Keith Edmonds

Lead Design Engineer

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Timeline
About me
Regional Sourcing Leader at GE Vernova
Education
- University of Louisville
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  Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering
Experience
- GE Appliances
  May 1999 - Jul 2001
  Lead Design Engineer
  Led design projects utilizing six sigma DMADV and DFSS methodology to improve manufacturing cost of appliances.Led NPI project to roll out ETERNA series for major customer.
- GE Energy
  Jul 2001 - Jan 2008
  Led a team of Sourcing Quality Engineers to improve quality and fulfillment of sourced parts from suppliers.Conducted supplier qualifications, supplier deviation requests, supplier audits, RCAs, NCRs.Created metric scorecards to monitor supplier quality performance of critical suppliers that enabled better visibility of top suppliers defect trends.Ensure service notices are processed upon assignment in order to obtain maximum opportunity for vendor recovery defect costs.Obtained Supplier Quality Engineer certification. Show less
  - Supplier Quality Engineering Team Leader
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2008
  - Senior Six Sigma Black Belt
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2005
  - Gas Turbine Parts Engineer
    Jul 2001 - Jan 2003
- GE Power & Water
  May 2008 - Sept 2014
  Led a project to move eSDR application to a new supplier collaboration application called Clear Orbit that aided in the reduction of supplier escaping defects.Led a project to move Supplier Qualification from a legacy database to a Supplier Collaboration tool called Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to improve visibility of qualified suppliers to business.Implemented multiple enhancements to supplier quality application that improved SQE and Engineering productivity.Responsible for ensuring weekly data loads to the Global Sourcing Data Warehouse for Energy spend. Show less
  - Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
    Oct 2012 - Sept 2014
  - Senior Sourcing Program Leader
    May 2008 - Oct 2012
- GE Energy Management
  Sept 2014 - Mar 2016
  Global Commercial Process Excellence Leader
  Lead for all Sales and Commercial Operations procedures and processes.Led a integration project to take current business to a new legal etitty to support a joint venture with company
- GE Power
  Mar 2016 - May 2017
  Global Fulfillment Leader
  Develop, communicate and lead a operational plan for supplier development, monitor progress and performance against project plan to resolve operational problems and minimize delaysCoordinate cross functional supplier reviews and analyze supplier performance for developing suppliersIdentify, develop and gather necessary resources to complete projectPerform Risk Assessments at supplier sites through technical assessments, FMEAs, Capacity Audits, Supplier Readiness Assessments, external factor reviewsDefine the risk profile against the business objectives and strategy.Negotiate pricing and supplier contracts to provide savings to business. Show less
- GE Oil & Gas
  May 2017 - Feb 2019
  Indirect Sourcing Leader
  Leading the overall global strategy for indirect sourcing across the Subsea & Drilling businesses within GE Oil & Gas and managing the indirect spend of $300M
- GE Power
  Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
  Senior Lean Leader-Global Supply Chain
- GE Digital
  Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
  Director Global Commodity Management
  Commodity management - software/hardware
- GE Vernova
  Dec 2022 - now
  Regional Sourcing Leader
  NAM/LATAM Power Services
Licenses & Certifications
- Certified Sourcing Quality Engineer
- Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
  GE Power & Water
- Six Sigma Black Belt