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Ooltewah, TN, US

Ooltewah, TN, US

United States

Charleston, Tennessee

• Managed all North American third party toller operations with roughly $35MM in spending during private equity acquisition from Lonza into a new stand-alone company, Sigura.
• Provided technical expertise to drive down costs through optimized processes, supply chains, and materials.
• Collaborated closely with sourcing, quality, operations, and leadership to achieve sustainable cost reductions.
• Category management: improved toller databases and internal procedures to aid in selection of future contracts.

Charleston, Tennessee

• Led operational aspects of pilot testing new reactor design for production of calcium hypochlorite intermediary product. Responsible for operating procedures, test conditions, root cause investigations, risk analyses.
• Operated and maintained mass spectrometer for real-time gas phase compositional analysis in commercial and pilot reactors.
• Developed and launched multiple tableted chlorine pool chemical products with expected year 5 sales of >$6MM.
• Completed defensive project to address customer complaints to avoid losing $2.6MM in sales.
• Supported Factory Acceptance Test for new tableting press and completed statistical capability analysis

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Led all manufacturing aspects of new product feasibility studies and commercialization scale-ups to expand business portfolio, generated $1.5MM in new sales revenue in 2015 and 2016Supervised Product Development Technician by providing work direction, objectives, and performance feedback

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Supported day to day operation and improvement projects for batch nylon polymerization departmentLed polymer casting automation project which increased productivity > $1MM annuallyOrganized root cause analyses for a variety of process upsetsStandardized autoclave die plate size, reducing grade change time, spare parts inventory, and transition batches.

Maumelle, AR

Supported day to day operation and improvement projects for six wet wipe converting lines and two basesheet assets. Internal quality auditor for FDA compliance.

Honors Internship in Pollution Prevention-Determined profitability for large-scale manufacturing of an ionic liquid.

Optimized cooling water system.Sized pumps and piping for a variety of chemical processes.

Completed a total of four co-op work semesters at both research and manufacturing sites-Developed tissue structure models to provide improved durability while maintaining customer preferred properties such as softness and low lint.-Supported four commercial spunbond machines.-Led process variable charting and data mining initiative. -Produced and tested.