The Randstad, Netherlands
I enjoy bringing different functions and cultures together. I span the globe with Japan, Europe and the USA as focus areas. My colleagues know that I enjoy helping others and often ask for my advice/help with solving problems. My company recognizes my broad experience and often looks to me to manage and solve the most difficult challenges. Recently, this involves mainly enterprise-level technical solutions and supply chain disruption -- for example implementing internal best practices of cloud computing in Microsoft Office 365, and optimizing customer delivery during supplier force majeure.
DENSO is a leading global manufacturer in the automotive industry. DENSO Europe is the regional headquarters for more than 17,000 associates in 14 countries. My job activities have evolved over time and include, but not limited to: • Regional Leadership: spearhead our collaboration efforts to build our educational foundations, optimize our business processes, and align our lean supply chain operations for 20+ European affiliate companies. • Risk Management: pro-actively prepare scenarios and actively lead our efforts to ensure delivery during major disruptions, like the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Semi-conductor shortages, Supplier Force Majeures, and BREXIT. • Project Management: leading all facets of projects up €750k, including business case justification & stakeholder management, team & product management, implementation and change management. • Line Management: Hired, trained and managed teams of up to 5, ranging from specialist to assistant manager level. My team controlled an transport (ground, time critical) budget of ~ €10M/year. • Business Analysis & Process Improvement: Achieved 15% reduction in transportation costs while increasing quality by 10%. • System Functional Design & Development: functional design of in-house production systems, self-development of MS Access and Visual Basic tools.
Then, GENCO had more than 2500 teammates in 50 facilities that conducted full product lifecycle logistics: forward and reverse distribution, warehousing, asset recovery and software solutions. • Technical business development: designed solutions for 55 different companies and airports. • Project support for new business implementations: optimizing hardware, software, equipment, layout, and startup process. • Process improvement and consulting in warehouse operations.
Then, US Airways was then a major airline dominating the US eastern coast, took over Trump Shuttle operations, and aligned with British Airways. • Optimized various aspects of the travel experience, such as ticket counters, passenger flow, and catering services by modeling real-world scenarios, simulated improved processes, then implemented best practices. • Coordinated the activities of 3 interns.
Business start-up, Hired, trained and managed 14 staff, turned over $53,000 in 4 months.