Leading a Management Consulting company focused on executing and scaling strategies for clients. Specializing in people, innovation, and technology, to improve operating margins, strategic planning, cost reduction, capacity creation, organizational focus, and day-to-day operations.
Currently supporting a healthcare startup SaaS and a Technology company to enter the Canadian healthcare space

Provided strategic leadership for Alpha Laboratories, focusing on profitability, operational excellence, and building a high-performance team. Strengthened relationships with stakeholders, partners, and government entities, and demonstrated a keen understanding of market needs and opportunities.

Lead Alpha Laboratories through significant turnaround and growth challenges while building a strong high-performing leadership team, a strong team culture, driving Operational Excellence, and managing stakeholder relationships.

Accountable for growing company clinic operations across the US and Canada while developing robust infrastructure across all company work streams.

Successfully doubled the size of a mental health company, growing from 4 to 8 clinics in the first year, with further expansion planned.

Provided senior leadership and accountability for planning, implementing, and directing laboratory operations and clinical services at PHO central and regional laboratory sites. Successfully increased testing capacity for COVID-19 response.

Tripled testing Capacity and improved Turn Around Time at Public Health Ontario laboratories within 4 months.

Oversaw the entire customer service delivery value stream, leading operations with over 5,500 employees, and 370 community-based patient access sites and providing over 100 million tests at 17 testing labs that served over 75,000 customers daily across ON, BC, SK and AB, Canada. The work stream included Diagnostics collection centers Laboratory Operations, Logistics network, Medical Scientific teams, Quality organization, and all Operations support functions.

Following the acquisition of two of LifeLabs' competitors led a multi-year integration plan which ultimately enhanced synergies by 10% and reduced costs by 8%. with a focus on developing and maintaining the highest levels of quality, reliability, and employee engagement.
Developed and implemented a “5-Year Operation & Business Planning Process” that achieved benchmark productivity and consistently near 100% (IQMH) audits; reduced cost for an automation line by $10 Million in run-rate costs over 5 years.

• Led the development and implementation of Lean Strategy at a global level, working with Global Manufacturing & Supply Leadership, as well as local plant leadership and staff, to increase mastery of the Lean principles.
• Identified and drove multi-million dollars in operating cost reduction and capacity creation for Novartis' Consumer Health Division in Nebraska, Puerto Rico, and Geneva. $11.8M annualized savings and cost avoidance in the first year, $17.2M in the second.
• Achieved site OEE improvements by over 100%, while employee engagement rose to 70%, a 50% improvement.

• Developed and implemented Bausch & Lomb's Global Lean Operating Strategy/Global Process Excellence and evaluated the extent of Lean implementation and its impact on business results. Worked with leadership to identify behaviours required to create a new culture of continuous improvement. Completed analysis of capacity utilization that identified over-capacity across multiple sites, later utilized by new owners to optimize manufacturing footprint.

Manager, Manufacturing Analysis Manager, Facilities & Maintenance Operations Director, Quality Reliability & Engineering
• Implemented new General Motors' Global Manufacturing System (GMGMS), as well as all industrial engineering activities, in several Greenfield plants around the globe. Developed and refined the tools of GMGMS, including co leading the system's deployment in the model facility in Germany. Ran GM's Lean manufacturing operations at the UK facility, resulting in a 20% reduction in finished goods rework.

Held roles from Facility Engineer to Manager, Maintenance
• Developed a deep understanding of the Toyota Production System (TPS) which was the envy of the automotive industry. Consistently worked to achieve and embody Toyota's philosophy of the "highest quality possible at the lowest cost possible." Experience at TMMC influenced my professional approach to operations and people leadership throughout my working life.