Project Manager, Six Sigma & Continuous Improvement Professional

FRANCINE JIMENEZ 619-***-****

***** ******** ***** *, *** DIEGO, CA 92131

acb4to@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Qualifications

Multifaceted professional with over fourteen (14) years of Management experience including; Continuous

Improvement, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Construction, Information Technology, System

Design, Integration, and Deployment. Detail oriented – dynamic leader with success in creating a positive

and productive team environment.

Major strengths in:

Project and Personnel Management

Kaizen Events

Rail, Transit and Fire Life Systems

System Networking, Refresh, and Infrastructure Expansion

Construction Project Management

Systems and Business Analysis/Support-SAP – SAP R/3 and 4.7H

Inventory Control – Kanban, JIT and Pull Systems

Training and Mentoring

Software Design, Development, Integration and Deployment

Lean Product Development, Process & Value Stream Mapping

Professional Experience

SANDAG (San Diego Association of Governments) 2008 - Present

Senior ITS Project Manager / Program Analyst San Diego, CA

Serve as a Project Manager and Program Analyst responsible for planning and managing a wide variety of

advanced level transportation system and construction projects and provide highly effective and complex

professional assistance to executive level management. Major duties include:

Participate in the development and implementation of transportation projects, programs, systems,

procedures, and methods of operation for projects ranging $500K – $16.1M.

Serve as a liaison with committees, public and private organizations, community groups, and other

organizations; provide information and assistance regarding transportation projects, and programs.

Participate in the preparation and administration of the annual ITS overall work program budget;

provide fiscal forecasting, business plans, and maintain and/or monitor appropriate budgeting and

expenditure controls.

Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents.

Responsible for evaluating, selecting, managing contractors and consultants for construction and

systems projects.

Develop proposals, contract negotiations, execute contract changes and authorize payments.

Ensure change and risk management of all projects are identified; assess the potential risks to project

success, and ensure risks are mitigated by identifying and assessing contingencies.

Perform and manage all Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) for

the implementation of various major ITS projects.

GKN Aerospace 2006 - 2008

Site Continuous Improvement Leader Burbank, CA

As the Site Continuous Improvement Leader and Champion of the Site Steering Committee my

responsibilities included:

Developing and strengthening CI strategies and ongoing business objectives to align with Key

Performance Indicators (KPI).

Managed the end to end life cycle of all new product development and engineering.

Analyzed current state value stream of product flow including; mixed model, shared resources,

capacity, demand, and pitch in an effort to create future state value streams.

Identified and evaluated performance (cost, quality, delivery) challenges stemming from demand

management, forecasting, inventory management, capacity, production planning, and production

process design and execution.

Tracked and validated all savings attributed to continuous improvement events and reported monthly

to Executive Leadership.

Provided training, mentoring and support for continuous improvement methodologies both in Lean

and Six Sigma.

Goodrich Aerospace 2005 - 2006

Continuous Improvement / Supplier Development SCM San Diego, CA

Team Lead in the capacity of continuous improvement and supplier development specialist for the Supply

Chain Organization. Part of my non-project responsibilities included: serving as the SME/SU and liaison

to SCM organization for SAP R/3 Business Warehouse. Project and CI responsibilities included:

Lead on-site supplier process assessments, quality systems audits, recommend improvements and

monitor implementation of changes.

Support NPI and transfer programs, perform supplier production rate readiness assessments to

ensure success execution of production plans

Developed and established advanced quality systems and procedures, inspection plans, qualit y

performance trends, and statistical plans for

Co-Lead major manufacturing offload valued at $50-100M to low cost county/emerging market and

managed all resource commodities of onshore and offshore resource teams

BD Bioscience 2003 - 2005

Master Data Analyst / Logistics San Diego, CA

Master Data Owner providing ERP implementation support for SAP R/3 systems release 4.7H working

with D2S, F2M, C2C, R2P, S2C technical teams. Responsibilities included:

Served in the function/role of material master owner for production, planning, warehouse, purchasing

and quality views.

Responsible for master data cleanse activities including; customer merge, vendor merge, and

material master creating one common file for all plant vs. enterprise customers, vendors and

materials and progress reporting.

Codification of plant master data to identify and use of SAP proposed standard codes for plant design

and future enterprise design integration.

Assist with data mapping from legacy system for materials, customers, vendors, BOM's and routings.

Master Data Owner for "Go-Live" readiness testing, end user training, production load, master data

delta load, transactional data load and cutover.

Falcon Industrial Distributors 2001 - 2003

Marketing Manager Oakland, CA

Lead and collaborated with vendors for marketing and creation bid proposals addressing pricing

requests to ensure competitive marketing execution.

Provide financial analysis and/or statistical models regularly, to include price break-points, and over

all margin preservation.

Deliver data-driven market, customer, and competitor insights to define marketing strategy, optimize

marketing plans, and measure success of governmental marketing programs.

Conduct business analysis, including segmentation analysis and create action plans to address

business opportunities.

Trade-show coordinator for the City and County SBA vendor fairs.

Verizon Wireless (Formerly Airtouch Cellular) 1996 - 2001

Retail Manager / Marketing San Diego, CA

Interview potential candidates; assist HR in hiring process, train new hires and provide technical

guidance.

Monitor retail associates performance, attendance and sales goals.

Managed retail store inventory of $250K and perform weekly cycle count of inventory for profit and

loss reporting.

Quality action team member for the development of the retail rebate program.

Coordinated and assisted in the rollout of the retail rebate program for the Western Region –

resulting in profits for direct and indirect channels.

Software and Hardware Systems

Software and Systems include: Primavera, Share Point, MS Project, SAP R/3 and 4.7H, MS Office

Suite, Visio, Unix Test Directory, Lotus 1-2-3, Crystal Reports, AIM (Advanced Information Management)

platform, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) messages via SNMP traps, FileMaker Pro, SAP

CRM ABAP 5.1, GERS, Hastus, Customer Information Systems, Lon Works, Fire Life & Safety systems

and knowledgeable in Network Topology, Ladder Logic and various MRP Legacy systems.

Hardware includes: SONET (ADM) BLSR Fiber Optic Network, Cisco 15454 Network switches, TCP/IP,

Routers, Hubs, Raid Servers, Frame Relay, Closed Caption Television (CCTV), Daktronics, Data Display

and Inova variable message signs, Siemens Traction Power Substation equipment, Allen Bradley and

Siemens S7 Programmable Logic Controllers.

Education

University of California, San Diego, Certified in Lean Enterprise

University of Phoenix, Bachelor of Science in Operations Management & Integrated Supply Chain

Certifications

University of California, Berkeley, Applying Systems Engineering Principles to ITS Projects

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

Graduate of GKN Continuous Improvement Leader Program

Languages

English and Spanish

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