Tomi Akinjogbin

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About Tomi Akinjogbin

tomi.akinjogbin@gmail.com 443-574-7734 DIRECTOR & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: 12+ years in Chemical and Life sciences industry with 7+ years in leadership roles acquiring experience across Engineering, Operations, and Business Development. Led several cross functional projects with $20MM+ budgets using Complex Project Management, Agile Methodology, Product Development, and Process Engineering skillsets. Led growth projects into new markets and productivity projects for efficiency improvement. Led project teams across U.S, Japan, Germany, and China. Projects include capacity expansion of a Chemical plant, supply chain improvement, medical filter manufacturing process validation. PRODUCT MANAGEMENT: 5+ years leading new product development initiatives for consumer goods, mobile electronics and medical filters. Led product development teams through ideation, feasibility, validation and commercialization using Agile Methododology. Managed intellectual property strategy. Successfully launched pressure relief devices for packaged liquid, smartphones and filters for healthcare diagnostics. OPERATIONS & QUALITY MANAGEMENT: 5+ years managing production of mobile electronic components and medical filtration products. Experienced in Inventory Management, work process streamlining between operations and sales. Resolved customer complaints, directed root cause investigation and change management, Implemented risk mitigation, LEAN concepts (value stream mapping, kaizen) and Six sigma methodologies. Achieved >95% on time, non-defective product shipments consecutively for 4 years. MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING: 12+ years leading manufacturing teams in the Chemical and Specialty Polymer industry. Leveraged engineering design, process automation, and statistical design of experiments to build new manufacturing sites, implement real time process monitoring, validate production processes and execute process improvements. Implemented automated data acquisition for process control. Developed polymers for enhanced waterproof fabrics. Accomplishments include designing & installing modular blast resistant buildings for chemical plants, implementing automated data collection systems to detect impurities in finished chemical products, validating a manufacturing process for medical filters.