SUMMARY OF SKILLS
• Product/system development
• Project management
• Predictive analytics
• Quantitative/qualitative modeling
• Design of experiments
• Data analysis
• Business process engineering
• Systems analysis
• Quality management
• Engineering
• Lean/Six-Sigma
• Algorithm design
• Organization development
• Writing, teaching, training
PROJECT-MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Proficient in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) • Comfortable with “nontraditional” methodologies such as Agile/Scrum • Created special tools and metrics for evaluating and managing projects • Led a project to create a sustainability-metric (e.g., FSC, PEFC, SFI) management system in SAP • Led numerous projects to create, model, implement, or improve business processes in SAP/APO • Led numerous capital projects to design, develop, test, implement, and support new products and processes for the snow- and ice-removal industry • Led numerous capital projects to create or improve facilities and (e.g., CAD/CAM networks, engineering laboratories, testing facilities and equipment)
PRODUCT- AND SYSTEM-DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
Paper Making Operations-Planning Systems
I used the SAP/APO module to design, develop, and implement wide varieties of production and distribution models to optimize supply chain efficiencies and to facilitate special programs and campaigns. In many instances I created simulation models to evaluate alternative proposals, refine designs, and train personnel and managers.
Paper Making Sustainability-Management System
I led a project team to design, develop, and implement a system within SAP for managing such sustainability metrics and FSC or PEFC credits and/or percentages.
Snow- and Ice-Removal Products
I led a group of engineers, designers, and technicians responsible for designing and developing new products, updating and improving existing products, reducing costs, investigating and resolving field failures, providing manufacturing engineering and quality-management services to the Production Department, providing vendor-qualification and product-qualification services to the Purchasing Department, and building and maintaining engineering laboratories and facilities.
During my tenure we cut the product-development time in half and dramatically reduced problems with new products by…
• Identifying key product metrics and creating design criteria, tests, test equipment, and QA metrics to meet them
• Collaborating with the Production and Purchasing Departments to ensure that product designs fitted comfortably within production and vendor capabilities
• Working with the Production and Purchasing Departments to stabilize in-house and vendor processes and quality
• Implementing a cross-functional process for identifying, specifying, designing, developing or modifying products
• Instituting advanced CAD/FEA capabilities
• Changing the organization of the Engineering Department to permit greater flexibility and matching of skills to tasks
• Cross-training personnel so every member of the Engineering Department had shop-floor experience
• Providing frequent college-level and graduate-level educational opportunities and in-house training
Shipbuilding Processes and Systems
I led project teams responsible for analyzing, designing, improving, and supporting advanced, modular shipbuilding practices. This included creating new ways of providing comprehensive technical information to production crews, instituting collaborative planning and tracking processes, and implementing ERP and CAD systems across organizational boundaries.
QUALITY-MANAGEMENT/SIX-SIGMA EXPERIENCE
Used such techniques as Gaming, Quality Function Deployment, Agile/Scrum, and TRIZ to guide cross-functional teams through the product-development process • Used such techniques as Design of Experiments to troubleshoot or obviate complex problems • Used Voice of the Customer techniques to identify and clarify market opportunities • Used various statistical techniques to monitor and improve processes • Designed and taught courses in Statistical Process Control and in Quality Management
SAP/APO SUPPLY CHAIN EXPERIENCE
Ten years of experience designing, creating, enhancing, testing, implementing, and supporting APO Global ATP processes and functions • Launched a project to develop and implement Supply Network Planning and Demand Planning functionality in APO • ...
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