Manager Management
Resume:
Randy Whittington
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
• Lean change agent with over 15 years of implementing lean methods and best practices
• Responsible for the management of two sites (Colorado Springs, CO and Scotts Valley, CA) for all operations, including manufacturing management, supply chain management, inventory, shipping/receiving (including Import/Export and dangerous goods shipments), facilities (including maintenance, calibration, environmental), safety programs, manufacturing engineering, budgeting and forecasting, strategic planning, coordinating capital improvements, quality and Continuous Improvement
• Implement and manage daily operations, consistently communicating goals, empowering team members, teaching, mentoring and learning
• Monitor and develop team member performance, to include, but not limited to, providing supervision, providing professional development, scheduling, conducting counseling and evaluations and delivering recognition and reward
• Experience in the fields of new product development, project management, operations, product life cycle, customer satisfaction, quality systems implementation and improvement
• Masters of Business Administration
QUALIFICATION SUMMARY
• Change Management
• Lean Enterprise Certified
• Design for Lean Manufacturing
• Six Sigma Green Belt
• Long Term Strategic Development
• Project Management
• Strategic Sourcing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Operations Manager (2009-Present) Thermo Fisher Scientific
Brought on as a change agent to organization whose scrap and warranty exceeded 10% of revenue and turned facility around from -10% EBITA to 25% in three years
• Responsible for managing multiple plants while growing annual revenue and increasing margins using a Lean sigma philosophy, focused on safety, quality, delivery and costs (SQDC) with zero safety incidence in six years and total customer satisfaction
• Enabled sales to increase revenue 55% in 3 years while decreasing lead time from 12-16 weeks to 7 days
• Decreased returned materials from +45 days to 12 days average turn around
• Reduced inventory focusing on E&O, level loading and VMI/VOMI to 9 turns for RM
• Responsible for all personal management including hiring decisions, reviews, training, etc. Contracted with staffing agency and utilized 30/60/90 day reviews and 360 feedback processes
• Understand, taught and implemented Lean tools including VSM, 6S, Auditing, Kanban, Kaizen Teams and solo events, VMI, Shadow Boards, TWI, TPM, visual management, KATA, Standard Work, Gemba, etc
• Redesigned multiple processes including Root Cause 6 step process, Engineering Change Process, ISO, Stage Gate Approach (including templates) and workflow New Product Development processes
• Focused on Best Practices between sites including repeatability and redundancy understanding core competencies
• Proven ability to lead and work through others without direct reporting relationship to achieve business goals utilizing persuasion and influencing skills
Randy Whittington
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• Ability to nurture, hire and train world-class performers – goals become outcomes of well-implemented processes and standard work
• Wrote “Lean Management System Guideline” to assist with training and to serve as a decision point
• Nurtured stronger working relationships of NPD group with R&D / Design Engineering, Quality and Manufacturing, resulting in multiple new product releases
Plant Manager (2003-2009) Entegris, Inc
• Promoted, educated, and instilled a culture of waste identification, elimination and process improvement by utilizing Lean Enterprise concepts and the principles of continuous improvement
• Grew organization from $6m in revenue to > $50m via lean tools and processes
• Maintained gross margins >50% while decreasing lead times from 3 months to 7 days for gas purification systems
• Streamlined processes and implemented Vender Managed Inventories for machined parts and electronics.
• Increased on time customer delivery to 99% from 70%
• Assisted transfer team transferring 6 product lines overseas as well as in-sourcing additional product assemblies
• Developed and implemented strategic plans for company processes, quality improvements, capital plans, Lean facility layouts, budgets, inventory management of both finished goods and raw materials
• Multiple plant awards, including safety, highest growth, Lean Enterprise
• Transformed the Corrective Action process instituting a 24hr customer satisfaction program; decreasing number of Corrective Action Request by 50% year over year
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Operations Manager 2009-Present
Thermo Fisher Scientific – Scotts Valley, CA and Colorado Springs, CO
Plant Manager (Entegris purchased Aeronex) 2003-2009
Entegris, Inc. - San Diego, CA
Director of Operations (Promotion) 2002-2003
Aeronex, Inc. - San Diego, CA
Manufacturing Manager/Inventory Control 1997-2002
Aeronex, Inc. - San Diego, CA
United Parcel Service 1996-1997
United States Navy 1992-1996
EDUCATION, TRAINING, SELF DEVELOPMENT
KATA and Standard Work 2013
Lean Enterprise Institute
Role of the Leader 2011
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Lean Sigma Program 2010
The Quality Group
Lean Enterprise Certificate 2006
University of California San Diego
Masters of Business Administration 2002
National University- San Diego, CA (WASC and IACBE accredited)
Area of Specialization: Electronic Commerce
Bachelor of Business Administration 2000
National University- San Diego, CA
Emphasis in Marketing; Honors: Cum Laude
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