Raymond R. Poirier
9862 Sadsbury
West Bloomfield, Michigan 48322
(248) 859-5698 (h): (734) 516-2251 (m)
Active US Secret Clearance rpoirier@comcast.net
www.leansixsigmaexpert.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/poirier
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CAREER SUMMARY AND SKILLS
 Over (20) year seasoned operational and transactional business process improvement efficiency expert/Program
Manager that is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)(PMI), Master Black Belt (MBB)/(BAH)
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)(ASQ) Certified Supply Chain Specialist (CSCP) (APICS) Certified
Information Security Professional (CIAPT)(NSRB), Certified Lean Expert (MMTC) with demonstrated IT transactional and operations implementation related experiences in multiple industries for a wide range of global and domestic projects
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Served over (10) Fortune 500 companies in (15) different countries in individual facility or multi-national global project management leadership roles
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Multiple vertical industry experience including Automotive, Government, Defense, Aerospace, Retail,
Telecommunications, Building Materials, Heavy Equipment and the Banking Sectors
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Over (10) years’ experience as a functional/technical lead, not a application technical configuration lead in ERP
Business solution deployments in various SAP/Oracle core and sub module implementations including SAP ECC
6.0 core modules/sub modules for FICO,CRM,MM,SCM,HCM,QM,PM,SD,PPM,WM, PLM and Oracle 11i modules including HCM, FI, Purchasing, I Supplier, Sourcing, I Procurement, WM and PLM .
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Expert knowledge of various program management and SDLC methodologies including PM BOK, DMAIC,
Agile/Scrum, IBM Rational Unified Process, SAP-ASAP, Oracle-AIM, XP Programming, System Engineering or organizational hybrids of these methodologies.
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Numerous experiences in generating full life cycle project artifacts such as business Benefit analysis, ROI, high level project estimates, project kick-off and charter documents, RACI Matrix’s, project schedules, project risk assessments, product or process specifications and standards documents, SOW creation, RFP creation , SLA creation, change management activities, PMO portfolio management activities, technical and functional blue printing documents such as BPMI documents, system security impact assessments, business functional requirement documents, business or application enhancement documents, application conversion documents, application interface documents, application form requirement documents, application interface requirement documents, application data migration requirement documents, application data archiving requirement documents, application reporting and metric reporting requirement documents, application data mapping diagrams, infrastructure architectural diagrams and impact analysis for Sand-Box, DEV,QA and PROD environments, existing code enhancement requirement documents, application configuration documents, database and server sizing, loading, clustering and DR plans, realization documents such communication plans, training plans, cut over plans, code review plans, quality assurance application test plans, system integration test plans, data migration validation plans, IT operational support plans, business and IT lesson learned documents, project closure documents in manual or automated document management systems such as SAP Business Solution
Manager, Share point or organization shared network drives along with coordinating the development and testing of application testing in tools such as HP Quality Center Testing and Defect management tool for application quality assurance activities such as script development and testing of functional and nonfunctional application impacts, system integration impacts, application and infrastructure performance stress test, regression test or UAT user acceptance test.
 Proven knowledge in performing physical and transactional sub-business operational process improvements that directly affect core transactional solutions and recommending actions to streamline operations, increase competitiveness, systematically manage and utilize a life cycle methodology system approach to automate physical processes or to expand on the automation of current IT based or manual business processes transactional processes into a cohesive enterprise operational solution.
 Program Management experience of both “Local” and “Off Shore” IT network infrastructure/ programming contract support teams with combined teams ranging from 1 to 25 people

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Ability to plan, organize, deal effectively with the needs and changing priorities of technical peers, technical and user management, end users, vendors, and staff members using well developed soft skills for conflict management skills, change management skills, decision making skills, team building, problem solving, stakeholder management skills, coaching and mentoring, motivation techniques and situational leadership skills learned throughout my career. Strong leadership and communication skills with high degree of diplomacy and the ability to deal with and influence and managing external/internal vendors in all types of positions internally and externally. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and or priorities and react to project adjustments and alterations promptly, efficiently while maintaining the ability to effectively supervise, and work with others and to interact with all levels of the company. Flexible self-starter with demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit with demonstrated experience in building win-win relationships with Internal and external business, supply chain or IT partners along with formidable networking skills and connections. Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem solving skills. High energy and highly organized individual, who is self-motivated, and can work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
 Currently part time developer of course training material and book content for Pearson Publishing, Wiley
Publishing in the field of computer networking, information assurance, ERP systems and Program Management
 Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate written and oral instruction, directives, and briefings in authoritative, clear, concise and logical terms for implementing procedures, making work assignments and for presenting recommendations and technology conclusions.
