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Troy Wood
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About
CI Manager & Engineering Leader
This candidate is a seasoned executive with 15 years of experience in lean process improvement, engineering, and quality assurance. With a proven track record of achieving operational excellence while meeting complex business needs, They blends proactive leadership with advanced technical understanding to achieve desired outcomes. Their strong team-building, critical thinking, and change management skills have yielded impressive results, including $2M in annual productivity gains and $2.4M in cost savings. As an exceptional communicator who fosters a culture of creativity and professional growth, this is the ideal candidate to empower your team and drive positive results.
Achievement Highlights
- Worked with leadership teams to deliver on key initiatives for improved product quality, increased safety, cost reduction, capacity improvements, strategic planning, and building high-performance teams.
- Led team to understand root-cause, plan DOE’s, to improve glass and metal bonding process for glass shelves where reduced rejection from 30% to 1% and eliminated multiple plant shutdowns
- Initiated and chaired Material Review Board (MRB) to continually asses and improve product performance; reduced COPQ by $50k in first year.
- Implemented Six Sigma projects using DMAIC, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Poke Yokes, that reduced the rejection rate by 18%, improved On-Time Delivery by 75% and increased Process Capability by 80%.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Founder
helps manufacturers run smooth operations by providing simple operations intelligence information leading to improved efficiency, profit, and growth while predicting upcoming changes.
Engineering Team Lead – Process
- Developed from scratch manufacturing process for launch of new product hidden screen by building high volume production process where a cell employeed 11 people per shift
- Launched corporate strategic initiatives and partnered with cross-functional teams (Operations, IT, Product Engineering, and Quality) to ensure successful implementation and achieve the leadership agenda of continuous improvement culture and goals.
- Spearheaded the use of an Industry 4.0 program strategy, an executive leadership top priority, that yielded improvements and provide $2M in productivity gains each year.
Continuous Improvement Lead
- Led an eight-member team focused on adopting the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) method, which improved Standard Work activities, workstation design, and solved complex problems.
- Executed organizational strategy by serving as a champion of initiatives that delivered continuous improvement, culture transformation, waste reduction, and cost savings.
- Successfully completed Major Kaizen and launched standard work unbalancing projects, which resulted in $2.4M in cost savings.
- Implemented from scratch UI Robotic application to automate critical to quality operations.
Senior Supplier Development Engineer
- Promoted and led continuous improvement competencies, focusing multiple teams on numerous supplier improvement projects, which resulted in ~30% ppm reduction.
- Lead engineer responsible for successful resolution of critical quality problems faced in the supply chain for US refrigeration plants resulting in $500,000 of cost savings in one year.
- Developed solid working relationships in a multicultural environment to determine gaps, solve problems, and identify improvements to meet organizational needs.
Education- Certificates
Masters of Science – Industrial Engineering
Bachelors of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt