Direct a team of five General and Department Managers in the take-over and start-up of the Duracell Packaging operation. In addition, oversee and manage a team of five direct, 24 indirect and 700 hourly staff.➣ Successfully the led start-up of a 21-line packaging operation in a highly condensed time frame.➣ Direct a fly-in support team of eight General Manager and Director level leaders.

Led a team of four management level direct reports and 500 indirect reports responsible for all new release distribution operations; kitting, sortation, pack-out, processing, parcel, and LTL dock operations and interplant-transfers. Tasked to move the operation from -$4.85M operating profit to a positive OP.➣ Improved year-over-year operating profit by $4.6M. ➣ Achieved 99.9% SLA (on time/in full) year-over-year improvement from 97.69%.➣ Reduced customer complaints by 47% with zero major escapes; reduced labor overtime by 46%.➣ Reduced service upgrade charges by 83% representing a $600,000 cost savings.

Oversaw a team of four Sr. Managers as well as an additional 1500 indirect reports responsible for receiving, inventory control, pick module, sortation, production control, quality, and LTL/parcel shipping departments.➣ Full P&L responsibility for a 1M sq. ft. catalog fulfillment facility that includes six pick modules with 38,000 locations, 12 Sorters (200 bin sorters) and 1.6M units of inventory across 48,000 SKUs.➣ Improved sorter throughput 47% by implementing a perfect wave and pilot line strategies ➣ On boarded three major clients representing 12,000 new SKUs without increasing facility footprint.➣ Reduced direct labor cost per unit by 40% through process improvements, leadership development, and standardized work.➣ Increased operating profit by $4.0M from -$3.2M to +$800k➣ Implemented a Labor Management System to drive efficiency gains and increased profitability

Led a team of seven department managers as well as 900 additional indirect reports within custom packaging, production planning, new release distribution, and warehousing operations. Oversaw manufacturing, customer satisfaction, capital equipment justification, process improvements, costing, scheduling, and production planning operations. ➣ Developed and implemented process improvements which yielded a 75% reduction in customer complaints, reduced complaints to zero for three out of four customers. ➣ Recognized for achieving $4M positive variance in operating profit.➣ Redesigned staffing model to reflect the cyclical nature of the business, resulting in below budget labor cost independent of volume fluctuations. ➣ Successfully executed the annual/seasonal start-up, operation and shut down of 500,000 sq. ft. expansion building.

Managed a team of three shift managers who oversaw 400+ additional indirect reports. In charge of the day-to-day production operations, customer expectations, quality, cost, and on-time delivery of a 250,000 sq. ft. light manufacturing operation. ➣ Authored and executed a strategic operation overhaul resulting in unprecedented quality, cost, and delivery metrics.➣ Introduced the operation strategy-based lean manufacturing principles and the theory of constraints; increased operational efficiency by 50% and efficiency to standard by 110% in the first year.

Directed a team of four supervisors overseeing 80 additional team members responsible for interplant transfers and inventory control operations.➣ Launched process improvement teams resulting in a 14% increase in on-time delivery.➣ Increased driver efficiency that resulted in a 17% staffing reduction.➣ Improved empty/mixed locations by 9%.

Oversaw six team leads which led an additional 60 indirect reports within the manufacturing operations, staffing, costs, process improvements and leadership for a single shift manufacturing team of 250+ employees across 20 production lines. ➣ Led process improvement initiatives across the department achieving numerous production records.➣ Received the President’s Award for the successful implementation of Microsoft Xbox into the production process.➣ Decommissioned and transitioned the operation from Charlottesville VA to Memphis TN. Facilitated the relocation of production teams to correlate with the commissioning of lines at the new facility with no customer complaints.

Assisted in acquiring FDA approval for and transition to manufacturing of a radiopharmaceutical breath test for Helicobacter Pylori. Direct reporting to Dr. Barry Marshal, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2005.

Led the manufacturing of production scale chromatography cartridges for mass pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Research and Development of Diasprin Cross-linked Hemoglobin.