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Marina Markovic

St. Louis,MO

Summary

Highly skilled and detail-oriented, motivated, creative and perceptive individual with high proficiency in building a continuous improvement culture and serving as subject matter experts in lean management methodologies to drive breakthrough results. High level of commitment, flexibility, organizational skills, strong human relation skills, project management experience, and communication skills have been strongly utilized through all phases of my work. Implemented and taught core elements of the lean management system such as visual management, problem solving, and leader standard work to drive breakthrough improvements in critical value streams. Charged with process assessment and analysis. Analyzed processes to determine areas for improvement, increased efficiency and cost reduction. Streamlined operations and administration by introducing advanced continuous improvement methodologies. Use of problem solving tools such as the Pareto analysis, Fish Bone Diagrams, and 5-Why Cause Chains to identify problems at root cause. Regularly employ A3 thinking, embrace change, and use the PDCA cycle, which follows my own personal operating system; fluent in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian language. Successful Continuous Improvement Manager with expertise in developing process improvement solutions resulting in better efficiency, safety and quality. Focused on reducing waste by implementing changes in processing based on lean methodology. Driven to monitor performance improvements by developing metrics and tracking systems.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

CI Facilitator

WATLOW
01.2021 - 03.2024
  • Played a crucial part in ensuring that the process is followed to the extent that ensures process compliance in our company
  • Applying and implementing Lean principles to maximize customer value while minimizing waste throughout Watlow Global Customer Service and Watlow Compliance System
  • Acting as a change agent accountable for facilitating the application of Watlow Way tools to identify and remove waste and sources of variation enterprise wide
  • Responsible for leading and participating on team improvements aimed primarily at process improvements and redesign efforts across the entire value stream from customer demand creation to demand satisfaction
  • Coaching others in problem-solving efforts to establish product/process families
  • Working to reduce process variation, cycle time and eliminates waste/cost-of-poor quality
  • Appling value stream analysis to improve process efficiency, achieve measurable results and create break-through performance at the value stream level
  • Coaching Value Stream leadership to promote CI/Lean/6 Sigma principles and practices
  • Mentor / facilitator of knowledge transfer and cultural adoption throughout entire Customer to Customer VS (job training delivered in a classroom and on-the-job coaching with focus on the cultural shift effort specifically on the “people issues

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Lindenwood University
Saint Louis, MO
05.2019

Associate of Applied Science - Business Administration

St. Louis Community College
Saint Louis,MO
05.2019

Bachelor of General Law - General Law

University of Mostar - Law School Mostar
Mostar, Basniaa And Hercegovinia
1986

Skills

  • Data Analysis
  • Business process reengineering
  • Maintaining records
  • Quality Management Systems

Languages

Croatian
Full Professional
Serbian
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

CI Facilitator

WATLOW
01.2021 - 03.2024

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Lindenwood University

Associate of Applied Science - Business Administration

St. Louis Community College

Bachelor of General Law - General Law

University of Mostar - Law School Mostar
Marina Markovic