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Over 20 years in manufacturing roles including medical devices, alcoholic beverages, water production and print production. Coaching, training, and leading multi-departmental leadership teams, and indirect reports of 60+, with a serving leader approach. Challenges are opportunities, and creativity is key to problem solving on the fly. Highly skilled at project timeline management, developing efficient space usage and workflow using Lean and 5S based principles. Equally as adept with mechanics as I am tech-savvy. I'm not afraid to roll up my sleeves, or take on challenges with white space to develop processes and procedures. Continuous improvement is a mindset; I want to understand the challenges of my team, to seek out root causes to not just solve problems, but remove weak links in the operational process.I have experience in Business management, Operations Management, R&D, Marketing, and Events, and Warehouse Management. Focus areas include sales, marketing, and product branding. Business administration activities including client relationship management, contracts, P&L, legal compliance, etc. Operations management including project scheduling, inventory management, team development, and workflow optimization. Research and development for spirits products including vendor relationship management, procurement, flavoring and blending, distillation, wood processing, etc. Logistics and warehouse management including space planning, organizational optimization, safety, shipping and receiving, import/export customs, shipping service contracts, etc. Experience developing open source ERP systems into specialized systems, Microsoft, Google, and Adobe software suites, Quickbooks and many/various software programs. Facility buildout, machinery tech and forklift operation. If a need arises, I raise my hand.

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