 Knowledge of common Network Architecture concepts including physical or In house or remote Virtual Servers and load balancing, server clustering, server architectural layering for LAN, WAN, MAN, and DMZ, Intrusion
Detection, etc. for application development, application testing and application production environments.
 Exposure, but not configuration capabilities of numerous operating systems for various host and client server platforms including MS Windows2003, Chrystal Reports Server 2005, SQL Server 2005-2008 and Share-point
Server 2008, MS Windows 2008 R2, MS Active Directive Servers, 08 servers, Oracle Severs, Db2 Servers and
Unix and Linux based servers.
 Projects included the use of Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for access management and single user sign on network security approaches
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Excellent capabilities in requirement gathering, specification development for IT enterprise infrastructure architectural design using DODAF, TOGAF, POLDAT or ZACHMAN architectural frameworks.
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Basic knowledge not configuration knowledge of Platform Operating Systems such as
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Knowledgeable in supporting the deployment of ETL-ETI data warehouse and data mart and BW/BI solutions that included migration, extraction and database and network integrations of various protocol, proxies and data types using Metadata (MDM) Master Data Model concepts under a SOA Service Oriented Architecture governance framework to support rapid response and use of legacy and new enterprise data.
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Limited experience in Data modeling through the use of Unified Modeling Language UML 2.0 to generate
Logical Data Models to aid in programming activities.
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Database knowledge includes, development of RBDMS Rational Based Database Management Systems and
DBMS Database Management Systems with limited skills in Database Modeling, Table Creation, Entity Creation,
Data Attribute Modeling, Database Primary Key definition, Database Table Relationship definition/integration, and SQL Query generation and reporting
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Previous experience in supporting the deployment of numerous IT business Governances models that have included following ISO20000, ISO 27001, CMMi L1-L5, ITIL 3.0 and 4.0. COBIT 4.1 Governance frameworks
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(10) years ERP System experience with (2) SAP/Oracle ERP and business solution lifecycle deployments with various sub modules
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Coordinated application customization programmers and network engineers to coordinate various networking communication protocols such as SNMP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP to bring legacy system into SOA Environment using XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI Web Service based data technology solutions using Middleware solutions such as IBM 6.0 and 7.0 Websphere solutions.
 Program Management experience of both “Local” and “Off Shore” IT network infrastructure/ programming contract support teams with combined teams ranging from 1 to 25 people
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Basic knowledge of differences in software Code Syntax, Code functions and Code Order of Precedence, Code
Opperand and Code QA testing concepts and differences without specific coding and programming expertise .

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Numerous assignments of managing software development programmers and reporting of programming performance metrics for programmers using ABAP, RFC, BAPI, for ERP systems and other Object Oriented
.NET based languages Java Sharp, C-Sharp, C++, VB.NET, ASP.NET Python/Perl, PHP, SQL application programming.
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Working functional knowledge, not application configuration knowledge of various PDM and PLM applications such Wind-chill PTC, Siemens Team Center, SAP PLM, Autodesk PLM 360,O racle Agile PLM, Enovia and
Arena PLM solutions and their associated 3D Cad Modeling packages including Autodesk Inventor, CATIA V 4-
5, Pro-E, Solid works, UG 3D Modeling tools and there attribute integration with these PLM and product change management solutions
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Expertise in creation and evaluation of mechanical, electrical and structural engineering building or product designs, ICD and associative EBOM/MBOM/IBOM,PBOM, etc for various products or complex systems including complex electrical mechanical and software integrated products.
 Trained or mentored over (5) Master Black Belts, (40) Black Belts and hundreds of Lean Leaders
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Conducted over (50) Lean Six Sigma Enterprise assessments and LSS deployments/redeployments across various domestic/international business and industries
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Numerous deployments of Quality, Environmental and Safety Management Systems including TS-16949,ISO-
9001, ISO 14001 and OSHA 18001 and combined BOS System models.
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Successful deployment of (2) New Product Development and Testing Centers of Excellence for Automotive soft trim and composite materials
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Successfully managed the specification, design, build and deployment of (8) new manufacturing facilities including planning the physical IT physical infrastructures and applications, all associated manufacturing and material handling process equipment/tooling, material handling solutions, product test and development area, warehouses, and offices and supply chain establishments.
