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Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Responsible for the P&L of an approximately $60 million global spout closures business.• Responsible for global strategic planning, commercial sales, vendor/manufacturing management, project management, product development, brand management, business development, logistics, and marketing activities.• Increased overall sales revenue by 90% and overall earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) by 100% in a declining global paper beverage packaging market.• Established new manufacturing lines and international product supply operations in France, Venezuela, China, and Thailand. Additionally, managed vendor relationships with multiple suppliers and 5 manufacturing operations in the U.S.• Improved the spout closures product development process to drive the successful development and launch of 8 new spout products to serve both international and domestic markets.• Significantly reduced the existing cost structure by developing new capital financing models, by replacing high cost spout product lines, by improving logistic operations, and by implementing improved inventory management systems.• Established new relationships and improved existing relationships between our international supply operations and our international customers to support growth of 300% in Asia and 400% in Latin America.• Demonstrated highly effective negotiating skills with key global suppliers and customers resulting in long- term supply contracts.• Maintained 100% supply positions with the largest juice beverage, dairy beverage, and plant based beverage companies in North America.• Developed marketing plans and materials integral to the global growth and success of the spout closures

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Responsible for 7 direct reports, 2 contracted off-site warehouses, customer service, machine scheduling, capacity planning, inventory control, logistics, shipping, distribution, and all commercial and customer focused activities of a $144M facility with 280 non-union employees.• Reduced raw material (paper) inventory by 60% ($10M savings), finished goods inventory by 60% ($5M savings), and finished goods aged inventory by 70% ($4M savings).• Developed and implemented both manual and automated inventory control systems and an employee certification and training program that improved warehouse accuracy from 60% to 99%.• Replaced and renegotiated supplier contracts ($0.5M savings).• Developed and implemented vendor-managed inventory programs with many key customers.• Executed a major strategic organizational restructuring resulting in a more empowered work force.• Selected to participate on a division cross-functional team to reengineer the customer service function and pre-press operations for the division.

Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

Responsible for 12 direct reports and all manufacturing and support activities of a $36M facility with 240 non-union employees.• Achieved many significant manufacturing improvements: reduced quality complaints by 30%, reduced product rejections by 50%, reduced press downtime by 10%, reduced plate remakes by 35%, reduced make-ready times by 15%, and reduced facility waste by 25%.• Improved manufacturing performance by pairing employee empowerment and accountability with increased and appropriate support including comprehensive data tracking and reporting systems.• Implemented a focused and documented skill certification process in support of developing high performance work systems.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Responsible for 6 quality technicians, 2 quality engineers, and overall product quality of a $30M facility with 250 union employees.• Developed the division’s first quality system, modeled after ISO 9002, to support a $25M facility recapitalization and organizational restructuring.• Reduced the number of customer rejects by 30%.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Responsible for 7 direct reports and 60 employees of the finishing, quality, maintenance, and shipping departments of a $30M facility with 125 union employees.• Selected as the division representative on a division cross-functional task team to develop International Paper’s first Plant Manager Competency Model for the Packaging sectors.

Virginia (Ft. Eustis), Saudi Arabia And Iraq

Held staff leadership position responsible for the intelligence, security, plans, and training of a 1000 person logistics unit during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Bavaria, Germany

Held various staff and leadership positions. Attended Air Defense Artillery Officer Basic Course.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bs, Engineering And Foreign Studies-Latin America