GARY D. LIZOTTE

*** **** ***** ***** *: 740-***-****

Apple Valley Lake C: 740-***-****

Howard, OH 43028 ukckm2@r.postjobfree.com

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT LEADER

Multiple-industry experience in Operations, Supplier Quality, Supply Chain, New Product Introduction, and Enterprise –Wide Quality involving non-manufacturing transactional processes. Specialty in startups, turnarounds and expansions with Fortune 500 recognized companies. Professional team facilitator.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DANAHER CORPORATION – THE HACH COMPANY, Ames, IA

Division of Danaher Corporation focusing on growing markets in Chemical Reagents and Medical Devices 2010

Manager, Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Analytical Services

Temporary assignment to learn ISO13485 for medical devices and apply stringent controls to Product Development,

Sourcing and Manufacturing. Restructured Quality organization and assumed leadership of Chemists and Biologists.

Member of the Lean Transformation Team.

GENERAL ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION, Grove City, PA 2008 -2009

Center of Excellence, $14B Infrastructure Group of $250B industrial conglomerate

Quality Leader

HQ Office of Business Process Improvement (Erie, PA) subject matter coach. Assigned to Grove City as a facilitator for quality engineering practices. Led team in first month to eliminate an expensive engine defect using data-based studies of capability, control and gage statistics Led creation of in-process and final yield metrics, Quality Costs metrics, and methods to avoid sole use of reaction-based corrective action. Left during March 2009 stock crisis.

CUMMINS EMISSION SOLUTIONS, Mineral Point, WI 2007 - 2008

Division of a $12 billion automotive market share leader in diesel engines and automotive components

Quality Leader

Returned to Cummins on temporary assignment to manage a 2007 business startup manufacturing a device enabling international engine and truck manufacturers to meet new diesel emissions regulations (Mack, Volvo, Freightliner, PACCAR, ITEC) Led four quality managers.

• Showed PPM reduction in first 3 months and significant drop in BIS claims/warranty. Achieved TS16949 registration.

ARIEL CORPORATION, Mount Vernon, OH 2000 - 2007

$400 million family–owned compressor manufacturer serving world’s largest energy companies (BP, Exxon, Shell, Elf, Kinder Morgan, etc.). Market-share leader (80%) employing 1,500.

Director, Corporate Quality

Reported to owner, managed 5 supervisors at 3 facilities (materials lab, supplier quality management and foundry liaisons) and 52 cell-quality representatives. Hired into rapidly growing company to tame escalating scrap, rework and warranty and to implement world class manufacturing methodologies

• Implemented world-class metrics and practices into manufacturing and staff operations.

• Introduced new vocabulary (e.g., “cycle time reduction”, “Kaizen”, “supplier partnering”, “customer focus groups”) and gradually won over supporters within the organization.

• Reduced scrap and rework to .04% of sales in 9 months and warranty to .39% in the same time period; consistently achieved above 95% final assembly quality audit yield and machining cell yields above 99%

• Upgraded operations to ISO9001:2000.

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INGERSOLL-RAND COMPANY, Mayfield, KY 1997 to 2000

Global manufacturer of centrifugal air compressors (turbo machinery) Employed 700 at 4 locations (KY, Italy, India, and China) with $200 million annual revenues. Division closed in 2000.

Division Manager, Quality Assurance Reported to Division VP; Managed 4 reports and 10 inspectors. Headed all quality support services – inspection and test, supplier quality engineering, metrology, materials lab, warranty analysis and ISO9001 quality system administration. Managed Engineering Development group for one year.

• Led multi-functional task force that reduced warranty costs 60% in one year and solved chronic warranty problem through innovative design changes

• Dramatically reduced inventory by installing Kanban “pull system” (lean management system) for critical components

• Championed efforts to reduce scrap and rework, led teams involved in warranty reduction, administered expense and capital budgets for plant QA in the U.S., Italy, India and China.

MACK TRUCKS INC., Allentown, PA 1992 - 1997

Iconic American company manufacturing highway and vocational trucks, diesel engines and transmissions

Corporate Director, Supplier Quality & Purchasing New Product Programs

• Reported to VP Purchasing; Supervised 3 managers at 4 locations, 2 value analysis engineers and 1 new products coordinator. Trained and career-pathed for Supply Chain Management.

• Implemented Value Analysis and established supplier priority list; Partnered with commodity teams to meet with key suppliers regarding quality, delivery and cost considerations

• Played key role in 40% supplier certification and personally led initiative for certification of all suppliers under ISO9001 or ISO9002 by teaching, coaching and conducting seminars at headquarters

• Reduced need for inspection and handling by introducing supplier part certification program to document/control all discrete steps to make products to specifications.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

DEERE & COMPANY, Illinois and New Jersey

Plant Quality, Supplier Quality and New Product Development Quality at three John Deere facilities

CUMMINS INC., Columbus, IN and Indianapolis, IN

Service Parts Operations Manager (2 locations) and Leader, Quality Engineering–High Pressure Fuel Systems

Adjunct Faculty, Indiana Technical College, Columbus, IN and University of Kentucky, Paducah, KY

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS

B.S., Industrial Technology, Manufacturing, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL

Graduate, Two Year Management Program, Mahler Institute NJ, I-R Sponsored

Senior Member, Certified Quality Engineer, American Society for Quality Expiration: 06/2012

General Electric Lean/Six Sigma Training Lean Mgmt – Sinclair Community College, Dayton OH

“Performance Management”, Aubrey Daniels, Inc. Atlanta, GA (Applied Behavioral Psychology – 5 weeks)

Certified Instructor, Covey Leadership Center Provo UT “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Extensive domestic and international travel experience - Europe, Asia, Central and South America

Completed company-sponsored language lessons in Spanish and French

Trained by Ingersoll-Rand in international customs / business practices / supplier agree

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