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• Strategic Cost Management Expert

  • 6+ years of Activity-Based Costing experience in a variety of industries including manufacturing, health care, not-for-profit, professional services, and DoD.
    
    

  • Direct client engagements as well as requests from large consulting firms such as BearingPoint and Calibre to supplement their expertise.
    
    

  • Developed pricing/profitability and business model strategies based on product and customer profitability.
    
    

  • Experienced in costing approaches to support Lean implementations, such as value stream costing and lean accounting.
    
    

  • Incorporated many concepts depending on company needs, such as
      Cost of Quality
      Capacity Management
      Features and Characteristics Costing
      Customer Clustering
      Support Services Consumption
    
     

• Performance Management

  • Visual Reporting & Management
    
    

  • Performance Measurement - Operational and Strategic Scorecarding
    
     

• Process Improvement

  • Achieved major improvements utilizing Lean Manufacturing concepts
    (see Success Stories for details)
     

  • Applied Visual Management on shop floor as well as in operational reports for planning and scheduling
    
     

• Executive Management

  • 3 years with consumer goods manufacturer ($40M) as Director of Operations (COO-Level) reporting to President/CEO
     

  • Strategic alignment and execution
     

  • Define, develop, deploy expectations, tasks, and accountability
     

  • Developed Operations Scorecard for performance management. Included: customer service level metrics, inventory levels (finished goods and work-in-progress, productivity, throughput performance, etc.)
    
     

• Financial Analytics

  • Graduate degree in Financial Engineering
    
    

  • Familiar with many financial modeling and forecasting techniques
    
    

  • Bridging the communication gap between Operations, Accounting and IT
    
     

• Management Consulting Experience

  • Ability to effectively communicate to all levels of an organization
    
    

  • Strong project management abilities
    PMI Certified PMP - Project Management Professional
     

  • Provided results for a variety of industries:
    Manufacturing, Health Care, Military, Professional Services, Not-for-Profit, Consumer Goods, etc.
    
     

• Cross-Functional Leadership and Communication

  • Holistic view of organizations
     

  • Proven record of coordination and communication across departmental functions
     

  • Optimizing across the entire value chain, rather than isolated improvements of departmental stove pipes
     

  • Advocating use of online collaboration and networking for teamwork and cooperation
    
     

• International

  • Authorized to work in the US, any country of the European Union as well as India
     

  • Completely fluent in German language. Went through German school system
     

  • Professional and educational background in both Germany and the US
     

  • Frequent business development trips to Latin America, France, Germany and the UK. Private travel to Japan, India, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Puerto Rico.
    
     

   

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