OKECHIKERE EKEADA
Experienced Industrial Engineer and Certified Six Sigma Greenbelt
**** * **** ****** #**** Telephone: 713-***-****
Euless, TX 76039 Email: **********.******@*****.***
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Production capacity and manpower analyst.
• Design and implementation of product flow.
• Project management, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement leadership.
• SAP labor standards measurement and management.
• Shop floor productivity improvement.
• Capital equipment justifications.
• Safety advocacy for production facility.
• Industrial Engineering practitioner.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER. September 2011- September 2013
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. Fort Worth, Texas, USA
• Provided leadership to cost out and lead time out initiatives on the production floor using lean
manufacturing principles.
• Measured, implemented and managed labor standards and material routings in Visiprise and SAP.
• Completed capacity and manpower analysis to make ready for production rate increases.
• Conducted ergonomic assessments as necessary for proactive safety measures.
• Implemented visual management on shop floor to provide status on safety, quality, delivery, inventory
and manpower.
• Facilitated kaizen events on the production floor that lead to 38% reduction in material and part travel
distance.
• Directed production runs to realize 50% increase in productivity within a work cell.
• Developed process maps, and recommended steps to increase tool turn rate by 75% within a work cell.
• Maintained facility drawings with AutoCAD.
PROCESS ENGINEER. September 2010 – June 2011
CCL Label Inc. Shelton, Connecticut, USA
• Led kaizen events to reduce overall material waste on production floor.
• Created current and future state value stream maps for the manufacturing facility.
• Managed 6S Audits for the production floor.
• Designed and implement visual management to indicate production status.
CERTIFICATION / SKILLS
• Textron certified Six-Sigma Green Belt.
• Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Power Point, Project, Visio.
• AutoCAD, Inventor.
• SAP, Visiprise, Minitab.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration, August 2013 – Present
University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Bachelor of Science, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Graduated May – 2010
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA.