Alex Fedotowsky
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Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Professional with ten years' experience
leading Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement projects - generating
significant value to operations and organizational structure/culture
effecting bottom line results. Exceptional at managing teams to design and
implement lean six sigma processes / technical solutions to maximize
quality, safety, capacity, throughput, and profitability across
functions/departments. Successfully leveraging TOC with lean six sigma
manufacturing methodologies and cross-functional relationships to achieve
aggressive goals. Possess excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate
with teams to identify and remedy critical process issues vital to mission
success. Strong leader able to identify business needs and motivate teams
to peak performance.
Core Leadership Competencies
Senior Management Strengthening Customer Six Sigma Methodologies &
Consultant Focus Execution, Minitab,
Balanced Scorecard Product Innovation, DFSS iGraphix
Execution
Theory of Constraints Continuous Process Maximizing Production
methods CCPM Throughput Improvement throughput, Yield, Cost
Execution Lean Six Sigma TOC Reduction, ROI Analysis
Integration
Lean Manufacturing Management Leadership, Cross Functional Team
Execution, Lean Six Sigma staff Leadership & Collaboration
Production Expansion Training
Initiatives
Professional Experience
L3-Comm ( Aerospace - Maintenance & Supply logistics) - Ft. Jan 08 - Present
Rucker, AL
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Six Sigma Project Manager
Theory of Constraints (TOC) framework, to lead projects supporting lean six
sigma practices across maintenance, transactional, supply operations. Track
and manage project timelines, budgets, and resources against project
requirements. Manage lean deployment activities including identification
and transfer of best practices and development of a common production
system. Champion radical change in Union environment to facilitate
continuous process improvements. Provide strategic leadership and support
for Aerospace maintenance (MRO) sites and project teams in implementing and
managing Lean Six Sigma TOC projects.
Results:
. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt manager and lead for several Value Stream, TPS,
TOC, and DMAIC projects and Kaizen events, reduced lead times up to 55%,
throughput up to 40%, 27% yield increase (14.7 million savings/cost
avoidance, 24 million projected FY09) (11 Black Belt projects, over 30
Kaizen events)
. Participated in a team approach to winning the 2009 Shingo Bronze award
for excellence in Lean manufacturing deployment, team effort generating
80 million in savings/cost avoidance
. Improved customer focused Balanced Scorecard design/deployment working
with senior management teams
. Designed performance metrics to track and manage the effectiveness of
lean six sigma projects within the framework of Theory of Constraints and
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)
. Generated 30% reduction in costs and 35% cycle times for large scale
complex FAA aviation maintenance operations by designing and executing
process improvements based on KANBAN, Value Stream (VSM), and Drum Buffer
Rope (DBR) principles (union workforce moral increase, 3.5 million
savings)
. Integrated lean projects with new MRP asset management software
deployment resulting in dramatic reduction in inventory, WIP, labor,
supply errors, supply logistics, faster aircraft maintenance throughput
(14.3 million savings)
. Established a world class benchmark Employee Implemented Suggestion
system (655K savings from one shop)
. Methods/Tools - Minitab, igraphix, TPS, TOC, CCPM, Kanbans, 5S, DOE,
Gage R&R, VSM, DMAIC, Control Charts, Hypothesis tests, ANOVA, team
building, leadership & workforce lean training, Black & Green Belt
mentoring
Customer Focused Technologies - Dayton, OH July 2001 - Dec
2005
Consultant, Managing Partner Sept 2006 - Dec 2008_
Served as lead consultant, business developer, training material developer,
to grow business. Results include, 5.3 million saved in cost saving/
avoidance. Gained significant experience in continuous improvement project
management, systematic innovation methodology, Balanced Scorecard
deployment, employee involved suggestion systems.
Results:
. Consultant, lead Six Sigma and CI projects (1.6 million dollar savings on
3 month project) (DMAIC methods, minitab) Completed successful Black
Belt lean project to return machined products manufactured in China back
to US plant. Facilitated healthcare management team to successfully
complete projects that identified 350K savings within one week.
. Lean Six Sigma project to reduce storage, handling, service errors (1.2
million savings, Perkins Inc.)
. Six Sigma Black Belt instructor and project coach training Green for US
Navy Facilities Engineering Command
. Facilitator in designing and implementing balanced scorecard for tool &
die small manufactures
. Coach/Mentor for Six Sigma Green Belt workshops for ASQ. Certified Green
Belts through Harrington Institute and American Society for Quality (
trained over 90 Green Belts,12 Green Belt mentored project completions)
. Experience applying Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) innovation tools (Triz,
Systematic Innovation processes). Certified in Inventive Problem Solving
and Advanced Failure Analysis (AFD) through Triz leader, Ideation Triz,
Inc.
. Effective adult-centered workshops, seminar material for individual work
improvement, team building, and management team performance. Workshops
based on Steve Covey's 7 Habits principles. (client Perkins Inc.)
. Executed organization feedback assessments to improve employee
involvement to increase productivity
. Project management studies applying Critical Chain (CCPM) to drug
discover processes (P&G subcontract)
. Consultant to Laboratory Automation Systems Inc. (CFT partner), leading
laboratory work process improvements & QA issues. Investigated
requirements definitions, client interviews producing high profile
project documents (RFP's, risk analysis, IT implementation analysis,
schedules & costs, improvement & cost savings plans)
Philips Medical Systems, Highland Heights, OH Feb 2005 - Sept 2006
Instructor Evaluator/Analyst
Apply adult learning methodology and Six Sigma tools to reduce instruction
time while improving student retention of content. Improve curriculum and
delivery of presentations. Acquired engineering depth of technical
knowledge in design & applications of modern computer based medical X-Ray
machines.
Physics and Technology Instructor 1994 - 2001
Served several school districts, educational institutions
Honors and college prep Physics, Computer Science courses
Teach microprocessor technology, assembly language and advanced topics in
communications, process control and analog interfaces. Digital Electronics,
Linear Circuits and electronic systems. Successful application of TQM to
curriculum.
Beloit Corporation Lenox Division, Lenox, MA 1990 - 1994
Project Manager, Engineer
First in this facility to introduce and execute Total Quality Management
(TQM) knowledge and projects.
. Project manager applying TQM practices to save equivalent of over 800K
for software development/installation projects.
. Development of real-time, multitasking paper industry machine control
software.
. Development, performance testing and maintenance of factory automation
software modules that control inventory, production, error/event handling
and statistical quality. C, C++, Oracle databases
Education / Certifications
. Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification, Harrington Institute
(January 2009)
. Six Sigma Black Belt certification, Harrington Institute (August 2006)
. Certified Quality Manager, Manager of Organizational Excellence, American
Society for Quality (Nov 2003)
. Certified HBDI practitioner, Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, team
based innovation tool
. Lean Toyota Production System certified (Society of Manufacturing
Engineers)
. Advanced Theory of Constraints Executive Training certificate (University
of Tennessee) TOC-ICO certified
. Organizational Excellence Executive certificate (Villanova University
2007)
. Bachelors of Science Physics, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 24
post grad credits in education 3.5/4.0
Computer Skills
MS Office Suite / Access / Project / Visio, Minitab, igrafix, Oracle 9i /
10i Database / Adobe Graphics Suite
. Publications
. Balanced Scorecard as a Continuous Improvement Machine, Quality Progress
ASQ magazine June 2010