Since graduating with a 1st Class Honors in Manufacturing Engineering in 1997 Pat has amassed over 15 years’ experience in manufacturing, operations, continuous improvement techniques and project management. This experience has been obtained across the electronic, medical device and pharmaceutical industries.
Since 2002 his career has been centred on project managing Lean and Six Sigma initiatives designed to achieve operational excellence. This includes the introduction and management of Value Stream’s and Lean Six Sigma techniques across all business departments.
Over this time, Pat has been involved in introducing Lean and Six Sigma tools across three different industries, in all aspects of deployment from strategy deployment to facilitating lean conversion programs, Kaizens and problem-solving workshops.
Proven strengths include:
– Excellent Operational and Process Development Skills
– Highly motivated self- starter with the ability to drive and motivate effective team projects.
– Proven track record in supervising / managing teams to achieve and exceed goals.
– Exceptional communication, coaching and motivational skills.
– Authority in Lean Manufacturing – Certified Lean Champion.
– Excellent knowledge of Six Sigma statistical analysis for result focused data analysis and Problem Solving/Decision Making.
– Change Implementer -The ability to actively contribute to business strategies, practices, processes and procedures, by linking operational activities and objectives to the plant business plan.
– Implementation Driver – Ability to communicate change in ways that help people understand the scale and scope of change and establish structures processes and roles to support the change effectively and efficiently
Excellent IT Skills over a range of programs – MS Office, Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio, Project, Access along with Auto Cad, Mini Tab, I Grafx, Witness Simulation, EVSM, Pro E.
