Ryan K. Yelverton
Continuous Improvement Manager, Glass manufacturing
Toledo, OH · (419) 555 0117 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/ryankyelverton
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Twelve years in lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
INDUSTRIES
Glass manufacturing, industrial coatings, automotive glazing
SPECIALTIES
Kaizen facilitation, value stream mapping, setup reduction, standard work
SYSTEMS
SAP, Minitab, Tableau, Plex
CREDENTIALS
Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Bronze certification
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering, University of Toledo
Results at a Glance
$3.2m
Verified annual savings
38%
Mapping the value
68
Employees to Six
Executive Summary
Continuous improvement manager for a glass and coatings manufacturer, twelve years in lean manufacturing. Runs kaizen events that end with a changed process rather than a report, and coaches supervisors to hold the gain after the team goes home. Every project on this page has a verified savings number behind it.
Signature Achievements
- Delivered 3.2 million dollars of verified annual savings over four years, each project signed off by the plant controller.
- Raised overall equipment effectiveness on the coating lines from 62 percent to 81 percent through a twelve month total productive maintenance rollout.
- Cut furnace to pack lead time by 38 percent after mapping the value stream and removing two staging steps.
- Reduced setup time on the laminating line from 140 minutes to 41 using structured internal and external work separation.
- Trained 68 employees to Six Sigma Yellow Belt and coached nine Green Belt projects to completion.
- Lowered scrap on the tempering line by 2.9 points, worth 780,000 dollars a year at current volume.
Professional Experience
Continuous Improvement Manager
Maumee Glass Technologies, Toledo, OH 2020 to present
Single plant, 540 employees, four production lines running continuously.
- Own the site improvement plan and the savings target agreed with the plant manager each year.
- Facilitate roughly fourteen kaizen events a year with cross functional teams from the floor.
- Coach Green Belt candidates through the define measure analyze improve control cycle to certification.
- Audit standard work and five S conditions monthly with the area supervisors, not on their behalf.
- Report savings, project status and adherence to the leadership team every month.
Continuous Improvement Engineer
Black Swamp Coatings, Bowling Green, OH 2016 to 2020
Coatings plant with 210 employees and heavy changeover activity.
- Led setup reduction across six coating heads and released 900 hours of annual capacity.
- Built the plant downtime coding system and the weekly review that used it.
- Ran statistical process control training for 40 operators and quality technicians.
- Supported the quality team on customer complaints traced to coating thickness variation.
Manufacturing Engineer
Wabash Valley Auto Glass, Fort Recovery, OH 2013 to 2016
Automotive glazing supplier with 160 employees on three shifts.
- Improved line balance on two assembly cells and lifted output per labor hour by 22 percent.
- Wrote the standard work documents still used on the windshield assembly line.
- Supported new part launches with process trials and capability studies.
- Reduced tooling changeover time on the encapsulation cell by 35 minutes.
Licensure and Certification
Six Sigma Black Belt, American Society for Quality
Lean Bronze certification, Association for Manufacturing Excellence
Education
Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering, University of Toledo, 2013
Core Skills
Kaizen facilitation · Value stream mapping · Setup reduction · Total productive maintenance · Standard work · Statistical process control · Minitab · Savings verification · Coaching and training · Overall equipment effectiveness