TIM WARD

Portfolio: www.leanmfg.com	801-484-4712	tim.w.resume@leanmfg.com

Accomplishments
•	Increased operating profit by 500% and plant throughput (revenue produced by sales) by over 100% in 3 years without increasing plant size for cleaning equipment company.
•	Increased plant throughput by 260% while finding more than 40% of production floor space and reducing high volume items replenishment times from 10 days to 3 days for diamond drill bit company. 
•	Decreased both throughput time & WIP inventories by 50% for custom kitchen cabinet plant in 2 1/2 months.
•	Absorbed 300% increase in orders, reduced space 45%, reduced personnel 28% as manager of architectural signage operation.    
•	Wrote www.leanmfg.com to teach organization-wide, process diagnostics and repair.  Used it to teach 165 College of Business students to turn around real organizations applying process improvement tools.  Student projects:
o	25% profitability increase at Chinese Restaurant in 1 month.
o	Fastest ever commercial real estate loan rate lock down from 45 to 34 days.
o	37% increase in average monthly revenue for scrap book publisher
o	Order fulfillment time dropped from 3 to 1 1/2 weeks for emergency food storage and camping equipment firm.
•	Decreased the time between when a researcher for a natural food-supplements firm discloses an initial marketable idea to the firm's General Consul and when the General Consul applies for a Provisional Patent to develop it from 2+ years to less than 8 weeks. 
•	In 5 weeks, decreased receiving-dock-to-ready-for-payment throughput time for receiving documents from 60-90 days down to 5-7 days for a cleaning equipment firm.
•	Managed profitable architectural signage workshop employing entry-level workers of very diverse abilities and national origins.  Taught skills for present & future careers.  Trained disabled employee in systems design who was successfully out-placed and subsequently promoted 3 times in 6 weeks.
•	Fabricated & commissioned production test stand for electric motor armatures.
•	Designed test fixture to calibrate the crystalline structure resolution, in Angstroms, of a 2 inch high by 1/2 inch wide stream of neutrons.
•	Fabricated prototype Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) robots including 1) a storage/retrieval robot, 2) a central-production-cell, Pick-and-Place robot and 3) about a third of a polar-coordinates Computer-Numerically-Controlled milling machine.

Strengths
•	Able to generate alternate tactics and creative routes to desired objectives.
•	Consistently spot the relevant patterns and issues in any given scenario and create alternative ways to proceed.  
•	Able to spot the links and reasons between seemingly unrelated phenomena.
•	Desire to learn and pursue continuous improvement.
•	Adept at dealing with problems: good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it.

Experience
·	Lean Manufacturing Consultant - Manufacturing Consulting Services, Salt Lake City, UT
o	General Consul of unnamed food supplements firm (non-disclosure), Davis Co, UT
o	Woodcraft Mill and Cabinets, Salt Lake City, UT
o	Cleaning Equipment Company (unnamed due to non-disclosure), Salt Lake City, UT
o	Pool Cover Specialist, South Jordan, UT
o	Chemical Plant (Unnamed due to non-disclosure), Salt Lake City, UT 
o	Boart Longyear, Inc, Salt Lake City, UT
o	Designer Marble, Orem, UT
·	Adjunct Professor of Operations Management - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
·	Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Operations Management - Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
·	Adjunct Professor of Project Management - Weber State University, Layton, UT
·	Plant Engineer - Utah Plastics Group, Salt Lake City, UT
·	Executive Analyst - George S. May Intl., Chicago, IL
·	Instrumentation Engineer - KHI Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT
·	Sign Fabrication Shop Manager - Deseret Industries Manufacturing, Salt Lake City, UT
·	Manufacturing Systems Designer - Deseret Industries Manufacturing, Salt Lake City, UT
·	Chief Operations Officer - Intercon Trading Company, Salt Lake City, UT
·	General Machinist and Mechanical Designer - Automatics Company, Beaumont, CA

Education
•	Master of Business Administration, Production and Operations Management, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
•	Bachelor of Science, Production and Operations Management, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Additional Training
•	2.5 of 4-year Mechanical Engineering Bachelor of Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT & University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
•	Six Sigma Black Belt, Brigham Young University (Six Sigma is a statistically-based set of process improvement tools.)