President & Founder

Experience

Ed has broad operations experience in both functional and executive/managerial roles and has an extensive background in implementing lean transformation initiatives across entire business units. He broke new ground for Lockheed Martin’s space business by introducing lean production and kaizen techniques as part of a "greenfield" business start-up. Other past roles include Director of Operations, Supply Chain Manager (Ed led first complete aerospace and defense implementation of SAP), IT Manager, and Manufacturing/Process Engineer.

Taking his operations management experience from nearly two decades with industry leaders GE and Lockheed Martin, Ed founded Competitive Business Solutions to provide unique strategic solutions to help companies achieve world-class operational performance, profitability, and long-term growth.

Specific expertise includes:

• Strategic planning
• Business startups/greenfield operations
• Quality improvement using statistical process control and Six Sigma techniques
• Project management
• MRP systems integration and implementation
• Lean/Toyota Production System (TPS)
• Enterprise-wide continuous improvement
  • Enterprise-wide continuous improvement
  • Cellular manufacturing
  • Value-stream mapping
  • Team-driven change initiatives and kaizen facilitation

Education

BS, Engineering — Rutgers University
MBA — Rutgers University