Laura Stiggins
Rochester,NY
Summary
Results-driven management professional with proven ability to lead teams to success. Strong focus on team collaboration, operational efficiency, and achieving measurable outcomes. Adept at strategic planning, process improvement, and fostering culture of accountability and excellence. Known for adaptability and consistently meeting changing organizational needs.
Insightful Manager with experience directing and improving operations through effective employee motivational strategies and strong policy enforcement. Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations. Talented leader with analytical approach to business planning and day-to-day problem-solving.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Process Operations
Corning Inc.
01.2004 - 01.2019
- Outstanding Achievement in Performance Excellence Award 12/7/2007 Presented by: Peter F. Volanakis President and C.O.O. / Science and Technology
- Project Leader/Green Belt of a PeX Inventory and Storage Management Documentation of R&D Cost Reductions & Savings of +$1,000,000
- Implementing quality systems, controls, ensuring regulatory/standards compliance, ability to identify process/ material deficiencies, maximizing continuous improvement opportunities
- Materials inventory storage management system design and implementation
- R&D manufacturing capacity planning analysis, small volume R&D production
- Maximized R&D process space utilization, increasing process flow, materials, and throughputs.
- PeX- Project manager/lead, defining goals, scope, planning, customer communications, change management activities.
- Define post project department staff responsibilities of quality processes/systems to optimize the integrity and reliability of the quality system, through defined audits, utilizing SOP/best practices, to maximize material/product quality standard compliance, identifying process improvement opportunities.
- Document quality process best practices of materials/product inspection, audits and handling of non-conformities.
- Cleanroom Class 100, ISO 14644, documentation and control monitoring
Production Engineering Coordinator
Corning Incorporated
03.1999 - 08.2001
- Company Overview: Corning Environmental Technologies
- Innovated R&D production planning process/schedule improvements
- Acted as Main Interface between Engineering Development Groups and Production Line Staff
- Production process improvements increased customer satisfaction and delivery goals
- Corning Environmental Technologies
Education
A.A.S. - Optical Engineering Technology
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NYB.S. - Business Management and Economics
Empire State College
Saratoga, NYSkills
- Staff responsibility oversight
- JIT planning and delivery
- Proactively mitigating quality impacts
- Effective interpersonal communication skills
- Quality control data collection and analysis
- Materials management
- Prioritizing process tasks
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Time management
- Clear interpersonal communication
- Critical thinking
- Organization and time management
- Decision-making
Timeline
Process Operations
Corning Inc.
01.2004 - 01.2019
Production Engineering Coordinator
Corning Incorporated
03.1999 - 08.2001
A.A.S. - Optical Engineering Technology
Monroe Community College
B.S. - Business Management and Economics
Empire State College
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