Marc Mignogna
Brighton,CO
Summary
Strategic leader in continuous improvement with 25 years of experience in manufacturing and operations within medical and warehousing sectors. Expertise in coaching lean principles, driving organizational efficiencies, and enhancing customer satisfaction. Proven strengths in team development, problem-solving, and change management.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager Continuous Improvement
Lineage Logistics
Henderson, USA
01.2021 - 03.2026
- Regional support for Colorado, Texas, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Louisiana including 5 CI managers, 45 facilities, and 1,500+ team members.
- Ensure that every facility in my region is progressing along their lean journey, teaching, coaching and mentoring GMs, site leadership, and TMs.
- Drive lean principles to all newly acquired facilities M&A portion of the business.
- Responsible for the continued growth of my team by supporting their own personal lean journeys and development.
- Created the CI department’s strategic 1–3-year plan utilizing CIR (continuous improvement roadmap).
- Spearheaded a strategic efficiency initiative deploying JIT concepts in all our West facilities, working with RVPs and local site leadership ensuring sustainable results.
- Work closely with the RVPs of operations to provide support and resources for any regional requests or network assistance.
Continuous Improvement Manager
Lineage Logistics
Henderson, USA
01.2018 - 01.2021
- Championed lean implementation strategy in Henderson Co and Greeley Co locations, standardizing processes and ensuring uniform messaging across all organizational levels.
- Successfully coached, developed, and drove continuous improvement roadmaps (CIRs) for numerous Lineage buildings.
- Facilitated multiple Kaizen activities using PDCA and Value Stream thinking with Lean principles, achieving sustainable process improvements.
- Led assessor for 100+ Lean certifications throughout the Lineage network.
- Trained and guided local management and team members to enhance and sustain problem-solving capabilities across departments and network levels.
- Conducted Lean workshops for both the Watsonville & Oxnard campuses, teaching lean techniques while executing problem solving methodologies, resulting in a unified direction between sales and operations.
- Mentored high performers in facilities and supported new CI managers on the team.
Operations Manager
SPARTON (Medical Systems)
Frederick, USA
01.2012 - 01.2018
- Oversaw the manufacturing and shipping processes for $75M in annual sales, which included complete box build assemblies and PCBAs for over 30 customer programs.
- Directed production staff of 125+, including 3 supervisors, 10 line leads, and 115 operators and test techs across two shifts, ensuring operational efficiency.
- Increased production efficiency from 93% to 108% over a 2-year period by implementing best practices driven through Kaizen activities.
- Drove production Utilization from 79% to 89% through extensive cross-training of both the operators and line leads.
- Implemented operator focused continuous improvement meetings resulting in improved efficiencies, team collaboration, and over 300 operator suggestions resulting in 25 Kaizen events.
- Led multiple lean activities resulting in $450K, $395K, and $315K of annual cost savings in 3 years.
- Improved customer on-time delivery from 85% to 99% in a 3-year period through constant collaboration with the Program Managers to reduce customer backlog and ensure all customer needs were met.
- Introduced 7 new customer programs into production, representing $1.5M in annual sales, while executing several improvements to the new product introduction process.
- Successfully installed and implemented a new MES system (Aegis Factory Logics) on the production floor, enabling the production floor to go paperless for manufacturing procedures and device history records.
- Integrated a 2-bin delivery system where the material handlers delivered parts into specific locations on pre-determined milk run resulting in increased operator availability and improved operator utilization.
Operational Excellence Supervisor
COVIDIEN (Surgical Solutions)
Boulder, USA
01.2008 - 01.2012
- Managed 50+ Kaizen lean events analyzing value stream maps for opportunities, balancing the time between workstations on production lines, and evaluating the cost benefits for the different improvement solutions. The events were very successful, saving over $750,000.
- Implemented many creative and sustainable solutions derived from successful Kaizen events.
- Strategically evaluated a hopper list of potential Kaizen lean events to determine which events would have the biggest positive impact on the business and which leaders were best equipped to lead the event.
- Managed the daily activities and interactions of Kaizen cross-functional teams within the other departments.
- Trained and mentored each team member in all lean concepts (5s, value stream mapping, Kanban, standard work, visual management).
- Mentored and coached new Lean trainees throughout their certification process, ensuring the successful completion of their Lean certification.
Operations Team Lead/Supervisor
COVIDIEN (Surgical Solutions)
Boulder, USA
01.2008 - 01.2012
- Managed 35+ manufacturing operators on 4 different energy-based medical device production lines, driving exceptional results in the areas of quality, productivity and safety while enforcing strategic initiatives.
- Enhanced production efficiency across diverse production lines from 98% to 112% over 24 months through Lean solutions and data-driven continuous improvements.
- Boosted cross-training of staff from 65% to 85% in 24 months, resulting in a more flexible workforce.
- Tracked key production metrics to ensure adherence to quality and safety standards.
- Managed 35+ member team in the production of energy-based medical devices with combined annual revenues of over $150M.
Education
B.S. - Business Administration, Business Management
Regis University
Denver, COLean Management Certification -
Covidien EBD
Boulder, COSix Sigma Greenbelt Certification -
Sparton Medical Systems
Frederick, COSkills
- Change management
- Strategic decision-making
- Business acumen
- Time management
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Process improvement
- Lean implementation
Certification
- Lean Management Certification, Covidien EBD, Boulder, CO
- Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification, Sparton Medical Systems, Frederick, CO
Timeline
Senior Manager Continuous Improvement
Lineage Logistics
01.2021 - 03.2026
Continuous Improvement Manager
Lineage Logistics
01.2018 - 01.2021
Operations Manager
SPARTON (Medical Systems)
01.2012 - 01.2018
Operational Excellence Supervisor
COVIDIEN (Surgical Solutions)
01.2008 - 01.2012
Operations Team Lead/Supervisor
COVIDIEN (Surgical Solutions)
01.2008 - 01.2012
B.S. - Business Administration, Business Management
Regis University
Lean Management Certification -
Covidien EBD
Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification -
Sparton Medical Systems