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Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

I direct the site operation of Nestlé Health Science's R&D facilities and US headquarters, including the Liquids, Powders, and Vitamins & Minerals Pilot Plants, global capital strategy development, compliance, and safety, health, & environmental platforms.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Led a team of R&D engineers in the execution of Nestlé Purina's wet petfood manufacturing technology innovation platforms.
• Led global team of 10 R&D engineers, executing innovation projects in the development of advanced process technologies for Nestlé Petcare.
• Developed technology R&D project pipeline enabling Nestle operational strategy initiatives, focusing on AI and connected manufacturing, operational sustainability, factory of the future development, and asset efficiency.
• Managed global technology standards for wet pet platform, overseeing creation and deployment of key processes.
• Supported $3B global Wet petfood capital projects through technology alignment and engineering assistance.
• Provided direct support to Product Development teams to industrialize new product forms.

Flagstaff, Arizona Area

• Oversaw three cross-functional teams in Engineering, Maintenance, and Automation & Controls supporting manufacturing at the Flagstaff, AZ factory. This includes providing personnel leadership, capital/budget.
• Had End-to-End responsibilities of the site's capital investment strategy. Led a team of project engineers in the development, design, and execution of the factory's capital budget ($3MM to $10MM/yearly) to meet.
• Managed environmental and sustainability compliance of the factory's operations in support of Nestle strategic targets.
• Lead cross-functional Six Sigma projects to optimize manufacturing processes in the pursuit of waste reduction and throughput maximization.
• Developed and executed long-term factory masterplan and capital investment program.

Amiens, France

• Led R&D engineering projects and provided advanced engineering support to eight food production factories and technical guidance on Dryer Process units to 11 factories throughout UK and EU.
• Steered engineering functions within product focused R&D projects; partnered with Product Development team to ensure manufacturing processes capability to meet product specifications consistently.
• Researched emerging technologies and industry trends to meet market production needs and inform business strategies.
• Sized and developed technical specifications for $2M system stream as part of $10M line expansion.
• Decreased product flavoring variation by 27% through execution of Lean Six Sigma project.

St. Louis, MO

• Led R&D engineering projects and provided advanced engineering support to eight food production factories and technical guidance on Dryer Process units to 11 factories throughout UK and EU.
• Steered engineering functions within product focused R&D projects; partnered with Product Development team to ensure manufacturing processes capability to meet product specifications consistently.
• Researched emerging technologies and industry trends to meet market production needs and inform business strategies.
• Sized and developed technical specifications for $2M system stream as part of $10M line expansion.
• Decreased product flavoring variation by 27% through execution of Lean Six Sigma project.

Davenport, IA

• Managed 11 capital projects worth $700K to meet factory and corporate production and quality goals; led preliminary project design, budget management, equipment procurement, and installation efforts.
• Completed $70K+ expense items as part of continuous improvement and regulatory compliance initiatives.
• Met <2% product fines target through installation of multi-aspiration system.

Des Moines, IA

I managed capital projects related to plant infrastructure and reliability at a Soybean Crush and Extraction plant. My projects concentrated on energy conservation, regulatory compliance for Process Safety Management, maintenance & reliability, and the addition and tuning of process controls.

Nevada, IA

Safety and reliability projects at a corn ethanol plant.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Industrial Engineering

Select courses - Quality Management, Advanced Quality Control, Statistical Data Mining, Linear Regression, Strategic Technological.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, Economics

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Engineers Without Borders