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St Louis, Missouri, United States

Oversee all activities & develop strategic plans for the dry pet foods pilot plant & warehouse. • Establish work priorities for the team aligning with Nestle Purina’s vast innovation pipeline.• Oversee the hiring & development for 20 technicians, supervisors, & project engineers.• Assure compliance to employee safety, food safety, and other Nestle standards.• Develop and manage annual operating and capital budgets for the pilot plant.

St. Louis County, Missouri, United States

Full time contractor with Treehouse Foods acting as Senior Director of R&D for RTE Cereal business during the sale of the business with the following objectives:• provide technical guidance for investment bankers and potential buyers;• expand production capacity at RTE plants by 11% in 2019;• develop innovation pipeline and strategic technology plan;• develop project plan to transition R&D Pilot Plant as standalone facility;• manage, support, & develop RTE Cereal researchers and R&D capabilities;• train new sales team’s presentations on capabilities, customer needs, & industry trends.

Greater St. Louis Area

Developed technical strategies required for creating and launching new products, renovations, and cost savings across the entire Meals Division (Pasta/Dry Dinners/RTE Cereal/Hot Cereal). Cultivated strong partnerships with customers and senior leadership. Managed director-level reports within a 26-person department. Hired and fostered career development for leaders, product developers, process engineers, and quality engineers.• Generated $106M incremental net sales and $19M incremental annualized profits over 7 years while overhauling the innovation strategy from an emulation focused strategy to including early consumer and customer engagement with prototype concepts. • Enabled $21M of annualized savings by establishing technology strategies that led to network consolidation and synergy savings for RTE and Hot Cereal production networks. The total R&D cost savings program generated $36M.• Selected for Leadership Development Program and implemented $2M of savings at two manufacturing facilities by developing a focused cost savings methodology and establishing a program with training modules and tools to roll out to other facilities.

St. Louis, Mo

Led a team of product developers, quality improvement engineers, nutritionists and labelers. Managed teams and hiring, oversaw lean product development, project portfolio management, and fostered partnerships with cross functional peers. • Improved project timelines by 16% and label development speed by 50% through developing and implementing a Lean Product Development strategy.• Dramatically improved product quality of store brand cereals through CPK improvement. Led team of quality engineers that established an SPC culture by using scientific principles and partnering with manufacturing to address chronic issues.• Developed a process technology solution costing only $10M in capital vs previous $25M solutions which prohibited its commercialization. Developed the process, product, and commercialization control plan for the successful extrusion cooked, sheeted RTE Cereal.• Established a virtual team culture with training and tools in 2005 resulting in full employee engagement with 0% turnover, 67% of staff promoted to advanced positions within 3 years, and business goals exceeding expectations.• Facilitated the initial Post Foods / Ralcorp Holdings manufacturing synergy meeting leading to $5M in cost savings projects and identifying 6 new technologies to enable incremental new product development.

Developed products and processes for RTE and Hot Cereals by running and designing equipment, selecting ingredients, and formulating to meet consumer’s organoleptic and nutritional requirements. Also drove improvement and cost savings projects. Developed competencies in specification and label development, sensory, project management, extrusion, batch cooking, gun puffing, air impingement ovens, coating, flaking, sheeting, granola manufacturing, and vitamin formulation.

St. Joseph, Missouri Area

Led quality improvement and cost savings initiatives for the RTE Cereal products through both capital and non-capital projects. Performed design of experiments, built statistical based interactive Excel models, and implemented an SPC program. Supported operations and QA in troubleshooting issues, training, R&D projects and testing. Reduced overpack, implemented texture and color improvements, and achieved significant process rate and yield improvements.

Master'S Degree, Agricultural Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Agricultural Engineering