EXPERIENCE
I have extensive Continuous Improvement (CI) Experience including:
Sustainable Business Transformation Examples
- Safety-Incident Reductions exceeding 300%, Severity exceeding 200% and Implementation of Behavioral Based Safety
- Environmental-Waste Minimization, Revenue Generation and Education
- LEAN-6S Implementation, Kaizen and DMAIC Process
- Management System-Development, Data/Metrics, Assessment & CI Program
- Operational Excellence- 90%+ Predictability for Production Volume & Yield
- Reliability-Uptime from ~65% to 95%; MTBF from 2 to 5 years
- Margin Enhancement-Adaptability to Market Changes including Niche Product Development and Materials and Work Process Optimization
- Efficiency-Development of Integrated Scorecards with Cascading Metrics Enterprise-wide
- Quality and Optimization-Integrated from Raw Material to Product
- People Power & Partners in our Community-Creating a Culture of Engagement
Team and Leadership Skills
- Communication and Facilitation Trainer and Mentor
- High Performance Teams including Represented Workforce Engagement
- Identifying & Leveraging Strengths and Building Exceptional Teams and Successors
- Leadership Coaching of Executives, Peers and Teams
- Intentional Living including Creating a Healthy & Fulfilling Work Environment with Productive Employees and Merging Faith & Career
Technical & Leadership Roles & Responsibilities
- Enterprise Continuous Improvement Manager
- Facility/Division General Manager
- Process Optimization & Operations Coordination
- Project Management
- Plant Turnaround Planning and Execution
- Health, Environmental & Safety Processes & Projects
- Reliability, Predictive Maintenance & Maintenance Planning
- Process and Design Engineering for Total Cost of Ownership
- Operations, Maintenance, Human Resource and Technical Leadership
I have worked with/for businesses of various sizes from entrepreneur to family owned with 150-850 employees to Fortune 500 organizations with 30,000 to 55,000 employees. I received my Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Idaho. I continued my formal learning at the University of Utah, where I received an Executive MBA, summa cum laude. I also am a LEAN Sigma Green Belt.