David Ballard

David is a partner with over twenty years experience managing and transforming operations of complex Consumer, Industrial, and Healthcare enterprises, resulting in reduced costs, superior performance, and improved business risk mitigation. Skilled in leading Business Process Transformation efforts, Continuous Improvement approaches and techniques, team facilitation and development, and Program and Project Management offices.

Recent Projects

  • Reduced FTE’s and labor spend more than 20% by performing a detailed Organizational Assessment of two Innovation Execution departments covering over 450 FTE’s and $45MM in spend for a $20B telecom enterprise. Reduced unnecessary management layers, excessive spans of control, as well as non-value added work at all position levels.
  • Reduced patient wait times, increased patient throughput, increased available capacity, decreased ED divert times, and improved cash flow by leading Lean-based continuous improvement programs at multiple healthcare provider facilities.
  • Reduced out-of-stock conditions by 90%, flow times by 50%, and inventory levels by 30%, transforming shop-floor scheduling activities utilizing lean techniques in four commercial aerospace business units.
  • Provided Program Management leadership for a multi-site inventory management transformation campaign for a Fortune 50 aerospace enterprise. Numerous tracks of concurrent, integrated activity including shop floor planning, inventory management, and warehousing process centers which identified over $3B in inventory savings and 30% reductions in cycle times.
  • Led global supply chain Sarbanes-Oxley effort for a high-tech, Fortune 10 enterprise, identifying, evaluating, and mitigating high risk control areas in the Source, Make, Deliver, and Inventory Management process areas.
  • Performed several Distribution to Store supply chain diagnostics for large apparel retailers to identify key risk areas related to data integrity and inventory shrinkage.
  • Created a new Program Management Office operating model for a $20B telecom enterprise, impacting organization structure, project lifecycle processes, roles and responsibilities, and technology toolsets Moved existing organization from a decentralized environment to a flexible, more centralized operating environment eliminating waste and improving overall project results.

Relevant Experience

  • David has influenced a diverse set of prestigious commercial and industrial clients in the Aerospace, Retail, Health Care, and Telecom spaces. His representative list of clients includes Boeing, GE, Honeywell, HP, The Gap, Ross Stores, Denver Health, and T-Mobile while working for prominent consulting organizations such as KPMG and Deloitte. David has also “walked the walk”, balancing his consulting career with ten years of industry experience, managing operations in the commercial printing, extracted metals, and semiconductor industries.

Background


David has both a B.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering, as well as his Masters of Business Administration degree, from The Ohio State University.




Contact
30025 Alicia Parkway, #107
Laguna Niguel, California 92677 USA
tel: (001) 949.388.9747
client.inquiry@perlinskico.com

David's Favorite Quote

You must welcome change as the rule, but not as the ruler - Denis Wartley
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