Total Change Agent

A dynamic, resourceful and data oriented team leader with four years experience in change management with proven and practical expertise in leading continual improvement program across different levels of management in an edible oil industry.

Bidco Oil Refineries Limited, Thika, Kenya
Kaizen Coordinator - Jan 2006 - Current

Trained and guided over 200 staff members from team leaders to entry level operators on setting up individual performance measures aligned from the strategies, roles and responsibilities in line with business excellence goals.

Guided entire business teams on setting up team and individual Key performance measures from Business strategies through hoshin Kanri tool (Policy Deployment) and Daily work Management.

Led process improvement projects within the departmental teams that have resulted in lead time reduction by 20% batch reduction in soap making process, productivity improvement in the refinery by 35% by use of various Lean tools such as focused improvement projects from Overall equipment Effectiveness for machines in process teams, one piece flow (smallest batch design), Quick change over for soap & packaging department to reduce the idle machine and man hrs.

Monitoring of business performance measures on a weekly and monthly basis to identify opportunities for improvement by application of Kaizen tools

Building knowledge and skill capability on a continual basis for lower end staff to lead and be problem solvers

Evolved BLISS – “Bidco’s Lean Integrated Systems and Standards – Happy Healthy Leaning” that gives the framework and guidelines on which the Business operations are developed, improved and sustained.

Knowledge management between sister companies in BUL Uganda, BOSL Tanzania on sharing best practices

Speaker on Bidco’s supply chain best practices in Warehousing and Inventory Management to supply chain professionals at various levels of management across industries in Nairobi, Kenya – June 16th 2009 and July 21 – 22, 2008.

Indian Institute Of Technology (Roorkee), India – July 2001 – July 2005
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical engineering with a CGPA of 5.46

Information Technology Center, Vidyanagar, India - July 2005 – Sep 2005
Computer Software Training on C++, Java, Oracle 10g, MS – SQL.

Kaizen Institute Africa - Certified Kaizen Practitioner course consisting of four modules Basic Kaizen foundation, Total Flow Management (TFM), Total
Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Total Service Management (TSM) – Jan – March 2010

Kaizen Institute Africa – Training Within Industry (TWI) – Job Instructions Module – August 2007

Bureau Veritas, Kenya – Food Safety Management System (FSMS - ISO 22000) Internal Auditors’ Course – August 2007

Kenya Bureau of Standards, Kenya – Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Specification (OHSAS 18001) – Internal Auditors’ Course – April 2007

Experiential Team Building and Leadership Skill programme – February 2009

EXTRA - CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Active member of Round Table Thika Table no 19 – Social circle consisting of young men who get together to collect and distribute funds to the needy. Held the position of Treasurer for the year 2009 – 2010.

SKILLS
Computer skills – OS – Microsoft XP, Vista, MS – Office, Programming Skills – C++, Java, Advanced Java, Database Skills – Oracle 10g, MS – SQL, Crystal Report, iGrafx – Value Stream Mapping Software

Linguistic Skills – Fluent – English, Swahili, Hindi, Gujarati (Mother Tongue) and French (Basic)

Writing Skills – Fluent – English, Swahili, Basic – Hindi and French,