Manager Lean Manufacturing
Resume:
Elizabeth (Betsy) Chisholm
***** ********* ****, **********, ** 45242
********.*****@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/betsychisholm
Summary of Procter & Gamble Career and Accomplishments
P&G Global Innovation Program Manager for $2 Billion business, 5 Years, 2 Businesses
Global Innovation Leader and Master of Innovation Management, responsible for leading business teams to plan and deliver a 5-year pipeline of innovations to meet business needs within resource constraints.
- Delivered pipeline of product and commercial innovations, leading multiple initiatives simultaneously with budgets up to $65 MM
- Led multifunctional teams (R&D, engineering, manufacturing, finance, design, marketing, sales) to develop winning business propositions and deliver from idea to market launch
- Accelerated pace of innovation delivery by 50% on multiple large-scope initiatives simultaneously
- Identified financial, technical and schedule risks and put in place risk mitigation plans
- Developed innovation plans for new-to-the world brands, product categories, and product benefits
P&G Global Quality and Continuous Improvement Manager for up to $4 Billion business, 12 Years, 3 Businesses
Transformational change agent with a consistent record of building world-class culture and capability.
- Responsible for ~50 R&D and supply chain sites around the world.
- Built quality systems to meet global Medical Device and Drug regulations
- Implemented Lean Manufacturing to improve productivity and production cost.
- Led design and delivery of an IT system, rated most user-friendly global system for over 10 yrs
- Reduced global losses and incidents by up to 70% and improved process capability, leveraging statistical process control, six-sigma, lean manufacturing and Kaizen techniques.
P&G Production Operations Manager for $150 Million/yr output, 24/7 operations, 2 Years, 1 Site Proven strengths in empowering, coaching and developing teams and individuals, thus growing their capability and commitment.
- Led delivery of best-in-class safety, quality, productivity, cost and morale results across the operation.
- Led leadership team for plant Six-Sigma and Lean Manufacturing program
- Led planning for line conversion and delivered vertical start-up of two major product initiatives
- Delivered projects that significantly improved production costs and efficiencies
P&G Research & Development Manager, design and delivery of product improvements, 9 Years
Successive roles in various sub-functions in 3 product categories, 2 Business Units:
- Consumer research to define design requirements
- Formulation (batch-made products) and product design (high speed, mechanically assembled products)
- Granted two patents for products that were successfully launched in market.
- Process development, qualification and delivery using MOPD for new making technologies.
- Material development and qualification using MOMD for performance, cost and quality improvement
Education
MBA, Entrepreneurship, focus on New Venture Creation
Xavier University, Williams College of Business, Cincinnati OH
First Place, International Business Plan Competition, $10,000 seed money prize
BS Chemical Engineering, focus on Process Control, Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering
Tau Beta Pi Honors society member, Editor of Wisconsin Engineer magazine
Professional Development
P&G equivalent of Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
P&G Certified as a Master of Innovation Management (similar to PMP certification)
P&G Qualified as Global QA Site Auditor, with direct experience hosting FDA site audits
Co-Inventor, two Patents for products/designs that were sold in global markets.
Community Leadership
Consultant, Executive Service Corps of Cincinnati, 5 years
Board Chair, YoungLife Eastern Cincinnati Area, 2 years; Board member 8 years.
Board member, Cincinnati Movement youth ministry, 8 years
Campaign Manager and/or Account Manager, United Way Greater Cincinnati, 8 years
Other Interests
Bicycling and tandem bike rallies
Costuming for community theater
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