Core team member responsible for doubling global airbag business revenue over the past 5 years. Fostered relationships with global airbag customers at all tier levels. Account manager for non-airbag accounts in technical textiles, electric vehicle, and consumer market segments. Sales Excellence Award Winner acknowledging pinnacle achievement of annual 30% plus growth. Business Athlete award winner for delivering a $1MM plus growth opportunities. Delivered forecasts, managed pricing, established key relationships, positioned Dow as preferred global supplier. Analyzed market opportunities, strategically and proactively planning for customer retention, growth, and market share capture.

Led complex, multi-cultural, multi-disciplined teams on high impact, high stakes efforts. Utilized LEAN Six Sigma and Commercialization Excellence techniques to drive results. Established relationships with global customer executives to assess needs, drive innovation, and deliver value. Creatively dismantle internal and customer paradigms to overcome barriers. Individual contributor capable of extracting team members best performance. Holder of multiple patents.

Responsible for promoting Dow Corning to perspective new hires. Identified high performing candidates with an appropriate motivational fit. Managed a recruiting team to achieve desired results.

Establish material fixed and variable costs. Identify areas for margin improvement; equipment options, formulation choices, packaging materials. Create models for acceptable pricing. Assist in managing capital portfolio.

Assessed current manufacturing technology. Explored, developed, and globally implemented next generation technology.

Leader of chemical production building with direct managerial responsibility for eight professional staff, thirty-five hourly employees, and a rotating temporary workforce. Accountable for meeting established budgets. Authority for all hiring, firing, promotional actions, and annual salary actions. Coordinate activities with marketing and sales departments to support product line initiatives. Accountable to cast vision, establish aligned goals, initiate and sustain change, improve productivity metrics, develop professional reports skills, and evaluate workforce.

Responsible for leading a team of skilled tradesmen to maintain chemical facility operations while improving reliability. Site capital administrator responsible to oversee local minor capital funds as well as corporate major capital efforts. Designated mentor for engineering professionals.

Responsible for diagnosing improvement opportunities and implementing solutions for chronically underperforming manufacturing processes. Supervisor for engineering internship program. Recipient of Global Manufacturing Achievement Award and Total Quality Award for demonstrated excellence on improvement of under-performing manufacturing processes. Chairman of site ergonomic taskforce.

Project manager for multimillion-dollar manufacturing and packaging relocation. Extensive redesign and upgrade of manufacturing systems.

Responsible for capital installations, maintenance, and improvement of chemical manufacturing processes. Facilitated activities with unionized skilled trades. Authored and presented a technical filtration paper at the INDA Conference. Authored a testimonial article with 3M Filtration Products.

Department of Labor advisory board appointee to the North Carolina Ergonomic Resource Center.