Anita Tucker

•Began a $1.5M facilities project to remodel an office using traditional project management techniques. •Began a New Product Introduction process platform and review with Operations and Product Development. •Developed improved material flow and layout changes to increase handling efficiency and safety.

While reporting to the Vice President of Operations, currently managing a staff of 200 associates with responsibilities ranging from incoming inspection through production and shipping of finished product. • Within 4 months of starting, reduced the back log in production and receiving inspection from 6 weeks to less than 1 day. • Currently introducing a Non-Conforming Material disposition process to support driving improvement back to the suppliers. • Began introducing the 5S concept in the Return Goods Processing area to improve space utilization. • Working on a one piece manufacturing flow in conjunction with a new product introduction. • Coaching and mentoring staff starting with Root Cause Analysis Tool education, Corrective Action review and Process and Procedure documentation.

While reporting to the Senior Vice President of Operations, managed a global multimillion dollar budget with 500 to 700 employees.. • Led transformational change to reestablish SAP as the central MRP planning tool for remote manufacturing locations in Mexico and China. • Established Rough Cut Capacity Planning tool in SAP with IT group to replace Access Database as a key input to a new Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) process with an 18 month planning horizon. • Key participant in new SOP process during implementation of end-to-end Supply Chain improvement effort. • Provided coaching and mentoring guidance to many cross functional departments. Examples include: improved material availability settings with Purchasing to allow efficient production scheduling and improved master data settings with Service to increase part availability for customer repair orders. • Completed US manufacturing outsourcing to Mexico and China. • Created a New Product Introduction (NPI) process to: support prototype production builds, establish Process Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (PFMEA) review, standardize phase gate checklist/approval process and facilitate the efficient transfer of new products from Design Engineering to Production.

While reporting to the Senior Vice President of Operations - COO, managed a multimillion dollar budget with 200 to 300 associates on average. • Successfully led major outsourcing effort to move the majority of US manufacturing to Mexico and China. • Identified first pilot for Lean Manufacturing in a manufacturing with a 15% improvement in productivity. • Managed Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, Production, Warehousing and Distribution to support highest level of customer satisfaction. • Improved Product Quality through reduced variability in assembly, improved testing, increased First Pass Yield and reduced scrap. • Identified improvements for Master Data settings in SAP.

Selected by the Director of Manufacturing to manage US production function, which consisted of a multimillion dollar budget with 150 to 200 associates on average. • Reduced average daily backorder from $3M to $300K dollars by: improving responsiveness to planning in SAP, improving production strategy to eliminate waste, implementing a two bin visual Kanban system, improving material replenishment strategy and identifying appropriate inventory levels for raw material. • Implemented third shift manufacturing to increase production capacity and improve equipment utilization. • Introduced soldering training and established minimum soldering standards for repair staff. • Established minimum repair technician standards and introduced hiring tests for all technicians. • Established strategy to improve WIP level repair from 7000 PCBs to less than 100 PCBs with a 4 hour repair window. • Developed and implemented continuous improvement strategies for postponement packaging plan. • Improved packaging efficiency by 10% by eliminating non value added activities. • Improved packaging accuracy to 0% error by implementing a barcoded error proofing program in Access, ultimately leading to an SAP solution. • Created line replenishment strategy that reduced the number of overflow locations for raw material, reduced the number of line stock out conditions and improved cycle count accuracy by 20%. • Participated in SAP implementation team and reestablished normal production levels within 1 week of implementation.

• New Product Introduction engineer on two key product lines for Shure. • Supported PCB production for Surface Mount and Thru Hole technology. • Supported Final Assembly, Test and Packaging. • Identified very small scale injection molding equipment for the smallest microphones Shure manufactured. • Investigated application critical acoustical cloth for various microphones. • Managed Quality Lab Services for Metrology and Electro Magnetic testing services.

• Supported PCB production and repair. • Completed manufacturing instructions including assembly time standards.