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Coordinated over (200) types of new physical product developments, supply chain management development efforts and have coordinated over 200 APQP/PPAP product submittal and approvals
 Ability to maintain and safeguard the confidential information of the company as an effective communicator on all levels with a willingness and ability to coach others on best practices and methodologies.
 Intermediate to expert computer skills in Office 2007 including, Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Access, MS Project,
MS Visio, Auto Cad, Minitab 16.0 and various other software applications such as Metastorm Process Modeling software. Capable of generating UML based Logical Data Models in MS Visio
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Excellent knowledge of DOD Defense Acquisition, System Engineering, Technology Deployment, Logistics
Management, Federal Accounting and Financial Management Systems
EDUCATION
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MBA, Technology Management, University of Phoenix, 12/03
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BS, Electro-Mechanical Robotic Technologies, Robotics/Fluid Power, Siena Heights University, 09/90
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Davenport University (On Line/In Seat) Information Technology/ Information Assurance 10/07-Present
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ITT Technical Institute (On Line/In Seat) Information Technology/ Information Assurance 10/09-Present
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Courses currently teaching include various 100-400 level courses in Computer Networking, Network Server
Configuration Windows based platforms, IDS-Log Management, CRM-Contact Center Operation and
Optimization, and SOX level IT System Auditing, Enterprise Information Assurance Planning/Prevention/Policy,
Biometrics, Program Management, and MS Office Applications.
 University Professor in the field of SDLC Lifecycles, Computer Networking, Network Architecture, Unified
Communications
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University Professor in the field of Program Management, SDLC Lifecycles, Data Management, Configuration
Management, Information Assurance Policies and Procedures, Cryptography and Encryption

KEY CERTIFICATIONS AND ISSUING ORGANIZATIONS
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Certified Master Black Belt MBB (BAH-MMTC) and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt SSBB (ASQ)
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Certified Program Management Professional PMP (PMI)
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Certified Lean Expert CLE (BAH/MMTC, Other)
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Certified Supply Chain Professional CSCP (APICS)
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Certified Information Insurance Professional CIAPT (NSRB)
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Certified Configuration Management and PLM Specialist, Certified Level 1 System and Logistics Engineering
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Acquisition, Contracting (Department of Defense)
Certified Distance Learning Blackboard V-9 Instructor (Davenport University)
Certified Distance Learning Instructor (Questa) ITT Technical Institute
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Over (20) Additional Certifications available upon request in Environmental, Health, Safety and Technical and
Supply chain and Logistical support areas
EXPERIENCES
Lean Transformations LLC/MPRoi/ Ulta Beauty/HCL/Consumers Energy 3/2012-Present
(Auburn Hills Michigan-Chicago, Illinois, Jackson Michigan)
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Senior Program Manager and Portfolio Lead for (BR&B) Customer Relations and Billing SAP 6.0 ECC and Non
SAP Applications for Consumers Energy.
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Managed staff of over 50 people located locally and off shore in Nadia India to support CE SAP and Non SAP
Applications
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SAP ECC Modules and related technologies managed include FICA/FICO/Billing/DM/IDE/PWB/E-services/ Net
Weaver Portals, SD/Front Office/ MM, CRM 5 to CRM 7 and SAP HRSP upgrades. Additional responsibilities include all XI/PI interfaces, Biz Talk 9.0 EDI data transfers and manipulations and managed file transfers and
Redwood batch job scheduling application.
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Staff responsible for daily monitoring of multiple applications and batch run activities, batch run failure resolution, daily Incident Management, Minor and Operational Enhancement activities with the various SAP
Modules and related technologies using HPSM and HPQM support applications under strict SLA for all incident or enhancement activities. Managed over 16 ABAP developers located both locally and offshore to support day to day support and enhancement activities.
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Coordinated cross functional Portfolio and support coordination with Portfolio leaders and teams supporting other SAP Core applications, Hardware Infrastructure, BI/BW, Share Service including all Basis Teams and
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Non SAP Applications responsible for include Genesys IVR, MV-90, CE in house .net based, CMR application,
ISIS file printing application, ASP, BOS, Envision, PMX ,FMRS, Hyperion, Points Plus and CSR applications
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Responsible for the knowledge transfer of multiple applications and new applications for deployment of Smart
Grid technologies including Itron MDM, Itron TMS, BIT Stew and Corvix applications
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Developed and presented SAP Technical Awareness, Soft Skills and Program Management Methodology skills d templates for Ray-Connect International SAP 6.0 ECC deployment for their North America Manufacturing operations.
