Manager Executive

CONSULTANT • START UP SCALING • TEAM EXPERIENCE CURATOR

Highly-engaged business operations executive leveraging 24+ years with strategic vision in aligning teams to execute corporate restructuring and excelling in financial results. Deep understanding of global business development, high-impact presentations, and liaising to expand operations of an organization.

Embracing visions with a growth-mindset to leverage relationship management, breakdown structures, and executing multi-project artifacts. A reputation for revitalizing operations with a spotlight on evolution and maximizing the team success rate. A connected industry leader and LEAN thinker successfully synthesizing logistics and presenting to highly matrixed executive teams.

Leadership Snapshot

Client Portfolio: 110+: Fortune 1000 (21) • Fortune 500 (16) • Fortune 100 (4) • Multi-clients in the Fortune 1000

Industries Served: Aerospace, High Tech, Software, Electronics Manufacturing, Transportation, Warehousing, Heavy Metal fabrication, Printing, Engineering, Consulting, Agriculture, Paint, Chemical, and Professional Services

Lean Silver Cert ASQ/SME • Six Sigma Black Certified

Led and designed 195+ Kaizen Events:

oCalculated sustainability with financial rewards and valuable stream mapping to bolster the material flow with Kanban design and implement a method to lower WIP.

Successfully increased visual management of the processes within the manufacturing/distributing facility.

Manpower optimization through Lean techniques for a savings of 148 assemblers on the production floor; saving $645K per year.

Career Experience

Management and Technology Consultant, Principal Owner PMG Coaching and Consulting Manteca CA 2020

Opened the organization to support 3 clients and rapidly grow their organizations. The client profile is diverse within Wine, Beer, Cannabis and Heavy manufacturing.

Generated a system to streamline the growth of the company to reallocate labor to continue operations during a pandemic; saving the organization $900K+ in yearly salary

Impacted a mid-size winery with harvest processes to assist in lower processing after fruit is picked in the cellar for processing.

Targeted projects contain technology updates and organizational re-structure with 1-3-5-year planning processes for immediate growth.

Increased productivity with new production systems to align demand within the first 4 months to bring deliveries back to an on-time status and reorganized the executive team and leadership for more effective production controls.

Collaborating with targeted organizations through operations and management processes connected with technology enablement to effectively sustain yearly growth.

Immersed in client relations and business expansion for new facilities during the Pandemic and guided clients in right sizing their operations to continue with a lower revenue stream.

Technology & Management Consulting Manager, Practice Lead Atherton & Associates LLP Modesto, CA 2017-2020

Technology, Supply Chain & Operations Optimization

Constructed a new practice with Atherton and grew the consulting which resulted in a new service offering. Engage in client relations/business development within the Central Valley-agriculture centric practice.

Increased practice from new practice to growth of $1.6M within the first 18 months with annuity income

Streamlined consumer/industrial agriculture consulting projects within the supply chain, startup organizations and ERP implementations.

Technology & Management Consulting Manager RSM US San Diego, CA 2014-2017

Strategy & Advisory, Technology & Operations Optimization, Client Services

Established a productive environment through Consumer/Industrial strategic projects. Systematically executed IT Strategy and communication planning with deliberate governance and operational due diligence for M&A.

Managed a team of 11 management consultants in two regions in the US.

Created a new practice to growth of 9.1M within 3 years in the West Region.

Designed and launched Manufacturing Systems including automotive, small package processing, packaging lines and facility launch and executive coaching.

Managed and expedited consulting services in the areas of strategy/advisory on ERP system selection, implementation and operations optimizations that were industry agnostic.

Implemented a long-term strategy for Supply Chain and Manufacturing Optimization: Consumer and Industrial products.

Corporate Lean Manufacturing Manager, Internal Strategy Consultant Roll Global\Wonderful Company Santa Monica, CA 2013-2014

Developed solutions to complex analytical issues within several business units and operated as a driving force behind critical strategy, operational/organizational initiatives with a hands-on approach.

Contributed to Hoshin Kanri planning structure for 2 business units with sales and volume of 1.5B+ in sales.

Key role player to the design of the Executive Development Program-Roll Global Academy for Presidents and VP of business units in the Roll Family.

Roll Global Projects:

Farming Operations Project: optimized operations for a 220k savings per month in labor based on the reorganization of staffing and utilization of assets.

Logistics project for the shipping of 265 trucks per day: strategically decreased turnaround time for Distribution and saving $7.1M annually on shipping costs and truck delay charges.

oBuilt a model for 120% and increased the traffic within the next 18 months.

Shipping and warehousing project: reorganized WIP rooms and standard work for inventory control utilizing iPad solutions and Oracle WMS to lower overall labor cost and loss of product-saving $900K+-first 4 months.

$500M business unit complete lean transformation: Team Lead on Value Stream analysis of all critical paths and sales assessments for improvements being guided by the 5-year Hoshin plan.

Regional Lean Manufacturing Engineering Manager Zodiac Aerospace Santa Maria, CA 2011-2013

Championed the CapEx improvement plan for the facility to double facility output using SIOP and strategically opened operations in Chihuahua Mexico for supply chain design and operations for manufacturing.

Created the visual management system for the facility with visual strategies and meticulous work flows throughout 7+ operations in the western US.

Designed a blueprint to adjust systemic operational issues; saving $4.3M in 11 months, upgraded teams, on-site projects, and Lean Techniques.

Lean office Kaizen facilitation in accounting; saved 183 hours per week in the accounting operations.

Developed the Kaizen structure to maximum efficiency and sustainment; 58 Kaizen events completed with $3.3M in savings in 15 months.

Managed 36 Manufacturing Engineers as the Manufacturing Manager for value stream production.

Facilitated 11,800 training hours in the facility for all levels of staff.

Steering Committee Member for $200M business unit.

Member of ERP Implementation team; a company/facility wide project that included 9 manufacturing facilities.

Implemented Value Stream system and structured with cost accounting per Value Stream in 8 facilities.

Career Evolution

Lean Implementation & Business Strategy Manager Clearwater Nursery Nipomo, CA 2010-2011

Owner, Consultant, Implementation Project Manager, Lean Operations Excellence Mowry Group Seattle, WA 2005-2010

Lean Operations, Transportation Manager LSG Sky Chefs Seattle WA 2001-2004

Operations Manager UPS Freight Seattle, WA 1996-2001

Training & Certifications

Yearly Training Six Sigma Black Belt certified 2001

Project Management Professional (PMP) AME member and SME member

Speaker 2-3 workshops per year for continuing education In Lean Techniques ASQ Silver Lean Certification Present

Speaker Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Lean Summit and Lecturer in 400 level Lean classes in Industrial 2010-2014

Co-Lead Event for Certification Shingijistu USA trained certified Kaizen Leader 2003

Technology and facilities operations using Lean Techniques for efficiency and organization Lean Enterprise Institute 1999

Industry Assets

People Management • Business Continuity • Strategic Partnerships • Metrics-Driven Performance Management • Supply Chain Optimization • Training, Development, Advocacy • Consensus Building & Leadership • Executive Operation Management

Pete Mowry

Manteca, CA • 425-***-**** • ****.*****@******.*** • LinkedIn

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