PepsiCo Procurement Packaging Category Lead for Global Resin and Basefilm

PBNA Resin Procurement

Rigid Plastic Packaging Strategy - Bottles / Resin

Resin Center of Excellence - PET & Polyolefins

Lead for Global Fiber Innovation & Disruptive Packaging, COE Base Film lead for AMENA, and Rigid Packaging lead for the Global Nutrition Group.

-Managing North American Foods Base Film Procurement that goes into the structures that form our final packaging-Also support the management of resin procurement for the base film as well as the adhesive layers for our final packaging structures

-Potato Procurement Strategy & Productivity-LSS Black Belt lead for Agro Procurement

-Milled Grain Procurement Manager for PepsiCo Foods NA-Manages books for cornmeal, flours, specialty grains, and edible beans

-Manages and contracts storage and fresh potato supply located in the southeast United States and the Great Lakes-Driven towards material and logistical productivity-Forecaster of chief agricultural inputs i.e. fertilizer

-Provide analytical support for the Potato Procurement Team-Develop new forms of contracts targeting input cost risk mitigation.-Supported cross functional productivity

Graduate research on risk mitigating marketing strategies for agronomically diverse cotton farms-Extensive use of risk modeling software (Simetar)-Extensive use of Excel-Jan 2008- Presented research at the Beltwide Cotton Conference in Nashville, TN -Feb 2008- Presented research paper at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association's meetings in Dallas, TX

-Supported day to day operations within the vineyard and wine production-Management of field workers