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Served as a troubleshooting Program Manager to get SAP enhancement projects on track for Ulta Beauty to implement upgrades to their SAP-Traversity POS solution from V9.5 to V10.2 and to add application enhancements for Return Authorization and Transnet real time messaging and file transfer capabilities to their sales processing activities
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Provided end to end PMO Methodology, Process, Templates to Ulta Beauty to manage current and future IT and
SAP application enhancement projects.

Autodesk Inc. 11/2011-3/2012
Autodesk PLM Product Manager (Novi Michigan-Toronto Canada)
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Internal consultant to Web-SQL-Java based platform software development team to define requirements for the development of their new Autodesk 360 PDM-PLM Solution for multi industry use for advanced BOM and
Configuration Management capabilities, Program, Portfolio and Project Management capabilities, Compliance
Management system capabilities, Quality Management System capabilities and Vendor and Supplier Management capabilities.
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Identified, innovated, documented, developed use cases to justify product capabilities improvements suggested for to improve the platform functionality for both administrators and end user experiences.
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Developed a wide arrangement of End User Applications using the Autodesk PLM 360 platform technology for areas of expertise that included solutions for New Product Development Processes, ISO-9001/9001, AS-9100/3,
ISO- TS-16949, APQP-PPAP, TQM, Lean Six Sigma, Packaging and Material Management, Transportation
Management, Material Flow and Supply Chain Partner Assessments
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Requirement definition for software development included the application to be CMII complaint for Change
Management tools and processes, Quality reporting and tracking processes such as CAPA, RMG, Warranty
Management, Warehouse Management, and some International Environmental Compliance directives, ROHS,
REACH,WEEE and Export Control Regulations such as ITAR, EAR for Intellectual Property Protection.
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Coordinated Internal Platform integration efforts for data sharing and interoperability between various Autodesk products including Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault, Autodesk Buzz Saw and Autodesk PLM-360 in preparation for the product launch.
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Served on team to define requirements of for third party Middleware Software providers such as the IBM Cast
Iron and IBM Web-sphere products to establish an expert team of third party application integrators to generate integration data links between ERP solutions such as SAP, Oracle, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics, etc with the
Autodesk PLM 360 platform.
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Participated in performing PLM competitor analysis for like PLM products such as Arena, Enovia, Team Center and Wind-chill.
Lean Transformations L.LC/Omnex//Yazaki/GB Solutions/Kelly Services 9/2010-11/2011
IT Business Process Improvement Analyst and MBB Consultant (Warren/Troy Michigan-Montreal Canada)
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IT Business and Process Consultant for Kelly Services to define, process map and provide innovated manual and automated solution upgrades and process improvements to launch their Enterprise Wide 2012 Annual Price
Increase Process across there HQ and 2000 Branch Offices. Project launched successfully and expected to deliver over $20M of additional net profit to Kelly Services Americans business operations.
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Served as Business Analyst to manage and finalize technical requirements for (4) application developers for developing and solidifying requirements for the Internal Yazaki PLM .net application and SQL database application legacy system integration project. Deploy IBM Rational IT System Implementation Program
Management process and Agile SDLC methods for software development effort that included Process Definition
Plan, Conversion-Migration Definition Plan, Interface Plan, Form Development Plan and Report Definition Plan for application launch. Application developed in C Sharp on Windows 3.5.NET framework. Responsible to develop user access plan with use of Active Directory infrastructure.
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Business analyst and MBB support for Army PEO-Integration office for assessment and consultation on modification of core business process via manual based processes or IT automated process means to improve their business services offering within the Army Program Executive Office.
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Project Management leader for Bombardier Aerospace for the deployment of Supply Chain Partner and Aircraft
Final Assembly Line Advance Quality Planning Deployment for the new C-Series single aisle aircraft
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Training, Coaching and mentoring (10) Bombardier personnel in Bombardier in understanding current business processes for improvement, product design processes, validation and verification processes and quality system.
Developed requirements for establishment and launching of BA Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for their aircraft Final Assembly Line (FAL) .
