Eric Mixon

About Eric Mixon

As a Senior Director of Business Excellence with a proven track record across global…

Experience

1. Senior Director Business Excellence

   Edwards Lifesciences

   Jul 2022 — Present

   Applied operational excellence frameworks including TPM, DBS, and TPS to drive strategic kaizen events and simplify complex processes. Developed scorecards to measure effectiveness and collaborated across global Global Supply Chain and Quality• Interim site VP of Quality/Sr Director Quality Engineering, completed TUV and Dekra audits with no findings/observations• Leading Quality Transformational workstream to reduce Human errors by focusing on human factor analysis, training effectiveness and quality data analytics with 6-month reduction of human errors by 72%• Leading Lean line design pre-commercial certification and have achieved 30% efficiency gains over previous line designs• Led multiple workshops to develop strategies for package engineering, customer service, engineering automation and data analytics to drive a holistic Edwards business strategy execution• Global deployment of Face-2-Face Green Belt program, 138 candidates, 7 countries, 14 different functional groups including suppliers with more than $4M hard savings and 20M cost avoidance in less than 1 year• Global distribution pick pack and ship 37% productivity improvement by kitting line redesign to meet strategic growth and reduce current labor costs and improve yields (97% to 98.5%) and improve fill rate by 25%

Education

• University of North Georgia

  BS

  1988 — 1992

• Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business at Clemson University

  Masters

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• Polymers
• Kaizen
• Master Black Belt
• Root Cause Analysis
• Black Belt
• Operations Management
• Operational Excellence
• Lean Manufacturing
• 5s
• Manufacturing
• Six Sigma
• Process Engineering
• Continuous Improvement
• Quality Management
• Iso