Gerald Marcq Harris, Jr.

Olive Branch, acwjh6@r.postjobfree.com 901-***-****

Mississippi www.linkedin.com/in/marcq-harris

Summary

A Lean Manufacturing professional with deep, multi-faceted experience. Achieved solutions in production, customer service, and supply chain using Lean Manufacturing and Lean Six Sigma tools/concepts. Successful in both high volume - low mix and low volume - high mix environments. Drives continuous improvement to safety, quality and cost by engaging the workforce team. Experience includes:

Kaizen Value Stream Mapping Six Sigma Training

APQP Root Cause Analysis DMAIC

5 Why Analysis Process Flow Kanban

Cell Design 5S Standard Work

TPM

Management

SMED

Hourly Supervision

Value Engineering

KBM/MAPICS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Thomas & Betts, Memphis, TN 2002-2016

Continuous Improvement Manager (2014-2016)

Developed corporate-wide continuous improvement strategy and system for 12 US/Latin America plants. The goal was to standardize and to share experience across the division.

Assessed Manufacturing Maturity at all plants, identified areas to improve.

Master Trainer-Coach for ABB 4Q (Greenbelt), 62 people trained.

Led implementation of, and trained users on, ABB Relentless Execution Dashboard and OPEX Analyzer. Interim Quality Director US/Latin America (2015)

Provided leadership and guidance to plant quality managers. Kept senior management current on the division state of quality.

Launched new Customer Complaint (PARR) system with improved user interface, data mining, reporting.

Delivered satisfactory solution to lingering quality issue with high profile customer. Quality & Engineering Manager (2012-2014)

Managed Quality and Manufacturing Engineering functions, two Engineers, and three Quality Technicians, in a manufacturing facility producing $75 million annual sales. Resolved customer quality complaints.

Earned Liebert’s highest ever initial supplier evaluation score for LPBS value stream.

Managed compliance to ISO, UL, CSA, and TUV agencies. Production Manager (2010-2012)

Managed production with three direct supervisors, and 130 direct associates in a manufacturing facility producing $75 million annual sales.

Specified, designed, and implemented successful conversion of Super Strut to steel banding.

Created 14K ft of usable floor space, and improved flow by consolidating open pockets of space. Gerald Marcq Harris, Jr. Page 2

901-***-**** acwjh6@r.postjobfree.com

Lean Improvement Manager (2008-2010)

Led Lean manufacturing for production facility. Two direct reports.

Improved supply performance and quality of sand castings by consolidating 5 vendors.

Avoided shortage of critical material by re-sourcing critical stamping supplier before retirement.

Trained multiple TWI Job Instruction sessions.

Quality Engineer (2002-2008)

Resolved customer and internal quality issues. Led quality improvements for manufacturing facility. Supervised three Quality Technicians.

Led employee team to design channel flow into and out of plater, designed required equipment

Reduced average time through machining area from 18 days to 4.5 days. Resulted in 10 point productivity increase valued at $243,000 per year

Reduced lead time of low volume/high mix value stream from six to eight weeks to less than two weeks and reduced backlog from $1.6 million to less than $200 thousand. OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Stant Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineer, Pine Bluff, AR United Technologies Motor Systems, Industrial Engineer, Columbus, MS Chahta Enterprise, Industrial Engineer, Philadelphia, MS The Calvert Company, Industrial Engineer, Jackson, MS EDUCATION

B.S., Industrial Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS CERTIFICATIONS

ABB 4Q Master Trainer Coach, ABB OD Group

Prosci Change Management, Prosci

TWI Job Instruction Trainer, Training Within Industry Institute Certified Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt, The George Group Lean Certification, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Certified Six Sigma Blackbelt, Six Sigma Integration

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