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TonyChalet

Tony Chalet

Tony is an operations, supply chain and change management professional with extensive experience managing and delivering successful Cost Reduction, Process Improvement and Profitability Enhancement projects. Tony brings decades of experience leading process improvement, cost reduction, operational excellence and organization change management engagement projects in supply chain, manufacturing and fulfillment operations.

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Sean Hull

Sean Hull

Sean Hull is a seasoned Project Manager with twenty years of comprehensive experience in senior-level management, implementing best practices throughout rapidly changing, highly competitive growth environments. Sean offers the rare ability to serve as a liaison between developers, executive management and stakeholders to ensure expectations are clearly communicated and goals are met. He is skilled in client needs assessment, product specification, risk analysis, budgeting and client-vendor relations. With a mix of solid experience in program management, software development, and enterprise systems support and maintenance, Sean is well versed in driving digital transformation throughout retail, eCommerce, distribution and manufacturing sectors. Sean holds a BA from The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business; Management Information Systems.

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Rounak Nischal

*Q2 2021 Employee Recognition Award Recipient Scott Cabrera holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering with a concentration in Logistics and Supply Chain from Bradley University. He has been exposed to numerous business functions in the distribution industry while employed at the nation’s largest food redistributor. This experience has allowed him to develop strong analytical skills while managing multiple projects and a team of workers. Some of his achievements include optimizing fleet performance reports which led to a 90% reduction in reporting time, developing a forecasted headcount for a warehouse expansion, increasing order picker productivity by 40%, and designing an ETA tool leading to a 44% reduction in process time. Additionally, Scott has valuable experience in statistical process control, lean manufacturing, and business process improvement from his degree. Scott is proficient utilizing analytical tools such as Minitab, R, Python, and Excel-VBA.

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Rob Ordonez

Most recently Rob was employed at a plasticware manufacturing and distribution company, where he redesigned their e-commerce assembly and picking area, leading to a 30% improvement in picker productivity. He later provided consultation on a project and identified key bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the assembly and receiving processes, while recommending short- and long-term Lean principles for implementation.

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Rhonda Rodeffer

Rhonda Rodeffer is a 20+ year manufacturing and distribution industry veteran with extensive experience in manufacturing, fleet and transportation management, and business process improvement. She built and led a team that was responsible for a company-wide fleet consolidation of 14 business units while at HD Supply resulting in process improvement and consistency, vendor harmonization and overall cost out. She also led a fleet management system implementation resulting in multi-million cost and productivity savings. Rhonda held multiple roles at General Electric Industrial Systems manufacturing plants including scheduling, production management and Six Sigma. She was a leader in the introduction of GEIS Lean Six Sigma for the components plant in Puerto Rico and Mexico. Through the lean methodology implementation and hundreds of lean events, $10MM savings was realized in the first year. Rhonda holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a BS in Mathematics from Western Illinois University. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Rhonda is also proud to have served her country in the US Army.

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Paul Denmark

Paul Denmark

*Q2 2021 Employee Recognition Award Recipient Paul Denmark has more than 30 years’ experience as a senior supply chain management leader with broad-based global experience in driving benchmark performance throughout several diverse manufacturing environments on a global basis. Paul’s focus has been in driving new or enhanced ERP implementations, advanced supply chain planning and scheduling, demand management, procurement, distribution, engineering change control, and management of complex manufacturing operations across multiple plants, both as an industry practitioner and consultant. Paul has held positions as Industrial Engineering, Procurement and Planning Director at Eastman Kodak, Director of Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives at Avery Dennison, Director of Global Supply Chain at GrafTech (formerly Union Carbide), and VP of Supply Chain at the Elgin Fastener Group. He has extensive experience in make-to-stock, make-to-order and hybrid MTS/MTO manufacturing flows, as well as supply chain management, across multiple plants throughout the US, South America, Europe, Korea and China. Paul has led several major ERP implementations with an emphasis on driving excellence in supply chain planning and execution, not just by focusing on the software enhancements being implemented, but by upgrading the “thought-ware” of the organization to a higher level in order to take full advantage of the new capabilities being put in place. Paul holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University, an MS/MBA in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Management from Rochester Institute of Technology, and has been certified in APICS CPIM.

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