Nancy Kay

Email: abqeb1@r.postjobfree.com

Address: PO Box 771

City: Danielson

State: CT

Zip: 06239

Country: USA

Phone: 860-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $150,000

Willing to Relocate

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Nancy Kay

PO Box 771

Danielson, CT 06239

860-***-**** (Mobile

abqeb1@r.postjobfree.com

Manufacturing Operations Management

~ Transforming business operations through motivational leadership and process improvement ~

PROGRESSIVE CAREER IN MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS with a proven results-driven record of Change Management and Lean Management Leadership.

Leading P&L direction of businesses operations at divisional sites.

Driving critical successes by steadily harnessing change through management and team building.

Demonstrating the ability to define, design, and lead transformational business restructuring with great success.

Track record of driving aggressive improvements in top and bottom-line performance - powering market and sales growth while solidifying organizational infrastructure to minimize risk, avoid costs, and ensure sustainability.

Multicultural awareness - with a history of delivering results in changing or uncertain business environments

Core Competencies in Business Operations:

*Operations Management

*Division Controller

*Toyota Production System Expertise

*Technical Problem Solving

*Reengineering Product Lines

*Six Sigma & Kaizen

*Plant Start-ups in China

*MRP Implementations

*Process Mapping/ValueStream

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Daniel Penn Associates (www.danielpenn.com) W. Hartford, Connecticut Jun 2011 - Present

A Management Consultancy firm serving mainly east coast clients with business processes.

Contract Senior Consultant:

Co-Leading a 2 year maintenance planning and scheduling process transformation for a well-known NYC Hospital. Implementing a CMMS system, driving improvements in planning and scheduling and increasing productivity of wrench time for mechanics

Leading Kaizens for energy efficiency as part of North East Utilities Program - Lean Kaizens

Argo Inc. (www.argoconsulting.com), Chicago, Illinois Aug 2005 - Jun 2011

A Global Consultancy Company serving multiple clients in an operational excellence transformation, leadership training and development, finance, risk management & operational strategy in 25 countries.

Director of Operations: Direct major transformation projects for key customer accounts, managing direct reports and coordinating client-responsible teams. Clients have included: John Deer, Dana, Smith International, Pregis, Canadian Pacific Railway, Fabory, CEI, Transilwrap, Fibermark and Pathfinder. Project experience in United States, Canada, China, Sweden, Netherlands, UK, and Australia.

Drove operational successes to all client companies through design and execution of 5S, Visual Management, Kanban, Pull Systems, Elimination of Waste (Muda), Value Stream Mapping, Ergonomics, Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), Preventative Maintenance (TPM), Leader Standard Work, Throughput Management, Constraint Management, Error Proofing (Poke Yoke), Red-X Problem Solving, Heijunka, DMAIC, DOE, Process Mapping, Capability Building, Industrial Engineering, Practical Problem Solving, and Kaizen Workshop practices.

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Argo Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois (continued)

Project Management and business improvement strategy development for major Oil Drilling Equipment Manufacturer Company. Successfully implementing improvement results, including TPM, in the range of $8 - $10 million annually in 8 months while simultaneously changing the culture surrounding the business.

Strategized and directed operational transformation for a billion dollar automotive company, realizing a 33% throughput increase through leadership of organization-wide culture change. Refined the operational vision, updated and optimized manufacturing practices of union shop through lean principles from executive management to the shop floor.

Standardized work processes while establishing lean management systems to achieve significant improvements in quality, customer satisfaction, inventory, safety, health / ergonomics, productivity, and resultant profit increases with representative highlights including:

Slashed inventory from $25 million to $20 million while minimizing production floor space needs by 55%

Reduced labor force by 22% through attrition and retirement through waste-free process redesign

Led a Project in Europe for a distribution company to revamp the Logistical Supply Chain by aligning the system to consolidate shipments, increasing productivity gains, and reducing inventory turns for a gain of $6 million dollars.

The leader for ARGO, Inc. in developing and enhancing all training materials, standardizing, presentations, and improving the overall presentation quality to increase the image of the company leading to more business and satisfied clients.

Drove sales growth by aligning Strategic Pricing Projects for clients worldwide to gain market share, improve profitability, and reduce costs. Changing the management philosophy to drive a sales organizational commission structure based on sales to profitability based system.

Project coordination and business improvement strategy development for major North American transportation company. Successfully implementing improvement results while simultaneously changing the culture surrounding a business over one hundred years old.

Rogers Corporation, Rogers, CT 1979 - 2004

Versatile, multi-national manufacturing corporation, active in the communication, transportation, consumer, computer and imaging markets.

Operations Improvement Manager/Controller - Elastomer Components Division: Managed worldwide manufacturing, quality and process improvement to drive world-class manufacturing - responsible for Operations, Engineering, Quality, Safety and Environmental, Finance and Purchasing. (1998 - 2005)

Project Manager for moving manufacturing operations to China. Retrofitted leased building shell to a full blown operational plant by redesigning and creating cellular manufacturing and material flow with complete visual control for Kanban levels without interruption of Customer OTD; Automated Scheduling, Document Control (SOP database) and Automotive Qualification.

Developed lean roadmaps and piloted quarterly Shingo assessments while directing enterprise implementation of pull systems, quick-change dies, visual factory, and waste reduction procedures and systems.

Stage-managed a complete supermarket system with visual Kanban trigger points which then enabled product replenishment to be scheduled entirely by customer pull. Including streamlining assets in perceived over capacity situations to increase throughput. OTD was increased from 75% to 98%, overtime was reduced by 35%, and throughput improved 28%.

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Rogers Corporation, Rogers, CT (continued)

Directed teams in technical problem solving for a 20 year old cosmetic defect. Using Shainin Red X problem solving, Six Sigma, and root cause analysis, a series of teams reduced the potential scrap rate from 30% down to 3% leading to Customer Satisfaction and retention of market share.

Assistant Controller - High Performance Foams Division: Managed P&L responsibility while driving process improvement for sustainable bottom-line results. (1995 - 1998)

Created and implemented value stream financial reporting giving direction to top management for better performance while also strategizing on product rationalization to improve productivity.

Drove process waste removal, yield improvement, overtime reduction, set-up time reduction, and inventory reductions in all operations. Reduced or eliminated overtime through increased productivity, improved yield from 73% to 93%, while improving process flow.

Financial Reporting Manager/Various Accounting Positions: Managed all aspects of consolidated external and internal financial statements including the following: analyzed and prepared SEC filings according to generally accepted accounting principles, researched and implemented Financial Accounting Standards Boards' new regulations, prepared pension and 401(k) audited statements, consolidated information from joint ventures and subsidiaries in Europe and Asia, analyzed data for top management and Board of Directors, and examined departmental budgets. (1979 - 1995)

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MBA/Global Management - University of Phoenix, Dec 2006

Master's Degree in Production and Operations Management - Rensselaer Polytech Institute 2003

B.S. - Business Administration - Nichols College, 1983

A.D. - Business Administration - Quinnebaug Valley Community College, 1979

Select Certifications & Special Study:

* Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

* Shingijutsu Kaizen Training - Lean Sensei Certification

* Shainin Red X Apprentice and Journeyman

* Business Process Value Stream Mapping: Change Agents

* Quality Action Teams

* Purchasing Negotiations

* Professional Selling Skills

* House of Quality

* Concurrent Product Development

* MRP - Fourth Shift, KBM, QAD and People Soft

* Leadership Development Skills

* Supervisor Development Skills

* Certified Management Accountant

* Lean Accounting and various financial reporting seminars.

Select Publications & Presentations:

Author of "To Change or Not to Change

" - 2005

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