Profile
Senior Industrial Engineer with 9 years of experience optimizing manufacturing and distribution operations across automotive and consumer-goods sectors. Specialize in lean transformation, capacity planning, and ergonomic workstation design. Reduced plant-wide scrap costs by $1.2M and cut cycle time 22% across two facility overhauls.
Work Experience
Senior Industrial EngineerMar 2020 - Present
Vantara Manufacturing Solutions, Columbus, OH
- Led a cross-functional kaizen team that redesigned 14 assembly-line workstations, cutting average cycle time from 38 s to 29.6 s and increasing throughput by 22% without capital expenditure.
- Developed a discrete-event simulation model in Arena for a new 180,000 sq ft distribution center, identifying bottlenecks that saved $640K in avoided conveyor infrastructure.
- Implemented a statistical process control (SPC) program across 6 production lines, reducing defect rate from 4.1% to 1.7% and avoiding an estimated $310K in annual warranty costs.
Industrial Engineer IIJun 2016 - Feb 2020
Centrix Automotive Components, Toledo, OH
- Conducted time-and-motion studies on 9 stamping cells and rebalanced labor allocation, eliminating 3.2 FTEs of non-value-added time worth $187K annually.
- Designed ergonomic lifting fixtures and revised material-flow paths, reducing recordable musculoskeletal injuries by 41% over two years and lowering workers' comp premiums by $92K.
- Built a capacity-planning model in Python that integrated MRP data with machine OEE, enabling planners to respond to demand spikes 35% faster than the previous spreadsheet method.
Industrial Engineer IAug 2014 - May 2016
Halloway Consumer Products, Cincinnati, OH
- Mapped end-to-end value streams for 4 product families, identifying $520K in annual waste and prioritizing 11 improvement projects ranked by NPV.
- Standardized 23 work instructions using MOST (Maynard Operation Sequence Technique), reducing training time for new operators from 6 weeks to 3.5 weeks.
- Partnered with quality and maintenance to launch a TPM pilot on 2 injection-molding lines, improving OEE from 61% to 74% within 8 months.
Education
B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering2010 - 2014
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
GPA 3.7 — Capstone: Lean Layout Redesign for Mid-Size Distribution Facility, awarded departmental honors