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Operations improvement-focused consultant with specialization in manufacturing in the consumer products and food industries.

Hagerstown, Maryland, United States

Owner of Plant Continuous Improvement SystemFood Manufacturing Plant: Gardein Brand Frozen Meatless Meats- Led implementation TPM/ lean six-sigma style continuous improvement system with challenging achievement and milestone timelines.- Passionate servant leader of hourly and salaried direct reports as well as indirectly driving site-wide culture change utilizing High Performance Organization principals.- Accountable for delivery of site productivity targets; focusing efforts on volume absorption benefits, capacity expansion, labor optimization, and waste reduction.- Interim Site Operations Manager for hourly production team of 200+ employees across 2 shifts.

Hagerstown, Maryland, United States

Interim Operations Manager

Hagerstown, Maryland, United States

Interim Site Manager

Greater Omaha Area

- Processing expert driving cost improvement and innovative growth initiatives through a margin-by-design focus for a brand portfolio of over $1 billion.- Delivered over $12.5MM in cost-savings initiatives annually; focusing on a synergistic combination of legacy portfolio products & newly acquired assets from Conagra's Pinnacle Foods acquisition.- Consulted as company-wide technical leader on real-time data collection and analysis systems, processing system modeling, and operational efficiency bottleneck simulations to drive Industry 4.0 initiatives.- Collaborated within the R&D organization to translate conceptual food ideas to fully commercialized products working cross-functionally with brand management, marketing & sales, & supply chain.- Managed R&D timelines and deliverables of highly sensitive internal network optimization capital projects with budgets up to $95MM.

Waterloo, Iowa Area

Focused Improvement Pillar Owner and Processing ExpertFood Manufacturing Plant: SnackPack Brand Aseptic Pudding and David's Brand Roasted Seeds- Subject Matter Expert (SME) of root cause analysis tools, line data reporting and analytics, and yield improvement- Drove increase in production efficiencies on two struggling packaging lines by 140% and led packaging yield loss taskforce to realize over $900,000 in annual product loss savings.- Start-up leader for $165MM plant expansion, owning vertical start-up of 5 packaging lines.- Served as supervisor for up to 40 hourly team members to drive operational efficiencies and reliably delver production goals while encouraging a zero-loss high-performance culture.

Office Of The Provost

Table Spreads Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Intern - Led $3 million yield improvement project team utilizing Lean and Six Sigma Manufacturing techniques. - Facilitated Focused Improvement workshops to analyze processes and build capabilities at Indianapolis Manufacturing Facility.

Evansville, Indiana Area

Powder Operations Intern- Championed projects to increase productivity and reduce $1.2 million in waste cost on processing and packaging lines.- Established standardizing practices in small-batch powder blending operation.- Experience using SAP Cost Analysis Software and OPTIVA Process Tracking Software

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Master Of Science - Ms, Business Analytics

Chemical Engineering, Minor In Biological Sciences, Focus On Genetics

Activities and Societies: Purdue Student Government, Delta Delta Delta Sorority, Old Masters, Purdue Leaders Forum, American Institute.