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Hill Air Force Base is an Air Force Material
Command base located in northern Utah. Hill AFB is home to many operational
and support missions, with the Ogden Air Logistics Center (OO-ALC) serving
at the host organization. The center provides worldwide engineering and
logistics management for F-16, A-10 and the Minuteman intercontinental
ballistic missile. The base performs depot maintenance of the F-16 and C-130
Hercules aircraft
Air Mobility Command (AMC) provides common-user
and exclusive-use airlift, aerial refueling, and aero-medical evacuation
transportation services to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces.
AMC is the worldwide aerial
port manager and, where designated, operator of common-user aerial ports.
AMC is the point of contact
with the commercial airline industry for procurement of
DoD domestic and
international airlift services and administers and executes the Civil
Reserve Air Fleet.
Travis Air Force Base, the 60th
Air Mobility Wing is the largest air mobility organization in the Air Force
with a versatile all-jet fleet of C-5 Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster III cargo
aircraft and KC-10 Extender refueling aircraft. It handles more cargo and
passengers than any other military air terminal in the United States. Travis
is the West Coast terminal for aeromedical evacuation aircraft returning
sick or injured patients from the Pacific area. The 60th Air Mobility Wing
crews can fly support missions anywhere in the world to fulfill its motto of
being "America's First Choice" for providing true Global Reach.
David Grant USAF Medical Center is the premier DOD TRICARE Regional
Medical Center for 88K beneficiaries. Provides or arranges comprehensive
community and referral health care, readiness, education, research,
teleradiology services, aeromedical staging, and DOD/VA Joint Venture.
Annually supports over 308,000 outpatient visits, 5,100 admissions, 40,500
dental visits, and 116 research protocols with 124 residents, 2,142 staff,
and a budget of $222M.
Past
Work History:
Chris
has more than twenty years of hands-on experience in manufacturing environments
across a broad range and size of industries. He has used his coaching
and presentation skills in several successful manufacturing companies in both
the UK and USA, i.e. Rover, English China Clay, Cortaulds Group, Potterton,
Rabone-Chesterman, Creda, Tube Industries, Innovative Metal Fabrication, J.W.
Singer, Medtronic, APW, Endwave, Balanced Body, Stokes Ladders, Siemens, Manex
and Roplast Industries to name a few.
Between 1983 to
1996 Chris worked in the UK as a Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering
consultant. He played a key role by teaching companies how to identify key operational
problems and recognize them as opportunities for improvement. During this time,
he also improved his own knowledge base and gained valuable hands-on experience
with Continuous Process Improvement, Lean Manufacturing and ISO 9000.
Chris
and his wife Jodine relocated to the USA in February 1996. Since this time he
has integrated Lean and Six Sigma into his personal toolkit to achieve
impressive results for his clients.
Here
are some examples of the kind of results Chris achieved for his clients:
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Metal & Fabrication Shop |
Reduced inventory from $3.8 million down to $1.2 million
in 12 weeks |
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Wood Products |
Reduced product lead time from 19 days to 1 day in 10 weeks |
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Wood Products |
Reduced inventory by 70% in 16 weeks |
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Wood Products |
Increased productivity by 400% in 8 weeks |
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Electrical Products |
Doubled production output in 5 days. |
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Fabrication Shop |
Reduced order entry process from 10 days down to 48 hours in 5
days. |
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Plastics Extrusion |
Reduced machine set-up time by 60% in 3 days. |
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Hospital |
Developed and implemented a new process to reduced 72 patient
backlog in 3 days. Achieved over $200K in savings |
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