Chris Damsgard Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

+ Creating and launching new business in high growth spaces.+ Failing productively in the pursuit of the commercial truth.+ Leveraging design thinking, lean startup, and agile methods.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

+ Responsible for unlocking tens of millions in business value through Smart Manufacturing initiatives.+ Drove global portfolio of innovations in visibility, traceability, workflow, analytics, computer vision, connected worker, mobile intelligence, collaboration tools.+ Implemented innovative field-to-fork oats traceability and material ledger solution – the 1st of its kind at General Mills - enabling tens of millions in annual hard savings to Gluten-free Cheerios business. Recognized internally with highest technical award, externally with National Association of Manufacturers advanced analytics award. Expanded solution to 5 wheat milling locations.+ Represented General Mills on the Board of the federally funded Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII); Presented at U.S. Congressional Briefing and Expo. Co-authored chapter of forthcoming Smart Manufacturing textbook.+ Developed global strategy and governance processes for Manufacturing Data Accuracy, Downtime/Loss Tracking, and Production Capacity Analysis to accelerate Continuous Improvement program. Reduced data errors by 70%. Enabled root cause identification of losses leading to millions in savings. + Managed vendor relationships with technology partners.+ Prevented delay or cancellation of 100+ initiatives during COVID-19 Stay-at-Home period through Remote Assistant solution leading to millions in value.+ Developed and implemented globally 3 highly rated courses for Engineering’s Technical Acceleration Programs.+ Improved corporate technical awards program to expand eligibility to plant engineers, increase clarity in written nominations, and enable recognition of all nominees.+ Led University of Minnesota recruiting team for Manufacturing and Engineering. Organized on-campus presence to interact with hundreds of students through career fair, student events and information sessions. Interviewed and selected from about 24 students per year.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

+ Managed 5 direct reports and 4 international indirect reports. Interviewed and hired for India office. + Responsible for strategy, development, deployment, and training for all manufacturing and engineering solutions. These included enterprise manufacturing intelligence, project/portfolio management, simulation, safety, collaboration, and knowledge management.+ Managed General Mills’ project management, reporting, and collaborative workspace solutions for 5000 projects totaling $700+ million in capital expenditure. Led expansion of solution to international locations and foreign currency. Improved funding documents and field change order and equipment allocation processes. Identified and resolved over 200 existing issues.+ Applied Microsoft Project Server technology for “efficient frontier” portfolio optimization of essential capital projects. Streamlined annual capital planning process by over 200 hours.+ Upgraded Engineering drawing management system. Developed and executed plan for conversion of 500,000 records.+ Improved custom software development processes leading to 100% productivity increase.+ Led cross-functional steering team through strategic discussion and prioritization process.+ Received highest technical award for developing yogurt genealogy solution to link finished product quality issues to upstream attributes in order to identify root cause during start-up.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

+ Responsible for execution and adoption of manufacturing intelligence and analytics solutions across 45 locations collecting over 700 billion data points per day.+ Led strategy and execution of enterprise-wide manufacturing intelligence solution with over 5 million data elements modeled. Founded a community of practice that led to creation of over 500 plant floor dashboards and 20,000 trend files. Recognized internally with highest technical award, externally with Managing Automation PM100 award. + Shaped and delivered MES and workflow (Savigent, Wonderware, SAP) solutions as part of General Mills’ 1st integrated demand-driven supply chain. Functionalities included job management, BOM validation, lot tracking/exposure, WIP management, direct consumption, and quality check lifecycle management.+ Co-developed commercialized software features with Incuity (VantagePoint) prior to acquisition by Rockwell Automation, and SmartGlance prior to acquisition by Wonderware. This work was covered by Automation World magazine, December 1, 2010.+ Served as liaison for data and analytics to Research and Development function; developed R&D Pilot Plant data acquisition solution; conducted training for 200 food scientists.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

+ Responsible for product and process development in Big G Cereals and Foodservice Dough.+ Led product development, consumer evaluation, scale-up, and commercialization of Fruity Cheerios and 3 other ready-to-eat cereals.+ Special assignment to integrate 45,000 product quality and manufacturing specifications to a new SAP-PLM system after acquisition of The Pillsbury Company.+ Led $10 million worth of process improvements in frozen bread and bagel dough for two major accounts. Reduced customer complaints by 50%.+ Invented and patented imprinting technology for frozen cookie dough enabling acquisition of a major account. Customer was able to eliminate thaw step and go freezer-to-oven.+ Developed system strategies for electronic lab notebooks and product formulation tools.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Play the Voice was founded by Eliana at 16 years old. Four real kid Voice Actors who are professionals in the booth and kids at heart. Experience includes Commercials, Audiobooks, eLearning, Promos, Narration, Animation, and Video Games.www.PlayTheVoice.comYouthful sound. Grown-up service.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Golf by Numbers was founded by Seth Damsgard when he was 9 years old. Shortly after, he established a partnership to service Precise Yardage Books in production of golf yardage books, pin sheets, course surveying, and drawing services.

Neenah, Wisconsin

Business support, process development, and product improvements for Infant Care products

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Process development for Traffic Control Materials

Hutchinson, Kansas

Process improvement for evaporated salt production

B. Chem. Eng With High Distinction, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Business, 3.9/4.0

AIChE - President Institute of Technology Board of Publications - Editor-in-Chief Marching Band - Section Leader Tau Beta Pi Engineering.

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