Peter Orebaugh

Highly respected, MBA-educated Senior Executive with a distinguished record of accelerating business results in profit gains, cost reductions and sustainable yield improvements for industrial manufacturing companies. Introduce leading-edge systems, processes and technologies that drive organizational change, institute improvements, and create world-class operations. Skilled at integrating both technical and management concepts to lead reengineering efforts and perform financial turnarounds. Equally accomplished as C-level business strategist with expertise in business and market planning, intellectual property generation, and orchestrating and directing divestitures, mergers and acquisitions. Registered Professional Engineer. Extensive experience implementing Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma management practices. Established consultative relationships with The Timken Company, Ford Motor Company, Certain Teed Corporation, Latrobe Specialty Steel, Hillenbrand Industries and Pitney Bowes. Process improvement practices based upon personal experience with Edwards Deming at New York University and with the creators of the Toyota Production System in Japan. Specialties: Acquisition, divestitures, strategic planning, business plan development, operations management intervention, cost system design, market & customer profitability analysis, cash management, debt consolidation, refinancing, process, interim management, bankruptcy, capital & operating budgets, P&L forecasting, sales & marketing strategies, cost reduction, multi-site operations, process re-engineering, Kaizen, LEAN, Six Sigma, union & non-union site management, startup, turnaround, high-growth