Manager Quality

Anurag Khare

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480-***-**** (Home)

Chandler, AZ 85286

619-***-**** (Cell)

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Highly accomplished and motivated Lean Six Sigma professional with

successful track record of consistently achieving operational

excellence through Lean deployment in Fortune 200 Companies.

Summary of Qualifications

. 8 years of hands-on experience of LEAN deployment and Continuous

Improvement

. 11+ years of experience with HONDA manufacturing with progressive

management responsibilities.

. Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt and Kaizen Leader. Over $5M savings

delivered

. Overseas training (LEAN/Kanban/Kaizen/5S) at HONDA, Japan.

. Certified ISO9001 Lead Auditor. Led successful ISO9001

certification.

. Strong project management and communication skills.

. Ability to work with International & cross-functional teams.

Areas of expertise include:

Professional Experience

. CAREFUSION Corporation, San Diego, California, USA

2010 -

present

($4.5B Global Healthcare Device manufacturer)

Manager - Operational Excellence

This position involves working with multiple

domestic/international manufacturing sites to deploy Lean Transformation

. Raw material inventory reduction by 38% by deploying Vendor Pull

and Kanban systems.

. Dock-to-Stock time reduced from 14.5 days to 1.0 day (93%

improvement).

. Finished goods process lead time improved from 20 days to 4 days

(80% improvement).

. Developed and deployed Lean Maturity Index across multiple plant

sites to have common yard-stick & gap analysis

. EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY, Tempe, Arizona, USA (Embedded Computing

Division) 2008 - 2009

(Emerson acquired the Motorola's Embedded Computing division on Jan

01, 2008)

Consultant Black Belt

This full time position involved process improvement by leading

cross functional teams. Led the following vital Process/

Quality improvement projects

. Test Process - Handled test process improvement project for the

biggest customer in North America. Realized great savings - An

extra test audit step costing $0.5 M annually was removed in 4

months without affecting product quality adversely.

. Product Quality - Later, shouldered additional responsibility of

Customer Quality, for the top North American customer. The job

included many short term projects involving field return

statistical analysis leading to product quality improvement through

manufacturing and/or engineering actions. The field Early Return

Index (ERI) was reduced from about 6% to 1.5%.

. MOTOROLA Inc., Tempe, Arizona, USA (Embedded Computing Division)

2005 - 2007

Consultant Black Belt

This full time position involved improving processes through cross

functional teams and internal /external TL9000audits. Spearheaded two

important projects to improve performance metrics and achieve

significant savings:

. Time-to-Market. - The task was to come up with one simplified

process for New Product Development across the globe to improve

Time to Market by 20%. This involved working with international

design centers, drawing the as-is process map, weeding out non

value-added activities, and implementing one optimized to-be

process map across all design centers. 15% Time to Market

improvement was achieved resulting in $50K savings for small

projects and approx $250K for big projects. The savings do not

include increased profits due to early product availability in the

market.

. Repair Services. - The On-Time delivery (OTD) has been about 60% in

the last 2 years and overdue backlog had swelled to about 4000

units at Repair Center affecting customer satisfaction adversely.

Great results were achieved by improving the process. The OTD

improved to about 97% and overdue backlog was reduced to 40 units

. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (ASU), Tempe, Arizona, USA 2000 - 2005

Graduate Assistant/Technology Support Analyst

Provided support (20hrs/wk) to Information Technology group in the

area of Web Objects software application development while pursuing my

graduate degree.

. MINDA INDUSTRIES LTD, India (Auto switch maker; Collaboration with M/S

Tokei Rika, Japan) 1999 -1999

General Manager (Manufacturing)

This full time position included P&L responsibility for the business

unit with a focus on TPS and LEAN deployment

. Achieved budget sales each month 5%). KANBAN/TPS was

implemented for product lines. Workforce included

500 workmen and 30 engineers.

. Finalized monthly/quarterly Production Schedule/Reports.

Planning for raw material and In-house/vendor components.

. Paint rejection was brought down to 1.8% from 4.5% in three

months. Supervised vendor quality improvement projects.

. Facilitated training on TPS, KAIZEN, JIT, KANBAN.

. HONDA Siel CARS INDIA LTD. (HONDA MOTOR CO., Japan's manufacturing

facility in India) 1996 -1999

Deputed to Fan manufacturing unit for18 months by the chairman to

improve quality of the product and reduce field returns

Deputy General Manager (Quality), 1998 - 1999

This full time position included overall management of Quality

function and leading ISO9001 certification with UL

. Instituted LEAN SIGMA. In-Process quality checks to improve

quality. In-process quality checks resulted in

reduction of 4 quality inspectors from shop floor

(Lamination/Machine/Die casting/Paint shops).

. Improved straight acceptance at final assembly from 92% to 97.5%

. Reduced Paint Shop rejection from 6.5% to 1.2%

. Lead the ISO9001 drive and achieved the certification

. Achieved reduction in Field returns from whopping 11% to 2.8%

Manager (Technical), 1996 - 1998

. Got assigned from Power Products division to assist Honda

Automobile project team

. Supervised the procurement and installation of the assembly line

and welding shop

. Executed trial runs and established process parameters as per

Honda Standards

. Won SILVER MEDAL for "Best Presentation" in the participation of

14 countries at Honda conference, Bangkok

. HONDA Siel POWER PRODUCTS LTD. (HONDA MOTOR CO., Japan's

manufacturing facility in India) 1988 - 1996

Assistant General Manager (Production/Technical), 1995 -

1996

. Achieved 99.7% straight acceptance level at final inspection

. Led SED (sales/engineering/development) team to launch a new HONDA

generating set model

. Assisted actively as a lead member for implementing ISO 9001.

. Implemented Lean system for Alternator winding shop. Implemented

5S, KIAZEN for the entire shop floor

. Undertook training in SPC techniques and implemented the same

Computer Skills

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Education

. Vendor Pull/VMI

. Value Stream Mapping

.

. Lean Transformation (TPS, Pull, Kanban, 5S, TPM, SMED, etc.)

. Lean Six-Sigma Deployment

.

. Data Mining and Statistical Data Analysis, SPC, DOE

. Cell Manufacturing

.

. Statistical S/W Minitab, SPSS

. MS office ... Word, Excel, Power Point, MSProject, Visio

. Database Power Builder, RDBMS, Object Oriented,

MySql

. Web Objects 4.5 / 5.0 Application Software

. PhD candidate (Industrial Engineering), Arizona State University

Current GPA - 3.92/4.0

. Master of Science (Industrial Engineering), Arizona State University

Graduate GPA - 3.91/4.0

. Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), Indian Institute of Technology,

India

GPA - 3.56/4.00

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