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Boise, Idaho, United States

Boise, Idaho, United States

Provide corporate project leadership for expansion and upgrade projects in Canada and Washington. Develop project scope documents, schedules, budgets, and resource plans. Led internal and contract engineers, vendor partners, and construction teams.• Led teams to construct, install, checkout, commission and start up a $40 million packaging area of a new $465 million potato production line expansion. • Served as the project and construction manager for the packaging area.• Managed over 70 equipment vendors in the initial project design execution phase to deliver the design information needed per the contracts for integration as well as the equipment to maintain the project schedule.

Provided corporate project leadership and mechanical engineering support for expansion and equipment upgrade projects in Georgia, Arkansas and North Carolina. Developed project scope documents, schedules, budgets, and resource plans. Supervise internal and contract engineers and construction teams.• Led $7.5 million project to improve existing capability on a nonwovens line that produces the base material for private label baby care consumer products. Project managed to execution approval.• HVAC, Dust, Infrastructure lead for a $45 million converting line expansion. Successfully executed the project scope to fully integrate the machine into the facility infrastructure. • Led and Supported multiple dust collection projects that delivered improved air quality control.• Successfully led and completed multiple Project Management team projects to improve data security, record filing and retrieval and project processes.

Neenah, Wi

Provide project leadership and mechanical engineering support to global expansion projects for location in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Develop project scope documents, timelines, budgets, and resource plans. Supervise internal and contract engineers.• Led three $13 million, projects that provide manufacturing capacity for Peru - 2012, Russia - 2013, and Costa Rica - 2014 to produce high profile, name brand childcare consumer products.• Achieved successful commercialization and maintained project budget throughout. Projects increased profitability for Latin American and the Middle East and Africa region and eliminated need to import US product.• Supported multiple innovation projects that will deliver additional product forms to Latin America, Korea and Asia markets. Products will provide greater consumer choice and are expected to deliver additional volume.• Drove continuous improvement and lean efforts that reduced start-up time for Russia asset by 9 days, saving $250,000 in startup costs compared to similar Peru project. Contributed to reduction in delivered cost for the Costa Rica Project, currently tracking to reduce cost by $1.2 million.

Neenah, Wi

Provided mechanical engineering support to global expansion projects for location in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Named project leader for key international productivity improvement initiatives. Developed project scope documents, timelines, budgets, and resource plans. Supervised internal and contract engineers.• Led $6.6 million, 12-month project that provides manufacturing capacity for Mexico to produce high profile, name brand childcare consumer products. Achieved successful commercialization and maintained project budget throughout. Additional benefits of the project included increased profitability for Mexico and eliminated need to import US product, improved product design flexibility to better meet needs of local and regional customers• Successfully completed installation, checkout, and start-up of $11.3 million Singapore manufacturing process after being named project lead in the absence of strong local project leadership. Assumed lead role after 60% of project work was done and provided 3 months of on-site support; completed successful machine start-up despite identification and correction of significant design changes.

Neenah, Wi

Served as staff engineering lead and supported 2 U.S. manufacturing facilities with 11 assets for business sector with $900 million in annual sales. Provided work direction to 2 engineers.• Drove mechanical design efforts that ensured commercial viability of novel raw material that delivered significant product improvement to one of company’s primary high margin high profile consumer products. Led product and equipment trials and hardware development that was commercialized on 11 production machines.• Provided expertise to vendor efforts in development of on-line printing of moisture-reactive product component. Improvement was launched successfully and supported marketing efforts and advertising claims.

Neenah, Wi

Led team of 50 unionized maintenance personnel at manufacturing facility with 11 production machines and related equipment. Ensured maintenance efforts aligned with plant operations and production requirements.• Led integration of maintenance planning and scheduling function into SAP system. Effort reduced labor costs and improved efficiencies; represented first of its kind tool for maintenance department. Coordinated training of maintenance team and developed planning and scheduling tools. Ensured onboarding of other mill functional teams (operations, engineering, etc.) to ensure their understanding of new system.• Implemented program to reduce work force hours that represented significant annual labor cost savings. Fielded and resolved related workforce complaints and issues. • Developed and executed automated preventive and predictive maintenance programs.

Neenah, Wi

Coordinated numerous product and process improvement initiatives valued at $400,000 to $6 million. Collaborated with engineering, operations, and maintenance teams in planning resources and equipment installations and modifications for plant with 7 production assets. Supervised 2 union hourly employees.• Realized 13% improvement in returning assets back to original production rates (following equipment installs and modifications) through development of project management and execution process that encompassed entire project lifecycle.• Delivered $300,000 annual cost savings by implementing and integrating company-wide best practices system within plant. • Coordinated multiple R&D trials to have minimum impact on plant productivity. Effectively used planned machine downtime to meet R&D goals and maintain production requirements.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, 3.6/4.0

Graduated with distinction

Masters Certificate, Project Management

Project Management Certification