BJG Resume

Brian J. Gaida

*** ********** ***** • Easton, PA 18040 • 610-***-**** • **********@*****.***

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Professional Highlights

• Six- Sigma / Lean Design and Implementation Expertise

• Project Management Expertise

• Customer/Supplier Relationship Management, Supply Chain & System Deployment

• Biopharmaceutical Cold Chain Experience

• Business Improvement & Cost Reduction Road-Mapping

• AWARD-WINNING LEADER with a consistent history delivering outstanding productivity improvement and cost reduction solutions. Inspirational resource with a track record of operational efficiency improvement excellence significantly impacting on the bottom-line. Demonstrates leadership on various IT, Procurement and Engineering projects, organizing, planning and prioritizing complex technology initiatives to achieve engineering objectives and meet critical timelines.

• PROJECT SPEARHEAD with Exceptional ability to generate productive working relationships in collaboration with private sector, Academic and Government engineers. Adept in communicating technical information to end-users. Passionate and efficient in creating results driven strategic efforts towards project management, business plans, joint ventures, raising capital and extreme execution.

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CAREER HISTORY

Johnson & Johnson - Medical Devices

Bridgewater NJ 2007 - Present

Manager Global Procurement Projects

Scope: Working within Johnson and Johnson’s Medical Device & Diagnostic (MD&D) division responsible for ensuring quality and supply continuity of purchased finished goods; completing failure investigations for customer complaints; completing failure investigations for CAPA's and NCR's; completing validations to replace materials or components with limited supply; initiating and leading cost improvement projects; and accelerating growth through introduction of new products coming into the External Operations portfolio. Interacting and leading interdisciplinary teams representing all aspects of product development including Research & Development, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, Medical Affairs, and Marketing. Involved in multiple Cost & Process Improvement projects which enhance profitability and quality to both Ethicon’s business and products. These projects have contributed to massive cost savings and operational optimization. This position has allowed me to gain extensive experience in working with external suppliers and cross functional teams to execute projects.

Functional Excellence – Leveraged “Best in Class” tools and techniques to discover insights that address business issues and drive category programs. Partnering with external suppliers and internal Insights team members to identify and appropriately apply new tools and techniques that keep ahead of competition.

International Alignment – Built world class consumer understanding across international affiliates. Serve as an active member of the global franchise team with accountability for bringing the consumer perspective, or “voice of the consumer,” and commercial understanding to international project prioritization and strategic discussions.

Business Strategy – Developed Brand Strategies and commercial best practices through participation in strategic brand plan reviews, business plan reviews, and advertising/copy reviews with the goal of leading the organization through a cultural evolution.

Competitive Understanding – Developed a better understanding of international competitive activity impacting category strategy, through enhancement of competitive intelligence capability.

Team Focus – Promoted and fostered an environment of teamwork and collaboration within functional and global team.

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Technical Leadership:

• Executed leadership skills with cross functional teams to address quality, supply continuity, and cost management challenges.

• Established teams with proper resources, tools, and information to make decisions.

• Communicated to management objectives, sets the tone, established a positive climate, and created a forum for buy-in.

• Effectively defined and managed requirements/ boundaries for intellectual property and trade secrets when working with external partners.

• Calculated risks by committing resources and time to understand risks and benefits in order to improve value to customers and to the Organization.

• Maintained clear communication with internal and external business partners regarding expectations, satisfaction, or quality of results.

• Led teams to develop and complete process validation requirements, contribute to process validation strategies and protocols, and served as subject matter expert providing education/training to the Organization.

• External Operations expertise working with various external suppliers to manage product improvements and issue resolution.

• Leading teams with product line extensions and product improvements holding both PMA and 510K Regulatory submissions.

• Advanced understanding of disciplined product development processes for combinations products (Ethicon’s Evicel Biologic Products) which include particular Regulatory and Quality requirements.

• Strong knowledge of medical device packaging requirements and sterilization methods.

• Cold Chain shipping improvements; saving Johnson & Johnson $500k in the removal of Envirotainers for worldwide shipments.

• Leading and managing supplier initiated change projects through both internal and external change control systems.

• Responsible for relationship management of critical external manufacturers; mentored LEAN initiatives to identify and execute cost reduction projects.

• Demonstrated high-level skills in project management and product development processes.

• Create and execute plans with External Manufacturers in support of two of the three Business Franchises with combined Business Plans of $125MM.

• Member of the JNJ Transportation Task Force working on various cost improvement projects. Transitioned costly overnight shipments of medical devices to Sea Freight saving the company $800k.

• Providing continues process improvement plans in accordance with S&OP goals.

• Implemented OEE Tracking/Trending for process capability, capacity and defect identification and reduction for external suppliers.

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United States Army, Picatinny Arsenal - Civilian

Department of Defense, Dover, NJ 2001 – 2007

Project/Process Engineer Six - Sigma, Software Engineering Center

Scope: Implemented various processes to develop improvements with regards to quality, cost reduction, cycle time reduction, safety, and process stability. Member of the PEG (Process Engineering Group) involved in project development meeting the needs of the Organization in respect to CMMI and Six-Sigma standards.

Recognition: Process enhancement excellence reduced product defect rates and increased thru-put of software development saving the Government over $500k.

Technical Leadership:

• Implemented Six-Sigma DFSS & DMAIC Process Strategies to meet Organizational continual process improvement standards.

• Member on the Strategic Software Improvement Master Plan leading the strategic plan to comply with CMMI Level 5 standards. Successful with developing and establishing on-going process performance measures using various metric tools to achieve Operational Excellence with software development and security standards.

• Providing continues process improvement plans in accordance with organizational polices and software development.

• Board Member on Armament Science Engineering Center’s software improvement plan strategy.

• Innovations Team Leader orchestrating multiple “Think-Tanks” to develop, approve and deploy innovations.

Project Engineer – Chemical Process Design and Optimization

Scope: Lead Engineer involved in the design and development of an R&D RDX based crystallizer. Performed key tasks with interfacing the crystallizer to PLC technology to Real-Time control software resulting in an optimized chemical formulation yielding better performance and cost.

Recognition: Received two Excellence awards from 4 star Generals for my work accomplishments. Also received a U.S. Patent (Patent # 200********) for my process designs to optimize the development of a chemical formulation.

Technical Leadership:

• Made significant contributions to the development of the Army’s Model Based Control System which gave the Army a unique and powerful tool. This tool interfaces with Siemens and Alan Bradley PLC’s.

• Developed several patent pending programs and methodologies for the Army’s Model Based Control system which is setting a new standard in Machine Tool Technology.

• Delivered design and architecture support for the MBC .NET web services integration by developing online training systems.

• Developed and integrated process control models for a chemical crystallization process, which yielded the desired RDX compilation for various weapon systems.

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EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering – New Jersey Institute of Technology 2001

Masters of Science, Engineering Management - New Jersey Institute of Technology 2004

Professional Development: Project Management, Process Optimization and Compliance, LEAN, CPIM

Certification: Six-Sigma Green Belt, Contractor Officer Representative Certified

Patents: Model Based Control Heat Balance Model - United States Patent # 200********

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