Summary

Senior global strategic operations leader with extensive Lean Enterprise knowledge and proven track record of delivering exceptional measurable results at different organizations including Fortune 500 and VC backed companies. Over 15 years of Operations P&L with responsibility for Operations Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance, Materials Management, EHS, Continuous Improvement, and Quality. Successfully led numerous plant turnarounds and improvements on four different continents by implementing manufacturing operating system, based on Operational Excellence principles (Lean/Six Sigma/ERP). Passionate about professional coaching and talent development.

Competencies

Leadership

People Development

EHS Management

Business Strategy

Turnaround/Restructuring

Gross Margin Management

Materials Management

Balanced Scorecard

KPI/Metrics Development

Lean Manufacturing

Six Sigma

Quality Management

ERP (SAP) Implementation

Sourcing

Policy Deployment (Hoshin)

Succession Development

Industrial Engineering

Kaizen Culture

Supply Chain Management

Union Relations

Business Strategy

Experience

Legacy Measurement Solutions – VP Operations Dallas, TX Apr ‘15 – Present

Legacy is Oil and Gas company focusing on engineered measurement, production and process equipment to the oil and natural gas industry from wellhead through midstream and transmission with very stringent quality requirements. Legacy is a portfolio company of private equity firm, White Deer Energy. Responsibility includes 2 plants located in Tyler TX and Brookfield OH.

Right-sized the manufacturing operations by consolidating five sites into two centers of manufacturing excellence that resulted in over 50% improvement in cost structure.

Deployed Operational Excellence (Lean/Six Sigma/ERP) resulting in improvement of 27% in on-time-delivery, 20% in site productivity, and inventory reduction of 47% within the first year.

SPX Flow Industrial – VP Global Operations Charlotte, NC Sep ‘13 – Apr ‘15

SPX Flow Industrial is a $800M business manufacturing pumps, mixers, heat exchangers, air dryers, and other flow equipment. Responsibility includes 13 global plants (2,500 people) supporting engineer/make-to-order products with custom heavy metal fabrication and assembly.

Implemented Manufacturing Excellence Operating System for all the plants that improved on-time-delivery by 25% and created $3.7M gross margin improvement within the first year.

Restructured operations at key sites to improve accountability and agility that created additional benefit of reduced overhead of 15%.

Established Global SAP committee to standardize business processes and system.

DB Thermal, SPX Company – Interim VP Ops Nigel, South Africa Jan ‘12 – Aug ‘12

DB Thermal supports the power generation industry by providing full value chain solutions with products such as boiler components, regenerative air heaters, and feedwater heaters. Acted as interim management to turn around the facility from $40M loss executing projects to supply two of the biggest coal-fired power plants in the world. Facility has 5 shops with over 900 people.

Restructured entire Operations and Operations Support functions

Launch productivity improvement initiative resulting in $85M+ cost avoidance and over $5M cost savings during the first 6 months and averted all liquidated damages.

Executed insourcing strategies to improve overhead absorption

SPX Cooling Technologies – VP Global Ops FAP Overland Park, KS Aug ‘08 – Sep ‘13

Factory Assembled Products (FAP) is $200M organization within SPX Cooling Technologies, market leader of industrial cooling towers. Responsibility included P&L for 6 plants in US, Europe, and Asia with a total of over 1000 direct personnel operating in High-Mix-Low-Volume and High-Mix-High-Volume sheet metal fabrication and assembly.

Made breakthrough value stream improvement by implementing mixed-model assembly line resulting in:

oCycle time reduction from 2 weeks to 1 day

oInventory turns increase from 6 to 14

oProductivity and on-time-delivery improvement by over 30%

oReduced footprint by 35%

Sustained gains and improved performance further year-over-year by deploying Lean-based operating system that included policy deployment (hoshin kanri), daily management, kaizen, as well as manufacturing balanced scorecard.

Developed and enacted Cooling Quality Management System that decreased external cost of quality by 85% per annum ($800k/year) and internal scrap by 2.5% ($500k/year)

Established Global SAP committee to standardize business processes and system and led SAP and Supplier Resource Management implementation in all facilities that allowed for 40% reduction in inventory within the first year and 30% procurement capacity.

Other Experience

Worked at various companies such as Tarkett, MAPICS, and Emhart Glass in various Operations roles such as Director of Operations, Director of Materials & Logistics. In addition, did business turnaround consulting for over 5 years that entailed acting as interim operations leader, restructuring and improving the business, and hiring and training a permanent replacement in multiple companies

Education & Certifications

Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York – Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

APICS Certified in MRP, MPS, and JIT

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