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AQP deployment includes coaching and mentoring of BA staff in performing organizational cross functional workshops for developing Business Process Flow Analysis, Design and Process FMEA and Control Plans
Program Manager for In House Software development activity for PLM system integration and application enhancements. Project includes MDM development, data migration, database attribute definition, business process mapping, business rules establishment

Jacobs Technology Inc. 10/07 – 9/2010
Lean Six Sigma Practice Director/System Engineer Enterprise Architecture CIO/CTO Office US Army
(Warren Michigan, Huntsville Alabama)
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Project Management leader for US (AMC)Army Material Command HQ to deploy an enterprise wide Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) configuration/program data management and change management control solution and its integration to a SAP ECC 5.0 ERP core solution. Project included defining requirements to consolidate numerous disparage legacy business management applications within the SAP sub module tool set. Coordinated numerous SDLC development projects using wide arrangements of deployment models such as PM Bok, IBM
Rational, Agile/Scrum, Waterfall and Spiral methods.
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Core team member to deploy enterprise wide Business Intelligence (BI/BO) solution for senior leadership performance dashboards for (AMC) of the US Army. Task include integration of data sources, implementation of a data services layer with a SOA middle ware architecture and unified communications, using ETI-ETL automated processes using IBM Infosphere products for numerous disparaged IT system/databases to provide dashboards for operational performance and readiness across numerous sub organizations of the enterprise.
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Supported the development of Enterprise Architecture and system integration deployment plan which included data sources layers, data services layer, date integration layer/web services layer, with EDW and presentation layer for reporting all Army Material Command business operation functions metrics in dashboards.
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Project leader in deploying helping numerous governance models that were dependant on the functional business activity to help various government organizations become certified in achieving CMMI-L1-L5, ITIL ISO-27000
Level certification. Key Support and coordination of project resourcing and activities across various DOD departments and functional areas in engineering and logistics information data management and mapping, configuration management and legacy business process integration for SAP ECC 5.0 solution to support the Army
Logistics Modernization Program (LMP).
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Developed (MBD) Model Based Definition, Data Attributes, Data Model and Data Mapping for various engineering and logistical functions to support the use of various 3D CAD Modeling system, including Pro-E,
UG, Catia V4-5, Solid works for use in both Share-point Enterprise Content Management and Wind-chill PTC and SAP PLM change management and product data management solution. Responsibilities included Program
Management and generation of all IT project management artifacts for the initiating, planning, blueprinting, realization, Quality assurance, Go Live and Final Project Support ad Close-up activities.
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Served as enterprise MRAP-MATV FOV Configuration and Program Data Manager for PLM integration into ,
SAP ECC 5.0-LMP Core and sub module system integration with various legacy transactional and business/product design/product configuration management, fielding deployment and spare part sustainment applications and databases.
 Enterprise data and configuration/data management coordination responsibilities include control and management of various Military vehicle product engineering technical data packages, software data packages, contractor DID
CDRL data deliverables and contract surveillance compliance for five (5) major DOD contractors
 Responsibilities included the writing and development of Contractual (SOW) Statement of Work Language to obtain proper data from the defense contractors and to ensure all data deliverables and usage was in compliance to
FAR, DFAR and ITAR, CDRL, Military Standards, Data Item Descriptions (DID), and Mil Specification-
Handbook and performance specification requirements for data acquisition of various types of DOD contracts including IDIQ, STS, CLS and CR contracts.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Associate/Business Process Improvement Analyst/Program Manager
05/06 – 10/07
Warren Michigan, France, England, Germany, Spain, China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE
 Lean Sensei and Master Black Belt consultant to C-Level and Plant operational leaders of (18) Airbus engineering and manufacturing facilities performing organization Business Process Improvement and re engineering assessments throughout Europe for the enterprise redeployment of their LSS initiatives.
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Airbus effort included generation of location by location LSS cost saving opportunities, LSS deployment roadmaps, establishment of enterprise LSS best practice database and re-development of common comprehensive
Lean and Six Sigma process improvement and training program across the entire corporation
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Served in a SAP R3V4 trouble shooting capacity during plant assessments to resolve various business enterprise solution to physical interfaces issues with internal/external supply chain partners, functional support manual transactional business processes areas to overcome system wide configuration management and system interconnectivity functionality problems.

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Program Manager to establish Full Lifecycle business enterprise system requirements and deployment strategy that included system wide, requirement specification generation, release for quotation packages, and assessment of SAP-Oracle technical proposals and purchase for the deployment of SAP ECC 6.0 or Oracle 11i based ERP
Business Enterprise Solutions with over 20 core/sub modules for Telecommunications Company in Saudi Arabia.
