Experience

Virgin Galactic

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President Manufacturing

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  - Responsible for all Aerospace Systems manufacturing across all sites and locations- Oversee completion of current fleet (Eve mothership and Imagine spaceship)- Lead/oversee manufacturing of next generation of motherships and spaceships- Lead manufacturing of rocket motor propulsion systems - Responsible for all Aerospace Systems manufacturing across all sites and locations- Oversee completion of current fleet (Eve mothership and Imagine spaceship)- Lead/oversee manufacturing of next generation of motherships and spaceships- Lead manufacturing of rocket motor propulsion systems



Honeywell

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President Integrated Supply Chain (Global Repair/Overhaul and Distribution Center Leader)

  • Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

  - Led integrated supply chain for aerospace aftermarket businesses with $5B+/yr in revenue ($3.5B+/yr repair/overhaul and $1.5B+/yr spares/distribution-center businesses).- Fully responsible for safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and cost for 35 global repair sites and 3 global distribution centers.

• Vice President Integrated Supply Chain (Global ISC Leader) - Honeywell Building Technologies

  • Mar 2020 - Mar 2022

  - Led global supply chain (planning, sourcing, procurement, operations, quality, logistics) for Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) business (supply $3.2B/yr in external-sale products and $0.8B/yr internal-sale products [used in $2.5B/yr projects and services business] for total production revenue of $4B+/yr).- Fully responsible for all safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and cost/productivity metrics for 37 sites around the world. - Drove all-time best safety (0.13 case incident rate) and quality (<50 PPM) results in 2021 while driving 7% YOY higher revenues and 5%+ labor productivity.- Drove all-time best safety (0.16 case incident rate) and quality (<80 PPM) results in 2020 while driving lowest past due (less than 1 day of sales) and 91% on-time-to-promise with 9% labor and 4% direct material productivity.

• Vice President Integrated Supply Chain (Operations), Americas Electronic Ops Center - Aerospace

  • Jul 2018 - Mar 2020

  - Multi-site leader with responsibility for all Americas region electronic OEM manufacturing operations at 16 distinct electro-mechanical sites/locations with annual revenue of $3.5B+/year.- Led management operating systems and overall operations for the entire product center. Responsible for all facets/metrics (safety, quality, delivery, inventory, cost) of operations center and individual plant success. - Executed all-time high revenues (18-22% higher year-over-year per quarter) while achieving 7-12% productivity from Q3 2018 through Q4 2019.

• Vice President Aftermarket Services (Operations), Americas Region - Aerospace

  • Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

  - Multi-site leader with responsibility for all Americas region operations at 21 distinct sites/locations in a $2.1B+/year mechanical and electronic services (repair and overhaul) product center.- Led management operating systems and overall operations for the entire product center. Responsible for all facets/metrics of operations center and individual plant success. - Led Americas repair and overhaul shops to 14% greater revenue year-over-year while maintaining delivery ratings, driving to all-time-best quality ratings (sub-150 PPM for mechanical and sub-600 PPM for avionics), and achieving 9% labor productivity.

• Vice President Aftermarket Services (Operations), Americas Mechanical Repair and Overhaul -Aerospace

  • Oct 2016 - Aug 2017

  - Multi-site leader with responsibility for 13 separate R&O sites/shops in a $1.5B+ mechanical service (repair and overhaul) center - Responsible for all facets of operational performance (safety, quality, delivery, inventory, cost).- Drove all-time high revenue (+8%) and low past due (less than 1.12 DOS) in Q4 2016 – Q2 2017 while maintaining 95%+ on-time-to-request (OTTR), <320 PPM, and 7.8% labor productivity performance metrics.

• Sr. Director Integrated Supply Chain (Operations), Avionics Repair and Overhaul - Aerospace

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2016

  - Multi-site leader with responsibility for all operations at 8 distinct sites/locations (plus 2 out-sourced/contract repairs sites) in a $610M+/year electronic services (repair and overhaul) product center.- Led management operating systems and overall operations for the entire product center. Responsible for all facets/metrics of operations center and individual plant success.- Over 12-month period starting September 2015, drove 10% absolute and 14% relative improvement in on-time-to-delivery metric (achieved 94%, highest ever recorded for product center) while improving quality ratings at all sites by 42% year-over-year. Also achieved lowest recorded level of past-due orders (62% reduction in quantity/revenue year-over-year to ~1.1 days of sales).- Implemented new competitiveness-based Kaizen activities around productivity (14%+ gains for product center in 7 months) and also manage productivity activities management operating system for Americas level (46 sites) across multiple operations centers.- Managed integrated supply chain customer responsiveness operating system; drove 67% reduction in backlog for customer tickets in 4 months.

• Director Operations, Contract Manufacturing Operations Center - Aerospace

  • May 2013 - Sep 2015

  - Multi-site leader with responsibility for 4 sites (including R&O services) in a $400M+ electronics product center.- Led management operating systems and overall operations for the entire product center. Responsible for all facets/metrics of operations center and individual plant success.- Developed green-field planning, procurement, and operations approach with contract manufacturers while creating/building new business model and product center (with a start-up mentality). Involved in all facets from the start in 3 major transitions from in-house manufacturing to transfer to contract manufacturer, including a major operate-in-place transfer.- Drove improvements to existing processes and adapted them for use in new environment.

