Six Sigma Manager

David Luebbe

Email: **********@********.***

Address: **** ******* ****

City: Woodbury

State: MN

Zip: 55129

Country: USA

Phone: 847-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $150,000

Willing to Relocate

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David J. Luebbe

3245 Caswell Lane, Woodbury, MN 55129 ai 847-***-**** ai **********@********.***

Objective: Obtain a key Lean Six Sigma enterprise wide deployment leadership position that requires a seasoned professional with manufacturing and transactional deployment experience capable of working within and across the organization at all levels to facilitate change and increase stakeholder value.

Professional Summary:

Lean Six Sigma professional certified as a Master Black Belt with 20 years experience integrating process improvement within manufacturing and transactional settings. Leadership assignments in full scale deployments of LSS that include working with business owners to identify and implement high impact projects, developing and administrating training curriculum, selecting and mentoring high potential Black Belts through project tollgates. Degrees in Engineering (BSIE) and Business Administration (MBA).

ai Industries: Consumer products; Food and beverage; Distribution; Field Sales; Medical Devices; Retail

ai Functional Areas: Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Marketing, IT, Properties

ai Attributes: influencer, thought leader, change agent, facilitator, problem solver, trainer, coach

ai Primary Achievements: created bottoms up Green Belt deployment at Kraft Foods; developed full supporting infrastructure for Six Sigma at W.W. Grainger; 1st MBB at Ecolab hired to replace George Group consultants; brought process improvement to Clinical Operations at Medtronic; developed full work-stream approach to attacking $28 billion in COGS for Best Buy; tailored and administered LSS curriculum for (4) organizations, training hundreds of employees and mentoring dozens of Black Belts.

CORE COMPETENCIES

ai Value Stream Management ai Change Management ai Statistical Process Control

ai Six Sigma: DMAIC ai Lean Tools & Kaizen ai Curriculum Development

ai Training & Facilitation ai Design of Experiments ai Data Analysis: Excel, Minitab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Best Buy Worldaiis largest big box retailer of consumer electronics

Director, Lean Six Sigma & Master Black Belt 2011-2013

ai Program manager responsible for developing value targeted work-streams to reduce $320 million annually from total Cost of Goods Sold. This included mapping opportunities associated with sourcing, vendor agreements, returns and exchanges, margin erosion, repairs, warranties and sales within secondary markets.

ai Led project to reduce $2.1M in returns rejected by our vendors and debit received back to our return center.

ai Led project to reduce startup costs for stand-alone Best Buy Mobile stores from $230K per store to under $180K. Savings of $1.7M for store openings in 2013 using new design prototype.

ai Led project to reduce physical inventory losses between four cross docks by 85% or $479K per year.

ai Owned curriculum development and administration of Lean Six Sigma White Belt and Green Belt training.

ai Managed logistics and provided training to over 200 White Belts and 50 Green Belts.

ai Provided coaching and mentoring to 10 Green Belts, enabling project benefits in excess of $25M.

Medtronic Leading manufacture of device-based medical therapies

Sr. Lean Sigma Program Manager 2010-2011

ai Developed and coordinated continuous improvement efforts within enterprise-wide clinical operations.

ai Led working groups tied to Contracts, Monitoring, Quality and Safety toward development of mission statements, SIPOCs, process maps, metrics identification and project plans in preparation for clinical trials.

ai Inventoried existing SOPaiis and mapped government requirements to current state processes. Rewrote enterprise level SOPaiis and developed Safety and Quality glossaries as part of a corporate quality manual.

Ecolab, Inc. Leading manufacture of cleaning and sanitation supplies

Director, Lean Six Sigma & Master Black Belt 2006-2010

ai Aligned with Business Leaders within the organization to identify strategic projects, develop charters, hold tollgate reviews, track project benefits and select and repatriate Black Belts back into the organization.

ai Developed Lean Six Sigma training curriculum for Green Belt, Black Belt and Project Sponsorship programs and personally delivered 20 classes of training to over 400 employees worldwide.

ai Coached 16 Black Belts in Field Sales, Marketing, Finance, IT and HR functions toward $15M in savings.

ai Led high profile project to measure utilization and improve capacity of 500 field service agents.

ai Led various Kaizen projects including: enhancements to the emergency service request program, field sales kit optimization, and field storage unit reduction delivering over $2M in cost savings.

W.W. Grainger Leading provider of maintenance, repair and operating supplies

Six Sigma Leader 2003-2006

ai Organized an executive Six Sigma Council and developed the supporting infrastructure necessary to instill a culture of fact base decision making utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodologies to advance top line growth, reduce internal costs and improve customer satisfaction. This included the project selection and chartering process, report-out templates and tollgate process, financial reporting of benefits and HR processes that included defining Black Belt competencies, job descriptions, certification requirements and incentive plans.

ai Developed and administered training curriculum for executives, champions, Black Belts and finance reps.

ai Implemented methodology within Supply Chain, Finance, IT, and HR delivering benefits of $10MM from projects that included: pick & pack accuracy, AP price mismatches, system downtime and perfect order.

ai Aligned with Lean, ISO 9001and Balanced Scorecard initiatives to create the Grainger Performance System

ai Managed (3) Black Belts and coached (9) others through full DMAIC and DMADV methodologies.

Kraft Foods Americaaiis largest manufacture of foods and beverages

Sr. Staff Manufacturing Engineering Manager 1999-2003

ai Developed a Kraftaiis first Green Belt training program and administered to (7) classes of field engineers throughout 20 manufacturing locations. Mentored and provided them with technical support in Lean and Six Sigma tools and applications that delivered $5M in benefits.

ai Individually led various Six Sigma projects including: Velveeta moisture control, pasta weight control, breadstick tensile strength improvement, salad dressing fill level control, Life Savor candy yield improvement and process cheese line optimization that together delivered over $3M in operational savings.

ai Led improvement aiiSWATaii teams into multiple facilities eliminating operating waste and reducing variation.

Division Engineering Manager 1996-1999

ai Manufacturing engineering responsibility for Pizza Division operating in (3) facilities with sales of $1 billion.

ai Directly managed (5) project engineers engineers while advancing a $20MM productivity program.

ai Managed execution of $40M in capital that included the addition of (2) bakery lines and (3) assembly lines.

ai Led cross functional team to identify and implement a aiipizza line of the futureaii using advanced vendor technology in robotics, material feeding systems and weight control applications that reduced costs by $2M.

Manager: Industrial Engineering, Operations Strategy & Process Control 1990-1996

ai Conducted network analysis for the launch and expansion of DiGiorno Frozen Pizza that included development of a system to forecast demand, manage inventory requirements and schedule production.

ai Developed and implemented an SPC application for pizza topping weight control that rolled out to 3 plants within the division saving $3M in material cost and earning Kraftaiis Highest Achievement Award that year.

EDUCATION

Capital University

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

The Ohio State University

Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering (BSIE)

TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

Breakthrough Management Group Inc.

Lean Six Sigma for Service 2005

Design for Lean Six Sigma 2004

American Society for Quality

ISO 9001:2000 2003

Smarter Six Sigma Solutions

Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt 2002

Six Sigma Academy

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt 2001

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