Experience

Stadt Arnsberg

• Executive Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of municipal services

  • May 2020 - Present



Sims Lifecycle Services

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Global Continuous Improvement Manager

  • Dec 2018 - May 2020

  Responsible for the implementation of a Continuous Improvement approach for 28 sitesworldwide. Focus creating several lighthouse projects to demonstrate opportunities and possibilitiesof a lean approach and increase buy-in from stakeholders.Highlights:• Conducting value stream workshops and lay-out kaizens to streamline operations and material flow• Establishing daily huddleboards meetings between management and operators across European sites• Organisation of a regular exchange between the European sites in regards to quality improvement and sharing best practices• Focus on increasing availability of key equipment



HELLA

• Germany
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager Operational Excellence and Industrial Engineering

  • May 2013 - Dec 2018

  Leading a team of 6 lean specialists and industrial engineers. In charge of the local lean development of the plant and deployment of the Hella Production System (HelPS). • Integration of all plant improvement activities to one coordinated strategic roll-out• Redefining the workshop process by fixation of milestones and responsibilities and drastically increasing efficiency• Standardisation of the analysis for lean workshops and improvement activities in close collaboration with Operations, Quality and Logistics• Organizing and moderating workshops (5S, Muda, SMED, Mock-Ups and VSM) • Project management for the development and implementation of the worldwide visual shopfloor management system standard for Hella• Lead auditor for lean audits at various international production sites • In charge of time studies and standard time determination (REFA and MTM) in Operations• Project manager for the reinvigoration of Teamwork in Operations



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Jul 2012 - Jan 2013

  Responsible for a team of 6 area managers and over 800 employees in total. The team was accountable for the commissioning and picking of the daily orders in a warehouse of 130.000 m2, flow management and fulfilling daily cut-offs.Responsible for implementation of new processes:• Project Manager for the expansion of pick locations by initiating picking from height in the storage area • Improvement of productivity per employee by installing an integral conveyor system and wrangling concept so drastically reducing walking distances



QIAGEN

• Netherlands
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director Operations Europe

  • Nov 2008 - Jun 2012

  Responsible for production of pre-assembly products and the packaging of finished products. Creating an effective and result driven organization with my team of 70 employees as well as working according to GMP- and quality standards, designing and implementing lean concepts to increase reliability, quality and customer satisfaction.Standardizing and optimization of relevant value adding processes. Rationalization of production- and planning activities, production lay-out and organizational structure. Managing the make vs buy process to outsource pre-assembly to Eastern Europe and the insourcing of new products from other sites in the existing infrastructure.• Development and implementation of new production lines and concepts. Capacity expansion of 28%• Challenged Assembly operators to adopt elements of Lean Manufacturing, to increase their acceptation• Integration of 4 different packaging departments in one area • Decision making for outsourcing of processes (savings of 300k. € annuelly)



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lean project manager

  • Jul 2008 - Nov 2008

  Auditing and implementation of lean methods of the repair centres and service providers throughout Europe. Business transformation of a decentralised repair network to a more centralised Nokia European repair network. Relocation and transfer projects as well as cost reduction, increasing transparency und focusing on customer experience.

• Line Manager Supply Operations

  • Feb 2006 - Jul 2008

  Managing my team of up to 200 employees in a 24 hours production environment for the assembly to order and packaging of mobile telephones. Goal-orientated improvement of product quality, cycle time reduction and efficiency improvement of key production indicators. Actively usage of Toyota Production Systems (Kaizen, 5S), Six Sigma, change management and lean manufacturing. Projects:• Improvement of the scrap process (240 k. € savings annually) • Green Belt Project: Reduction of material delivery issues with 75%



VINCI Energies

• France
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project manager

  • Jul 2003 - Jan 2006

  I was Projectmanager for this industrial services provider- in charge of serveral projects in the field of security, energy and telecommunication- mediator for the BU for profitability analyis of large projects- providing staffing solutions- build up and headed a small production unit for energy measurement equipment. I was Projectmanager for this industrial services provider- in charge of serveral projects in the field of security, energy and telecommunication- mediator for the BU for profitability analyis of large projects- providing staffing solutions- build up and headed a small production unit for energy measurement equipment.



Siemens

• Germany
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project manager

  • Feb 2000 - Jul 2003

  As Projectmanager I was resonsible for several projects. Among these were:- Roll out of network equipment for telecommunication companies- Planning and realisation of GSM-R network- Staffing for telecommunication companies As Projectmanager I was resonsible for several projects. Among these were:- Roll out of network equipment for telecommunication companies- Planning and realisation of GSM-R network- Staffing for telecommunication companies



Detron

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Logistics Co-ordinator

  • 1998 - 1999



Lucent

• Planning

  • 1996 - 1998