Mike Alumbaugh

Successful Organizational Excellence Leader

Email: acqxru@r.postjobfree.com

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MBA, CMQOE, SSGB

Career Highlights

Received a Gulfstream supplier of the year for the first time in company history.

Reduced lead times from eight weeks to six weeks or less.

Improved productivity from two labor hours per unit in 2008 to forty six minutes per unit.

Stabilized the company’s supply chain that was struggling with quality issues.

Over 99% on time delivery since 2009. Prior to that the company was chronically late

Eliminated stock outs that were impacting the customer delivery schedule

Stabilized erratic yields to consistently exceed ninety seven percent

Promoted four times in nine years with LSI Logic

Turned around the operations of General Electric Supply's Wichita facility and expanded the coverage area from serving the metro area only to serving south central and southeast Kansas

Awarded a patent (#200********) for designing and implementing a JIT process for mastering CD ROMs that produced no excess inventory and no defects

Supply Chain

International Business

Project Management

Upgraded supply chain capabilities to increase scalability and flexibility

Supported contract manufacturing sites in Mexico and Ireland

One of three leads appointed to lead the transfer of production to a supplier facility in Guadalajara

Improved supplier to customer synchronization of flow and turns in two different industries

Set up logistics centers in the EU, US and Asia

Integrated the logistics network of an acquired IBM division

Implemented regional supply chain model as part of new sourcing strategy

Directly supported customer sites in numerous geographies worldwide

Lead the implementation of mirrored shop floor and quality reporting systems at facilities in Cork, Guadalajara and San Jose

Experienced in contract manufacturing environments

Experienced with many import, export, VAT and duty regulations

Lead a division wide implementation of a product service and improvement module within a PLM System.

Professional Experience

Mid Continent Controls March 2008- Present

A small business that designs and manufactures electronic controls for general aviation.

Director of Operations

Oversee activities throughout the supplier to customer value stream related to quality, delivery, flexibility and cost. Manage the schedule, analyze data related to quality, delivery and costs, work closely with sales and engineering on new product launches and customer performance reviews, coordinate expedites, and answer operational or compliance questions. Collaborate with engineering on new product launches, develop the strategic plan for optimizing business performance including developing a sourcing strategy, aligning the supply chain with organizational goals, evaluating supplier options including final selection, performing product qualification, and prioritizing improvement projects.

Other duties including managing three direct reports and sixteen indirect and maintaining compliance to import, export, FAA and other regulatory requirements.

Significant Accomplishments:

Established meaningful performance measurements around a quality, delivery and cost framework that trends over time such things as process efficiency, material utilization, field performance and supplier performance.

Defined baseline production capacity.

Changed to a "regional" supply chain model to improve flexibility, responsiveness and improve enterprise capabilities by building long term relationships with willing partners.

Set up a pull system for high volume standard build assemblies from suppliers through WIP that reduced shortages and synchronizes deliveries with the customer shipments and production requirements.

Created a supplier selection process that assesses the supplier’s capabilities, controls and costs against potential current and future organizational needs.

Identify new sources for new materials, forming or assembly requirements.

Perform cost-benefit, break even and total spend analysis of available supply chain alternatives for new program quotes.

Set up “proto houses” and “high volume” suppliers for specific commodities.

Stabilized new and existing product performance using various Six Sigma tools such as FMEAs, control charts, Fishbones, Cpk etc.

Results include:

Over 99% on time delivery since early 2009.

Reduced lead times

No stock outs that have impacted shipments in over four years

Supplier yields above 98% for all critical suppliers

Reduced on hand stock by more than $700k

Saved over $200K in bill of materials costs reductions with more coming

Increased top end capacity by more than 30%

Reduced average labor hours per unit from two hours to less than one

Improved our field performance to between 3.8 and 3.9 sigma consistently

Improved yields to consistently exceed 97% via numerous improvement projects

LSI Engenio Storage Systems 1998- 2008

LSI Corporation is a leading provider of silicon solutions, software and data storage systems.

Manager of Manufacturing Quality Engineering:

Stabilized out of control production yields by extending short term containment controls while analyzing data to drive permanent corrective actions. The quality team was realigned along product families, product and process performance goals were incorporated into individual performance plans which improved responsiveness to problem reports, short term containment actions and follow through on permanent corrective action plans.

Lead regular supplier to customer interlock meetings to monitor performance and progress on improvement projects and actions.

Twelve direct reports reported to this position.

Responsibilities included:

Frequent source of data analysis for OEM account teams and upper management.

Leading continuous improvement efforts and customer qualifications.

Setting organizational priorities and allocating resources appropriately.

Aligning staff roles and responsibilities to product families.

Establishing relevant goals and objectives.

Leading “tiger teams” on behalf of customer change requests.

Mining and analyze data for building cases for continued improvement efforts.

