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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Reno, Nevada, Us

• Direct supply planning for multiple sites (internal/co-man), including network design.• Created supply planning standards including a clear run strategy, network strategy, inventory/safety stock targets, planning time fence, etc.• Responsible for Fill Rate KPI in organization, improving service over previous baseline.• Lead Supply Step in S&OP process. Contribute in other S&OP meetings. • Launched (Implementation Lead) Blue Yonder for Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Material Planning, and Deployment Planning. Super User for organization.• SAP S4 HANA Implementation lead for Supply/Demand Planning and Blue Yonder integration with a tentative EOY 2024 go-live in Public cloud.• Constructed a PowerBI report to review forecast accuracy while influencing others to make Forecast Accuracy a KPI.• Launched demand planning and consensus planning in the organization, developing routines and standards in line with Mars.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Lead 6-member Dunkirk facility operations planning department with a primary focus on inventory levels and detailed production plans for Dry PetFood and Pet Treats products with 600+ SKUs produced locally for local and national distribution with a make to stock strategy, amounting to over 1 Billion in sales annually.• Monitor inbound shipments from sister facilities to ensure fill at our local distribution center.• Plan production for export products as the main producer for the Canadian market, as well as made to order production for South American and Asian countries.• Manage packaging supply inventories and ordering. • Partner with Operations for efficient, optimized production while meeting customer fulfillment of 300,000+ annual tons. • Led a Dry Pet line mapping project resulting in decreased planned downtime from complex changeovers and increased efficiencies for planning to our factory bottlenecks, resulting in a 5% increase in production capacity, an impact of over 40 million dollars in sales.• Created Excel tool to maximize most highly capital constrained and profitable product form in production schedule, reducing bottleneck resource downtime due to batching by 80%.• Utilized rhythm wheel approach for determining optimized dry pet schedule, decreasing changeovers, and increasing output. • Increased master schedule attainment by over 1300 basis points over baseline and trending for additional improvements. • Facilitated expansion optimization exercises increasing treats capacity and tonnage over capital investment projections. • Executed plan for department cross-training to create redundancy and enabling enhanced work-life balance in the department.• Reduced department turnover from 83% in year prior to 0% during my tenure.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Led Dunkirk Pet Treats Department with five direct reports and 140+ indirect reports through 24-hour production. • Increased gender diversity in department by hiring 39% female employees in 2020 compared to 2019 department gender diversity baseline of 6% female.• Managed onboarding and vendor relationships for two contract labor agencies and 180+ contract labor employees. • Built stakeholder alignment across departments at a factory level as well as with corporate sales and marketing to meet business needs as sole production facility for multiple products. • Delivered record tonnage production and efficiency in 2020, including 0 recordable injuries and multiple 100% Final Quality months. • Improved performance over 2018 and 2019 baseline through an optimized production schedule increasing traditional tons/day output by over 10% without introduction of capital. • Executed launch of 20+ unique new treats and 60+ different package/product formats through COVID pandemic. • Launched three new processes with new to Purina technologies to produce two new types of Purina products via multi-million-dollar capital installations, meeting ramp-up curve for all.• Safely started up 19 million dollar expansion to produce an all new treat - Fancy Feast Savory Cravings. • Implemented change initiative to transition from 24-5 operations to continuous operations schedule.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Managed 24/7 production in processing department.• Implemented new dry cleaning shut down cleanup procedure.• Created standardization of processing run settings to enhance product quality and efficiency, reducing consumer complaints and unreleased product. • Led a SMED project to reduce planned downtime due to changeovers.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Led 20-member packing night shift. Reduced quality miscues (>50% reduction) and improved shift Asset Intensity. • Created and executed training plan for new packing team leaders.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

-Led and developed a project to design and install a fire suppression system in key manufacturing areas.-Optimized maintenance standards to reduce unplanned downtime and avoid the bottle-necking of production processes.

St Paul, Mn, Us

-Updated and Created various plant environmental, health, and safety programs. -Updated employee training requirements and procedures. -Enhanced production methods through working procedures without the purchase of new capital.

Wilmington, De, Us

Was a part of a rotational co-op program where positions were rotated each term.Third Term, Fall 2014: Tyvek Manufacturing Technologist• Created/Designed a part to match new equipment with existing sensor infrastructure. Effective cost savings in over $100,000 of new capital costs.• Designed an automated mechanism to remove a machine part without damage, increasing ergonomic safety for the employees. Cost savings in the quality and consistency of production as well as the cost savings for having to replace the machine part less.• Configured camera systems for overview of two production lines.• Qualified lab equipment and a testing procedure for a global alignment project between international production lines.Second Term, Summer 2014: HMT (Hybrid Membrane Technology) Research• Worked on a team to improve HMT Nanofiber technology.• Wrote a Technical Report on our studies published within DuPont.First Term, Fall 2013: Ballistics Range• Determined the ballistic capabilities of soft armor, hard armor, helmets, and ceramics. • Contributed to the bidding/awarding of three multi-million government helmet contracts by successfully working to decrease waste and material cost of production.• Provided training to Full-time employees on a cutting table program.

Kennett Square, Pa, Us

Worked on Graphics, Online Configuration, and Design of large scale HVAC and Building Automation Systems.

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering