Six Sigma Black Belt

Richard S. Hammer

**** ******* ***. ( Joliet, IL. 60431 ( 815-***-**** (

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RESULTS-PROVEN Professional Six Sigma Black Belt/Lean

PROFESSIONAL SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT/LEAN WITH A 3+ YEAR RECORD OF SUCCESS IN

PROPELLING BREAKTHROUGH PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS AND BOTTOM-LINE GAINS ACROSS

MULTI-FUNCTIONAL AREAS WITHIN RETAIL GROCERY AND SUPPLY CHAIN.

Currently Mentoring Numerous Six Sigma Black Belts for future individual/goal

oriented achievements, as well as business oriented cultural goals and solid

P&L improvements.

Expert in Data Analytics/Process Design, Cost-Reduction Strategies, Shrink

Initiatives, Pricing Analysis and Sales Improvement strategies. Known for

innovative problem solving, complex troubleshooting and skillful

relationship-building with multifunctional executives and teams. Ability to

present complex analysis to business executive leaders in

non-statistical/analytic terms.

Key Skills & Knowledge Areas

Master Black Belt/Advanced Lean Project Throughput

Technical Training Certificate Experience Maximization

Certified Six Sigma Black Process Re-Engineering Facilitation/Training

Belt/Lean of newly recruited

Project Management Best Training Module Black Belts

Practices Development Experience Process Simulation

Experience

Jewel-Osco, Itasca, IL

Retail Food and Drug Banner of Supervalu. Inc., Grocery Retail and Supply

Chain

Professional Six Sigma Black Belt/Lean, 6/08 to Present

Regarded as one of Supervalu's leading Six Sigma Deployment Banners.

Additional responsibilities of mentoring Black Belts, project development,

training material development, training of new Black Belts and Professional

Black belt project work.

Key Results:

Completed 6 Professional Black Belt Project resulting in $1.1M annual

savings.

Mentored 6 Black Belt projects with projected benefits of $1.4 M annually.

Lean project experience reducing inventory and throughput in the print and

supply facility.

Optimized cost of good allocation in 5 fresh shops through 3 step "boulder"

project. $12M in cost of good materials, cost of good change notification

process and supply inventory process were properly allocated resulting in

visibility of true item margins.

Led monthly training/facilitation program. Mentored Black Belts in phases of

developing a training module in addition to live facilitation to a class.

Developed Training Material Modules for purposes of new hire training.

Facilitated training modules to new black belts

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Experience

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Jewel-Osco, Melrose Park, IL

Retail Food and Drug Banner of Supervalu. Inc., Grocery Retail and Supply

Chain

Six Sigma Black Belt, 6/06 to 6/08

Hired as a Six Sigma Black Belt, to work on various projects within the

Jewel-Osco Banner. Project work crossed many functional areas including

customer goals of reducing expenses, reducing shrink, throughput efficiency,

safety/risk and sales initiatives.

Key Results:

Completed 8 Projects providing $3.1M annually in benefits.

Project improvements exceeded customer project goals by 43.3% resulting in an

additional 932K annually of net benefits.

Led projects and project teams through multifunctional departments including:

Distribution/Transportation

Finance

Marketing/Merchandising

Operations

Risk/Safety

Vendor Services

Jewel-Osco, Melrose Park, IL

Retail Food and Drug Banner of Supervalu. Inc., Grocery Retail and Supply

Chain

District Loss Prevention Manager, 11/00 to 6/06

Loss Prevention Manager, 11/89 to 11/00

Loss Prevention, 11/86 to 11/89

Handled associate policy violations, investigated harassment, sexual

harassment and hot-line cases. Hired and managed loss prevention staff.

Education

University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Management, 2002

Graduated summa cum laude.

University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL

MBA, Business Administration, 2005

4.0 GPA, Delta Mu Delta National Honor Society

Technology

Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Access)

Sigma Flow Process Analysis and Design

Minitab Data Analysis

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