Barbara Ringold
Coon Rapids, MN ***** 763-***-****
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Senior Production Manager Profile
Passionate, detail-oriented leader offering 15+ years' experience planning, delivering, and overseeing organized and effective leadership consistently meet and exceed customer requirements and company production objectives.
Adept at utilizing best practices in SPC and JIT to ensure process capability, new equipment validation, and equipment maintenance mitigate to drive optimizations across all areas of production while ensuring job production quotas are consistently met and exceeded. Demonstrate proficiency in driving efficient production, guiding and delegating cross-functional tasks, maintaining and promoting effective management image and accountability, and propelling intermanagement relations to inform on the most efficient inspection and manufacturing processes. Champion utilization of business acumen and Lean Principles to ensure cost reduction, enhance efficiencies, propel ongoing process improvements, and conceptualizing solutions for bottom-line gain, operational excellence, and unparalleled business growth. Promote and maintain alignment with organization policies, procedures, and safety guidelines. Cross-functional and multi-talented with a proven ability to adapt to changing and multicultural environments to build, cultivate, and maintain collaborative internal relationships with multi-faceted teams and key stakeholders.
Areas of Expertise
Production Efficiency
Training & Development
Quality Assurance
Project Management Lifecyle
Manufacturing Process Enhancement
Records Maintenance
Communications Expertise
Manufacturing Methodologies
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Process Improvement
Teamwork & Leadership
Workflow Facilitation
Professional Experience
Biomerics Advanced Catheter
Senior Production Manager, February 2020 – Present
Oversee a production/Technician staff of 30+ to meet and exceed organization expectations in a fast paced, and high functioning environment.
Aligned Direct Labor with Project Needs
Implemented/Improved Procedures to Meet ISO Standards
Created a New Hire Assessment for better Align with Business Needs
Assisted employees with the development and execution of development plans
Assisted in revamping of training program
Provide daily/Weekly project updates
HLT Medical
Aortic Valve Delivery System Manufacturing Supervisor; R&D Technician, 2007 - 2019
Oversee execution of performance evaluations and administer preventative and corrective disciplinary actions to motive and propel underachieving staff. Parameterize, establish, and promote critical manufacturing metrics to include yields, scrap rates, safety, through-put, and WIP Inventories. Facilitate assignments and support direct reports in establishing and integrating personnel development plans. Execute troubleshooting to devise and correspond recommendations for creative solutions to enhance Attribute Test Method Validations. Maintain oversight of receiving duties for incoming components, parts, and services that utilize MRP system.
Maintained alignment with all manufacturing and quality procedures.
Coordinated team of cross-functional technicians and production operators to consistently meet and exceed daily production and inspection schedules.
Planned, developed, and implemented Lean Manufacturing practices, procedures, and methodologies.
Conceptualized, drafted, and maintained compliance with Standard Operating Procedures.
Drove successful identification and delivery of process improvements while supporting engineers in planning, creating, and implementing new tooling and fixtures.
Propelled successful development and implementation of aortic delivery system.
Achieved membership with International business Honors Society in September, 2012.
Utilized available resources to perpetually meet and exceed extremely challenging deadlines to effectively support all facets of R&D efforts and clinical trials.
Additional Experience: Technician II, Process Development, Peripheral Vascular Balloons at Boston Scientific and Senior Assembler & Technician at EP Systems, Medtronic.
Education
Masters in Business Administration, 2013
University of Phoenix
International Business Honors Society
Bachelors of Science, Global Business Management, 2011
University of Phoenix
Training & Development
Supervision I and II; Advanced Leadership
Hands on Statistics; Quality Systems Basic
Lean 101 A; Lean 10IB Foundation (Workshop); Lean PDP
Six Sigma Yellow Belt; Design for Six Sigma
Testing For Normality
Validation Sampling Plans
Process Validation
Risk Management
DCM Workshop
Design of Experiment
Regulatory Affairs 101
Microsoft Office Software including the Construction of Access Database