Hi, I’m
Ryan Ulrich
Coweta,OK
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Summary
My passion for business growth and development has guided my career through a plethora of opportunities and learnings. I am a strategic thinker focused on being an agent of measured change. Regardless of my role, I focus on the impact to the business as a whole and to the customer. I wholeheartedly believe in building market led strategies and formal Hoshin based business planning as we never achieve goals unformalized.
I have over 20 years of experience in manufacturing and have performed most roles across the business including production, logistics, quality, sourcing, sales and sales management, capital project management, innovation management, customer development strategy, and new market strategy to name a few. Most recently I have been heavily involved with business direction, strategic planning, and process improvement & standardization. All businesses are beautifully unique, and in that beauty lies a standard formula for repeatable success.
Overview
15
years of professional experience
1
Certificate
Work History
Ball Inc. Global BeverageWestminster, CO
Innovation - New Product Development Process Manager
01.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Provide strategic innovation vision for 64 active projects valued at $1.3B return and +200 idea submissions.
- Developed product development budgets, expenditures and research up to $135MM in cost.
- Gather and analyze large amounts of project and market data to determine improvement projections.
- Lead team of 4 mid-level employees
- Responsible for training all Directors and Project Managers on Stage-Gate, use of Accolade, and standard Project Management skills
- Acting PMO for PM processes, project content, project planning, and Gate Meetings
OsecoBroken Arrow, OK
New Product Development Process Leader & Project Manager
09.2014 - 12.2018
Job overview
- Established and lead teams specifically designed to accelerate NPD projects to completion utilizing Stage-Gate methodologies with average development time reduction of 50%.
- Developed strategies and tools to quantify project financial impacts from both top down and bottom up with Customers.
- Developed strategies and tools to codify and quantify customers, value propositions to ensure valuable product development.
- Responsible for identifying needed project skills and knowledge for 125 employees.
- Project Manager responsibilities from first customer contact to sales execution and production.
- Developed safety products that targeted at replacing 50-year-old technology valued at over $6MM per year.
OsecoBroken Arrow, OK
Project Manager
01.2012 - 09.2014
Job overview
- Orchestrated projects within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems and working closely with senior leaders.
- Completed a major multi-million dollar (10 million dollar per year) new product development project (project performed 37% over forecast)
- Completed 4 capital purchase projects totaling $1.3MM.
- Completed a $250,000 facility remodeling project hitting all major milestones,
- Lean Facilitator certified
- Experience partnering effectively with marketing to develop new product concepts based on customer insights and working with cross functional project teams and senior leadership.
- Influenced key stake holders through data-based story lines, leadership, and communication skills,
- Utilization of the Stage-Gate development processes, customer sensing, design for manufacturability, FMEA, and FEA analysis as a standard practice.
OsecoBroken Arrow, OK
Buyer & Logistics Coordinator
12.2011 - 12.2012
Job overview
- Established inventory targets, stock level and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize $1.5MM of inventory.
- Managed all purchasing responsibilities including cost reduction of 10%.
- Developed vendor relationships for subcontract Operations and purchasing.
- Responsible for effective and accurate shipping methods (zero shipping errors).
- Improved shipping processes 1 hour per day by initializing document and process automation.
- Negotiated cost savings in shipping charges realizing approximately $247K in savings.
Spirit AeroSystemsTulsa, OK
Mechanical Engineer / Technical Build Specialist
07.2008 - 02.2011
Job overview
- Assumed responsibility for and lead Program Change Management for 5,500 part assembly.
- Advise mechanical system designs with engineering and mitigate design conflicts.
- Responsible for Cause and Corrective Actions including investigating root cause and implementing corrective action plans coordinated with engineering.
- Resolve operational critical path issues for 14 build stations.
- Vigilant in Configuration Management efforts to assist Operations in maintaining a product built precisely to engineering for the first 12 new builds.
- Created planning for 14 positional build sequences.
- Work closely with and coach 55 mechanics on proper specifications and best manufacturing practices.
Spirit AeroSystems Inc.Tulsa, OK
Master Scheduler
05.2007 - 07.2008
Job overview
- Prepared, developed, and coordinated segmented and integrated schedules to meet program and project requirements on over 5,500 parts through 16 functional areas.
- Integrated program schedules across all company functional groups and external suppliers.
- Provided risk and opportunity analysis
- Identified and assigned critical path issues
- Identified and recommended solutions to network logic conflicts.
- Assisted in identifying and reporting performance variances.
- Performed scheduling impact analysis related to a change request and incorporated approved changes.
Education
Friends UniversityWichita, KS
Bachelor of Science from Business Management
08.2014
Skills
- New Product Development
- Leadership and People Development
- Change and Growth Management
- Software Solution Architect
- Strategic Planning
- Project Management
- Portfolio Management
- Stakeholder Analysis
- PMBOK
- Challenge Sale
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Front End Product Development
- Capacity Planning
- Leadership Experience
- Manufacturing
- Analytical Skills
Accomplishments
- Lead the Innovation Process for a $6B company.
- Created NPD platform to enable over $250MM in projects.
- Managed team budgets of over $2M/yr.
- Launched multiple NPD projects netting over $10M/yr.
- Project Managed executed +$8 Million Capital Projects
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Timeline
Innovation - New Product Development Process Manager
Ball Inc. Global Beverage
01.2019 - Current
New Product Development Process Leader & Project Manager
Oseco
09.2014 - 12.2018
Project Manager
Oseco
01.2012 - 09.2014
Buyer & Logistics Coordinator
Oseco
12.2011 - 12.2012
Mechanical Engineer / Technical Build Specialist
Spirit AeroSystems
07.2008 - 02.2011
Master Scheduler
Spirit AeroSystems Inc.
05.2007 - 07.2008
Friends University
Bachelor of Science from Business Management
- PMBOK (University of Tulsa)
- The Challenger Sale
- Project Manager Leadership (Workwise)
- Inspire, Connect, Achieve (Ball)
- Marketing & Sales (Hilti based)
- Negotiations (OSU Masters Level)
- Front End Product Development (AIM Institute)
Certification
- PMBOK (University of Tulsa)
- The Challenger Sale
- Project Manager Leadership (Workwise)
- Inspire, Connect, Achieve (Ball)
- Marketing & Sales (Hilti based)
- Negotiations (OSU Masters Level)
- Front End Product Development (AIM Institute)
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