Team Leader Member

Cynthia Gillespie, ME, BS

New Bern, NC 252-***-****

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Strategic thinker with a big picture mindset, exceptional management skills, and the capacity to energize a team of professionals by creating a resilient and innovative team culture.

Qualifications Summary

Visionary professional with the ability to manage full cycle recruiting process from initiation to employment offers; able to ensure an efficient process for candidates and hiring managers.

Collaborative team-player with high emotional intelligence and the capacity to maintain relationships with outside vendors with a focus on negotiated pricing and delivery schedules.

Exceptional communicator and change agent with a sharp power of observation; able to leverage data and analytics to advise businesses on diverse sourcing strategies and ensure pipelines are inclusive of diverse representation.

Organized professional with a proactive mindset and a strong work ethic, able to maintain Open Order Reports for customers on status of production jobs.

Authentic and relatable individual with the capacity to evaluate suppliers, analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.

Engaging individual with a dynamic growth mindset, strong management and people skills, personal values, integrity, and technical knowledge prepare candidates and set expectations appropriately for interviews by providing detailed information on the company and job description details.

Highly effective strategist with the capacity to use creativity to determine the best course of action for the organization as a whole through use of skills that transfer across multiple industries and positions.

Career Experience

Fleet Readiness Center East Cherry Point, NC

Sub Team Leader / Engineer November 1987 to Present

Establish solid foundation for success by coordinating, evaluating, and overseeing the application of Concurrent Engineering for Airframe Change 441 and 443 from design to installation, validation, and verification. Demonstrate strong leadership and foresight while overseeing Airframe Change upgrade to avionics systems in the CH-46 aircraft, which include installing the Communication Navigation Control System. Exercise detailed analysis and judgment while analyzing Concurrent Engineering process for the Metals and Process Division, Pneudraulics, Aircraft Repair Shop, Airframes Division, Aircraft Wiring and Verification Shop, Manufacturing and Facilities Material Support Branch, Manufacturing Planning Branch, and Airframes / Kitting Material Support Branch. Minimize late deliveries and costs through effective use of scheduling and constraint tools. Exhibit exceptional ability to marshal appropriate resources by procuring capital equipment for Abar Furnace, Electro Discharge Machine, Tube Bender, Automated Welder, Allison Electrophoretic Process Hydrogen Fluoride Furnace, Tube Bender, Coordinate Measurement Machine, Springfield Grinder, and High Velocity Oxygen Fuel Coating System.

Selected Contributions:

Generate energy and stability by performing supplier sourcing; proven ability to manage production capacity and lead times.

Display commitment and determination while managing equipment procurement from customer requirement, engineering, evaluation of proposal, contract award to delivery.

Define direction that catalyzes coordination across departments while managing high dollar, large, complex capital projects.

Leverage experience and functional knowledge to use a variety of statistical tools including averages probability, median, upper control limits, and lower control limits to project future indicators.

Increase personal and professional effectiveness by forming a dynamic team of acquisition professionals; manage contractual issues of delivery, installation, training, acceptance testing, and warranty.

Highly skilled in preparing executive reports, which include executive summary, conclusions and findings, recommendations, and corrective actions.

Employ refined relationship-building skills and collaborative mindset while serving as an ISO9000 team member.

Harmonize operations while initiating and serving as Team Leader and Integrator for cross-functional F-4 Masking Team, CH-46 Masking Team, and CH-53 Masking Team.

Streamline processes, clarify expectations, and improve consistency by preparing and delivering Standard Operating Procedures designed to mask F-4, CH-46, and CH-53 aircraft in partnership with other team members.

Maximize productivity and provide vital structure by establishing Standard Operating Procedures for Aircraft Strip and Clean Shop.

Enhance quality and productivity as integral member of a self-directed team charged with supporting continuous quality improvement.

Capture substantial gains in efficiency and productivity by researching Total Quality Management and industrial engineering techniques.

Ensure quality execution by calculating and evaluating Return-on-Investment and Payback using Excel Spreadsheets.

Oversee project conception, Statement of Work, contract award, Factory Acceptance Testing, Delivery, Final Acceptance Test, and Installation as Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative.

Embrace responsibility for completing Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request funding documents to obligate funding for the fiscal year; ensured readiness of procurement package for Contracting Agency.

Complete Department of Defense (DD Form 250) for Material Inspection and Receiving Report required for contracts (supplies and services) for equipment which has been accepted.

Shape a vibrant, productive environment by providing one-on-one training to Junior Engineer on Cost Benefit Analysis, Independent Government Cost Estimate, coordinated and scheduled an electrical outage; ensured all cross-functional teams received comments on Statement of Work.

Education

Master of Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Manufacturing Engineering, Black & Decker, Tarboro, NC)

Plant Engineering, Square D, Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Laboratory, Knightdale, NC

Licenses

Licensed Insurance Agent

Professional Proficiencies

Strategic Planning Project Management Continuous Quality Improvement Goal Setting / Key Performance Indicators Change Management Capital Projects ISO9000 Auditor Supplier Relationships Process Improvements Cross-Functional Communication Team Coaching and Development Risk Analysis and Mitigation

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