Experienced Manufacturing & Program Manager

OBJECTIVE

MANUFACTURING & OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT / PROJECT MANAGEMENT / TEAM LEADERSHIP

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Results-oriented professional with extensive leadership experience in high volume manufacturing and a proven track record developing, implementing, and improving business processes at the organizational and corporate levels.

• Continuous Improvement Systems • Production Operations • Human Resource Practices

• Strategic Planning & Execution • Quality Systems • Business Re-engineering

• Team Building & Leadership • Senior Executive Relationships • Supply Chain Planning

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Lean Experience Certificate • Lean Learning Center 2004

Making Great Leaders • Freescale 2006

Leadership Development Forum • Intel 1999

MS Office and Applications • (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.), Spotfire, Photoshop

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business Administration, Production Management

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freescale Semiconductor - Austin, Texas 2005 - Current

Business Re-Engineering Project Manager – Supply Chain Operations

Responsible for preparing Wafer Fab and Probe/Test sites for SAP implementation. Interface with team leads and subject matter experts in IT, Finance, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to ensure processes and tools to facilitate management and analysis of data and prioritization of resources for proper integration of SAP into Freescale business processes and IT systems.

• Led Shop Floor Execution planning teams to analyze planning tool improvements that recognize factory constraints for maximizing output and optimizing factory schedules. Used available capacity fully across all stages of manufacturing, our group tracked and published internal stoplight metrics for capacity system readiness assessments across all six of FSL’s internal fabs meeting Supply to Market “Go-live” system releases.

• Standardized NPI Planning Parameters associated with a new business process for Product Manager forecasting early entry and maintenance of new parts that drove 12-24 month visibility within the supply chain capacity systems.

Manufacturing Manager – Austin Technology & Manufacturing Center 2005 - 2007

Managed and led 450+ person manufacturing organization across 168-hour, 4-shift operation of Freescale’s most advanced integrated circuit silicon wafer fab. Strategic responsibilities include partnering on overall operating plan for both quarterly and annual factory deliverables, set demanding goals for management team as well as manufacturing technicians, and create and deliver programs for efficiency improvements.

• Drove change across ATMC and Freescale through the establishment of a Manufacturing Solutions team that developed and implemented Lean education workshop and expanded to perform Kaizen improvements across the factory. Our team sustained operations output while driving a 17% improvement on labor and productivity metrics throughout 2007. This saved $1.4M in labor operating costs over the year while delivering output that met the business group requirements. This is now deployed across all 200mm factories and support groups within Freescale.

• Drove factory system implementation of “Ops Central” interactive visual metrics tool spawned from Changeable philosophies. This standardized the daily and weekly operations reviews and focused the engineering teams on the top manufacturing priorities for hitting performance targets.

Intel Corporation 1993 - 2005

Manufacturing Manager – Fab 23 Colorado Springs, Colorado 2003 - 2005

Department manager in operations of high-volume Flash semiconductor manufacturing with up to 39 managerial direct reports and 400 technicians; developed factory planning and parameter metrics to meet internal customer product commitments.

• Led and drove Lean efforts focusing on implementing TPS philosophies across the entire factory. Our direct labor productivity beat Intel’s “best in class” metric for cost effective Flash manufacturing through standardization, lean manufacturing principles (VSM & Kaizen), and continuous improvement methods.

• Forecasted and executed department budget of $150M and drove financial reviews to address gaps related to manufacturing and/or factory targets. The team was able to deliver improved wafer cash cost of -47% through aggressive line-item ownership modeling over 2 years.

• Leader of Fab 23’s Employee Relations Self-Assessment process which created strategies for organizational health and employee development. Measured yearly, my team drove assessment scores favorable by 12%; I presented factory results to Sr. Operations VP and global Human Resource representatives.

Manufacturing Project Manager 2000 - 2002

• Readiness Manager for factory start-up activities pertaining to manufacturing systems that supported first silicon; executed readiness activity audits to ensure Fab 23 systems supported L1D (development) silicon and successful ramp to 1K wafer starts.

• Site Redeployment Manager delivering a placement process for 582 employees. Led a cross-site team evaluating benchmark pay practice alternatives for standardization and cost reductions for the corporation.

Shift Manager – Fab 7/9 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 1993 - 2000

• Managed tactical and strategic objectives, within a high-volume semiconductor production shift, that consisted of 2 Shift Coordinators, 14 Supervisors, and 238 Manufacturing Technicians to meet the 6” Flash products indicators; Pioneered a break-though “FASTBOX” WIP management system in production to strategically structure and improve delivery cycle times by 20%.

• Led headcount/staffing efforts across the New Mexico site and established systems to support high-volume hiring events; successfully obtained 769 technician and 48 supervisory hires within 6 months.

Harris Semiconductor - Palm Bay, Florida / Findlay, Ohio 1986 - 1993

Sr. Supervisor – Assembly and Wafer Fabrication

• First-line supervisor responsible for hiring, developing and motivating 48+ hourly employees to meet safety, quality and productivity standards in a high-Rel front-end batch assembly factory.

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