Full Name: Wade Lucas slux***

Mailing Address: **518 Mantova Avenue

City, State: Bakersfield, California ZIP:93312

Country: USA Other Country Info:

Email address: aboy8z@r.postjobfree.com Other Email address:

Home Phone: 661-***-**** Cellular:

Work Phone: 661-***-**** Pager:

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Job Wanted: Engineering Manager or Lean Manager or Process Improvement Manager or Director of Lean or Six Sigma or Director of Process Improvement or Director of Engineering or Business Process Improvement IT Experience: 5+ Yrs

Degree Attained: Bachelor's Degree Industry Experience:

Contract/Perm: Either

Minimum Pay: $100000 Per Year Last Updated:

Created: 03/27/2007

03/27/2007Skills

My Best Skill: Technical Specialist

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Expert

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List Other Skills: To utillize my engineering, Six Sigma, Lean and management skills to become a valuable resource to the next company i may work for and to continually progress in my career skills and goals.Citizenship: U.S. Citizen

Will you travel? Occasionally

Will you relocate? YesI may relocate to: California Arizona Nevada

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WADE LUCAS

661-***-**** (home)

661-***-**** (cell)

281-***-**** (work)

Bakersfield, CA. 93312

aboy8z@r.postjobfree.com

CERTIFIED SIX SIGMA MASTER BLACK BELT / LEAN, KAIZEN, PROFESSIONAL TEAM

LEADER OF WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Results-driven multi-disciplined leader utilizing world class manufacturing experience and skills to mentor

and develop individual employee assets to maximize levels of productivity while forming in various

cohesive team environments. Core strength certified Six-Sigma Champion, Lean, continuous

improvement; QSR, Kaizen, DFSS and project leadership in a fast paced FDA regulated 350+ employee

cosmetic, food and pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. Strong team qualifications

professionally utilized in progressively responsible positions including, project management, Six Sigma,

Lean, process analysis and improvement, plant leadership, engineering

leadership, plant construction and start up, retrofitting - modernization, plant turn-around, production

process reengineering, Six-Sigma, Lean, 5S Kaizen and capital cost reduction projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

M&S UNLIMITED GROUP, INC.

Sugar Land, Texas USA

(M&S UNLIMITED GROUP, INC., founded in 1984 is a privately held company that is a leading

international mass market co-packager of cosmetics, food products, pharmaceuticals and packaging

materials employing approximately 1500 people world wide, 875 million in annual sales.)

Director of Advanced Engineering / Acting General Operations Plant Manager - Sugar Land

Operations Center / Corporate (1993-present)

* Responsible for the development of five domestic and international, world class manufacturing

facilities and leading TPS - Six Sigma production, engineering, business transactional and logistic

continuous improvement projects to transform our pharmaceuticals, cosmetic and packaging

facilities to higher levels of achievement and profitability. Professionally managed staff of seven

reporting engineers and seven black belt process improvement support personnel in Lean - Six

Sigma process engineering, validation and control, cost reduction, elimination of "hidden plant"

processes, development and implementation of world class manufacturing and maintenance

methodologies and processes, environmental, safety, high speed automated equipment selection,

deployment of CMMS system, and daily plant support efforts. Responsible for managing project

requirements, budgets and specifications for equipment acquisitions. Responsible for coordination of

cost effective transition to production capacity including DOE, DFSS, DFMEA, testing, validation,

qualification, planning, and execution. Development of key alliances with diverse cultured work

forces to drive world class process changes and improvements.

* Championed Lean - Six-Sigma Master Black Belt development.

* Established World Class Manufacturing performance objectives for direct reports, and

provided formal and or informal support; counseled team as needed to improve

performance while generating opportunities for further growth and development.

* Spearheaded Lean - Six Sigma culture change utilizing the promotion of descriptive statistics

including Pareto, XbarR, Run Charts, Fishbone Cause and Effect diagrams, CpK, Scatter diagrams,

ANOVA and Histograms to develop team understanding of process capability and drive improvement

against said measures.

* Managed two turn-around acquisitions in China to drive process changes with a diverse cultured work

force where key alliances within the work force were necessary to drive world class process changes,

which resulted in exceptional product yields and an overall 72% increase in quality and efficiency.

* Managed shut down of US facility to move equipment, production, engineering, quality assurance

and logistics processes to international facilities (India); achieving full manufacturing entitlement level

in the new facility within 180 days of start up.

* Spearheaded facilities cost reduction efforts utilizing Lean and Six Sigma methodologies for

production, engineering, logistics and administrative continuous process improvement projects,

eliminating "hidden plant" processes and developing GMP's which resulted in a fiscal year 2006

savings of $70.5 million.

* Spearheaded senior level and business unit project management training in EVMS methodologies

utilizing statistical data collection metrics and cost variance analysis to more accurately predict project

completion costs, projected variances, time lines and project suitability. Further spearheaded

production, engineering and business unit 8D, FMEA and DFMEA problem solving methodologies

and metrics.

* Effectively managed annual capital budgets up to $19 million and departmental budgets of $2.9

million.

* Interfaced with Research and Development in new product design transfer.

M&S UNLIMITED GROUP, INC.

Sugar Land, Texas USA

Engineering Project Manager - Sugar Land Operations Center (1991-1993)

* Conducted assessments as measured against best practices of the organizational and governance

structure for projects.

* Reviewed project plans, schedules, and strategies for completeness and adequacy.

* Reviewed project deliverables as identified in the project plan, project schedule for completeness,

estimates to complete and ability of the project to meet scheduled dates.

* Conducted independent risk analysis, conducted independent requirements traceability analysis,

conducted facilitation and recording services.

Senior Project Manager responsible for overseeing construction and start up of a $950M, 2.9

million square foot, 360 manufacturing lines, state of the art manufacturing facility in

Bangalore, India.

* Prepared monthly and ad-hoc reports and analyzed project management plans and processes, such

as: Risk management, Issues management, Schedule management, Deliverables Management,

Quality management Change management (organizational), Scope management, Cost

management, Communication management and Procurement management.

* Developed oversight metrics for periodic measuring and reporting; Developed escalation procedures

to escalate issues above the project manager, evaluated contractor deliverables, and reviewed

requests for proposals (RFPs).

M&S UNLIMITED GROUP, INC.

Sugar Land, Texas USA

Plant Engineer - Sugar Land Operations Center (1987-1991)

* Spearheaded project implementation of Lean - Six Sigma engineering / manufacturing

methodologies, integration of automated process control monitoring, feedback capability and

statistical process control to document, define, measure, control and improve existing manufacturing /

business processes and equipment design which resulted in an initial annual overall cost reduction of

42% while increasing average repeatable production yields by as much as 78%.

* Project manager of 120M capital project to design and install state of the art robotics in modified

atmosphere, fill and seal packaging for food and cosmetics high speed filling and packaging

systems.

* Improved and further developed safety awareness programs, direct reporting, training and

engineering safeguards, reducing our overall annual safety incident rate.

* Developed and implemented training for engineers and maintenance technicians in advanced

mechanical, electrical, facilities technical training. Developed and implemented training for

PLC, HMI, Wonderware and FACTS programming. (RS Logic, HMI and Ladder).

* Interfaced with customer research and development teams for product transfer, introduction,

validation, cost analysis and production capabilities of new and existing products.

* Developed and implemented cross functional reporting system (plant action registry) to

share engineering best practices throughout the organization.

M&S UNLIMITED GROUP, INC.

Sugar Land, Texas USA

Maintenance Manager - Sugar Land Operations Center (1984-1987)

Responsible for leadership of plant maintenance team consisting of 3 supervisors and 72 technicians;

$950k annual budget.

* Spearheaded training and implementation of world class preventive, predictive and proactive

maintenance programs (WCM) utilizing total productive maintenance and integration of CMMS for

statistical maintenance analysis and asset management to move from RCM to TPM to World Class

Maintenance which upon successful deployment was adapted throughout the whole organization.

* Spearheaded implementation of Six Sigma process and equipment design reengineering, advanced

purchasing applications, vibration analysis, thermography, analytical ferrography and oil analyses to

support outstanding maintenance predictive, proactive and prevention programs which directly

resulted in an increase of equipment uptime to a world class average of 97%.

* Developed and implemented advanced asset management metrics with exceptional parts

ordering methodologies working in conjunction with lean maintenance methodologies to

provide just in time maintenance and overall equipment efficiency to a world class average

of 97% while achieving a parts inventory budget reduction from $18.7 million to $3.9 million.

* Conducted ongoing review of labor efficiencies and productivity to identify and correct

issues which were negatively impacting cost, scheduled attainment, order fill rate and the

ability to meet customer demands, and directed appropriate resolution to assure timely

completion of all scheduled initiatives.

EDUCATION

* B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering - Northrop University, Inglewood, CA. 1984

* Six Sigma DMAIC & DMADV Methodologies - Six Sigma US, Juran Institute, Price

Waterhouse

* Design For Six Sigma DFSS - Six Sigma US, Gembutsu

* Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing - Gemba Research, Gembutsu

* SPI/OSHA Alliance Safety Training Course

* Process, Equipment Installation and Operations Qualifications - Sixsigma US.

* Programmable Logic Control Programming - AB

* Human Machine Interface - AB

* Toshiba Automation Robotics design, implementation and preventive maintenance training

* Accuteck Predictive Maintenance Technical Training Program for High Speed Packaging,

Filling and modified atmosphere packaging equipment

* DataStream 7i CMMS for maintenance managers and supervisors

* MS Office 2003 - Microsoft Corporation

* Minitab

* ProEngineer

* ACAD & Solid Modeling

* JMP - SAS Institute

* Relex - Relex Software Corporation

* HVAC CTS ATS Ammonia - Stellar Group

* World Class Maintenance - Manufacturing

CERTIFICATIONS

* Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)

* Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

* Project Management (PM)

* Total Quality Management (TQM)

* Continuous Process Improvement (CPI)

* Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

* Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

* Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)

* Lean Master Black Belt - Sensei

* Six Sigma DFSS Master Black Belt - Instructor

* Six Sigma DMAIC Master Black Belt - Instructor

* Six Sigma / Lean Master Black Belt - Instructor

* Process Qualifications Management - IQ (Installation Qualification), OQ (Operations

Qualification) and PQ (Process Qualification).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

* American Society of Mechanical Engineers

* EIT/Fundamentals of Engineering Certified

* International Society of Six Sigma Professionals

CORE STRENGTHS

* Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma DMAIC & DFSS

* Continuous improvement and engineering leadership

* Change management - domestic and international operations

* Conception, validation, DFMEA, DMADV, DFSS, gauge R&R - new and existing products

* Process design and re-engineering

* High Speed production equipment - automation, selection and installation

* Administrative business process improvement

* Cosmetics, Pharmaceuticals and food manufacturing

* Customer complaint, resolution and quality liaison

* High speed packaging and filling

* Aseptic and other clean room manufacturing

* Waste water and power generation equipment

* Extrusion, blow and injection molding

* Advanced robotics

* PLC and HMI programming

* RCM, TPM, predictive, prevention and proactive maintenance programs.

* Computerized maintenance management systems - CMMS Data Stream

* Vibration analysis - Lab View

* Thermography

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