Tiffany Keys, MBA, BSE

Experience

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  General Electric- Energy

  Sept 2010 - Apr 2011

  Co-op

  -Completed a Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt Project resulting in an application that could project the PO amount,invoice receipts,location, and cost savings for each commodity family-Created a spend analytics tool that enabled me to identify $6m of savings

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  General Mills

  Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Manufacturing Engineering Associate Intern

  -Analyzed and optimized plant operational practices in order to eliminate product overuse-Spearheaded fishbone meetings in order to find the root cause of machine/equipment malfunctions-Created process centerline clipboards and data charts highlighting product waste and equipment optimization in various sub-divisions within the refrigerated baked goods platform

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  General Mills

  Jul 2014 - Aug 2016

  -Ensure the safe production of Old El Paso seasoning pouches-Led monthly team safety trainings-Delivered weekly communication to the Old El Paso teams-Spearheaded monthly autonomous maintenance team meetings for packaging-Managed and developed a team of 20 direct reports to achieve a level of togetherness and a collaborative environment while delivering on department needs-Established document control process for standard operating procedures-Supported plant safety programs by conducting weekly safety observations, monthly departmental safety walks and completion of departmental safety training with hourly employees Show less -Used foundational systems to include process centerlining and defect handling to identify gaps and losses within the system-Spearheaded why-whys, fishbone, and focused improvement meetings in order to devise a strategic plan that could increase the mean time between failure (MTBF) on the casepacker unit op-Created an excel tool that pulled data from a company wide performance metric tool that populated respective MTBFs, system performance and downtime details for each of the unit ops in various platforms-Created a good operating practice document for operators that aligned both the operations and maintenance functions on best practices for most efficient blending of product-Standardized packaging across the seasoning Old El Paso platform in order to eliminate costs. This effort yielded the business $416K of annual savings.-Created block flow and piping & instrumentation diagrams to validate process equipment-Created process loss trees in order to identify the biggest buckets of loss as well as excess capacity in the department -Created a daily direction systems spreadsheet for the seasoning platform that provided directional data for waste $ and yields hit Show less

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Production Supervisor

    Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Reliability Engineer

    Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

  • Systems Engineer

    Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
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  Unilever

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2017

  Manufacturing Supervisor
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  Mars

  Jul 2017 - Feb 2022

  • Sr. Continuous Improvement Engineer

    Sept 2019 - Feb 2022

  • Sr. Continuous Improvement Process Lead

    Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
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  Wesco

  Mar 2022 - Sept 2024

  Product Engineering Manager
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  QAD Redzone

  Aug 2024 - now

  Operational Excellence Coach