Brad Rush Email & Phone Number

Appleton, Wi, Us

Appleton, Wi, Us

Maxwell Leadership trainer, consultant and coach to help companies improve their employees knowledge on their personalities, strengths, weaknesses and how to be a leader within the organization.

Bradley and Associates is a full service provider for food safety and preparing organizations for the certification process to various certification standards such as SQF which can include the challenging of sites Food Defense programs.SQF Certified Lead Auditor SQF Ethical Sourcing AuditorFSSC Certified Lead AuditorFood Security and Food Defense consultation and facility challengesBrewing Consultant with extensive knowledge in brewing, food safety and packagingFood Safety Consultant Design and Conduct Packaging audits for glass, cans, crowns and co-manufacturersDesign and Conduct Contract Manufacturing audits for food and beverageContinuous Improvement Consultant

Zurich, -, Ch

• Established Supplier Quality Score Card program, providing feedback to all food and medical suppliers as part of supplier quality monitoring program.• Performed in-process, supplier and co-manufacturing audits, ensuring compliance to ISO13485 and FSSC22000 standards. • Oversaw all technical manual production for supplier and contract manufacturing products, auditing all high-risk suppliers on annual basis.• Developed standard operating procedures (SOP’s) for all new process additions and modifications used in production of products in accordance with ISO13485 and FSSC22000 standards, improving supplier compliance to customers’ requirements by 50%. • Led Greenbelt projects, addressing quality issues, identifying root cause and corrective actions of quality issues, resulting in 99% reduction in repeat quality issues with one particular supplier.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Established a Supplier Quality Score Card program to provide feedback to all suppliers on a quarterly basis• Performed in-process audits during all co-manufacturing productions of Boston Beer Company products that included hard tea, hard cider and beer production at various facilities.• Managed all specifications for suppliers and conducted routine certificate of analysis validation of raw materials while overseeing all technical manual production for contract manufacturing of Boston Beer products. • Audited all high-risk suppliers on an annual basis that includes malting operations, glass manufactures, crown suppliers, corrugated cardboard, juice suppliers and hop suppliers.• Coordinated with suppliers to address quality issues and identify the Root Cause of the quality issue. (Often the process involves conducting a process audit, the evaluation of SOP’s and operator tasks)

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Performed routine auditing throughout facility, conducting risk assessment audits for numerous process areas to identify and implement measures to minimize risk of failures. • Recognized for contributing $520K in gross margin savings to facility goal of $6.5M, through staff reductions, lean principles and supplier saving programs.• Devised development plans for employees, using cross-training with other departments and development of interpersonal skills in management and supervision • Created HACCP plan for facility, including analysis of hazards for both materials and process.• Designed and implemented Food Safety Absolutes program for facility, applying program to other company owned facilities and contract manufacturing facilities.• Identified potential issues in various process areas for quality improvements and analysis, using Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA).• Facilitated restructure of quality department, consolidating services through new technologies and cross-training employees to cover multiple areas in quality.• Utilized many computer programs, such as SAP, LABEWARE Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), QI Macros, and Windows Office products, improving skills.• Managed thermophilic microorganisms with use of high temperature pasteurization for products containing spices, delivering products free of microorganisms.

Chilton, Wisconsin, Us

• Selected to provide management for technical services for all areas of the business process with regards to quality and process improvement projects. • Led the Food Safety Programs related to thermophilic microorganisms in finished products by using HTST pasteurization to effectively control the organisms. (Products were designed to reduce water activity as a controlling mechanism.)• Acknowledged for being instrumental in cost reduction projects for all production facilities related to operational efficiency and services provided by outside service providers.• Managed organic programs for all areas of the business while maintaining technical knowledge of changing regulations. • Continually evaluated technical services within the organization to assess new technologies that allow for a more efficient process to provide accurate and timely information to the customer. • Oversaw the management of three technical individuals that are responsible for the evaluation and monitoring of product quality.

• Responsible for all yeast propagation management at Leinenkugel’s Brewing Company as well as managing process improvement of yeast propagation system and procedures for the 10th Street brewery.• Significant participant in the productivity, quality & performance improvements of the brewing process. *Increased productivity and efficiency of brewery by increasing production each month. • Collected data using routine production samples, aseptic samplings from select sample points also analyzed data and maintained records required by BATF. • Obtained extensive working knowledge of analytical equipment; Anton Paar - Densitometer, Spectrophotometer, Refract meter, Dissolved Oxygen analyzer, and pH meters.

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Analysis

Associate'S Degree, Environmental Science

Diploma, Quality Engineering

Six Sigma – Green Belt Certificate, Quality

Diploma, Advanced Management And Leadership

Certificate, Fundementals Of Packaging Technology