Martha McCann-Lazor

About Martha McCann-Lazor

Strategic business partner driving transformational change that improves, aligns, and foundationally enables Quality, Compliance, Acquisition Integration, Process Excellence, and Enterprise Risk in globally complex environments. Skilled in global collaboration, with ground-level leadership experience spanning the US, China, Korea, France, and UK.Executive Profile:• Program driver delivering high-value transformational programs that attain results while mitigating risk. Expertise in project management, process analysis/improvement, and investigation management.• Business results partner collaborating across the organization to troubleshoot and solve mission-critical problems while fostering proactive cultures of accountability and ownership.• Risk mitigator with demonstrated success building risk programs and aligning design frameworks to reinforce business objectives, protect the business, enhance margins, and instill global best-practice behaviors. • Experienced in driving effective post-acquisition integration that creates synergies and unified cultures.

Experience

1. VP Quality

   Weatherford

   Aug 2021 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Created global Quality program for $5B revenue organization with employees inclusive of quality support for Engineering, Suppliers, Manufacturing, Repair & Maintenance and Operations. • Drove significant operational improvements since 2022 in non-productive time (0.36% to 0.29% of revenue), customer incident resolution time (70% reduction in P95 resolution days), supplier defect rate reduction (0.10% to 0.02% of total parts), and audit execution improvement (75% reduction in P95 resolution days).• Drove process improvement and cost control program across organization to significantly improve margins without impacting business unit capabilities; decreased discretionary spend 0.27% of revenue to 0.22% in 2 years; decreased costs and increased margins by $75M in 2025.• Introduced Change Control Boards in Engineering; reduced Engineering Change Notices impacting Manufacturing by an average of 54% across three Product Lines.• Developed and operationalized cross functional Stage Gate process to effectively and efficiently close sites and transfer work to new sites without quality impacts.

Education

• Rice University

  Graduate Paralegal Certificate Program

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Business Administration and Management, General

  1983 — 1987

Skills

• Lean Manufacturing
• Drilling
• Compliance
• Change Management
• Six Sigma
• Process Improvement
• Strategy
• Management
• Energy
• Program Management
• Operational Excellence
• Leadership
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Training
• Project Management
• Quality Management
• Manufacturing