Continuous Improvement Engineer

Derek J. Hooker

**** ** ******* ***** ******* Road, Martinez, Georgia, 30907 Phone: 706-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***

Objective

To obtain the role and responsibilities of the Continuous Improvement Manager for your company and utilize my experience and methods to make substantial gains for the business.

Education

BACHELORS OF ARTS ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

·Major: Interdisciplinary Studies

·Concentration 1: Organizational Leadership

·Concentration 2: Anthropology

·Related coursework: Introduction to Project Management, Introduction to Organizational Leadership, The Aikido Way to Conflict Resolution

Skills & Abilities

MANAGEMENT

·First maintenance person to take on developing the Continuous Improvement database kicking off the program with a plant presentation. Currently leading the CI meetings keeping the cross functional team focused on the tasks at hand.

·I’ve managed multidisciplinary groups while working at: Bridgestone, Shaw Environmental, MTU, and Starbucks.

·In the US Navy, filled the role of Lead Petty Officer in charge of all the Electrical Division staff.

MENTORING

·I’ll teach anything and everything I know to someone that has a desire to learn the material. I have the patience to present material in different forms if they do not grasp the concepts in the first attempt.

·Taught Continuous Improvement topics to small groups at Bridgestone, MTU, Starbucks and have lead kaizen events to help develop these skills and resolve problems in the plant instilling the basics of project management to people in the process.

·In charge of Bridgestone’s Technical Scholar program taking five individuals instructing them in various matters with an 80 percent hiring rate.

COMMUNICATION

·Have delivered presentations to various sized groups up to about 100 individuals and to various levels of management maintaining composure and tact.

·Articulate well verbally and in written form.

·Enjoy finding the root cause in an RCA with diverse teams to solving complex problems that plague the facility.

·Tough but fair with negotiation skills.

LEADERSHIP

·Currently lead the Continuous Improvement program at the Starbucks Augusta Soluble Coffee Plant. This group is a cross functional group helping those that need assistance in developing their ideas then directing the appropriate resources to make them come to fruition verifying the results using Plan, Do, Check, Act Steps.

·I tend to lead by example and am very direct when in a discussion for efficiency.

·Led the maintenance department in technical issues instructing partners in the process.

Experience

AUTOMATION SPECIALIST STARBUCKS APR-2015 TO PRESENT

·Developed Augusta’s Continuous Improvement Program from scratch and lead a cross functional team at weekly meetings updating all ongoing projects progress with the Plan, Do, Check, Act mindset.

ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN IV M.T.U. (A DIVISION OF ROLLS ROYCE OFF ROAD DIESEL ENGINES) JUL-2012 / APR 2015

·Developed training, mentored and led the maintenance team primarily in the diesel engine test cells with facilities and DAQ interfaces making critical decisions in a timely manner.

·Lead the maintenance group in the Lean processes and Continuous Improvement projects for the facility that involved the maintenance group.

TEST TECHNICIAN IV (TEST ENGINEER II) SHAW ENVIRONMENTAL JUL-2010 / APR 2012

·Writing test procedures while mentoring others in the electrical, mechanical and program testing principles developing a sound and diverse test team with a strategy to accomplish complex tasks safely and efficiently.

·As Test Engineer II, directed glovebox testing assuming all responsibilities for testing with my team.

SERVICE TECHNICIAN BRIDGESTONE AUG-1998 / JUL-2010

·Created and lead a cross functional kaizen team for the tire assembly area; developing and monitoring all continuous events in this area improving throughput and reducing downtime.

·Developed and lead various projects of many sizes from small up to a 5-million-dollar project which took two years to fully implement working with: engineering, production, quality, different sub-contractors and maintenance. The project eliminated many problems at once and increased the machines’ overall efficiency.

·After discovering the rotary atomizer became obsolete during plant commissioning created a conversion unit to replace process problems and changed over to the new system plantwide for 250k with a rapid payback period of only 3 months.

·Led kaizen event to improve the offline pigment area throughput increasing mixer capacities.

PETTY OFFICER SECOND CLASS US NAVY JUL-1992 / AUG 1998

·Lead Petty Officer in charge of the E-Division.

·Electrical Plant Supervisor for maintaining the entire shipboard electrical distribution centers during normal operations and plant emergencies.

·3M coordinator is the Preventative Maintenance program for the Safety PM and shipboard PM coordinator.

·Supply Petty Officer managing all parts and equipment transactions for E-Division keeping within the budget constraints.

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