Michelle Deboevre

About Michelle Deboevre

Enterprise operations leader with 15+ years of experience driving operational transformation, cost optimization, and organizational performance across aerospace, industrial, and manufacturing environments. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, improving operating margins, and executing complex initiatives that strengthen enterprise value. Combining deep operational and engineering expertise with executive-level leadership to drive scalable growth, disciplined execution, and measurable business outcomes.

Experience

1. Principal Enterprise and Finance Transformation

   L3Harris Technologies

   Mar 2021 — Present · Melbourne, FL, US

   Partner with Enterprise Finance Vice Presidents, Chief Finance Officer, and their teams to drive financial improvements, maximizing profitability for over global finance professionals. • Developed and implemented the Finance vision, fostering a unified team that excels functionally and sets the standard for excellence throughout global operations team.• Lead annual improvement optimization initiatives, saving thousands of hours and millions of dollars, while enhancing employee engagement.• Developed and created an enterprise-wide engineering challenge for over engineers worldwide. Facilitated beginning to end challenge operation, prize money recruitment, medal announcement and CEO public statement on CNBC. • Enabled over one thousand people to become continuous improvement trained over a 12-month period with year over year expansion. • Created the enterprise standards for employee engagement, communication strategy, and gamification across Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Global Operations and Safety divisions.• Serve as a SharePoint expert, co-developing 10+ internal sites, improving virtual communication across L3H for thousands of employees.• Championed the 5S+1 Day global event in 2023, saving hours and generating events.• Co-founded the Finance Excellence Academy, training 1,800 individuals in its first month (CY23).• Led a global project with nineteen teams, saving hours and streamlining closing processes (CY21).

Education

• University of Louisville

  Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2003 — 2008

• University of Louisville

  Masters, Mechanical Engineering

  2008 — 2009

Skills

• Program Management
• Microsoft Office
• Factory
• Team Building
• Iso
• Business Process Improvement
• Fmea
• Poka Yoke
• Dmaic
• Operational Excellence
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Procurement
• Leadership
• 5s
• Kaizen
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Continuous Improvement
• Industrial Engineering
• Change Management
• Product Development
• Lean Manufacturing
• Process Engineering
• Problem Solving
• Operations Management
• Engineering
• Root Cause Analysis
• Purchasing
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement