Anthony Gonzalez Email & Phone Number

Loveland, CO, US

Saginaw, TX, US

Hilmar, CA, US

• Hired to turnaround a struggling engineering function and develop a strategic road map that included a new site. Served as a member of the executive steering team and reported to the COO. Partnered with client services.
• Established a best-in-class project execution and process engineering group that focused on an Agile approach to execution while preparing leadership, capability, and communications developmental paths across cross.
• Oversaw a $675 million greenfield project inclusive of the business case, site selection, municipality negotiations, design, construction, and startup as well as, when it became necessary, the creation of a transition.
• $8 million to $10 million in capital expanded to $60 million to $65 million by establishing an engineering vision supporting company objectives along with an organizational transformation and updated skill sets.
• Standardized usage of manufacturing data to enable real time, data driven decisions and built digital transformation and artificial Intelligence systems to deploy MES system.
• Strengthened the risk-based prioritization process for capital funds, operational expenses, and resources for the PMO group.

Greater Chicago Area, IL, US

• Led a three-year technical, operational, and cultural master plan, per site, to spur business growth, cost per unit, and quality glidepaths. Directed a 63-member engineering organization. Leveraged current technology.
• Allocated a $320 million annual capital budget among eleven sites in Canada, the US, and Mexico while reducing projects that exceeded budgets from 31% to 1% and boosting vertical startups from 74% to 95%.
• Drove the first artificial intelligence implementation by establishing true digitalization for ingredient handling and mixing as well as packaging with the goal of predictive quality and performance.
• Major contributor to re-organizing from a business unit to a regional control structure with new business objectives that required massive infrastructure updates by collaborating with each plant leader to establish a.
• Key member of an M&A team that completed due diligence in a $500 million commercial acquisition.
• Stewarded plant performance from second to last to second best (of 14 plants) and boosted performance after notifying the plant staff of an impending closure, running the plant, and taking the plant staff through the.

Vevey, CH

• Leads all aspects of capital project execution in my operating region including:
• Project leader on 90 acre greenfield construction project
• Sr. project manager for spec-building micro-factory
• High-speed production line control theory
• OEM vendor packaging equipment
• Value stream mapping

Vevey, CH

• Reporting to the Market VP of Engineering, established an international Early Management team tasked with the standardization of capital project workflow from industrialization through handover. Approval of new major.
• Conducts training and leads 29 production facilities with their formal site based Early Management programs; ensures compliance through periodic site audits.
• Established a “field tool box” of checklist and performance-based tools used by all production facilities to ensure their people, machinery, materials and methods are prepared to ensure a vertical startup

Purchase, New York, US

• Supply chain leadership experience including:
• Total Productive Management (TPM) implementation
• Corporate auditor for TPM compliance
• Operations team leadership
• Maintenance team leadership
• Operational Master Plan (OMP) execution

Mason, OH, US

• Route service leadership experience including:
• P&L Experience
• Leadership of Service and Sales teams
• Re-routing of 43 service/ sales routes
• Organic business growth
• Implementation of web based sales/ service tools

Washington, DC, US

• Various Surface Warfare billets including experiences on the following:
• Ensured compliance Federal statute for 600,000 officer promotions
• Establishment of web based Decision Support System (DSS) for the Chief of Naval Personnel
• Advised the President and Secretary of Defense for individual implementation of promotion policies
• Data base administrator
• Battle group operations planning

Bachelors Of Science, Systems Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Operations Management