President & Founder

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.

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

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Engineering – Rutgers University
MBA – Rutgers University

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Aerospace and Defense
• Power Generation & Utilities
• Industrial Equipment
• Construction
• Medical Device
• Electronics
• Metal Fabrication
• Private Equity

• Leadership Coaching and Mentoring
• Lean Production System and Transformations
• Strategic Goal Deployment (Hoshin Kanri, Policy Deployment)
• Value Stream Mapping
• Kaizen Facilitation
• Plant Layout and product flow
• Change Management
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Operations Execution
• Supply Chain Management
• S&OP (Process, Capacity, Supply & Demand Planning)
• Due Diligence and M&A Integrations
• ERP system implementation
• Project Management