Vince Lucas | Lean Coordinator

Employment History

Simmons Foods

Lean Coordinator

2013 – Present

Production Management

2009 - 2013

Oilfield Technical Advisors

Drilling Fluid Consultant

2006 – 2008

M-I SWACO

Drilling Fluid Engineer

2005 – 2006

H2S Safety Plus

Safety Manager

2004 – 2005

Areas of Expertise

Analysis and Insights

Business Intelligence

Strategic Management

Supply Chain Management

Training and Development

Technical Environments

Palisade® Decision Software

Excel-Solver®

Tableau®

Oracle®

Discoverer®

Contact Information

Vincent B. Lucas

460 D North Garrett St.

Siloam Springs, AR 72761

479-215-7791

vince.lucas@simfoods.com

About

I have a unique combination of strong business acumen, deep technical and analytical

abilities, extensive leadership experience, exceptional interpersonal skills, and proven

ability to learn at an aggressive pace. My goal is to apply these skills to create a

strategic impact that benefits the firm and allows myself to reach full potential.

Experience Highlights

Analysis and Insights

Developed advanced decision support tools for understanding success metrics. The

tools allowed my facility the ability to realize current state on a daily basis, not

monthly. The tools also allowed the ability to pivot directions daily which

corresponded to success. The analysis has resulted in greater production yields

which represent an improvement worth possibly $27K per day.

Established data-driven initiative to reduce environmental impact. Water usage

metrics from all departments are generated and analyzed on a daily basis. This

initiative has resulted in our facility utilizing 37% less water than the industry

average which eliminates $6K in cost and 1M+ gallons of water usage daily.

Utilized business intelligence tools and techniques. Data mined information on

absenteeism throughout the departments within my facility. With the statistics, I

transformed the data into a leveraged-weighted analysis that propagated a “fair”

valuation for all staffing entities. The analysis enabled the executive members and

recruiting team to make an informed decision on current staffing protocols that

eliminates waste.

Strategic Management

Established the facility’s continuous improvement process. Documented the current

state of various processes and captured raw data on thousands of continuous

improvement ideas from 850 team-members. Was responsible for organizing and

presenting data to cross-functional teams in a format everyone could understand.

To date, more than 2K continuous improvement ideas have been implemented

resulting in $3M in cost savings.

Architected reports to be presented to the executive management members.

Captured data on all aspects of our hiring, turnover, and retention processes. The

report established the root cause of my facility’s current turnover problem and

equipped the leadership team to make an informed decision when prescribing

corrective actions.

Created a department at a Simmons facility. Responsible for building and guiding

a team of individuals to accomplish a common goal. In our first fiscal year, we

impacted the “bottom line” by reducing departmental costs in regards to $572K.

This success was recognized by a ranking of 3rd in Agra-Stats; Agra-Stats ranks over

125 poultry facilities. From the completion of the strategic objective in operational

excellence, Simmons modeled our process in other facilities.

Vince Lucas | Lean Coordinator

Lead a team to cultivate positive relationships with prominent buyers. Strategically

structured meeting with store managers in Northwest Arkansas, Oklahoma City

area, and Dallas Metro Area. Completed objective of capturing feedback from our

product at the store level. The buyers embraced the commitment to quality and

customer service. The buyer increased demand to full capacity of our facility.

Supply Chain Management

Performed time studies on all segments of our supply chain in an effort to drive

out waste. The time study involved the flow of raw materials in regards to logistics

and adequate lead time to receive a raw product. The product was tracked

through-out the supply chain. I correlated the flow of the product with the

respective supplier as the product moved. The correlation impacted the process for

which we operated our inventory management. We added order splitting among

suppliers to reduce stock-outs. The time study has increased our overall flow and

efficiency of the supply chain by reducing inventory, downtime, and stock-outs to

the respected buyer.

Training and Development

Established monthly training for all management members. Training consisted of

all aspects of Lean including leadership, communication, ethics, cultural change,

innovation, waste elimination, and profitability in any market condition.

Facilitated “Kaizen” or “Immediate Change” events at various Simmons facilities.

This impact increased production yield and overall efficiency.

Enlisted to create and implement training program on process management. The

training will have a direct impact on reduction of turnover and a better culture at

the facility. The program will be rolled out company-wide, once proven successful.

Education

BS, Chemistry, Northeastern State University - 2002

MBA - Finance Emphasis, University of Arkansas - 2015

Certifications and Training

Lean Learning Experience-TPS®

Lean B.E.S.T®

Toyota Kata®

Dale Carnegie®

TWI® Training System

M-I SWACCO Drilling Fluid Engineer®

Awards

Golden Key International Honour Society®

National Honor Society®