Acting as a change agent.

Reporting progress at regular intervals to customers and the executive staff.

Significant Accomplishments and examples:

Stabilized and improved production yields 18% to consistently exceed 98%

Led numerous continuous improvement projects that implemented electronic Poka-Yoke controls and other shop floor controls in high risk areas

Using Cpks at different stages of integration I lead a multi-site "tiger team" that successfully correlated observed bi- modal failures to the distribution changes. Containment actions were implemented immediately; corrective actions were implemented within two weeks of determining the point of origin and root cause of the observed failures.

Worked directly with OEM teams (IBM, Sun Micro, HP etc.) on numerous product qualifications.

Manager of Process Management and Consulting

This position was a combination of a process engineering role and a manager overseeing compliance related matters. Driving improvement in contract manufacturing facilities, driving internal continuous improvement projects within the division, leading improvements on behalf of customers including reporting status back to customer account teams regularly.

Two direct reports, one dotted line and a part time audit team reported to this position. Compliance to industry standards and governmental requirements such as ISO, CCC, UL, KDHE, ESD (S20.20) RoHS, WEEE and others were among the duties required in this role.

Significant Accomplishments:

Researched multiple solutions, created specifications and business case for the selection and implementation of an enterprise PLM application. Team lead for the implementation of the product service and improvement module. Completed the implementation on time. Deliverables included:

Scoping organizational needs

Comparing solution options and capabilities

Selecting the system and building a business case for it

Defining user requirements

Defining work flows including implementing an 8D CAPA workflow

Designing objects

Establishing system roles & privileges

Creating test and training plans

Established weekly performance reviews for key OEM customers and remote production sites.

Created agendas, corrective action preventive action (CAPA) project plans, provided status of projects and actions to account teams and customers.

Lead customer qualifications for remote production sites and newly released products.

Division audit and compliance team leader

Operations Quality Champion LSI Engenio Storage Systems

This role was a senior quality engineering role that was part of the operations management staff. This position was the key customer interface for all critical to quality projects and inquiries. Key activities included establishing key performance measurements for all production sites (U.S., Ireland, Mexico), implementing identical shop floor controls and performance measurements at all production facilities, leading continuous improvement projects for all operations locations and coordinating plans with dotted line reports from Cork and Guadalajara. One indirect report. Leading weekly “walk throughs” with the executive staff.

Significant Accomplishments

Implemented a JIT defect free CD ROM mastering and production process using a DMAIC approach. The project reduced scrap $250,000.00 in the first year. Patent #200********

Lead and participated in multiple green belt projects that reduced recurring failure modes and customer returns.

Implemented a throughput accounting based operations performance dashboard.

Lead the effort to enter the division into the Kansas Award for Excellence program. Compiled the information and authored the final report that was submitted for consideration. LSI was awarded a level three award and best in class in two categories.

Special Assignment:

Integrated the inventory and logistics centers of a recently acquired global business in sixty five days.

Created the global logistics support network model

Set up and qualified logistics centers

Set up order call off and inventory management portals with third party logistics providers

Reduced the number of logistics centers while still meeting customer delivery requirements

Minimized the impact of VAT & duty tax liability while maintaining compliance with the regulations of the specific countries and regions

Negotiated delivery and title terms with suppliers and third party providers

Global Service Representative LSI Engenio Storage Systems

Created and implemented the division’s return materials process and returns tracking database. Supported key OEM accounts (IBM, Sun, Dell etc.)

Distribution Experience:

Warehouse Supervisor & Data Communications Sales Specialist- General Electric Supply

Managed twelve direct reports. Transitioned the warehouse facility from a Wichita metro only supplier to a regional supplier.

Buyer, Inside Sales Representative and Senior Counter Salesman- Stanion Wholesale Electric

Responsible for counter sales and merchandizing. Inside sales representative for commercial "house" accounts and some contractor accounts. Organized the annual inventory.

Organizations, Affiliations Publications

American Society for Quality Outreach Chair, Kansas BEST mentor, research analyst Citizens for Eisenhower Airport, research analyst and contributor Election assessment Committee report to tye Carter-Baker Commission, co-author Kansas Award for Excellence submission (LSI Logic)

Certifications and Training

ASQ Certified CMQOE, Six Sigma Green Belt

Also trained and experienced in using Kepner-Trego, various Goldratt tools and Lean.

Adjunct instructor- Friends University, The University of Phoenix, Cowley College

Education & Instruction

Masters of Business Administration Southwestern College - Winfield, KS 2003

Bachelor of Political Science and General Studies Wichita State University - Wichita, KS 1997

Regulatory Compliance Experience

ISO, CCC, S2020, UL, KDHE, RoHS, REACH, FAA part 145 and part 21, Conflict Minerals, National Defense Authorization Act

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