Dylan Stone Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for securing global orchestration of supply through an end-to-end overview Novozymes' Bioenergy supply chain, worth $800 M/year.• Designs supply chain considering footprint and stocking points to balance responsiveness and cost.• Ensures supply, mitigates and coordinates larger opportunities and supply inconsistencies.• Manages product range complexity and drives profitable mix.• Participates in long-term capacity outlook with Global S&OP.• Accountable for finished good scrap and slow-moving inventory budget.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for forecasting sales, and balancing supply, in America's BioAg industry worth $100M/year.• Collaborates with Sales, Finance, OSQ, and SCO to deliver financial goals and customer satisfaction.• Oversees $8M finished goods inventory at four production facilities to keep costs low.• Models capacity across critical resources to ensure supply matches demand.• Presents quarterly results at executive leadership meetings to help guide business decisions.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for the recovery and standardization of Novozymes’ Innova platform worth > $35M/year.• Developed annual strategic targets in support of delivering >7,000 totes/year, on time and on spec.• Identified process gap and implemented countermeasure project to increase revenue $100,000/y.• Supervised university coop students, hired engineers, and mentored production operators.• Adapted to rapid growth of yeast platform by leading throughput initiatives and updating protocols.

Ontario, Canada

Responsible for the fermentation of numerous Novozymes’ and toller strains, both microbial and enzymatic.• Owner of annual strategic objective to lower contamination rate—down 33% over the previous year.• Exceeded yield and cost performance metrics (4% and 11%, respectively) from 2019 to 2020.• Lead a six-member Rapid Improvement Event resulting in an 85% reduction in changeover time.• Champion of Lean problem solving and Kaizen techniques culminating in a 54% capacity increase.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Responsible for enzymatic hydrolysis engineering support with Iogen Energy's external partner Raízen, Brazil's third largest energy company. • Regularly traveled to client facility (Piracicaba, Brazil) to assist with process support and optimization ultimately leading to a 20% increase in final product produced per specification.• Lead a successful three-company trial (Iogen-Raízen-Novozymes) of a new aeration system and sustained the 10% yield gain.• Designed infrastructure to analyze large sets of process data used to generate automated reports, track key performance indicators, and evaluate actual versus design premises.• Co-authored plant-wide maintenance report detailing wear rates and failure analyses to increase equipment reliability.

310 Hunt Club Road, Ottawa, Ontario

Responsible for demonstrating 2nd generation ethanol technology implemented at one of the world's first cellulose-to-ethanol plants owned by Raízen, Brazil's third largest energy company.• Planned and executed pilot-scale experiments to optimize reactor operating conditions, a 9% yield gain from preliminary testing. Presented periodic results to executive team and management.• Collaborated with engineers, contractors, and vendors to complete pilot reactor capital improvement projects on-time and within budget; updated the corresponding standard of procedures.

Ottawa, Ontario

• Created a program to digitally database antiquated tooling which reduced engraving time and inventory costs.

Chalk River, Ontario

• Devised nomenclature for facility work orders, thereby consolidating and simplifying maintenance scheduling across the site.

Chalk River, Ontario

• Designed databases that cataloged component specifications and asset locations to aid preventative maintenance and engineering troubleshooting.

Ottawa, Ontario

• Developed a microscopic laboratory device that sorts chondrocytes to promote healthy cartilage.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 11.3 / 12