H. Clinton Belinsky
*** **** **** ***** ********, MO 63005
636-***-**** (C) . *********@*****.***
Senior Operations Executive
Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering
Results oriented senior executive with strong leadership and technical
skills. Experienced in the areas of Operations Management, Quality,
Engineering, 6 Sigma and Lean Manufacturing. Proven ability to
significantly improve customer satisfaction, product capability, cycle time
reduction and margin improvement through the implementation of progressive
manufacturing methods. Successful track record applying Lean Six Sigma
skills towards the development of business processes. Led three successful
business quality recoveries. Drove double digit customer quality
improvement year over year. Restructured product service with dramatic
response time improvement for half the cost. Led 4 successful
manufacturing startups in Asia. Dynamic and high energy leader with a
reputation for consistently achieving stretch goals. Outstanding customer
interfacing skills with demonstrated success towards building share.
Quality Engineering . Business Process Development . Lean . 6
Sigma . Total Quality Management Product Engineering . Manufacturing
Engineering . Product Service . Plant Start Ups . Metrics
Customer Centric . Team Building . Focus Selling . Quality and EHS
Regulatory Compliance TS / ISO / GMP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MEMC Electronic Materials St. Louis, MO 2003 - Present
$1.5B International Semiconductor and Solar materials business
Vice President, Quality and Lean 6 Sigma (Operations Excellence)
Built and led the Global Quality, Lean, Product Engineering, Customer
Support and EHS organization, including a 50 member team in St. Louis and
300 globally. Led Product Engineering and implemented programs to improve
product capability to meet customer requirements. Led Customer Quality
Support to proactively assess customer needs and ensure they are met in
manufacturing. Provided leadership, capital planning and new metrology
development for all company labs. Led global environmental, health and
safety initiatives. Installed customer focused TS16949 certified quality
systems. Reporting to CEO.
. Leading new Lean Initiative throughout the business to improve product
velocity, customer on time delivery, increase margins and reduce cost.
Solar inventory turns improving by a factor of 10.
. Successfully ramped solar business revenue from $0 to over $500M with
outstanding customer quality performance. Qualified new solar product
line and 5 Asian subcontractors with Suntech, Gintech, Conergy and Q-
Cells.
. Established Quality as a MEMC competitive advantage; enabling increased
share of 20% on critical accounts. Installed strong process control,
quality management and cross site corrective action systems.
. Reduced product returns 55% by installing prevention based systems and
improving product capability.
. Implemented 6 Sigma program to drive cost reduction, quality and
throughput improvements. Over $38M in project savings were realized on
first wave.
. Customer advisories reduced by 88% through mistake proofing and
capability improvement. Collaborated with site leadership to identify
opportunities and team based projects. Product yields improved 32%.
. Decreased EHS serious incident rate by 75% by installing new safety
requirements, audits and loss prevention systems.
. Led successful product and new site qualifications, enabling
certification and production ramp at Intel, ST and TSMC. Ensured
successful customer audits by TI, Intel, TSMC and ST.
. Implemented and maintained ISO and TS quality system regulatory
requirements with no major findings.
Emerson Electric St. Louis, MO 1997 - 2003
$23B commercial and industrial products company
Director of Quality and Product Service
Emerson Commercial and Industrial Motors
Led quality, product service and business improvement initiatives for the
$600M family of global Emerson divisions producing fractional and integral
motors in the US, China and Korea. Led focused customer program and key
growth projects at strategic customer accounts. Coordinated Advanced
Quality Planning for plant rationalization and outsourcing activity.
. Created and deployed quality strategy by meeting with customers, uniquely
identifying how Emerson could add value and targeting specific projects
in each operation. Modified quality systems through collaboration with
site leadership to decrease customer advisories by 53% and the Cost of
Quality by .2% to sales.
. Restructured product service and support to drive warranty reduction and
revenue generation. Customer response time decreased 38% and costs were
reduced over 50% by establishing Philippines call center.
Director of Asia Manufacturing
Emerson Commercial and Industrial Motors
Led business development initiatives in China for the $600M family of
global Emerson divisions producing fractional and integral motors.
Performed financial analysis and wrote business case for China plant
implementation. Coordinated plant startup. Led cross functional team of
engineering, manufacturing, HR, finance, logistics, and purchasing to set
up China operation.
. Led implementation of first air moving motor operation in China by
working with our primary customer, Haier, to establish sales plan and
product manufacturing ramp. Achieved target Sales: $26M / year.
