Daniel Bloomfield Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

I am a people manager leading a team in various R&D projects; focused on strengthening our core brands and delivering greater product and process efficiencies within our business. Our team has been successful in achieving millions of dollars in savings that's reinvested back into future product development. We take a holistic approach at identifying.

Chicago, IL, US

Worked in R&D across several categories which included Snack Nuts, Coffee, Potatoes, and Refreshment Beverages. As a process development engineer, I worked closely with a cross functional team to efficiently and methodically build working solutions for producing several food products.

Chicago, IL, US

• Worked in various operational roles in our Nabisco Philadelphia Bakery; including our packaging and mixing departments. Focused on developing and creating efficiencies to meet production demands and lower operating.
• Responsible for baking and mixing of various biscuit products for mass production (average size dough ~ 3000lbs):o Setup batch recipes for all products. Make running adjustments based on process attribute data.o.
• Work with product development in an effort to institute new products for the bakery. Develop processes to mass produce pilot products. Examples include whole grain and low sodium Premium crackers, whole wheat Teddy.
• Developed a system to better account for waste and loss. Took this information and cut losses by 15%. Instituted a program where employees were trained to troubleshoot issues on the floor before problems developed.
• Manage up to 15 employees who are responsible for mixing, sanitation, quality, maintenance, and raw material setup.
• Trained as a Shop Floor Key User in SAP. Skilled with process order management, inventory control, Electronic Batch Systems, and other production related functions.

London, Greater London, GB

• Production Superintendent (Mar. 2001 - Jul. 2002)
• Managed five Line Supervisors, as well as Impregnation and Batching Engineers.
• Organized diverse departments for the purpose of enhancing their ability to work together more closely and efficiently. Major objectives were to maximize line attainment, decrease loss-to-yield, stabilize precious.
• Production schedules were revised to maximize plant efficiency and major objectives sited above were achieved to include:o Line attainment of 65 to 70 percent achieved which improved process downtime.o Loss to yield.
• Developed process parameters for production drying ovens to coordinate proper moisture removal from catalytic converters. Procedures were developed for oven balancing dependent on environmental conditions.
• Engineered processing conditions for new coating process. This included dryers and pumps for washcoat (slurry material which is alumina based and contains other significant base/precious metals) flow. These new process.