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Bronx, New York, United States

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

- Led a team of 35 direct reports across 3 shifts to produce over 9MM barrels annually that included a 50 brand portfolio and 8 yeast strains.- Won the 2022 Brewmaster Cup for best annual sensory results of the 16 NA breweries by optimizing the profiles of Budweiser, Bud Light, and Michelob Ultra. Ranked the highest monthly Budweiser sensory score in Fort Collins brewery history.- Yielded $200,000/mo savings on an $88MM raw materials budget leveraging PowerBI analysis to drive process changes and improving yields greater than 5%.- Improved brewhouse GLY performance over 25% by upskilling brewers on Siemens BATCH control recipes to drive recipe changes that optimized vessel throughput in the brewhouse.- Drove and sustained 100% micro contamination elimination in the brewhouse and fermentation cellar through enhanced process and maintenance upskilling of brewers. (Previously 40% contamination rate)- Increased fermentation consistency over 15% by upskilling brewers on fundamental concepts of lager yeast fermentation and empowering the team to own process controls.- Developed and led an autonomous teams initiative to upskill 10 brewers on low level maintenance tasks that became the NA standard for brewing departments. Hosted and led the subsequent NA autonomous teams training at the Fort Collins brewery for breweries, malt houses, and can plants.- Collaborated with 4 craft breweries (Goose Island, Elysian, Kona, and Breckenridge) to develop, flavor match, and maintain 20 partner brand recipes and 5 yeast strains for nationwide distribution. - Collaborated with the corporate logistics group to develop and execute the long term brewhouse demand planning.- Locally negotiated with union representatives to resolve multiple bargaining cases involving staffing and overtime.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

- Ranked highest finishing cellar efficiency among the 16 NA breweries by reducing brewing downtime to packaging over 20% by empowering brewers to create dynamic cellar plans and own the filter scheduling process.- Ranked highest bright beer tank micro KPI performance in Fort Collins brewery history by upskilling brewers on bacterial growth and sanitation fundamentals then turning over ownership of the KPI to the team.- Commissioned an alternate CO2 supply header from obsolete piping to adapt to a growing brand portfolio with varied CO2 specs.- Collaborated with the corporate and local logistics teams to develop the most efficient release strategy to satisfy short and long term demand planning.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

- Drove 18 member team’s employee engagement to 98% by leveraging existing skill sets and training on needed skill sets of team members to improve overall team knowledge and eliminate drafting on the weekends.- Improved GLY 4% and LEF 6% through focused maintenance upskilling of packaging team members to allow for quick implementation of root cause eliminating actions of recurring problems.- Optimized PM shifts by organizing and prioritizing the maintenance backlog in SAP to eliminate non-value added work from being performed during downtime windows.- Reduced filler CO2 usage by 25% while maintaining the same quality standards by conducting CO2 flush studies.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

- Collaborated with the Utilities department to create E&F focused maintenance methods that yielded $135k of annualized savings on CO2 consumption.- Led three salaried employees responsible for on-shift packaging, shipping, and maintenance performance of 4 can, 3 bottle, and 1 keg line that produced over 9MM packaged barrels annually.- Leveraged ideologies learned in Scrum Master certification to increase efficiency of maintenance PM execution.

Fort Collins, Colorado

- Managed all inbound and outbound brewery shipments on-shift with a team of up to 25/shift.- Optimized the in-house WMS to reduce load times by reducing drive distances and decreasing load complexity.

Fort Collins, Colorado

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

- Led a cross functional team of maintenance, production, and sanitation team members in the re-implementation of critical asset care site wide. - Analyzed bag maker and case packer cycle count data to create a maintenance frequency matrix and master preventative maintenance schedule. - Streamlined the subassembly rebuild process by creating pick lists, enabling automatic ordering in the parts inventory system, and by designating areas of the maintenance shop dedicated to rebuilt assemblies. - Tailored stock preventative maintenance procedures to address site specific improvement opportunities in SAP.

Spartanburg, South Carolina

- Operated a pilot plant to build moisture calibration curves using near infrared technology (NIR) decreasing stripping times in pretreatment vessels by 50%. - Shortened reactor cycle times and confirmed compliance with California’s Proposition 65 through analysis of residual oxide levels in finished products. - Managed the implementation of a warehousing capital project by developing the Project Objectives Memo (POM), leading safety review meetings, issuing Management of Change (MOCs), and managing contractors. - Responsible for preparation for the internal Responsible Care (RC) audit. - Responsible for asset effectiveness and alarm rationalization and analysis.

Bangkok, Thailand

- Synthesized biodiesel from oleic acid in palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD), a byproduct in palm oil refinery.- Yielded 94.7% biodiesel from the equilibrium reaction using pervaporation through a bacterial cellulose membrane to separate water from the biodiesel product.- Designed a one liter, packed bed reactor that utilized the mass flow of the agitator to maximize conversion.

Clemson, Sc

Head Counselor for the Calhoun Honors College's EUREKA! Summer Research Program that hosts 33 incoming freshman honors students the summer before their fall semester at Clemson and exposes them to research in various labs across Clemson and their satellite campuses.

Clemson, Sc

- Designed the operating procedure for the synthesis of a drug delivery system embedding hydrophobic gold nanoparticles and fluorescent dye inside the lipid bilayer of phospholipid vesicles.- Developed an experimental design to determine the medical potential of drug release technology using gold nanoparticles by measuring leakage rate of dye in a spectrofluorometer at specified temperatures to develop a curve of temperature vs maximum release rate.