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Cindy Sebit

Lewisville,TX

Summary

Decisive and effective leader, driving high-impact opportunities to improve and implement processes, operational planning, systems, and capabilities that optimize financial and operational excellence.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Manufacturing Manager Projects & Initiatives

GE Aerospace
Cincinnati, OH
09.2023 - Current
  • Worked together with the digital and functional Engine Modernization team to phase out CAS and moving into Oracle.
  • Assess existing systems and processes to identify integration opportunities.
  • Collaborate with clients to gather and understand integration requirements.
  • Demonstrated leadership by making improvements to work processes and helping to train others.
  • Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.
  • Conduct thorough testing and validating of integrations.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve integration issues in a timely manner.
  • Help launch CRP, SIT, UAT, Go Live and Hypercare in 3 facilities.
  • Created a playbook for the functional team to use for future site integrations.

Strategic Projects Manager

Eblocks
Vermont, USA, VT
06.2022 - 03.2023
  • Support transaction and initiative goals by managing processes such as updating and tracking project plans, scheduling, recording and following-up on project meetings.
  • Assist or Lead in the planning, coordination and execution of multiple M&A or Strategic related projects work efforts.
  • Assist and support post-acquisition integration, ensuring that cross-functional teams and workstreams are executing on their respective M&A integration plans.
  • Sets and maintains routine cross-functional checkpoints to ensure proper progression against goals.
  • Regularly communicate on Integration Milestones, Risks & KPIs.
  • Work tightly with Corporate Development and functional leaders to assume responsibility
    for and support delivery of business case goals.
  • Used Microsoft Visio to Design, visualize, and improve processes.
  • Promoted content through advertising on specific social media networks to reach target audience.
  • Collaborated with marketing team to coordinate social media advertising campaigns to achieve unified marketing strategy.
  • Spearheaded creation of blogs and social media content.
  • Participated in virtual marketing-related events and posted highlights on social media networks to share information and reinforce company message.
  • Designed content editorial calendar to plan marketing campaigns and integrate social media content.
  • Partnered with content management and video associates to create customer success stories for promotion on social media networks.
  • Created and published quality original content on selected social media networks to communicate company message.
  • Collected and analyzed market research data for use in forecasting.

BUSINESS INTEGRATION PROJECT MANAGER

Rochester Gauges
DALLAS, Texas
09.2019 - 06.2022
  • Responsible for development and execution of integration plan for mergers & Acquisitions activities, including project management for: production transfer projects, operations planning, business unit transition (IT, HR, Sales, Purchasing & etc.), & system integration (ERP)
  • Completed 3 successful acquisition integrations and a system ERP integration (Microsoft D365)
  • Led cross-functional teams of resources to complete project milestones and tasks
  • Built and developed the organization’s capabilities and framework to facilitate business integration & best practices that are in line with the operational & global enterprise strategies
  • Time spent in traveling domestically and internationally to plan, organize, and execute integration projects
  • Project management duties
  • Determine and define project scope and objectives
  • Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
  • Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements
  • Track project costs & meet budget
  • Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
  • Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
  • Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution
  • Monitor progress and adjust as needed
  • Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement

PROCUREMENT/MATERIALS MANAGER

FORUM ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
FORT WORTH, TX
02.2018 - 06.2019
  • Arranging or categorizing spend according to specific goods or services (direct & indirect) and keeping in mind quality, service, forecast, risks, and cost
  • Carry out market analysis to determine future product/material availability by isolating causes of variability, eliminating sources of bias, and collaborating with multiple resources such as sales, customer service, distributors, and installers
  • Implemented statistics-based forecasting process which resulted in a 25% improvement in forecast accuracy
  • Help create a supplier portal and implemented MRP by introducing and maintaining order quantity parameters, lead time parameters, purchase & production order dates, production routings and production Bill-of-Materials
  • ERP system used (Microsoft dynamics NAV)
  • In addition, help transform data into Power BI and visually explore and analyze data
  • Direct and manage the activities of purchasing agents to ensure effective performance
  • Responsible for inventory ($53M) while reducing and improving procurement strategies, achieved $15 million dollars reduction in inventory from March of 2018 to May of 2019
  • Implemented vendor performance tracking scorecard, tracking vendor delivery, quality, cost benchmark, and compliance to process and responsiveness
  • Facilitated multiple vendor negotiations and prepared “Should Cost Modeling” analysis
  • Successfully negotiated and pushed out purchased orders/inventories with no demand due to forecast change and customer demands, $6.6 M negotiated to cancel with the vendors no penalties and $7 M negotiated to pushout
  • Developed a close relationship with vendors, improved raw material lead time and replenishment plans to meet production targets and forecast
  • Help developed KPI tracking inventory turns, price variance, on time delivery and lead time adherence
  • Expedite purchase orders and ensure suppliers deliver requested items within set time constraint
  • Oversee the processing of payment and preparation of invoices
  • Evaluate business contracts to ensure compliance with legal requirements
  • Continuously compare product prices and service quality to ensure a company gets the best deals on purchased products/services

SR. AREA LEADER & PROJECT MANAGER

DAIKIN TEXAS TECHNOLOGY PARK/GOODMAN MANUFACTURING
HOUSTON, TX
01.2002 - 02.2018
  • Helped transition the Daikin/Goodman acquisition and consolidated four plants into one large 4.5 million square foot facility.
  • Help integrate all facilities into ERP systems using best practices involving procurement, production, material management, quality systems, IT, accounting, and interplant transfers/logistics. ERP System used (MAPICS Infor-XA).
  • Implemented a new fabrication warehouse housing and procurement of over 5,000 fabricated parts by developing a detailed PFEP (Plan for Every Part)
  • Implemented and maintained a kitting center responsible to kit small lot sizes and delivery one way to production (improving reverse logistics).
  • Presented, facilitated, and led assigned process improvement events using methods of
  • culture-appropriate team building, team energizing, data gathering and analysis, problem
  • solving, project management and state of the art presentation and platform skills.
  • Provides event follow-up to monitor the progress of planned improvement implementation to assure timely action, appropriate management support, and achievement of expected benefits. Uses appropriate measurement, analysis, and evaluation methods to accurately identify and document process improvements.
  • Prepares purchase information for departmental management review to identify materials, equipment, software, and other resources required for effective implementation of Continuous Improvement.
  • Used Microsoft Visio to prepare flowcharts, basic network diagrams, Venn diagrams, block diagrams, and business matrices.

Education

Executive MBA: Master of Business Administration - Finance

TULANE UNIVERSITY
05.2019

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

UNVERSITY OF PHOENIX
05.2009

Skills

  • PMP certification
  • Microsoft POWER BI & POWER APP
  • Microsoft NAV Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Infor XA, MAPICS AS400, Oracle
  • Smartsheet, Visio, Visme & Microsoft Project
  • CPIM trained
  • Lean manufacturing & Problem Solving
  • (Six Sigma black belt)

Timeline

Sr. Manufacturing Manager Projects & Initiatives

GE Aerospace
09.2023 - Current

Strategic Projects Manager

Eblocks
06.2022 - 03.2023

BUSINESS INTEGRATION PROJECT MANAGER

Rochester Gauges
09.2019 - 06.2022

PROCUREMENT/MATERIALS MANAGER

FORUM ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
02.2018 - 06.2019

SR. AREA LEADER & PROJECT MANAGER

DAIKIN TEXAS TECHNOLOGY PARK/GOODMAN MANUFACTURING
01.2002 - 02.2018

Executive MBA: Master of Business Administration - Finance

TULANE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

UNVERSITY OF PHOENIX

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