Innovative Transformations LLC.

Consultant for Long Island Manufacturing Extension Partnership at Stony Brook University.  MEP provides subsidized funding for Nassau and Suffolk county Manufacturers through the Dept of Commerce’s MEP-NIST.  LIMEP assists small to medium-sized manufacturing companies to develop business growth and increase competitiveness through optimization of their manufacturing processes and products, training and workforce development.

Consultant for LIMEP

Helping Connecticut businesses realize their maximum potential via Operations Transformation

Connecticut Manufacturing Ambassador #500

Our mission is to deliver exceptional sustained value to our customers by teaching leaders at all levels how to continuously deliver breakthrough results with strategic kaikaku and innovative breakthrough kaizen.

CEO and Owner

Data Device Corporation

Director Of Operations

Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions

Sr. Production Manager

United Technologies Aerospace Systems (Formerly Hamilton-Sundstrand)

Implemented mixed model production line for all legacy products, incorporating all of the latest ACE elements.   Achieved and maintained the ACE Silver level for Air Management Systems Operations Business.

Continuous Improvement Manager

MTU AENA

•	Led MTU’s HPC Component Integrated Product Team (CIPT) for the NGPF partner program with Pratt and Whitney.
•	Presented engineering changes to the Systems Integrated Product Team (SIPT) for approval on behalf of the Munich HPC Module Team
•	As an ACE council member and lean transformation expert, led MTU AENA to achieve ACE Gold on August 25, 2010.  Identified the gaps and worked the closure plans.  Revamped the company’s approach to QCPC, Quality Clinic Process Charting to bring them into full compliance with ACE Gold requirements.  Developed and then delivered the advanced training and administrative and software support systems required to achieve gap closure.

NGPF, HPC Deputy CIPT Leader

Goodrich

•	Managed entire shop operations in a union environment for the production of gears, shafts, bearings and valves for hydro-mechanical pump assemblies.  Responsible for a team of 62 employees (4 production supervisors who supervise a total of 50 union employees, 7 manufacturing engineers and one materials manager),  budgeting, delivery, manufacturing engineering, quality control, tooling and other related operations.
•	Main responsibilities included managing customer expectations, delivery performance, overall operating costs and budget, inventory, quality, methods and personnel associated with lean manufacturing.  
•	Utilized strong leadership background in lean, operations and supply management to improve performance in on-time delivery, work order velocity, first pass yield, product cost and to continually drive out waste in order to generate capacity for organic growth.

Director of Manufacturing

Sikorsky Aircraft

Outsourced the S-76 helicopter to Keystone.  Drove a 40+ member team with weekly meetings and aggressive schedule.  Plan was executed flawlessly in 3 months, 3 months ahead of schedule.

Drove the rapid recovery of the main gearbox to support the production build schedule.  Utilized daily support at production meetings and kaizen events in underperforming areas and suppliers to pull all late parts into plan.

Recruited by Goodrich in December 2006 to join their leadership team.

Transformation Manager

Pratt & Whitney

2 year assignment to develop lean leadership at the executive level of the company.  Delivered quarterly report outs to P&W President and his executive team.

Prior to this role, held many different roles at P&W:  Manufacturing Engineer, Tool Designer, Design Engineer, Continuous Improvement Specialist, Supply Chain Specialist and Supply Chain Manager.

High Impact ACE Team Leader

-Are you a manufacturer struggling with meeting delivery promises consistently?

-Do you rely on overtime to catch up when falling behind?

Is missed revenue a recurring issue?

Do you often find yourself altering production plans to prioritize quicker, lower-priority orders to make up for revenue shortfalls?

(Keep reading)

I've been in your shoes, facing these challenges at various companies.

In the past, we would use a mix of overtime and "pull-ins" of lower-priority orders to meet delivery and revenue goals.

However, this approach often led to late deliveries for some customers, early deliveries for others, and supply chain disruptions due to shortened lead times for replacement parts.

Here's the good news:

You can meet both customer and shareholder expectations without constantly modifying production plans, ensuring continuous, sustainable high-level results.

If you're a manufacturer who is…

❌ Frustrated with missing delivery commitments to customers and revenue promises to shareholders.

❌ Exhausted by asking employees to work endless overtime, burning them out in pursuit of sales and revenue targets.

❌ Seeking a more predictable and reliable way to run your production lines that consistently satisfies customers and shareholders.

Then I have a solution that will end your woes once and for all.

Introducing "Zen Sales to Shipments"

By leveraging "Zen Sales to Shipments" for your business, you will:

✅ Eliminate worries about missing commitments to customers and shareholders.

✅ Establish yourself as a reliable market leader, consistently delivering excellent results.

✅ Enhance employee retention by maintaining steady, predictable work hours that don't burn out your team.

Discover everything you need to know in our "Zen Sales to Shipments" system.

Please visit our website to schedule an initial consultation with us, or click on the Zen Bootcamp button on our home page to become a certified operations transformation leader at your company.

www.innovativetransformations.org

Nicole Snurkowski

Sahand Sojoodi

Integral Consulting Company

A full service software engineering firm specializing in building elegant and lasting software systems.