• Director ISC (Operations) / Site Leader - Aerospace

  • Dec 2014 - Jul 2015

  - In conjunction with regular position, acted as site leader of $300M+ production site in Toronto, Canada; responsible for all operations, metrics, and leadership in manufacturing of electronic environmental control systems, integrated utility control systems, electrical power generation and distribution systems, ice protection & detection systems, emergency locator transmitters, and hydro-mechanical fuel controls.- Led team of 490+ persons, including senior operations, materials, health/safety, and quality managers, who are responsible for all manufacturing activities.- Drove site to record levels of on-time-to-customer performance (91%) and past due orders ($2.4M) prior to manufacturing cut-over to contract manufacturing model in mid-April 2015.

• Director ISC (Operations) / Site Leader - Aerospace

  • Aug 2013 - Jul 2014

  - In conjunction with regular position, acted as site leader of $40M+ production sites in Poway, California and Columbia, South Carolina; responsible for all operations, metrics, and leadership in GM-type model (sourcing, planning, and other functions reported solid line to site leader) in manufacturing of complex Condition Based Maintenance Systems (Vibration Management Technologies) for military and commercial helicopters.- Drove 97%+ on-time-to-delivery and $0 past-due-to-customer metrics with exemplary quality ratings.- Executed transition of facilities on-time and below cost estimates, with zero impact to sustaining performance.- In conjunction with senior organizational development manager, organized career workshops for personnel to enable discoveries of next opportunities, enabling 80%+ of persons to secure a position upon completion of transition.

• Director Operational Excellence, Americas Electronic Operations Center - Aerospace

  • Jul 2011 - May 2013

  - Operational excellence and overall performance driver for 17 electro-mechanical OEM sites across US and Canada ($4B in annual sales). - Ran overall management operating system for product center and drove delivery/inventory/past due improvement projects. Delivery performance improved by 8% and past due decreased by 57% within 7 months.- Led manufacturing process flow initiatives/projects/events to drive $10M in yearly savings.- Managed annual $35M engineering and capital equipment budget; successfully pitched for budget increases of $4M to support infrastructure and sustain operations.- Managed team of analysts with solid-line reporting relationship; managed/mentored site-level operational excellence managers with dotted-line reporting relationship.

• Manager Operations, Electronics - Aerospace

  • Jul 2010 - Jul 2011

  - Full manufacturing operations (safety/delivery/inventory/quality/cost) responsibility over electronics OEM value stream that consisted of assembly and testing of complex electronic/fuel controls and electro-mechanical controllers. - Managed team of supervisors (who had test technicians and assemblers on their respective staff) and cross-functional production support team. - Produced $120M in yearly sales to customers such as Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, GE, Embraer, Dassault

• Manager Materials - Aerospace

  • Dec 2007 - Jul 2010

  - Managed team of planners, schedulers, expeditors, and buyers for $120M/year OEM electronics value stream. - Led, negotiated, and signed vendor managed inventory (VMI) initiative which earned $2.1M in direct inventory savings.- Responsible for sales, inventory, and operations planning (SIOP) initiatives at manufacturing cell level. - Increased production schedule adherence metric by over 40% through focus on schedule stability.

• Manager Supplier Quality (acting) - Aerospace

  • Apr 2007 - Dec 2007

  - Performed acting role in parallel with full-time role as Manager Operational Excellence.- Developed pro-active, preventative quality improvement strategies across part families.- Drove new automated solutions for processing common supplier quality paperwork.- Managed team of quality engineers and inspectors.

• Manager Operational Excellence - Aerospace

  • Apr 2006 - Dec 2007

  - Driver of process and performance improvements for delivery, quality, and customer satisfaction of $200M/year OEM manufacturing site.- Drove recovery and sustenance plans to major customers such as Boeing, Lockheed, Bombardier, Raytheon. Gulfstream, Learjet, and others, enabling site to improve delivery from 63% to 93% in a span of 18 months.- Led overall management operating system and performed process/forecasting analytics to drive more efficient operations.- Managed small analyst team.

• Quality Engineer - Aerospace

  • Jan 2005 - Apr 2006

  - Solved a myriad of supplier and product quality problems, including issues with reliability, yield, and engineering drawing non-conformances.- Resolved major disclosure and stop-ship issues affecting $10M+ in hardware.- Created new documented process for minor deviations at site and improved request for material review action process turn-around time.- Implemented several manufacturing process control projects, including one that solved a two-year-old design issue at a local supplier.

• Procurement Engineer - Aerospace

  • Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  - Lead engineer on value engineering team that generated over $1M in savings during 2004.- Analyzed and drove changes of engineering drawings/specifications; uncovered hidden factory for transitioning parts between suppliers.- Interacted with suppliers to resolve technical issues.



Wabtec Corporation

• United States
• Railroad Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Industrial Engineer (Interim/Intern Position)

  • Apr 2003 - Dec 2003

  • Wrote customized macros for inventory monitoring and auto recognition of erroneous data in Oracle ERP system.• Created an econometric model to bring compressor production processes under statistical control. • Wrote customized macros for inventory monitoring and auto recognition of erroneous data in Oracle ERP system.• Created an econometric model to bring compressor production processes under statistical control.



Puolustusvoimat - Försvarsmakten - Finnish Defence Forces

• Finland
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• NCO

  • Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  • Supervised and led 12-130 soldiers at a time (depending on assignment) as squad and platoon leader.• Honorably discharged with highest possible leadership marks, as indicated on military passport. • Supervised and led 12-130 soldiers at a time (depending on assignment) as squad and platoon leader.• Honorably discharged with highest possible leadership marks, as indicated on military passport.