Lean Six Manager

WILLIAM M. LONG

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

•**+ years’ experience in project management, business development, and implementing Lean Six Sigma to promote operational excellence and continuous process improvement.

•Outstanding leadership and managerial skills; goal oriented and results driven.

•Exceptionally strong communication and facilitation skills; ability to present information effectively to all organization levels, formally and informally.

CORE COMPETENCIES

•Coordinating and managing high profile projects from concept to completion.

•Creating and establishing Lean Six Sigma business systems within organizations.

•Setting strategic direction, leading change, and measuring success through results.

•Reduce operational costs with expert-level process analysis and business process re-engineering.

EXPERIENCE

09/2018 – 06/2020

Cyanco International, LLC Sugarland, TX

Director of Continuous Improvement

Business unit leader responsible for driving organization development, change management, and cultural transformation. Directed initiatives leading to increased safety, EBITDA growth, cost reductions, and employee engagement. Assisted business unit leaders drive continuous improvement efforts within their respective units to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of their teams.

•Managed and facilitated timely start-up of a new $50M solids production facility in Winnemucca, Nevada using strong project management skills and operational readiness methodologies.

•Effectively designed and implemented iCyanco, the company’s formal continuous improvement program, within three months of employment with the organization.

•Continuous improvement program contributed 330+ new ideas and initiated several projects leading to improved operations, EBITDA growth, cost reductions, and increased safety.

01/2018 – 09/2018

Amega West (Subsidiary of Carpenter Technology) Houston, TX

Manager of Operational Excellence

Short term leadership assignment to address an immediate need to establish a foundation for organizational change and continuous improvement. Promoted Carpenter’s (Amega West’s parent company) ethos to establish lean program and develop both Lean yellow belts and green belts within the organization.

•Developed strategic path to implement lean manufacturing, total productive maintenance, and visual management throughout Amega West.

•Coached, mentored, and trained two Lean yellow belts, and one greenbelt over nine months resulting in a 30% reduction of machining set-up times and 75% reduction in overtime hours.

•Established daily huddle meetings, formal root cause analysis/problem solving, and flow production into manufacturing.

06/2015 – 01/2018

Hexion, Inc. Dear Park, TX

Site Lean Six Sigma Leader/Portfolio Manager

Site program manager responsible for leading Lean Six Sigma efforts to reduced costs, improve site productivity, and sustaining health of Dear Park’s Six Sigma program. Responsibilities include

coaching and mentoring Six Sigma greenbelts, identifying projects to increase EBITDA, and coordinating improvement efforts with fellow site leaders to meet annual productivity targets.

$4.3 million in CY2015/CY2016 productivity and yield savings contributing to meeting EBITDA goals.

Provided expert level Lean Kaizen facilitation to help site improve site safety or reduce cost.

05/2011 – 05/2015

Rio Tinto/Kennecott Utah Copper Salt Lake City, UT

Lead Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt/Project Manager

Implemented lean business systems at multiple locations leading efforts to establish a continuous process improvement culture promoting safe, efficient, and effective work practices. Facilitated lean kaizen events improving product/service quality, process efficiency, and associate productivity in transactional and non-transactional processes.

Coached, mentored, and trained leadership and associates on theory and application of Lean/Sigma.

$29M revenue increase over 3 years OPEX/CAPEX cost reductions, and/or cost avoidances.

$650M Molybdenum Autoclave Production facility (Greenfield) start up plan implemented.

200+ employees trained and mentored on lean fundamentals and application of Lean/Sigma.

03/2006 – 04/2011 Mainstream GS, LLC Cedar Rapids, IA

Senior Management Consultant

Senior management consultant to executive leadership providing short and long-term strategic direction for implementation of Air Force Smart Operations (Lean) business system. Directed and implemented robust continuous process improvement (CPI) business systems at six international and two domestic locations. Key continuous improvement tools used include Strategic Alignment & Deployment (Hoshin Kanri), Project Management, Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, 5S, Variation Reduction, Poka Yoke, Root Cause Analysis, and Quality- Cost- Delivery- Safety (QCDS) visual management.

Successfully introduced and implemented Strategic Alignment and Deployment (Hoshin Kanri) methodologies to drive operational excellence in multilevel organizations.

1500+ military personnel trained, mentored, and coached on lean methodologies and obtained University of Tennessee Train-the-Trainer/Level 2 facilitator certification.

Facilitated and engaged organization to drive lean methodologies resulting in $5.5M in cost reductions and $186K cost avoidances in 4.5 years.

02/2002-11/2005

Danaher Corporation (Hach Company) Loveland, CO

Production Manager/Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt

Effectively led and coordinated 41 directed reports (technical and non-technical personnel) to exceed organizational goals and objectives using Danaher Business System (DBS) methodologies. Coordinated production schedules and supply chain management initiatives (i.e. Kanban, Supplier Scorecards, Hiejunka planning, internal/external Just-In- Time materials processes) for 22 independent production cells, and facilitated lean methodologies to increase quality, productivity and/or decrease production costs.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

Scrum Master Certification – Actively enrolled & pursuing, Training Academy

Six Sigma Blackbelt Certification (recert. - multiple organizations) North America

MBA, Operations Management emphasis, Regis University, Denver, Colorado

Master of Science, Accounting, Regis University

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Summa Cum Laude, Regis University

MILITARY

United States Marine Corps, Honorable Discharge, Okinawa, Japan

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