- New Product Development and Channel Extension
- Introduced new product via business to consumer channel, in addition to traditional business to business model
- Created Change Management awareness and support plan for individual stakeholder groups
- Fostered cross-functional and multi-year planning, awareness, and reporting structure
- Focused on communications and go-to-market strategy planning and execution
- Reinforced best practices in project management including metrics tracking, status reporting, accountability for deliverables, and milestone and deadline adherence
- New Product Launch and Lifecycle Management
- Repositioned and reenergized stalled program and team to meet extremely tight deadlines and high stakeholder expectations
- Managed cross-functional North American team, five business group project managers, two business analysts, European group partners, and external vendors
- Completed system and business process documentation, use case development, and requirements analysis and design
- Created new vendor RFP templates and procedures for current and future projects
- Incorporated new communication disciplines, documentation repository with version control process, and team collaboration sites
- Project Commentary Available – Logan Grauer and Chris Moore
- Financial Services - Mortgage Loan Acquisition
- Largest loan acquisition in U.S. banking history to date at $1.5 billion and 1.3 million loans
- Transfer, technical conversion and reconciliation of loans in multiple media type including 145 million images and 900,000 service files within 6 months
- Established and facilitated inter-departmental team activities including operations, information security, records management, contracts and vendor management, business analysis and 3rd party providers
- Introduced new project documentation standards and produced best practices guide as it relates to Mergers & Acquisitions project work for this department
- Project Commentary Available - Doug Pewowaruk
- Global Lean Six Sigma Deployment
- Managed multi-million dollar LSS training consulting contracts that trained 700 belt candidates in first year
- Established internal organization responsible for selecting candidates, training, certification, auditing
- Created infrastructure to support $3.5 m global roll-out of Lean Six Sigma events with 12 month self-funding result
- Global PMO and Project Management Discipline Implementation
- Developed, deployed, managed Project Management Methodology and associated training, coaching, audit
- Created and launched Program Management Office organization from inception to fully operational status
Project Commentary Available - Rick Peppin
- Manufacturing Restructuring Project, Core Team
- Closure of 12 facilities in North America and Europe
- Divesture of excess equipment, inventory, product lines
- Upgrades in equipment and infrastructure for open plants
Project Commentary Available - HBF Annual Report
- Production rationalization and product line consolidation
- Created project plan for implementation of operation excellence strategy based on low-cost delivery, hassle-free service, product performance, on-time delivery
- Planned move of product manufacturing between 6 plants, new transportation routes and distribution center locations
- U.S. Sales Organization process improvement teams
- Achieved margin improvement through efforts in container rationalization, order & transportation consolidation, and new warehouse stocking patterns
- Post-merger integration activities
- Inventory rationalization in 4 U.S. production facilities
- Production line rationalization in NA, Germany, India
- European transatlantic shipments during military deployments
- Radio Frequency - based inventory management
- Restructured warehousing system, transportation schedules, distribution center roles and routes
Project Commentary Available - LTC. Carol McKinney
- 3-year strategic plan for Asia Pacific manufacturing facilities
- Plants in Japan, China, Australia, Philippines, New Zealand
- Included process improvements, training methodologies, socio-economic forecast, and political trends
- Global supply chain restructure design, Cleveland, OH
- Designs for centralization of global supply chain functions including org design and job descriptions
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