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Continuous Improvement Professional

Work Experience

Previous and current positions (date format dd/mm/yy)

H & D Consulting - Lovendegem (Ghent) - Belgium
Position from 21/03/97 until today:
. Founder H & D Consulting - Ebvba, one-person private LLC founded for operational and fiscal reasons.
. Executive Management Consultant - Contractor / Interim Manager in the previous mentioned expertise.

Last assignment: Senior (Lean) Management Consultant from 04/01/10 until 28/05/10 at:
Mantec – Gothenburg – Sweden
Company activities: Management consultancy firm in the domain of productivity and profitability.
Mission:
Lean manufacturing – Rebalancing assembly lines – Part’s presentation – Kaizen – Kanban – 5S
Project location:
Automotive industry - Orangeburg – South Carolina – USA

Recent contractor’s positions held – Missions longer than 12 months:
Director Business Review (UK - Europe) from 2/03/09 until 26/02/10 at:
Storm International – London UK / St Louis USA.
Company activities:
Management consultancy operating in the area of decision-taking at corporate level. Sustainable change and performance improvements in the domain of Lean enterprise, working capital management, cost reduction, resource efficiency and effectiveness, change management, etc…

Senior Project Manager, Director Business Delivery (Europe) from 10/09/06 until 22/02/2009 at:
Proudfoot Consulting – Alexander Proudfoot – London – UK
Company activities:
Assisting clients in reaching full business potential by providing implementation support they need to achieve measurable and sustainable, performance and productivity improvements, operational behavioural change and training, and communication effectiveness.

Interim Plant Manager from 12/10/04 until 20/11/05 at:
Kamarg Sp. z o.o. – Kielce, Swietokrzyskie – Poland
Company activities:
120 people in Production of bulk, liquid tank transport, and environmental vehicles.

Impac Ltd - Dublin - Ireland (+ Punta Gorda – FL – USA)
Position from 01/01/93 until 21/03/97: European Vice-President of Operations, Vice-Chairman of Central Europe, Unit Vice-President, Member of senior management team for Central Europe & France.
Company activities:
Management re-engineering – Implementation productivity management systems – Operational management training.

Education

Industrial High School – Ghent – Belgium
Graduate 1: Mechanical & Machine Engineering – Total 8 years accomplished in 6.
Graduate 2: Metallurgy & Industrial Chemistry – 2 years

Development: Impac University – Punta Gorda – Florida – USA
Graduation : Employee Development Program – MBA level - between 1995 and 1997.

Additional training :
Over the career many small and short raining courses have been followed such as first aid at accidents, zero base budgeting, relationship with banks, train the trainer, ISO900x, leadership (WestPoint Academy New York) and many others.

Skills

Domain of expertise and ‘make it happen’ competence:
Lean Enterprise – Manufacturing & SCM, Working Capital & Process Improvement Management, including specifically:

Company’s strategic vision:
Company’s organization structure, de-layering, scope of control, re-scaling non-core businesses, company’s operational efficiency, business planning, vision, mission, goals, objectives, targets, priorities, etc.

Financial fundamentals:
Cash flow management, cash inflow, increased access to capital, reduction of spending and cost, control, quick wins, focus on tight management, etc.
Strategic and tactical marketing: Turnover and /or margin increase, streamlining product portfolio, customer rationalization, sales force efficiency, sale points management, customer relation management, customer appeal programs (retail), up selling (retail), etc.

Supply Chain Management:
Commercial prognoses, volume forecasting for distribution and make-to-stock, procurement, raw material inventory management, work in progress, finished goods inventory, obsolete inventory reduction, production planning, Lean management, just in time, lead-time control, internal and external logistics, warehouse management, return of goods management (retail), etc.

Resource management:
Zero base budgeting, process flow and activity management, required capacity levels (equipment and shifts), required workforce levels (production and others), etc.

Manufacturing:
Make-to-stock, make-to-order, make-to-command and servicing, visual production control, operational efficiency improvement, problem solving, reduction lost time and down time, scrap and rework reduction, energy consumption management, yield and quality management, etc.

Maintenance:
Lean maintenance, 1st line maintenance, job aids and change-over procedures for operators and dedicated line maintenance personnel, breakdown/down time pareto curve analyses, visual management, inspection lists for critical points generating waste of material and (down) time, root cause analyses - fishbone methodology, daily/weekly maintenance planning and efficiency reporting, inventory control of spare parts and material, spare parts standardization, new/change technology studies, etc.

People development:
Identification buying signals and selling skills, worker’s and employee’s skills, visual and effective communication, supervisory behaviour, leadership, teambuilding, etc.

Languages

Dutch /Flemish Practice : Mother tongue
Understanding : Excellent
Speech : Fluently
Reading : Excellent
Writing : Excellent

French Practice : Home language
Understanding : Excellent
Speech : Fluently
Reading : Excellent
Writing : Excellent

English Practice : Business language
Understanding : Excellent
Speech : Fluently
Reading : Excellent
Writing : Excellent

German Practice : Spouse’s language
Understanding : Very good
Speech : Good
Reading : Very good
Writing : Moderately

Spanish Practice : School & Spanish projects
Understanding : Fairly
Speech : Moderately
Reading : Fairly
Writing : Weak

Other

Summary of major software skills:

Ms Office Professional 2003 /2007
MS Access including VBA programming
Visual Basic programming (not professional but more than basic)
Mindjet Mindmanager
Very good knowledge of local networking

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