Rob Lyons

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About Rob Lyons

A professional manager with over 10 years experience leading many functional areas for a manufacturer operating in the building products industry. Strong business, technical and analytical skills contributed to continuous improvements in strategies, processes and products. I am interested in pursuing a product development, product management or marketing management role. Career highlights include * Developed and launched an innovative lap-siding product targeting the custom home builder, remodeler and home-improvement segments * Repositioned existing building products for the new home-builder market segment by developing and implementing a new House Pack service model * Developed a segmentation model that identified key barriers to growth across segments and enabled more strategic marketing * Established the global product stewardship strategy to ensure that customers were aware of and supported to mitigate risk * Reset the organization’s global safety strategy and applied continuous improvement methodologies to resolve identified issues – 40% reduction in incident rate and 75% reduction in lost or restricted time * Applied continuous improvement methodologies to identify the technology required to reduce the exposure to lead for ~800 children aged 0-5years living near a lead smelter * Established the continuous improvement methodology as the way we work at the EPA by designing the program, coaching and mentoring peers, and facilitating groups undertaking specific targeted improvement projects * Developed and implemented a new process for the formation of a continuous microfiltration product that could handle oxidative waters