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Chase Gray

Vero Beach,FL

Summary

Driven Continuous Improvement Specialist with a proven track record at Piper Aircraft Inc., where I harnessed Kaizen and Lean Six Sigma methodologies and a passion for visual management to streamline operations. Fostered a customer-focused culture, significantly optimizing workflow and enhancing data-driven decision-making. My leadership in process reengineering and waste elimination propelled substantial improvements in production and cost management.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Continuous Improvement Specialist

Piper Aircraft Inc.
Vero Beach, FL
09.2024 - 02.2025
  • Implement Andon boards in the machine shop to automate OEE tracking, visualize key metrics, and prompt operators to log unplanned downtime via QR-coded reason codes. Train operators to leverage the system effectively.
  • Collaborate with Production Planning to standardize supply chain diagnostics, optimizing lead times, order policies, and safety stock to balance cost, service, and inventory. Reduce demand/lead time variability.
    - Improve in-house MES tools to reduce availability losses from labor reporting and work retrieval while enhancing data quality.
  • Expand KPI suite and BI tools to support root cause analyses and PDCA cycles in supervisor-led Daily Performance Reviews.

Cost Analyst

Piper Aircraft Inc.
Vero Beach, FL
07.2023 - 09.2024
  • Reviewed and assigned costs, expenses, and revenues associated with NPD projects.
  • Analyzed trends in production costs over time and generated forecasts and supervisory tools based on this information.
  • Developed procedures to streamline internal processes related to cost tracking and reporting.

Cost Accountant

Piper Aircraft Inc.
Vero Beach, FL
06.2022 - 07.2023
  • Developed reports for areas such as per-job and per-area manufacturing performance, periodic variances, etc.
  • Generated ad hoc reports requested by internal customers such as senior management team members which included detailed margin analysis for specified product lines or customer segments.
  • Investigated variances between actual results versus standards established within the cost accounting system on a periodic basis in order to make necessary corrections or adjustments accordingly.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration; Option in Finance

California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
05-2022

Skills

  • Kaizen methodology
  • Balanced scorecard
  • Operations management
  • Waste elimination
  • Total productive maintenance
  • Cycle time reduction
  • Value stream mapping
  • Theory of constraints
  • Lean six sigma
  • 5S methodology
  • Workflow optimization
  • Customer focus
  • Visual management
  • Business process reengineering

Accomplishments

  • The President's Award for Educational Achievement | President's Education Awards Program | June 2016
  • Friends of Jazz Scholarship | Friends of Jazz, Inc. | December 2018 / December 2019

Timeline

Continuous Improvement Specialist

Piper Aircraft Inc.
09.2024 - 02.2025

Cost Analyst

Piper Aircraft Inc.
07.2023 - 09.2024

Cost Accountant

Piper Aircraft Inc.
06.2022 - 07.2023

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration; Option in Finance

California State University, Long Beach

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