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Project leader in establishing numerous governance models for Saudi Telecom joint venture to help them achieve
CMMI-L1-L5, ITIL v3 certifications
 Telecommunications integration included the consolidation of nine retail joint venture partners and business processes into a single consolidated SOA environment for fixed line and mobile telecommunication services organization managed by a single ERP Business Enterprise Solution.
 Joint venture company consolidated included the Program Management and business enterprise cut-over solution and IT infrastructure to support over 900 combined retail outlets, 30 distribution centers, 35,000 POS locations and 3000 employees with $4B USD/Year revenues for a cash based business model.
 Responsible to establish internal (PMO) Program Management Office and its reporting infrastructure and tools for
Citigroup Financial Services that managed international and domestic Information Technology Data Centers,
Network Architectures and Software Development and Deployment activities for the Organization
 Facilitated the development and implementation of Performance Based Logistic PBL contracting methods, analysis tools and processes flows for TACOM acquisition and contracting center
Lean Transformations L.LC /Visteon Services L.L.C/ Daimler Chrysler/ IR Bobcat/HBPO/RTLF 04/03 – 04/06
Consultant
Warren Michigan, Redford Michigan, Monroe Michigan Gwinner North Dakota, Hermosillo Mexico, Windsor
Canada, Pusan Korea
 Program Manager to define project scopes, organizational structure, business processes, operational environment and business practices using physical or transactional business process improvement capabilities.
 Created WBS work plans, cost estimates and resource allocations for the establishment of new facilities, manufacturing process, business network IT operating systems infrastructures, manufacturing /logistical support processes to launch new business manufacturing operations in Hermosillo and Toluca, Mexico, Windsor, Canada,
St Louis, Missouri.
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HBPO task included business case development, cost estimating and business capture of over $200M USD of new business
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HBPO project included integration of new facilities in US, Canada and Mexico with existing SAP-R3 ECC 5.0
FM,MM,SCM,HCM,QM,WM sub modules system infrastructure based out of Germany.
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Project included the coordination of ABAP and BAPI customization of SAP ERP integration effort to support a business model that required (JIS) “Just in Sequence” manufacturing processes procurement forecast and order management capabilities including warehouse management SCM tools for these JIT/JIS approaches
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HBPO responsibilities included the specification, purchase or lease of new manufacturing facilities and manufacturing/ logistical/test and IT hardware and software support equipment and processes
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Consultant to Ingersoll Rand-Bobcat to resolve operational part shortage and internal fabricated parts over/under stock issues due to a problem implementation of enterprise wide Oracle 11i ERP MM and WM Modules.
Improvements included new use of plant floor hand held POS part tracking and labeling devices in the physical operation as well as establishment of pre defined in-bound material receiving windows, warehouse inventory staging practices, new part storage identification methods and reduced inbound product inspections.
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Consultant to Daimler Chrysler Warren Truck Assembly plant to perform plant wide manufacturing process optimization and process/part communization opportunity assessments to find synergies between the 2006-2007
Dodge Ram, Dodge Dakota pick-up trucks and new 2009 Dodge Ram Light Duty Pick-up truck that resulting in over 350 opportunities for use of common parts, improved data management and configuration management support processes
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Consultant to various small and medium size businesses in numerous manufacturing industries to teach, educate and deploy Lean Six Sigma and business process improvement principles, practices and methods for the Michigan
Manufacturing Technology Center in support of State of Michigan funded small business grants and financial incentives to improve the State of Michigan overall manufacturing competiveness.
 Consultant to “General Motors Power Train Division for the deployment of the GMS General Motors Lean
Manufacturing System for the launch of a highly manually assembled, low volume, turbo charged engine assembly manufacturing line to build Cadillac CTS LS-7 V8 engine and Corvette LC-3 500 HP turbo charged engines.

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Contract employee to apply lean six sigma principles to Visteon/ACH Monroe chassis drive shaft manufacturing operations supporting the Ford F-150 program. Task included implementing process development-modification, tool set up and quality inspection modifications that reduced scrap by 20% reduced change over time by 30% and improved part productivity by 15% within a two month period.
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Consultant to RTLF serving in multi functional role as Engineering Manager, Quality Manager and Program
Manager for establishing a new minority soft trim sun visor manufacturing operation in the Detroit Michigan area to support Lear Corporation for a bankrupt supplier.
Owens Corning Automotive
Senior Engineer/Program Manager
06/01 – 04/03
Toledo Ohio- Novi Michigan
 Program Manager responsible to define project scopes, work estimates, plans and resource allocations for the establishment of new facilities, business operating systems, manufacturing /logistical support processes and
IT/ERP infrastructures to launch new composite product development center in Novi, Michigan.
 Task included integration of new facility into existing SAP R3 ECC V5.0 core applications and sub-modules that included FM,CRM,HCM/HR, MM/SCM and LMS into the facility to support the new operations
 Responsible for site selection, employee recruiting, facility and manufacturing equipment specification, purchase
and installation of all facility, office and information technology support capital equipment including servers,
Switches, network wiring, routers, switches, firewalls, PBX-VOIP system with their associated operating systems
 Used and trained employees in Lean Six Sigma principles, practices and productivity improvement tools such as
Value Stream Mapping, Visual Management, Error Proofing, SMED, Standard Operations, One-Piece Flow,
Kanban Systems, Total Productive Maintenance, and Lean Metrics to establish new facility business practices
 Developed various business cases and product design innovations to show automotive OEM the cost effectiveness of various composite parts manufacturing technologies to replace existing metal product solutions with single part composite product solutions.
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Responsible to launch TS-16949,ISO-9001, ISO 14001 and OSHA 18001 Organizational Management Systems
MSX International/G-Tech Services/Ford Motor Company 07/00 – 05/01
Product Development Engineer
Dearborn Michigan
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Project Coordinator-Program Manager for the deployment of (FPS) Ford Lean Production System deployment efforts that included the coordination and involvement of over 21 functional support organizations in the Ford
Motor Company business enterprise.
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Assigned task included the development of Rouge complex wide Internal Supply Chain value stream maps that showed past state, current state and future state map-vision for the Rouge Manufacturing Complex that drove numerous changes from external sourcing strategies to internal sourcing strategies in order to fully utilize the
Rouge complex manufacturing plants close proximity and available manufacturing capacities.
 Served as Design Release Engineer “DRE” for Thyssen-Krupp Automotive at Ford Motor Company for the design, Modeling and Simulation, prototype and production build of a stamped steel front and rear chassis module system.
ITT Industries-Valeo/RDS 06/98 – 06/00
Senior Engineer/Project Manager
Special Consulting/Contract Engineer
Bangkok Thailand, Fort Worth Texas, Auburn Hills Michigan, Shanghai China
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Responsible for the establishment and development of new “Off shore” joint venture and supply chain manufacturing partner in Thailand for making complete vehicle wiper systems assemblies and sub assemblies.
Spent extensive time in South East Asia developing JV partners for establishment of South East Asia supply chain for component manufacturing including deep drawn stamped steel parts, die cast parts and CNC machining, insert plastic injection molded parts, heat treated parts, blow mold parts and small part assembly operations.
 Development of Profit & Loss business case analysis and supply chain sourcing strategies using Toyota
Production System TPS lean practices and principles that resulted in the business case justification of a new high volume surface mount Surface Mount Technology Printed Circuit Board product manufacturing plant in the
Dallas Fort Worth area. Responsibilities included the specification, purchase and installation of a new High
Technology Surface Mount Technology building and manufacturing process and test equipment.

Axxis Corporation
Operations and Plant Manager
02/98 – 06/98
Toyota City Japan- Livonia Michigan
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Responsible for specification, building and launch of new 30,000 sq./ft manufacturing facility that included the implementation of 15 new and used 200 Ton injection molding machines, raw material compounding equipment, new small part assembly lines, new material flow systems and new part packaging systems
 Responsibilities included the transfer, modification and maintenance for over 60 injection molds to run in newly launched injection equipment and processes.
 Responsible for implementing product configuration and product change management systems to interface with
Japan, headquarter product engineering activities.
 Project included site selection, employee recruiting, facility and manufacturing equipment specification, purchase
and installation of facility IT infrastructure capital equipment.
 Received extensive training in Toyota City Japan, on Toyota Production System techniques for optimal facility,
Material flow and manufacturing process design establishment.
 Responsible to deploy small single facility based mid size company QAD based ERP IT hardware and software infrastructure to support the business operations.
