Matthew Thomas
Vice President Operations
- Role
- Washington Dc-baltimore Area at GE Aerospace
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Matthew Thomas
Resourceful, composed Sr. Operations Director with a 20-year proven track record of team building, problem solving, and customer focus delivering profitable business growth within a diversified value stream business. Expert at identifying and championing lean transformation, strategy deployment, and organizational synergies to unlock greater customer and shareholder value. Adept communicator with demonstrated ability to create highly engaged, agile workforce capable of meeting dynamic business needs, while fostering security and growth employees require to be successful. The sites and organizations I have been privileged to lead continue to be incredibly successful. Unlocking the creativity, talent and passion of the workforce in a culture of continues improvement has undoubtedly been the driving force behind our success.• 20% product development to delivery cycle time improvement with greater transparency to customer• 250% product output growth in 24 months while achieving $14M cost savings, and 75% reduction in quality audit findings• $500K annual savings on single product line by engaging manufacturing associates in waste elimination
Experience
Washington Dc-baltimore Area
Present
Lead materials and process engineer supporting development, production and transition of composite product lines for Boeing and Airbus. • Created 40% additional capacity through standard work and plant layout within existing footprint in 30 days without disruption to customer delivery• Leveraged lessons learned and best practices from across the business to drive productivity improvements of $1M/yr at GE facility• Provided onsite composites manufacturing expertise to internal and external production facilities to resolve ongoing FTY and quality issues while also championing cycle time and cost out projects
Education
University of Phoenix
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
2004 — 2007
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Engineering
1999 — 2003
Skills
- Composites
- Process Improvement
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- R&D
- Spc
- Manufacturing Operations
- Business Development
- Aerospace Manufacturing
- Tool Design
- Business Process Improvement
- Polymer Composites
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Commercial Aviation
- Material Properties
- Product Development
- Adhesive Bonding
- Engineering Management
- Aerospace Engineering
- Materials
- Six Sigma
- Microsoft Office
- Materials Science
- Project Management
- Process Engineering
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