Experience

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  U.s. navy

  Jan 1983 - Jun 1996

  Submarine officer

  Directed all aspects of the operation and maintenance of a $2+B warship to include New Construction, Deployment and Refueling Overhaul.

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  Michelin

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  Industrial engineer

  Cost Reduction/Productivity/Process Expert 31 workforce suppressions ($1.9MM savings). Team Leader: Ergonomics Team, New Process Installation ($300,000 Capital Investment), and Major Process Improvements. Managed installation and initial production development of $1.5 MM Prototype Tire Building Machine. Developed standard based pay system lowering Average Hourly Earnings by $2.00 per hour. ISO/QS 9000 Author.

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  U.s. navy reserve

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2009

  Commanding officer

  Commanding Officer Officer of 5 different Navy Reserve Units ranging in size from ~45 - ~200 personnel. Units included: NR Subron 20, NR Trident Refit Facility Knoxville, NR Trident Refit Facility Jacksonville, Center for Personal and Professional Development Southeast and Center for Personal and Professional Development Headquarters.

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  Ge

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

  Black belt

  Mentored/Trained personnel in Six Sigma Methodology. Coached 35 projects with savings in excess of $650,000. #1 Black Belt in coached projects for 2000. Black Belt certification in less than 1 year. Led Team to design, elaborate, build and implement Risk Identification software application. Visual Basic/SQL Server Application designed to educate, document, and report on Service Agreement contract deviations from standard contract. Facilitated numerous working groups focusing on both DMAIC and DFSS. Conducted classroom training on DMAIC. Show less

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  Ge

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2010

  Manager, long term service contract review

  Global Team Leader supervising 19 Financial Analysts and 9 Contractors. Continuing responsibility for ERP system. Recognized expert on the Financial Accounting and Terms and Conditions of Long Term Service Contracts (LTSC). Responsible for balancing margin improvement with acceptable risk on LTSCs through continuous review, analysis and optimization of New and Repair Parts through the product life cycle. Makes recommendations to Operations/Legal team on the execution and renegotiation of existing contracts. Evaluates and provides feedback to Sales/Legal team on Terms and Conditions of future LTSCs. Show less

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  Us navy

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2014

  Captain

  Mobilized to Active Duty from March 2011 - Dec 2013 Consistently ranked #1 O6 on staff. Senior Military Policy Strategist and Continuous Process Improvement Champion to Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Reserve Affairs/Total Force Integration) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Conducted continuously evolving enterprise wide manpower reviews of 200,000+ civilian personnel throughout the Navy and Marine Corps providing Secretary of the Navy with a continuously evolving detailed look at competency allocations and potential cost savings during a time of extensive cost pressure as a result of substantial budget reductions (Sequestration).Former HQ and SE Region Commanding Officer of Center for Personal and Professional Development Reserve Detachment. This 5 Detachment 250+ member set of units is responsible for Leadership Training for both Officer and Enlisted AC and RC members of the United States Navy. Show less

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  Ge

  Feb 2010 - Mar 2011

  Master black belt

  Leader for project focused on sharing gas turbine power plant parts across major customers. Three part project required identification of contracts eligible to share parts, prototyping of part sharing using MS Excel on a limited basis and modification of company proprietary software to simulate part flow. Anticipated savings measured in multiple $10+MM. Completed all course work and passed certification exam for Master Black Belt Certification.

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  Bscm group

  Dec 2013 - now

  Private investor

  Private Investor focused on event driven opportunities, with a particular interest in Community Banking and Conversions.

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  Ethosenergy group pps

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Service excellence leader western hemisphere operations

  Directs the Service Excellence activities of Western Hemisphere Operations and the Global Parts Organization for the Power Plant Services portion of the business.Operations include:- Steam/Gas Rotor repair shop- Generator repair shop- Component manufacturing shop- Fuel nozzle manufacture/repair shop- Capital parts manufacturingPersonally directed the initial ISO 9001 certification for 3 manufacturing/repair facilities. Led multiple Kaizens to improve both business and factory processes. Led Spare Blade reduction efforts resulting in over $200K savings in first year to external customers and 100% reduction in number of required spares for radially loaded blades for internal customers. Spearheaded an inventory reduction exercise leading to the consumption of ~$150K of slow moving inventory. Led efforts to investigate 179D Energy Savings Tax Deduction that will allow deduction of ~$200K of Capital Improvements. Facilitated numerous Root Cause Analyses (RCA) in Quality and Safety using tools such as Ishikawa (Fishbone), FMEA, 5-Why and Dual Causal Tree. Led development and rollout of a digital NCR tool/process, facilitating the categorization, trending and treatment of Cost of NonConformance. Coaches and Mentors QA/SE Leaders at all facilities in RCA, Quality and Developing Continuous Improvement Strategies. Show less

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  Ge power & water

  Apr 2014 - Jul 2014

  Erp data integration leader

  Provided System Expert Knowledge and Executive Dashboard design input by developing reports using analytics & visualization technologies with Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. Completed an Interworks led customized Tableau training course.

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  The home depot

  Aug 2017 - Dec 2019

  Manager workforce operations quality and governance

  Responsible for developing the Quality Governance program around the forecasting, scheduling, and execution of US based store's hourly workforce, a ~$5.5B annual payroll expense across all ~2000 US stores. The ultimate goal being to have the right associate, in the right place, at the right time.