11/2009-PRESENT
Primary research firm and full service broker-dealer serving the global institut
ional investment fund community.
Industry Consultant, Pump, Seal & Valves
Serving as part-time industry advisor on an as-needed basis.
FLOWSERVE CORPORATION
2004-2009
World leader in supplying pumps, valves, seals, automation and services to power
, oil, gas, chemical industries.
Global Quality Director & Master Black Belt, Flowserve Pump Division (2005 - 200
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Directed all business actions relating to maintaining and effective Quality Mana
gement System across 76 global business units with annual revenues of $2B. Overs
aw 80 quality management system employees globally, ensuring strategic project g
oals were achieved. Established yearly strategic goals & objectives while provid
ing oversight of Division monthly EBITDA and P&L.
* Saved company $10M, reducing Warranty levels from 2.0% to 0.96%.
* Led turn-around of Flowserve Pump Division at Vernon, California site, (the wo
rld's largest testing facility) through process improvements, reducing backlog w
hich resulted in annual savings of $65M.
* Developed new Global Quality System Manual, trained personnel and implemented
Global Quality Audits System, implemented new Global Automated Corrective Action
Reporting System (CARS), Supplier Quality Scorecard, Supplier Quality Manual, P
lant Reporting Operations Dashboard, Divisional Cost of Poor Quality Metrics, Gl
obal Engineering and Quality Standards, Global Final Inspection Checklist, and c
reated a Global Automated Customer Satisfaction Survey system in 14 languages, i
mproving customer satisfaction ratings and establishing a centralized global cor
porate quality system.
* Improved quality and customer satisfaction levels to build successful relation
ships with ExxonMobil/Royal Dutch Shell/ and SunCor leading to sole source contr
acts across Royal Dutch Shell and SunCor.
* Part of Corporate Core MBB team to develop and rollout new Global Lean Deploym
ent Initiative that included a Site Lean Analysis and identification of Site Lea
n Initiatives.
Corporate Master Black Belt, CIP Americas, Flowserve Corporate (2004 - 2005)
Worked directly with Divisional Continuous Improvement personnel to implement Le
an-Six Sigma throughout the organization.
* Lead Divisional Continuous Improvement efforts while working jointly with Divi
sional Champions.
* Lead a joint high-level project directly for the President & CEO of Flowserve
focusing on reducing losses of over $65M from the previous year resulting in a $
65M savings for the Division for the current FY '04 exceeding budget prediction
s. Improvement effort was also used as a benchmark to improve subsequent plants
within Flowserve.
* Developed and managed Corporate CIP President's Quarterly metrics to track tra
ining and certification rates across all divisions within Flowserve.
* Lead training for over 447 Green and 100 Black Belts resulting in improve cert
ification rates of 50% over previous levels.
* Developed Champion and Kaizen Training and lead Semiannual Black Belt conferen
ces across the America's.
CENTRAL PARKING SYSTEMS
2002-2003
Leader in professional parking management, providing parking and related service
s in NA and United Kingdom.
Corporate Master Black Belt
Recruited to implement Six Sigma program across the Corporation.
* Led waste reduction project to optimize cash flow with CFO, resulting in yearl
y savings of $16M.
* Implemented waste reduction projects in process improvements, totaling over $2
1M in savings.
* Developed global process, improving collection rates of non-sufficient-fund ch
ecks from 20% to 80%, resulting in $2M savings.
* Established corporate program to implement Six Sigma and training of 36 region
al personnel.
* Led development & implementation of new Lexis Automated Pay systems, improving
customer satisfaction.
JOHNSON CONTROLS , (AUTOMOTIVE SEATING DIVISION)
1999-2002
$25B independent supplier of automotive seating and interior systems. Supplying
Fortune customers, BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Ni
ssan, Renault, Toyota, and VW.
Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) Manager / Six Sigma Black Belt, Automot
ive Systems Group
Managed implementation of Lean / Six Sigma to include metrics development, champ
ion training, identification and tracking of projects and submission of capital
expenditure (CapEx) projects.
* Drove process improvements across 500 UAW personnel site to train and implemen
t Lean / Six Sigma concepts and Kaizens, resulting in $3M savings.
* Improved metal stamping process which reduced waste by 30%, downtime by 100%,
key in the elimination of land-filling of saturated oil materials. Received Env
ironmental Award from Governor of Kentucky for Leadership in Pollution Preventio
n.
* Developed and directed (RTY) Rolled Throughput Yield process improvements, inc
reasing Rolled Throughput Yields by 40%.
* Implemented Throughput/Cycle Time improvements, utilizing robotic and CNC syst
ems to reduce waste.
* Led process improvement to reduce Sunday overtime across UAW facility by 88%,
saving $500K yearly.