18 year LEAN/PM/OpEx/Engineering/Supply Chain/Logistics professional seeking new opportunities!
Experience
Vanderlande/TOYOTA Industries
Sep 2022 – Mar 2023
Atlanta
Sr Manager/Director, OpEx
Reporting to Executive VP of Engineering Solutions & Executive VP of Services as matter expert of Continuous
Improvement for newly created team. Primary responsibilities are to foster sustainable change through creation and
embedding of LEAN methodologies & supporting framework to deliver business transformation.
• Promoted within organization to newly created role for N.A. business unit after one year of employment
• Led and facilitated LEAN/process improvement workshops to drive ideas and solutions
• Worked with executives to build a Continuous Improvement (CI) environment by developing and implementing
Best in Class CI strategies – Lead 4 Value Stream & 7 Kaizen workshops
• OpEx/PMO partnership - Worked with Delta, LAX, ATL, MCO & MCI Operational Executive leaders to
deliver upon commitments - $140M secured, $220M total potential revenue
• Managed 19 CI projects – goal to obtain $70M+ in revenue opportunities
• Partnered with Microsoft Technology Team to improve end-to-end data platform architecture utilizing
Viva, Azure IoT & OpenAI frameworks for logging, processing & reporting asset performance analytics
• Coached 8 colleagues to support the delivery of better facilitation, value & efficiency through identifying and
simplifying complexities within business processes and foster better ways of working
• Reduced Sales Engineering RFQ process by 33%, expanding annual revenue capacity from ~$90M to
~$140M
• Steered process change and cross-functional alignment by conducting staff interviews, using document analysis,
heading workshops, site visits and workflow analysis