Christopher Rowan Email & Phone Number

Greater Philadelphia Area

Privately held business and information technology consulting firm. With over 200+ years combined industry experience in the Life Science, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Consumer Packaged Goods fields, Excellis offers a multitude of solutions for a variety of needs. Secure Supply Chain Specialists.

• Aircraft Armament Systems Educator – NJ Air National Guard … Atlantic City, NJ (1992 – Present)
• Former Flight Line Armament Systems Specialist responsible for education of newly-assigned personnel and annual instruction of existing personnel – total of 90 Airmen on F-16 weapons systems installations, and related.
• Accountable for performing flight-line audits to ensure execution of proper procedures and use of technical data.

Lumberton, NJ

• OTC Pharmaceutical Manufacturer and Packager specializing in private label analgesics, cough, cold and flu medications.
• Directed daily operations to include manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, distribution, purchasing, maintenance, engineering, plans and scheduling. Accountable for operating budget. Provide front-line supervision and.
• Reduced operating budget by $125K through the implementation of a headcount reduction; this was as a result of optimizing packaging equipment and decreasing number of personnel needed to oversee packaging equipment.
• Achieved annual savings of $10K by sourcing a new supplier of heat-treated pallets for company products with each pallet at a cost reduction of $1.50 each.
• Initiated second shift in Manufacturing to address production demands; an approximate additional 10 mm tablets monthly and still increasing. As a result, packaging efficiency measurements improved effectiveness in.

• Resolved outstanding $2.2 million backorder situation in 2012, reducing incident to historically low levels within just four months, raising company from top #6 to #1 leader in HUD market in only three years.
• As Project Manager, generated approximately $1.2 million in total savings for $3.5 million Serialization Project – enabling employer to comply with federal law HR 3204 qualifying company to ship product after November.
• Vastly improved production through myriad process improvements – by factor of 2.5 to 3.0 – increasing output of unit dose cartons monthly by 200%, from 200,000 to as many as 600,000 per month.
• Increased production capacity by 10% on machines 15+ years of age or older innumerable times, by upgrading Uhlmann and other production equipment – often costing $500,000 per upgrade for newer technology.
• Returned Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) gain of 2% annually for past three years, after installing computerized Manufacturing Execution System (MES) at cost of $300,000, performing LSS Black Belt analysis within.
• Reduced monthly cleaning and changeover times – as well as associated labor costs – by about 150 hours per month, as documented by new OEE Program, also installing 5-S in facility at a cost of $100,000.

• Gained invaluable experience across all phases of Solid Oral Dosage Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes – including central weigh (pharmacy), granulation, tableting, and coating – directing total of 22 Associates in.
• Served as Manufacturing Liaison for audits involving U.S. FDA, European MHRA, and Brazilian ANVISA audit organizations.
• Upon transfer to dayshift operations, assumed additional responsibilities over coating area and related process, adding eight new Associates to team and further project management tasks related to coating area.
• Created all manufacturing investigation documents related to internal/external customer complaints, revising entire manufacturing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) portfolio – converting documents to more legible.
• Promoted from position with lead responsibilities to new Six Sigma Green Belt Supervisor – with 25 direct-report employees within Packaging Group – with oversight authority over wallet product lines.
• Charged with originating all batch record and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents, managed as many as 120 production personnel in Blister/Bottle Operations during absence of Supervisor colleagues, and.

• Worked with union Mechanics on high-speed blister lines and peripheral equipment, training new and existing Mechanics on operation and maintenance of machines, as well as plant operations.
• Interacted daily with Mechanical and Production Supervisors to ensure production quotas were met,
• Interfaced regularly with customers and quality/validation or Union officials, in collaborative effort to launch new products.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services, 3.56

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communications

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Sigma

Associate Of Applied Science (A.A.Sc.), Aircraft Armament Systems Technology

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Communications