Kevin Yonge

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About Kevin Yonge

Summary Profile Senior-level Aerospace, Defense, and Commercial Industry Manager with an extensive business operations background. Proven measureable success in driving strategic change management initiatives from concept through deployment, on time and within budget. Consistently evaluate current state for opportunities to improve operational performance by monitoring staffing requirements, processes, and technology solutions that positively impact the company’s business objectives. Career Highlights Lean Transformation: Fully trained in the McKinsey lean Standard Operating Framework: Excellence in Delivery Program. Lead a team of Certified Six-Sigma Black Belts in all Continuous Improvement initiatives within the business unit with a focus on fourteen Key Performance Indicator improvements including, On-time Delivery (~42% to ~ 91%), product quality: Customer DPPM (~25,859 to ~ 2,756) and First-Pass Yield (~41% to ~98%), and costs: Material Cost Out: Purchase Price Variance (PPV)(12.45%/y to -11.5%/y). Strategic responsibility for driving manufacturing improvements in S.H.E, Quality, Delivery, Costs, and Responsiveness. Knowledgeable and experienced in Lean Enterprise methodologies including expert knowledge and experience in all Cobham SOF programs. Lean Program Development and Implementation: Develop training material, provide training, and implement process improvement/cost reduction efforts through the use of such lean tools as: Value Stream Mapping, TAKT, Pull systems, One-piece Flow, 5S, Poka Yoke, Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), Strategy Deployment X-Matrix (Hoshin Kanri), Root Cause Problem Solving (RCPS), Line Balancing, Cell Design, Life Cycle Management (LCM), Business Process Reengineering (BPR)(Kaikaku).