineers, and Expeditors. • Orchestrated the integration of new manufacturing equipment into production and balanced production schedule and resource allocation between original and new equipment. • Improved labor productivity from 70% to more than 90% by shifting from a push to pull production method and implementing metrics to allow team to maintain health of production lines.
Facilitated kaizens, supported kaizen funnel development, and led continuous improvement training for U.S. sites as part of a four-person team. • Achieved over $25 million dollars in annual savings for U.S. site continuous improvement events. • Executed an ERP improvement project (SAP) with a cross-functional team to improve supply chain management of Specialty Metals to increase profits for more than 50% of all sales orders. • Co-designed an employee training program to provide a structured approach to integrating continuous improvement into our associates experience.
Managed over 20 machinists in machine shop of vertically integrated Aerospace Manufacturing plant. • Implemented a new tool magazine setup for CNC Mill process with dedicated tooling on top running CNC Mill part numbers, eliminating over 100 hours annually from setup. • Organized the collaboration of machine shop resources to implement cycle time improvements leading to an increased capacity of main bottleneck process (CNC Mill), gaining 208 hours of machine time annually. • Attained over 90% delivery on internal production plans created with next tier value streams to maximize plant metrics.
Assisted in the development of a protein-based biosensor focused on detection of the dengue virus. • Synthesized biosensor candidates through by utilizing genetic engineering techniques on E. coli cells. • Prepared a protocol to immobilize the biosensor through a click chemistry reaction, improving signal to noise ratio and reusability of biosensor. • Performed binding assays to screen computationally designed biosensors to determine best candidate.
Designed improvements for production operations including automation of the feeding process for a fluid bed mill, decreasing total process cost by over 10%. Monitored performance of PTFE recycling production processes and performed quality control tests on products to compare with historical data. Produced pilot plant samples and tested sample interactions in solvent for product development.