Skills and Competencies:

-Project Management. - Program Management. - Continuous Improvement. - Product Design. – Engineering. - Organizational Management. – Customer relations and sales, - Offshore Cost Reduction. – Leadership. – Quality. - Training and Performance Improvement - Cost Efficiency Leadership. - Strategic Management. - Six Sigma. - Design for Six Sigma. – Lean Manufacturing. – sales and voice of the customer for growth opportunities. - Good old elbow grease.

Specific Task Experience:

Time Off - Feb 2015 – Oct 2017

Took time off to help with family illness. We transitioned through the illness and I am back to full time work. I did build some small web sites for companies and did some lean processing for small companies.

Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems. Dearborn Mi March 2014 - Feb 2015

Design Project Lead

Lead and mentored all car wiring designers for Ford Motor company business.

Develop processes and procedures for electrical design in support of new engineering structure.

Acted as voice of the customer for design and engineering needs.

Magna Steyr. Auburn Hills, Mi April 2012 – March 2014

Product Design and Development

Manage the battery system design team.

Manage staffing, process, quality, and all product design engineering activities for the plug-in battery system packs for various OEM customers.

Support design needs when needed: Plastics. Aluminum Castings, Stampings, and Extrusions.

Developed sales tools for new business proposals

Michigan Business Assessment Corp. (Consulting) Fenton, Mi Mar 2008 – March 2012

Operations Program Manager

Program Management and Quality Assurance for General Dynamics on new military program. Woodbridge Virginia

Managed the development, execution, and implementation of a small business training and consulting firm

This was my business and I developed my business clients through one-on-one sales development. needs assessments and gap analysis for 100 small businesses.

Reduced overall operating costs by an average of 48%.

Designed and delivered small business resource workshops in resource optimization, cost reduction strategies, quality, strategic management, six sigma, lean office, marketing, and business plan development.

International Automotive Corp., (Former Lear, Corp) Dearborn, MI 2002-2007

Continuous Improvement (2002-2007)

Facilitated and implemented cost reduction change strategies resulting in 110 million savings throughout 10 manufacturing facilities. Developed and implemented ADDIE, Lean Office, Six Sigma, and Design for Six Sigma corporate wide strategies. Personally completed 20 Black Belt Projects, mentored 50 cross-functional lean office and green belt teams consisting of 3 to 6 people on a team (product and transactional), trained over 300 engineers in Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma. Traveled to multiple interior manufacturing plants to implement multiple cost saving strategies, Six Sigma strategies, develop Kaizen workshops, perform value-stream mapping, and lean manufacturing. Coached 10 manufacturing plant continuous improvement managers to develop and meet corporate quality and cost saving metrics of 110 million dollar savings.

Developed regression models to reduce energy usage among 30 manufacturing plants for a savings of 5 million dollars.

Developed decision trees for logistic operations resulting in the reduction of several seat trim warehouses which resulted in 7 million in savings

Supported, mentored, and coached 10 Continuous Improvement Managers (CIMs) to plan and meet 2007 corporate continuous improvement metrics of $110 million savings for electrical and seat and overhead systems.

Provided training and mentor support in Six Sigma (DMAIC), Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Lean Office and Lean Manufacturing for 20 senior managers and 300 engineers resulting in improved PPM’s.

Design Manager (1998-2002)

Engineering management responsibilities include managing 85 electrical distribution, connection systems, and electronic components and module design engineers in the United States as well as responsibility for off-shore designs from a group of 75 design engineers in the Philippine Islands.

Managed staffing, quality, and all product design engineering activities for the electrical distribution, connection systems, printed circuit boards, junction boxes, switches, and various electronic modules for the electronics division of Lear Corporation

Championed the cultural change necessary to move design/engineering to a low-cost country while managing the risk of the offshore project through utilizing electrical, electronic, and connection systems design engineers in the Philippine Islands. The project resulted in developing key competencies in a low-cost country and engendering $11 million in annual cost savings.

MSX Engineering, Warren, Michigan 1993-1998

Design Supervisor -

Designed training materials for CAD data management courses.

Designed wire harnesses, components, body and white, and interiors using 3D CGS and UG.

Designed wire harness system level schematics.

Supervised electrical design engineer activities to meet customer requirements.

Worked with the customer to develop design strategy library.

Education

M.B.A. Davenport University, Sneden School of Business, December 2004

Major: Strategic Management

Honors: summa cum laude

B.B.A. William Tyndale College, May 2003

Major: Business Administration

Honors: summa cum laude

Additional Training and Certifications:

Six sigma black belt, Lear corporation, 2004

Design for six sigma, Lear corporation, 2005

Lean manufacturing, Lear corporation, 2005

FMEA, Lear corporation, 2004

Computer Graphics System (CGS), Electronic Data Systems (EDS), 1985

Unigraphics, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), 1993

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