WA Systems/Staff Resources /American Axle
Manager Cost Estimating
04/97 – 01/98
Wixom Michigan
 Responsible for the development of home grown standard component usage and parts management MS Access database that included supply chain partner and pricing information to integrate this information with job number, new equipment BOM’s and product structures to complete a real time feedback loop from Engineering to Purchasing, to accounts receivable/ payable and the cost estimating functional areas.
 Responsible to concept, perform cost estimating pricing of various highly automated handling systems for high tolerance machined component using standard components such as meters, shot pins, hitch lifts, Ferris wheel elevators, flight elevators, gravity storage units, pick and place units, lift and carry devices, pusher/pullers, etc using AutoCAD Windows V13. Task included calculating job material budgets, job labor budgets, job gross profit margins based on conceptual layout solution developed for company client base
Magna Versa Trim/United Technologies Automotive/Textron 02/95 – 03/97
Industrial Engineer-Operations Manager
Howell Michigan, Westland Michigan, Port Huron Michigan
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Plant Floor Operators Manager for 300 person UAW plant production and maintenance staff for automotive headliner manufacturing operation for Textron Interiors.
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Optimization of plant wide synchronized physical material flow and material management systems and its integration with home grown AS-400 based Material Management System.
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Consultant to develop and implement short term productivity improvement plan for H-Body interior door trim panels and instrument panel manufacturing process for Magna Versa-trim Howell Operations that achieved 10% scrap reduction and six piece hour /interior trim productivity improvement.
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Responsible for the development of the manufacturing process, equipment and tooling for GMX-130 1999 interior trim door panel program for Delphi transfer of business to Peregrine Inc. Manufacturing and part flow improvements resulting in headcount reductions of (6) people in N-Body Kiefel vacuum forming and door panel assembly area.

Johnson Controls Automotive
Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Manager
05/93 – 03/95
Plymouth Michigan
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Responsibilities included business case, specification, budget generation, budget management, and purchase/installation and Program management of new 50,000 sq. /ft addition to Johnson Controls Corporate headquarters in Plymouth Michigan.
 Task included defining scope of work, budgets, resource requirements and IT infrastructure integration connectivity for the implementation of $4.5 million of capital equipment, tooling and the integration of the facility into legacy IT systems for launch of prototype product development plant.
 Responsibilities included specification and development of new product development processes, prototype manufacturing processes and product testing solutions and IT hardware and software infrastructures.
 Implementation of new facility included engineering offices, office support staff cubicles, Product Testing
Development laboratories and IT Hardware/software infrastructure to support new operation.
 New product development capabilities required implementation of new reverse engineering laser based CMM and clay modeling shop that directly transferred data into various 3D Cad Modeling systems which resulted in over a
(6) month reduction in the product development lifecycles.
 Responsibilities included management of non union engineering staff i.e. process engineers, test engineers and maintenance technician’s for the facilities automotive seating soft foam, metal seat frame and interior cloth plant.
Ford Motor Company/RST/CIMSPEC/IAA
Project Engineer
Dearborn Michigan, Troy Michigan
06/88 – 05/93
Special Contract employee for the following assignments:
 Project Engineer for the Utica Trim Plant for the development of business case/ plan, manufacturing process development, equipment and tooling specifications and procurement for $10 million capital equipment and $4 million tooling budget for energy absorbing foam program that added 85 UAW jobs to the plant.
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Development of automated method of de-flashing reaction injection molded products using cryogenics methods that Ford Motor Company applied for US Patent on for manufacturing process innovation.
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Implementation of numerous paint shop modifications for industry first,PN-96 pick-up truck RIM exterior body quarter panel product to be produced in the plant
Chrysler Corporation
Project Engineer/Robotics and Automation Specialist
08/84 – 06/88
Twinsburg Ohio, Detroit Michigan, Warren Michigan, Sterling Heights Michigan and St Louis Missouri
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Served as core launch team member of the Dodge City 200,000 sq./ft paint shop addition to Chrysler Warren
Truck Plant including some of the corporations first implementations of unprimed automated painting systems, robotized sealer deck/automation, unprimed dry sand booths, robotic and feather duster based vehicle paint booths, top coat drying ovens, and robotically applied underbody coating protection systems
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Responsible for the process development, specification, launch and implementation electrical-mechanical and controls trouble shooting of corporations first cross member robotic mig welding system and first robot based resistance welding applications for vehicle door panels, quarter panels, hoods and deck lids.