Leonard Walton
McLean,VA
Summary
Dynamic business leader with 25 years of experience in driving growth and enhancing operational efficiency through innovative technology solutions. Proven ability to bridge the gap between technology and business, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Adept at fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in fast-paced environments. Key competencies include strategic planning, business development, and customer-centric initiatives.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director of Operations, Assembly
Gate Group
Dulles, United States
08.2023 - Current
- Review and evaluate the Culinary, Equipment Setup, and Wash assembly processes worth $50 million a month in P&L performance by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data and metrics to meet operational budgets and promote profitability.
- Provided leadership and guidance to five senior managers, ten supervisors, and over 500 unionized hourly associates.
- Utilized Lean Six Sigma principles to drive operational excellence throughout the organization, to improve departmental safety, quality of service, delivery, and customer satisfaction performance by complying with the organization's KPI goals and working with customers' and governmental food safety regulatory requirements.
- Analyzed data trends across a variety of sources to identify trends, patterns, and areas of potential risks or opportunities associated with operations.
- Set goals and expectations by collaborate with direct reports and professionals to identify areas where process improvements could be made, enabling the organization to increase productivity and meet business objectives.
- Create detailed project plans outlining goals, resources, timeline, milestones, risks, and contingencies by monitoring the progress of ongoing projects using KPIs; make adjustments as needed to ensure successful completion within the timeline and budget targets.
- Resolved customer service issues in a timely manner while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Evaluate the efficiency of business procedures regularly according to organizational objectives, and apply continuous improvement solution tools.
- Oversee customer input requirements, and tailor our processes to ensure our outputs are organized in such a way that our customers are delighted, and requirements are met.
- Worked with cross-functional teams to create a culture of continuous improvement and development, with coaching conversations that improve engagement and motivate employees to achieve a common goal.
Data Scientist & Business Analytics Consultant
LDBASE THEORY
06.2021 - 08.2023
- Review and assess advanced datasets from aero, structures, and metallurgy on OEM and MRO engine blade and vane hardware to help identify opportunities for scrap part improvement (reductions) in the manufacturing process.
- Performed exploratory analysis, hypothetical testing, validating, visualization, and reformulating parameters from complex, large datasets using SQL and Python libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, and Matplotlib modeling techniques, along with current manufacturing processes, to produce actionable insights and recommendations in developing new OEMRO methodology standards, which result in a decrease in scrap parts in the aerospace industry that lead to yield improvements and increased ROI.
- Collaborated closely with a diverse, cross-functional group of technical engineers to accomplish goals and address issues related to the products, services, and strategic planning, to help promote informed decision-making.
- Identified and assessed potential risks, developed risk mitigation strategies, and implemented risk control measures for cost savings through process automation initiatives.
- Managed projects and served as the primary liaison between the client and multiple internal groups to effectively ensure tasks were completed on schedule, and deadlines were met.
Sr. Consultant - OEMRO Aerospace/Construction
Alexander Proudfoot Management Consulting
02.2018 - 04.2021
- Supported the sales team by providing technical expertise in pre-sales activities by creating reports, presentations, and other documents to share findings with the client management team based on current state factors.
- Performed a cost and benefit analysis, and identified key performance indicators with senior executives and client staff members for measuring success from proposed solutions, to determine project effectiveness.
- Identify and contribute to innovative ideas or solutions using continuous business improvement, learning from client-based plans or previous experiences, to narrow the focus for decision-makers in making necessary changes and bringing fresh ideas.
- Established strong working relationships with cross-functional teams, both internal teams and external vendors and clients, throughout the organization to ensure alignment of objectives.
- Use various software tools to prepare comprehensive project status updates, technical solutions including risks, issues, and timeline changes, by utilizing a document management system to organize company files, streamline processes, and optimize performance to keep up-to-date and easily accessible data.
- Facilitated workshops, training with training materials for stakeholders to review current procedures and develop new processes.
- Directed and coordinated work completed by junior consultants and other consultants.
Mgr. Operational Excellence & Compliance
Gate Gourmet
02.2015 - 02.2018
- Responsible for scheduling necessary kaizen projects that solve internal or external problems that either impact labor or material cost goals, in conjunction with installation of gateOPEX initiatives at the IAD Business Unit.
- Utilized Lean Six Sigma principles to analyze current processes, maintained detailed records documenting all aspects of continuous improvement projects, including scope, objectives, identified areas of improvement, created action plans from corrective action recommendations, and performed post-implementation audit reports.
- Support the CAPEX budget for labor headcount, facilities, and equipment upgrades.
- Develop a corporate-wide dashboard to track labor variances between forecast, plan, and actual for all departments.
- Provided coaching and mentoring support to cross-functional teams in the implementation of process improvement initiatives across multiple departments.
- Presented business performance data and forecasted business results for upper management.
Education
Post Graduate Data Science & Business Analytics -
University of Texas McCombs School of Business
06.2022
M.S. - Industrial Technology
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
06.1999
B.S. - Manufacturing Systems
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
06.1997
Skills
- Python Foundations
- R
- JavaScript
- Tableau
- Hadoop
- Selenium
- Google CoLab
- Jupyter Notebook
- Visual Studio
- PostgresSQL
- Visio
- Salesforce Knowledge
- Big Data
- Business Strategy
- Change Management
- Coaching/Mentoring
- Customer Relationship Management
- Data Management
- Data mining
- Kaizen Facilitator and Trainer
- Productivity and Efficiency Improvements
- Root Cause Corrective Action Process
- Reverse Engineering Methodology
- Great Soft Skills Essentials
- Supplier Quality and Logistics Knowledge
- Value Stream Mapping
- Vendor Management
- Visualization Reports
- AI prompt engineering
Websites
Supported Causes
- Food Banks, Food Pantries, Food Distribution
- Youth Education, Boys & Girls Club of America
- AmazonSmile
- Goodwill
Certification
- Mastering Business Development, 23
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop for Business Intelligence, 23
- SixSigma Global Institute LSBB, 23
- SQL Bootcamp, 23
- Sales Engineer, 24
- ChatGPT, Midjourney, Jasper, DALL-E, 25
Inventor
2009/0263,574, METHOD OF RESTORING AN ARTICLE
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Director of Operations, Assembly
Gate Group
08.2023 - Current
Data Scientist & Business Analytics Consultant
LDBASE THEORY
06.2021 - 08.2023
Sr. Consultant - OEMRO Aerospace/Construction
Alexander Proudfoot Management Consulting
02.2018 - 04.2021
Mgr. Operational Excellence & Compliance
Gate Gourmet
02.2015 - 02.2018
- Mastering Business Development, 23
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop for Business Intelligence, 23
- SixSigma Global Institute LSBB, 23
- SQL Bootcamp, 23
- Sales Engineer, 24
- ChatGPT, Midjourney, Jasper, DALL-E, 25
Post Graduate Data Science & Business Analytics -
University of Texas McCombs School of Business
M.S. - Industrial Technology
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
B.S. - Manufacturing Systems
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
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