Experience

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  Worthington industries

  Jan 2006 - Jun 2008

  Laboratory technician

  - Tested steel samples for hardness, tensile and yield strength, elongation, surface roughness, drawing ability, micro-hardness, and other microscopic properties.- Prepared samples for chemical analysis and microscopic property evaluations.- Maintained test results in company Oracle database and directly presented results to the requesting customer.

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  Cessna aircraft company

  Jun 2008 - May 2009

  Industrial engineer

  - Led several Six Sigma Kaizen events that supported continuous process improvement (e.g. designed a work cart for detail line painters that eliminated wasted time traveling to the toolbox)- Completed a Green Belt project that built a standard hours planning tool for floor supervisors that worked with SAP to ensure custom aircraft builds accurately earned standard and non-standard hours increasing fidelity of department metrics- Worked with finance business partners to plan and report weekly standard hours and productivity metrics which were utilized for near- and long-range manpower and budget planning Show less

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  Hawker beechcraft

  Sept 2010 - Nov 2012

  Systems engineer ii

  - Worked in close collaboration with Customers, Marketing and Engineering to illicit and document requirements and served as the subject matter expert and architect for the organization’s model-based requirements system (Teamcenter) which maintained customer, engineering, FAA Compliance and MIL-STD requirements- Coordinated program changes within a matrixed engineering organization and presented the impacts to scope, schedule, non-recurring and recurring product cost to program review board- Prepared and presented program milestone gate reviews to the senior leadership board and ensured program compliance with the organization’s product development process called LEADS - Worked in close coordination with the Systems Engineering group and senior leadership to improve the efficiency of the LEADS process and standardize its use across all facets of the organization (commercial, government business and special missions) Show less

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  Pds tech, inc.

  Nov 2012 - Aug 2013

  Systems engineering consultant

  - Continued supporting Beechcraft in the Systems Engineering role working remotely from Cleveland, OH.

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  Interstate-mcbee, llc

  Aug 2013 - May 2018

  - Established new product development process and managed the diverse engineering team, which successful launched 3 new products in 2 years - Architect of the engineering database (Autodesk Vault) and pioneered its utilization cross-functionally across the company by utilizing automated workflows for approval which, reduced a back log of over 400 open ECO down to zero (0)- Led and directed various engineering process improvements, such as: standardized training, office space 5S, and configuration management automation- Served as the subject matter expert for drawing standards (e.g. ASTM, ISO, GD&T) reviewing model and drawing changes for technical correctness internally with design engineers and led the multi-disciplined review board for final approvals Show less - Managed a team of interns to capture Bills of Material, manufacturing routings and product costing for incorporation into the new company ERP system (JD Edwards)- Implemented manufacturing process improvements such as: setup time and cycle time reduction through time studies and optimizing plant layout / manufacturing workflow utilizing value stream mapping and spaghetti diagram analysis - Led several safety initiatives including; GHS Communication, transition to an online database for all SDSs (MSDSOnline), plant wide labeling standards, and maintained OHSA compliance Show less

  • Design Engineering Manager

    Dec 2015 - May 2018

  • Industrial Engineer

    Aug 2013 - Dec 2015
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  Zin technologies, inc.

  May 2018 - Oct 2023

  - Stood up new organizational unit, the Project Management Office (PMO), by establishing a center of excellence that implemented process improvement initiatives to achieve strategic goals in areas of project management, which reversed downward trending government customer CPAR scores. Specific PMO initiatives include:-- Implementation of a budget estimation app that interfaced with company ERP system (Deltek Costpoint), which streamlined project finical reporting and estimate generation-- Leader of cross-functional and project KPI tracking and reporting, which improved on-time delivery performance by 33% over two years-- Developed and administered new project manager onboarding program and training curriculum, which decreased learning curves from 3 months to 1 month-- Developed the standard for providing monthly project progress and finical reports to both internal and external stakeholders utilizing Power BI and Power Automate -- Designed and maintained the internal PMO SharePoint site to provide a “one stop shop” for all project manager communications, tools, templates, training and information, which enabled sustained utilization of new standards and methods- Owner and subject matter expert for risk management, authored the ZIN Risk Management Procedure and directed execution of process standards across the entire company at all levels, including senior leadership, which stopped a history of repeated findings in AS9100D audits- Authored Bid Management Procedure, which standardized proposal development, aligned bid decisions with long-term corporate strategies and facilitated the transitions from bid/proposal to contract negotiations to project management, increasing bid win percentage by 20% Show less

  • Enterprise Risk Manager

    Jan 2022 - Oct 2023

  • Project Manager

    May 2018 - Dec 2021
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  Avon protection

  Oct 2023 - Sept 2024

  Senior operations program manager

  - Managing a New Product Implementation (NPI) program under DoD contract, including production ramp up, increasing output to from 1,000 to 10,000 units per month over 8 months.- Leading strategic transformation efforts in the areas of Objective and Key Results (OKR) management, Program Management and NPI.

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  Safran

  Sept 2024 - now

  Configuration management manager