Summary of Qualifications Results-producing management career spanning 25+ years, demonstrating year over year improvements in Quality, Cost, and Delivery functions. Strong and decisive operations leader with excellent analytical, organizational team building and planning skills. Maintain uncompromising focus on high quality standards and bottom-line profit improvement. Effective technical and communication abilities. Champion manufacturing philosophy based on housekeeping (5S theory), Takt time reductions through "pulling instead of pushing", lot size decreases for required setup times (Kaizen), and single piece flow implementation (Thinking Lean). Core knowledge and skill areas include: * Lean Manufacturing Practices - Continuous Improvement, teamwork and hands on leadership as a foundation. * Quality performance based on, fixing the root cause, improving the processes - creating ownership at the proper level and implementing a culture of metrics and teamwork. * Exceptional On Time Delivery based on program management, Sales, Operations and Procurement planning, MRP/ERP resources planning and control, elimination of non-value added processes. * Turnaround situations, consolidating operations, reducing the staff via waste elimination and process streamline, changing the culture, integrating teams with multisite experience. * Supporting new products or new customer product introduction. * Supply Chain Management, reducing inventory levels (Kanban), creating positive purchase price variances. * Program Management, audits and assessments like programs reviews, rate readiness reviews, program administration, sales and operations planning, etc. * Bilingual English - Spanish.

Highlights:

• Retail
• P&L
• Purchasing
• Logistics
• Manufacturing Management
• MRP
• Procurement
• Management
• Accounting
• Cost Accounting
• Operations Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Inventory Management
• Logistics Management
• Production Management