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Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, and Sazerac Rye. Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Southern Comfort, Margaritaville Spirits, Dr. McGillicuddy’s, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka. We’re proud of our award-winning culture and distilleries.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, and Sazerac Rye. Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Southern Comfort, Margaritaville Spirits, Dr. McGillicuddy’s, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka. We’re proud of our award-winning culture and distilleries.- Responsible for CAPEX, Maintenance and Reliability of two (2) bottling facilities (9 lines)- Equipment reliability initiative contributed to 26% OEE increase- Responsible for factory "New Brand Development" process coordinating efforts with brand managers. A 62% increase in SKU's has resulted in 600+ SKU's with 80+ bottle molds over the past 2 years.- Drives continuous improvement effort focused on improving equipment reliability resulting in OEE gains-Strategically developed and implemented a $1.5MM Zero Based Budget to return factory assets back to base condition to improve reliability and reduce reactive maintenance- Refocused Reliability and Maintenance teams (30 team members) resulting in increase from 12% to 100% of monthly PM (preventative maintenance) work orders.- Implemented and set up CMMS to drive maintenance organization activities- Created monthly purchase order tracking system to control monthly spend

As the nation's leading bottled water company, Nestle Waters North America is dedicated to providing customers with healthy hydration options. Responsible for all Technical and Engineering issues for the factory. Factory has 10 productions lines including injection/blowmolding with product packaging sizes ranging from 0.5 liter to 5 gallon bottles. Processes range from high speed bottling, bulk and home delivery.- Responsible for $5+ Million Facilities and Maintenance budget to support factory- Strategically focused technical improvements and planned maintenance approach contributed to 11.3% factory performance improvement in 2 years. - Planned Maintenance spend improved 211% from 18% to 56% stabilizing minor stoppages- Planned Maintenance Adherence improved to 94%- Managed Actual budgeted spend within 1% of Forecasted Budget yearly- Implemented Capital Projects across the factory - Designed and installed spring water unload system reducing reported water losses by 23%- Managed 60+ maintenance and engineering personnel in their daily activities- Responsible for Blow Molding technical support for seven (7) Sidel blow molders- Responsible for TPM PM Pillar initiative- Utilized SAP extensively to drive improvement strategy and metrics- Maintained safety record of zero injuries

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch multinational consumer goods company. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world’s third largest consumer goods company.- Created systems to address department workflow processes, inventory ordering systems, and work order processing systems to re-vitalize $4.7MM maintenance organization (50+ employees) producing substantial gains resulting in work order completion rate increase of 375%, reduced inventory losses by 98% from $500K while maintaining a safety record of zero injuries for a multi-billion dollar factory.- Coordinated efforts between engineering, maintenance and innovation technicians resulting in seamless production support contributing to an OEE gain of 19%.- Provided leadership for engineering group resulting in substantial focus improvement (FI) projects savings of $4.5 MM across 12 production lines. FI projects focused on largest loss leaders within the factory by equipment center. FI projects focused on people issues and equipment enhancements.- World Class Manufacturing Professional Maintenance Lead for production site resulting in only Professional Maintenance pillar being Step 3 approved for all North American production locations.- Drove continuous improvement projects with innovation technicians across factory, 12 production lines, resulting in significantly improved performance. One example focused on the re-design of bottle cap delivery process resulting in an OEE increase of 30+% into the 70% range.- Developed engineering talent via mentoring, coaching and technical assessments that significantly increased their skill sets allowing them to engage factory issues and provide solutions that focused on production floor involvement and waterfall loss data.

Maximum Sports Solutions is a leader in sports nutrition. We look at fitness at a holistic level. We stress the importance of eating right and exercising to maximize our clients fitness goals. We offer not only supplements, and vitamins but offer meal plans and monthly magazine to keep our customers motivated throughout their journey to fitness.

-Focused on business strategy to grow firm from $24M to $92M in revenue, driving advances in high-ROI technology, processes, project management, operations, marketing, purchasing, margin, asset oversight, and vendor relations. -Direct maintenance and transportation for $8.5M in primary equipment assets. -Analyze and administer multimillion-dollar expenses, budgets, and forecasts; assess and manage risk through HR and financial controls. -Hire, train, and oversee 13 direct/5 indirect reports, grooming staff into leadership roles.-Created lean operation with focus on productivity measures; directed all safety and compliance.-Increased revenue potential with accurate equipment costing rates, reducing Controller effort from weeks to days with new cost system extract/Access solution.-Built vendor buy-in for new asset repair fee split, creating shared benefit to overages and setting contract terms.-Created time-saving project bid system, gaining buy-in from project managers with involvement in application selection/design process.-Improved field accountability with electronic tracking capability for reported hours.-Improved data reporting/capture with Purchase Order system managing job and equipment expenses.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

-Promoted to management roles of expanding scope, leveraging leadership and engineering expertise to cut costs and increase morale. -Managed $200M inventory in 15 shipping locations.-Automated calculations for inventory turn by material grade and size with new SQL solution.-Forecasted weekly production needs, working in collaboration with Production Scheduling team.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

-Quickly rose through automation, operations leadership, and technical support positions to administer all internal and external quality issues, customer interactions, and machine quality testing. -Educated employees in quality issue resolution, using customer location visits.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

-Oversaw $30M, 24/7/365 paper machine operation, coordinating all daily actives, maintenance and staffing needs.-Pushed machine efficiency to 80%+, drove Lost Time Incident Rate and union grievances to zero with close staff monitoring and collaborative nature, and set clear expectations that averted employee issues.-Exceeded budget with first-ever P&L analysis, working with IT group to obtain daily figures.-Managed union relations and contributed to product development.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

-Served as first technical support leader, resolving IT issues for production sheeting operation. -As Technical Services Manager, improved scheduling efficiency 28% with selection of machine optimization software that bested manual effort; saved $2M with sheeting operations/process analyses.

-Led project team, participated in ISO 9000 approval, & coordinated full-cycle technology product development.-Received President's Award for outstanding achievements in product development and sales application.

Mba, Operations, Finance

Bs, Mechanical Engineering