Recent Engagements:
EuroLine Windows - Manufacturing:
implementing CRM and workflow management SaaS solutions: cutting operational cost (time) by a factor of 8 in sales management & forecasting as well as order-processing.
We are building a modern business workflow system to streamline transparency and data-driven decision-making, targeting to reduce operational friction by 2-10x in all areas of business.

Irpinia Kitchens - Manufacturing: we are helping streamline operations via investments in modern technology including financial management tools, ERP-CAD integrations (resulting in reducing time and cost of order processing by 10x).

InsureTech Startup: we implemented an online, could-based file-processing platform to enable secure operation of 10,000s of documents per month.

APG - Pharma Online Retailer: we advised on due-diligence preparedness for a major M&A transaction. We implemented a tech-acceleration strategy in the way software was developed. We created a systematic and scripted dependency-management and resolution approach. Employee onboarding, code generation and code-merging was accelerated by an order of magnitude.

Managing Director

Sojoodi Consulting

Advising executives on leveraging emerging technology to gain a competitive edge in their industries.

2021 Use-Cases:
TD Securities - Investment Banking: we are assembling and leading a product engineering team tasked with building a suite of modern enterprise cloud-applications, data integrations and cutting edge user experiences.

Strategy, Product and Architecture, Director

EQ Bank | Equitable Bank

Assisted with Business and Tech Architecture, Recruiting and Hiring, Delivery and Program Management for a new line of business.

Principal Technology Consultant

TD Securities

On contract helping TD Securities - Corporate and Investment Banking assemble and lead a product engineering team tasked with building a suite of modern enterprise cloud-applications, data integrations and cutting edge user experiences.

- Grew tech team from 0 → 10+ software developers and led technology solution delivery team of software engineers as well as project managers, analysts and quality assurance teams.
- Set up #Python deployment and helped develop #DevOps pipeline in cloud environment.
- Led building and launching multiple Capital Markets applications, integrations and platforms: 3 greenfield new cloud apps in Debt Capital Markets, Corporate Credit, Equity Capital Markets; 1 data and systems integration launch within Equity Capital Markets, 2 Data Analytics and Machine Learning infrastructure.

Lead Architect and Technical Lead

Generation Ventures

* Product strategy, operational and execution support to portfolio companies. 
* Deal Sourcing & Technology Due Diligence.
* Special projects in new Fund Development as well as Operational Efficiency.

Consultant

Blanc Labs

* Oversee the delivery and deployment of large-scale, cloud software products and integration and deployment of data systems in Financial Services.
* Transform the business of commercial lending by rewriting the underlying underwriting and risk-rating systems.
* App Transformation: Modernization technology stack and infrastructure of business applications.
* Digital Transformation of legacy systems into cloud-backed systems.
* Training and coaching modern software development and management practices.

VP Services

Rejuvenan Global Health, Inc.

Served as interim Chief of Technology, Product development and operations. Built staffing strategy, grew the team, hiring and training product manager and development team.
Streamlined product roadmap based on strategic priorities (Enterprise revenue generation).
Created a framework for evaluating product and business partnerships to enhance company's strategic efforts in revenue-generation. Stakeholder engagement (internal and external).

Interim Chief of Technology

Gopher Leads

Gopher Leads helps organizations become more profitable via employee engagement and incentives. We empower and incentivize non-sales staff of a company to send in relevant and actionable referrals resulting in increased revenue​.

Cofounder

Extreme Innovations

Our mandate was to create high-potential technology companies.  My team was the perfect lean and mean innovations machine. Under my leadership, we created the following companies and concepts:

* Crowdmatrix: an investor portal to connect technology companies with accredited angel investors. (spun off as an independent company 2015)

* Gopher Leads: a B2B referral marketing solution. (spun off as an independent company 2015)

* Crowdfind: a data analytics service provider for the crowdfunding industry.

* Savour: "Instagram for X"; designed and developed a photo-sharing mobile app platform, initially developed for meal and drink photos.

Co-founder/Managing Director

Top Hat

I was responsible for starting a new line of business for the company based on the vast amount of student performance and interaction data collected by the company. During my short time with Top Hat, we developed a Sentiment polling and analysis tool for higher-education professors and students.

Director of Enterprise Product

I am a software entrepreneur with a multitude of experiences founding and leading software product teams.

As Managing Director of Integral Consulting, I work with clients on transform their business using software, data and AI (using OpenAI, Groq, etc).

Previously, I have assembled digital product teams at larger enterprises such as TD Securities, Equitable Bank; I have co-founded a couple of companies: sales-enablement SAAS company named Gopher Leads and Extreme Innovations, a "venture studio" that created technology startups; I have architected, programmed and shipped products in varied industries (Manufacturing, Banking, CRM, Wealth Management, Insurance, Education, ...) and varies stacks (semiconductor, desktop, mobile, web, enterprise web, and AI).

If are interested in Software Application Strategy, Architecture or Software Development please connect.

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