David Polgrean

About David Polgrean

Since 2007, Dave has worked with senior leadership teams throughout the Global Foundries Semiconductor Manufacturing Solutions and IBM\'s Microelectronics Division. Dave has worked in the Poughkeepsie NY, East Fishkill NY, Burlington VT and Bromont Canada facilities. In 2009, he began a Center of Competence (CoC) on 8 Step Problem Solving to improve cross site standards. In 2010, Dave became the CoC Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement Kaizen lead for our Global Foundries Semiconductor Manufacturing Solutions and IBM Microelectronics Division supporting over employees. Dave holds many Lean certifications including achieving his DMAIC / Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification. Dave\'s two BB projects posted a business savings, impact and avoidance ROI of over $350 million.* Dave\'s facilitation, coaching and his structured Kaizen process have received generated significant cost savings and business results. Dave continues to received positive, enthusiastic feedback from the Kaizen participants and executive stakeholders. Dave is a strong advocate for culture change and putting elephants on the table to support Lean transformation. Dave has clearly demonstrated a deep understanding and passion for continuous improvement and has been instrumental in the cultural change of the East Fishkill and Burlington teams.* Dave is the lead mentor for skill building and the Lean Core team leader.Dave has mastered key lean skills, including building an Organizational development Plan (ODP), Standards, Process Mapping, Kaizens, Visual Controls (including Gemba), 5S, FMEA, DMAIC, 8 Step, OEE, VSM, and Strategy Deployment including A3 thinking. Dave is recognized for gaining the skills and experiences to become a Lean System Thinker (unconscious competence on how Lean tools work together). He is changing cultural focus from a \"firefighting\"​ mode to a focus on \"Think Process First\" which is demonstrating better sustainment for continuous improvement projects.

Experience

1. Lean Problem Solver - Coach, New Tool Conversion Capex Process Owner, Lean Transformation Leader

   GlobalFoundries

   Jul 2015 — Present · New York, NY, US

   In the competitive marketplace, a successful business must learn to achieve a level of profitability. Measuring profitability is important, but it is only one of the key indicators in a balanced approach when measuring the success of the business. Improving profitability involves determining which areas of our financial, quality and delivery strategies are working and which ones need immediate improvement. Our team is involved in these strategies and Kaizens by challenging thinking, building a sense of urgency and being a team advocate helping teams move forward.Currently, working as the lead for the Lean Core team, we facilitate or drive over 100x Kaizen, Structured Problem Solving and Round Tables a year events. This year has a focus on Maintenance efficiency including wrench time improvements, Tool productivity improvement including multi-million dollar capital avoidance projects, facilitating our senior leadership teams startegy for two Fabs. My role has also been as a team advocate to bypass ingrained communication filters, so we understand and work on the real problems or gaps. We have also had very good success deploying running a Path to Profitability process (P2P) which is an operational structure to make it visible if \"Cost Centers\" are working within acceptable parameters versus Cost Centers not meeting cost challenges. The combination of \"Facilitated LEAN Thinking\" sessions and the projects above help us understand key quality, cost delivery targets, KPI’s and realized financial gains to assist cost centers in developing an effective competitive strategies for our company.When employees, systems, customers and management are all working together, the business can weather difficult economic cycles and withstand competition in the marketplace. We are tied to the success of the business. Our role is not to react, but help teams to think differently from the past, challenge our culture to \"see\" things differently in order to improve, grow and survive.

Education

• Marist University

  Bachelor of Science, Technical Management

  2001 — 2007

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Root Cause Analysis
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement
• Management
• Team Building
• 5s
• Supply Chain
• Dmaic
• Operational Excellence
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Engineering
• 8 Step Problem Solving Master
• Semiconductors
• Leadership
• A3
• Fmea
• Quality Management
• Forecasting
• Continuous Improvement
• Failure Analysis
• 6 Sigma Blackbelt Trained
• Ms Project
• Change Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Kaizen
• Sipoc
• Iso 9000
• Coaching
• Training
• Strategy
• Industrial Engineering
• Product Development
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Iso
• Business Process Improvement
• Spc
• Quality Assurance