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Summary Kamar Jones has over 20 years' experience in financial and management consulting. Kamar is a Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt. Kamar has vast experience engagement at the executive and senior management level, including the C- suite. During his years, he has worked with major companies around the world in mining, energy, telecommunications, banking and insurance, and manufacturing. He's experienced in vast regions such as North America, South America, Western Europe, South and West Africa, Australia, and South East Asia. His experience includes large-scale program management, sales/revenue enhancement, productivity improvement, distribution centers, and logistics. Kamar has been involved in initiatives that exceed $110 million. Some representative examples of projects and analysis: * Director of project for a major food e-commerce firm that led to an over 40% productivity improvement. Assisted in transforming the culture in less than desirable locations. Improved company's overall cultural survey scores to reflect that change across the board. Assisted with board presentations on the progress of the project and the various locations. * Led a team to conduct an analysis in strategic sales and sales effectiveness with a major gas and steam turbine distributor. Conducted market and product line analysis along with sales effectiveness. Was able to build a business case to address the key account structure and reconfirm the strategic objectives and the overall sales process. Results were an increase in EBIT of $15 million within one year. * Assisted in the business development phase to establish an engagement with a top oil and gas producer in the oil sands in Northern Alberta. Led and delivered an increase in productivity by 40%+ in maintenance while helping the area achieve best in class in availability. * Led over $8 million in productivity and cost benefits for a large coal mining producer in South Western Australia. Benefits were achieved from stream lining processes, improving management and supervisory skills, and more awareness of performance through balanced scorecards. Meanwhile improving safety by decreasing safety indicators by 12%. * Managed a team of 8 in the UK with a major medical device manufacturer. Scope included improving operations productivity, reduction of maintenance downtime, scrap reduction, improving SKU footprint, and improvement in sourcing vendor contracts. Achieved benefits of $16 million annualized in 6 months. * Led a team of 5 to develop a business case for a major engineering firm that showed an opportunity of $15 million in proposed benefits. Scope included strategic sales in nuclear engineering and the streamline of major processes. Also helped determine the go-to market strategy for their new BOP (Build on Plant) business. * Participated at a South East Asia open pit nickel mine, in the utilities and engineering departments. Helped improve consistency in dam and diesel powered generates and improved cycle times for project completion. The work helped enable the site to achieve record levels of throughput. * Managed analysis at a leading construction materials manufacturer in the US to build a business case to improve operations productivity, S&OP improvement and inventory reduction. Conducted analysis in 6 plants and HQ in three weeks with a team of 8. Presented solutions to achieve an increase in EBITDA by 15% within the first year of the project.
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