College Summer jobs with ADM, International Multifoods and Kearny County Land CoProduction Coordinator, Quaker Oats, St. Joseph, MO. Scheduled and managed corn, oat and wheat flour mills.Food Technologist, Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, MI. Helped develop new breakfast cereals and trouble-shoot problems on existing products. Helped develop, Raisin Squares, OJ’s, Crispix and Fruitful Bran cereals. Worked extensively with twin screw extruders, dryers, toasters and coating systems. Helped start-up the first twin extruder in North America in the food industry. Formulated many different types of breakfast cereals and sourced raw material with proper specifications.Food Technologist, Wenger Mfg, Inc., Sabetha, KS. New product and process development. Assisted sales force worldwide. Ran and coordinated pilot plant runs. Equipment start-up, product development and formulations work throughout the world. Specialized in single and twin screw start-ups, extruded product formulations, dryers, toasters and coating systems for all extruded products. Developed many food products and formulas for ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, breading, 3G snacks, textured proteins, snacks an many other foods, feeds and industrial productsCo-founder and Member Manager (owner) of USC, LLC Sabetha, KS. Website: www.uscllc.com. Designed, built and sold coating systems, dryers and toasters. Rebuilt and started-up used single and twin screw extruders 2006-Present: Established ESS Ventures, LLC to sales rep food processing equipment in North America and offer consulting, start-up and formulation services to the food industry.. Currently sales rep for CEREX AG. Website: www.cerex.ch.Three U.S. patents, numerous published trade magazine articles and book chapters. Have appeared on the History Channel on a show called “Cereal: History in a Bowl” as a Cereal Scientist.Specialties: Any food or feed manufacturing using grains