Matthew Rochaine

Matthew J. Rochaine

Industrial engineer and operations leader who also builds the software. MBA, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, author of TIME. FLOW. PROFIT.

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Highlights

Every figure is from the role named under it.

$5MRevenue added in year one of a new third-party sort operationStaples
200%Production ramp delivered on a 30% labor increaseLockheed Martin
7%Labor cost reduction across a fulfillment networkNordstrom
47Locations running standard operating procedures I wroteStaples
$10MRobotic material handling deployed into live fulfillmentNordstrom
30%Smaller building, with more value added time inside itMC Assembly
25%Throughput gain from lean changes to an existing lineMC Assembly
$100KSaved by retiring legacy shop floor softwareSypris Electronics

Fifteen years of widening scope

A value stream, then a line, then a plant, then a network. The 2015 dip is deliberate: I stopped to learn to build software.

47 locations A network A company A plant A line A value stream Sypris Electronics$100K of legacy software retired MC Assembly30% smaller, 25% faster Stopped to learn to ship software Lockheed Martin200% ramp on 30% more labor Nordstrom$10M robotics Golden LightingDirector of Operations Staples47 locations, $5M new revenue 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2022 2026

Experience

Years
Company
Role
What moved
2022 to now
Staples
Sr Industrial Engineer & Project Manager
Standard operating procedures across 47 locations, a third-party sort operation worth $5M in year one, and 12% more performance from site level process work.
2020 to 2022
Golden Lighting
Director of Operations
Consolidated warehousing into one distribution center, rebuilt inventory management across functions, and designed the ERP reporting the business ran on.
2019 to 2020
Nordstrom
Senior Industrial Engineer
Drove a $10M robotic material handling rollout and took 7% out of labor cost, while owning labor standards and a team of 4 for the network.
2017 to 2019
Lockheed Martin
Industrial Engineer
Kaizen work that carried a 200% production ramp on a 30% labor increase, an ERP migration into SAP, $5M of capital projects, and mentoring for 7 new engineers and 9 interns.
2016 to 2017
Wyncode Academy
Teaching Assistant
Taught working adults to build software. Explaining a hard thing to a beginner is the same skill as selling a process change to a floor.
2015 to 2016
Delivery Dudes
Software Developer
Shipped the customer and employee mobile apps against internal APIs. This is where the engineering stopped being theoretical.
2013 to 2015
MC Assembly
Industrial Engineer
Moved a manufacturing operation into a 30% smaller building while raising value added time, and lifted throughput 25%.
2011 to 2013
Sypris Electronics
Quality Associate
Replaced legacy shop floor software for $100K in savings and built the quality metrics the value streams were measured on.

Education and credentials

MBA, Business AdministrationFlorida Institute of Technology
BS, Industrial EngineeringUniversity of South Florida
Full Stack Web DevelopmentWyncode Academy
Lean Six Sigma Green BeltCertified
First prize, IoT HackathonAT&T Developer Program
Eagle ScoutBoy Scouts of America

Capabilities

Process improvement Constraint analysis Labor standards Warehouse and DC operations Kaizen events Standard operating procedures Capital project management ERP and SAP Full stack software Applied AI Data and reporting Team leadership

Author, TIME. FLOW. PROFIT. A practical operations field guide: ten chapters, twenty case studies, every tool with the place where it breaks.

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