Samara Tauber

About Samara Tauber

Lean Six Sigma is a highly regarded and necessary tool for strategically aligning any company for efficiency, growth, increasing revenue and fostering team organization; ultimately resulting in, ridding waste. Many processes are used throughout every department of a corporation. It is essential to identify, through team cooperation and communication, what problems have arisen and how to resolve them in a lean manner, implementing long-term solutions. Samara Tauber is a bottom line, solutions driven person. In the past decade, Ms.Tauber has eliminated more than $100 million in hard and soft cost-savings. Conducting a thorough manpower analysis of an organization yields streamlined operational expenditures while identifying systems and manufacturing inefficiencies. In order to become a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Ms. Tauber was able to walk into a corporation with more than employees to improve process inefficiencies using fishbone diagrams (what happened and why); value stream mapping (VSM); Kaizen events; and ultimately, using an implementation strategy. Based on a time and sales case study, she was able to analyze a trending problem within the proprietary software program. This software program recommended a best scenario for the company\'s customer. Many times the customer base was not satisfied with this best case scenario, and the staff was not trained to offer an alternative solution. The customers were immediately turned off, costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost sales and transactions. With a training program implemented, Samara created a solution that supported the proprietary software, but integrated a hands-on approach with the staff and the customer, closing the sale afterwards 90% of the time. It is one thing to understand key process indicators (KPI’s), but it is another thing to understand how to achieve success as a group, around the obstacles. This is what Ms. Tauber excels at.

Experience

1. Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer

   Light & Wonder

   May 2023 — Present · Las Vegas, NV, US

   Appointed senior liaison between manufacturing and systems development for brand new, hand-scripted manufacturing software platform.· Created bar coded manufacturing checkpoints throughout production for accountability program · Implemented future state manufacturing system with optimized floor layout.· Integrated a comprehensive analytics tracking system· Managed customer orders, quality while scanning internal components to keep on file for traceability · Focused on current state operational challenges while mitigating risk· Assisted, advised and supported management staff.· Implemented bar code scanning to obtain metrics and adhere to KPI\'s. · Train and led more than 52 weeks of in-person meetings to top leadership representing more than 15 internal departments. · Prepared team for preventative awareness to mitigate operational risks by focusing on root cause analysis, problem and solution integration. · Engaged up to 100 employees by offering assistance and encouragement · Increased morale by communicating and mediating issues- Improved cost of poor quality of $16 million per year by using the DMAIC methodology of Six Sigma and Quality.

Education

• Jean's Flight Training

  Private Pilot License

• Northern Arizona University

  Bachelor of Science - BS

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  Master's degree

  2020 — 2023

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

  2014 — 2016