TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Analyze business & technical processes
• Business Process Reengineering; Business Performance Improvement
• Documentation experience in IT specifications, business rules & flow
• SDLC including requirements, data interfaces, QA & deployment
• Solving bus. & Tech. problems independently, creating innovative solutions
• Experience managing teams to produce deliverables and meet pre - determined timelines
• Six Sigma certification and experience with SIPOC and DMAIC/DMADV tools
• Substantive affordable housing experience
• Unified Modeling Language

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Consultant - Six Sigma and Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Work with Fortune 100 companies training and implementing Six Sigma and Lean systems.
• Led Lean Production and Six Sigma deployment activities.
• Managed more than thirty Black Belts and Green Belts in their improvement project activities
• Created project tracking and updating system to help management receive project status reports and to help manage the multi-project landscape as well as the ever-present resource capacity issues
• Acting as a liaison between IT/technology and business divisions (Capital Markets, HCD-Mortgage, Single Family, Multifamily, Corporate, Affordable Housing, Others) in Agile environment/following Fannie Mae’s SDLC practices.
• Conducted 5 waves of Six Sigma training, which include: In-house Green & Black Belts, outside vendors, Green, Black Belts. Additionally, the entire management team received Six Sigma DMAIC/DMADV overview training (Yellow Belt) in bi-weekly sessions of 3 hours each
• Project Manager of various Six Sigma projects in operations to increase production and efficiencies and to reduce production variability, defects, downtime, and waste - Completed six projects totaling more than $5M in savings or revenue
• Coached and managed multiple Action Workout project teams to affect process change and achieve bottom-line results in sixty days or less - Quick, schedule-driven improvement projects
• Developed and delivered Six Sigma Green Belt training program
• Follow plan driven SDLC methodology, lead requirements gathering meetings with stakeholders and technical team.
• Wrote documents, data transformation rules and maintaining data dictionary, data migration and data interface requirements documents.
• Expertise at analyzing, designing and reengineering system applications and business & technical processes.
• Regularly conduct performance appraisals as a process of continuous improvement action.
• As part of the first Six Sigma project at IMC, initiated, developed business case, and successfully completed an automatic reagent blending, batching, and delivery system - Reduction in variability of the blended reagent changed from a process capability resulting in 2.5% in-spec product to 99.999% in-spec product
• Successfully managed four Advanced Process Control development projects. The $8M projects spanned three years of implementation
• Lead on-site consultant working with and guiding the senior management in the overall rollout and integration of Lean and Six Sigma into operating systems.
• Manage improvement philosophy within operations centers.
• Documented the business requirements and web specifications, business rules and workflow and information architecture for CMS and other applications.
• Ability to proactively design analytical & Innovative solutions to business problems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve technical problems independently.
• Applied and utilize RUP UML methodology tools and knowledge.
• Head organization-wide process improvement projects for Depart of Energy, U.S. Coast Guard, Prince George County Public School, Black United Fund of Illinois, and United Technologies Hamilton Standard.
• Expert of DMAIC process improvement tools measurements: such plans and deliverables include development and utilization of Project Charter, Scorecards, Design of Experiments, Quality Function Deployment, Statistical Process Control, Fishbone Diagrams, Gauge R& R studies, FMEA diagrams, and Voice of Customer.

Confidential

Research Project Leader

• Designed and led the Compressive Strength Comparative Study between Ceramicrete and Portland cement.
• The comparison highlights compressive strength testing and results (Design of Experiments), scanning electron micrographs (SEM), Statistical Analysis (with p-values), positive environmental impact assessment (green), and cost effectiveness in the range $140 million income.
• Expertise at analyzing, designing and reengineering system applications and business processes.
• Regularly conduct performance appraisals as a process of continuous improvement action.
• This work was a collaborative effort between Florida St. University (FSU) in Tallahassee, Fl. and Confidential (ANL).
• Follow plan driven SDLC methodology, lead requirements gathering meetings with stakeholders and technical team.
• Wrote documents, data transformation rules and maintaining data dictionary, data migration and data interface requirements documents.
• Documented the business requirements and web specifications, business rules and workflow and information architecture for CMS and other applications.
• Ability to proactively design analytical & Innovative solutions to business problems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve technical problems independently.
• Applied and utilize RUP UML methodology tools and knowledge.
• Responsible for scope planning, scope definition, activity definition, activity sequencing, schedule development, resource planning, scope verification, executing, monitoring and controlling the deliverables of approved and published 100-page report.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Consultant

• As a QA Consultant, worked with Cook County IT staff and Johnson Control Incorporated managers and technicians, PACE Warehouse.
• Develop and maintained Site Surveys Development Process, Inventory Asset Tracking Procedures, and the Vehicle Survey Development Procedures for 70 Cook County Municipalities for a Emergency Response System.
• Expertise at analyzing, designing and reengineering system applications and business processes.
• Regularly conduct performance appraisals as a process of continuous improvement action.
• Documented the business requirements and web specifications, business rules and workflow and information architecture for CMS and other applications.
• Ability to proactively design analytical & Innovative solutions to business & Technical problems.
• Applied and utilize RUP UML methodology tools and knowledge.
• Responsible for managing cross functional team deliverables, delivering status reports, identifying risks, creating process flow charts and creating inventory database for multimillion dollars worth of IT equipment.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Responsible for managing the Enhanced Used Lease Construction Project ($250 million value)
• Became the primary liaison for the Armed Force’s Institute of Pathology (AFIP).
• Worked closely with US Army Colonels’, Deputy to the Garrison Commander on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Installation, HFPA Space Planners, the Baltimore District, US Army Corp of Engineers, and the Directorate of Executive Agencies for the Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG).
• Researched current leasing terms and business leasing options as well as critiqued business presentations of the AFIP.
• Follow plan driven SDLC methodology, lead requirements gathering meetings with stakeholders and technical team.
• Produced quality deliverables that met and achieved the target Period.
• Wrote documents, data transformation rules and maintaining data dictionary, data migration and data interface requirements documents.
• Documented the business requirements and web specifications, business rules and workflow and information architecture for CMS and other applications.
• Ability to proactively design analytical & Innovative solutions to business and Technical problems.
• Developed Use Cases and Process Maps using Visio and ER diagrams using UML.
• Expertise at analyzing, designing and reengineering system applications and business & technical processes.
• Regularly conduct performance appraisals as a process of continuous improvement action.
• Populated & maintained MS Project with scheduled data.
• Utilized Earned Value Management (CPI/SPI) tools to track project’s progress.

Confidential

Industrial Engineer

• Led Engineering Labor Standards (ELS) initiative from end-to-end; includes development of project plan, development and streamlining of SOP’s, collection and statistical analysis of data, maintained issues and process improvement recommendation log, presented updates of project phases to Steering Committee (Executives).
• Validated, implemented, & audited changes.
• Discovered and adjusted 12% discrepancy in Engineering Labor Standards for Seasonal Warehouse. Implemented 1st Selection Engineered Labor Standards on HEB’s newly purchased Warehouse Management System (EXE).
• Taught ELS concepts to warehouse workers in a classroom format and assisted/directed their presentation format.
• Follow plan driven SDLC methodology, lead requirements gathering meetings with stakeholders and technical team.
• Produced quality deliverables that met and achieved the target Period.
• Wrote documents, data transformation rules and maintaining data dictionary, data migration and data interface requirements documents.
• Expertise at analyzing, designing and reengineering system applications and business & technical processes.
• Regularly conduct performance appraisals as a process of continuous improvement action.
• Led and supported warehouse support initiatives ranging from Forklift Time and Motion studies (savings of $84K), organizing resulting reference data to maintaining labor tables, warehouse item reset, EXE WMS implementation and support.
• Documented the business requirements and web specifications, business rules and workflow and information architecture for CMS and other applications.
• Developed Use Cases and Process Maps using Visio and ER diagrams using UML.
• Member of Supply Chain’s 1-TOUCH team, simulated, researched, documented, analyzed, and process mapped end-to-end supply chain tasks for landing products to the shelf at lowest cost that amassed an estimated Savings of $10M/yr).
• Ability to proactively design analytical & Innovative solutions to business problems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve technical problems independently.
• Provided on-going support for several distribution centers in the form of technology implementation, reports, research, and analysis for strategic planning and execution.
• Led and deployed several projects that aided in annual savings for HEB: Xerox Decentralized Printer Project est. savings $104,000 annually covering 3 cities and Frozen Foods Warehouse A-Phone Project.