Nadine Turner

Current

Lead Business Consultant/Six Sigma Black Belt at Kaiser Permanente IT

Past

Strategic Sourcing Manager at Paramount Farms, Inc. (A Roll International Company)
Six Sigma Black Belt Deployment Leader at Health Net, Inc.
Business Analyst at WellPoint, Inc.

Process Improvement Engineer at 21st Century Insurance Company
Strategic Sourcing Project Manager at HealthNet, Inc.

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Education

The AIT Group
Pivotal Resources, Inc. - Six Sigma Black Belt Training (DMAIC)
Pasadena City College

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Recommended

6 people have recommended Nadine

Connections

274 connections

Industry

Health, Wellness and Fitness

Websites

Nadine Turner’s Summary

I value relationships and am open to connecting with folks from the same or different verticals who believe in networking to generate opportunities, share experiences and to just help one another through life. I’m eager to be of aid , even if you haven't been in touch with me for a while, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
I am a Six Sigma Black Belt & Strategic Sourcing professional and enter my role with the understanding that there is a great deal of improvement just on the horizon...I lead enterprise initiatives to desired changed states. Along the way, I identify metrics and build needed processes, policies, and collaborate with and mentor others to achieve success and maximize deployment strategies.

• Six Sigma Process Improvement: Transactional Black Belt, DMAIC methodology, change management, enterprise deployment champion, Six Sigma PMO oversight, Business Intelligence/Metric/Performance Dashboard development and reporting.

• Strategic Sourcing: Management of indirect spend of goods and professional services in excess of $184MM. Full cycle sourcing from business requirements/charter development through post-implementation management.

Nadine Turner’s Specialties:

- Six Sigma, Black Belt, ASQ, ISSSP, DMAIC, Lean, Deployment Champion, AIT Group, Pivotal Resources, Instantis, Blanced Scorecard, Strategic Alignment, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Management

- Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing, including Human Capital/Labor Management Solutions and Software applications.

- RFx initiatives, analysis, negotiations, SLA & contract development, vendor performance management. Root cause analysis, process flow development, project management.

Nadine Turner’s Experience

Lead Business Consultant/Six Sigma Black Belt

Kaiser Permanente IT

(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Lead Business Consultant for Pharmacy BIO software roll out, SOX compliance and process improvement initiative.
Strategic Sourcing Manager

Paramount Farms, Inc. (A Roll International Company)

(Privately Held; Food Production industry)

February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)

• Management of packaging & print supply chain developing and implementing rigorous Supplier Balanced Scorecard Program and sourcing strategies to deliver superior service, optimized price structures and contract terms.
• Primary & secondary substrates sourced: Film, corrugate, resin (PET), labels, and ingredients, within a plant environment.
• Managing material costs for most favorable pricing through on-going requests for proposals, commodity market analysis and negotiations for $20MM in annual indirect spend.
• Sourcing innovative, custom formed containers for New Product Development launches.
Six Sigma Black Belt Deployment Leader

Health Net, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HNT; Insurance industry)

April 2007 — January 2008 (10 months)

• I have an open-minded and collaborative style and am focused on the vital few areas that alter the outcome and have successfully led several cross-functional teams through complex projects with triple constraints (time, cost, quality) and delivered substantial bottom-line savings results.

• My charge includes the establishment and leadership of a Lean Six Sigma focused pilot deployment within a business unit as well as to champon and lead all aspects of the infrastructure including project selection, tracking and reporting, communications, resources, policies/procedures, etc.
Business Analyst

WellPoint, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WLP; Insurance industry)

October 2006 — March 2007 (6 months)
Process Improvement Engineer

21st Century Insurance Company

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TW; Insurance industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years )

Process Improvement Engineer
Strategic Sourcing Project Manager

HealthNet, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HNT; Insurance industry)

December 2000 — September 2002 (1 year 10 months)

Nadine Turner’s Education

The AIT Group

Six Sigma Lean Black Belt Training 2007
Pivotal Resources, Inc. - Six Sigma Black Belt Training (DMAIC)

2005
Pasadena City College

Additional Information

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Nadine Turner’s Interests:

Evolving scientific constructs that offer organized explanations to the system we live in such as: “Personology”, Meyers-Briggs Temperament Indicator test and Predictive Index. (I'm an ENTJ" most of the time, and a situational "INTJ" depending on the need). In PI terms, I am a Highest B with a high A. IQ and other “intelligence” aptitude tests, psychology, universal symbology, and quantum physics theory particularly the study infinite possibilities and more recently, the metrics group of RNIA. Material & artistic-based interests: Cooking, singing, motivation, selling, and sometimes even writing. Six Sigma, process improvement, strategic sourcing, business intelligence, black belt, performance dashboard.

Nadine Turner’s Groups:

American Society for Quality (ASQ), International Society of Six Sigma Professionals (ISSSP), AccessPI Worldwide Member, Relationship Networking Industry Association (RNIA).

Arbita CyberSleuths
American Society for Quality
iSixSigma Network
Economist Group
Procurement Professionals (#1 supply chain & sourcing group) Business, network, career & jobs
Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, & Lean Group
Packaging Professionals
Packaging Design
Kaiser Permanente Thrive Network
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
Paperboard Packaging Group