. Coordinated transfer of product lines from Mexico to China. Qualified
over 20 local Chinese suppliers.
. Worked with Chinese OEMs on Long Term sales agreements, pricing
negotiation and new China product platform development.
. Coordinated engineering development and qualification of four China motor
models.
Director of Process Development, Emerson Motor Co
Championed and implemented the Six Sigma initiative in the $2 billion
Emerson motor business.
. Facilitated wave one deployment and generated $2.4M of annualized savings
by collaborating with leadership in each operation, identifying specific
operational gaps, training key personnel and executing projects to close
the gaps.
. Completed 6 Sigma Black Belt certification while coordinating the overall
program. Ensured cost reduction, cycle time and productivity goals were
met by aligning business objectives to 6 Sigma projects.
Director of Quality, Emerson Hermetic Motor Division
Implemented quality and process improvement initiatives in Hermetic Motor
Division. Started the Performance Excellence initiative comprised of
results oriented implementation of 6 Sigma, Lean, 5S, project management
and advanced quality planning.
. Reduced customer PPM by 88% in global operations environment ( US,
Mexico, Thailand, China) by implementing process control systems, team
based root cause analysis and corrective action.
. Registered the division and its 5 manufacturing locations to the ISO 9001
standard.
. Provided leadership to start up new manufacturing operations in Thailand
and Mexico with Quality levels below 50 PPM and On-time delivery over
99%.
Yokogawa Electric Newnan, GA 1995 - 1997
Director, Operations Excellence
Led manufacturing productivity and product quality through the application
of New Production System ( Toyota Production System) methods within the
instrumentation, medical and controls business.
. Implemented and maintained quality system standards, ISO 9001 and 13485
compliant. No major findings.
. Implemented synchronous manufacturing systems using Japanese one by one
production and JIT (Lean) methods in efforts to eliminate past due orders
in a climate of 20% revenue growth. Delivery performance improved by
300%. Results enabled a 99% customer survey performance satisfaction
rating.
. Led team to develop new production control system. Operating costs
reduced by 250K/year.
General Signal, O-Z/Gedney Farmington, CT
1993 - 1995
Director of Total Quality
Directed all product and process quality initiatives. Led 23 technical
professionals in the division.
. External defects lowered by 85%. Registered 6 facilities to the ISO 9000
standard in one year.
. Utilized process control techniques to drive $260K/yr in savings.
Foundry scrap reduced from 18% to 3%.
. Championed Kaizen and continuous flow manufacturing cell technology.
Customer fill rates increased to 90%. Averaged $50K in labor
productivity / project.
. Designed new warehouse inventory and logistics system, developed on a PC
based LAN using C, Access and an AS400 interface to a company wide
network.
General Electric, ED&C Division Plainville, CT 1986
- 1993
Product Engineering Manager
Led the product development of electromechanical components within circuit
breaker product line.
. Drove engineering cost reduction and sustaining product enhancements for
all electrical
circuitry related to circuit breaker line of products.
Process Improvement Manager
Identified and implemented productivity and product quality projects
utilizing progressive techniques : Kaizen, Lean, Poka-Yoke, SPC, DOE, FMEA,
QFD. Managed projects to reduce scrap, rework and inventory.
. Implemented team based, results oriented, training programs in Lean and
Total Quality techniques. Realized $300K / year scrap savings and rework
reduction in plastic and sheet metal fabrication.
. Designed and implemented a real time data collection and quality analysis
system reducing electronic assembly errors on electrical distribution
equipment by 40%.
. Shared lead responsibility for designing and implementing New Product
Development process to build speed and quality into product design.
Product lead times reduced over 25%.
. Managed programs to improve customer satisfaction, requests met and
product margin. Product returns reduced by $175K / year.
Manufacturing Manager
Implemented multi-million dollar manufacturing projects for the automatic
fabrication of products in a make to order environment.
. Coordinated staffing, budgeting, scheduling, and implementation of
automated manufacturing lines. Reduced scrap by $280K / year and
generated $200K / year direct labor savings on switchboard and panel
board production lines. Part processing time decreased by 80%!
. Production line manager for steel fabrication and bus bar production.
Direct reports included 3 supervisors and 42 hourly associates.
EDUCATION
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S. in Computer Science / Engineering, Adjunct Professor
University of Connecticut
B.S. in Computer Engineering