Customer-facing steward of bulk shipping modes for polyols and isocyanates businesses.Managing the First Bulk Delivery program and performing a tank farm assessment for new or new-to-Covestro customers.Assisting the triad of customers, Covestro operations, and 3rd party logistics providers in safely loading, shipping, and delivering chemicals with high quality.Protecting chemical workers and managers with site visits, safety presentations, and one on one dialogue.Leveraging my experiences in field service, coaching, and industrial packaging to help customers grow from using packaged goods to bulk-shipped goods.Serving currently as the chairperson for the CPI Transportation Work Group.

I was responsible for the technical procurement of non-bulk Covestro packaging materials, which were used to store or ship hazardous and non-haz product or intermediates globally. I worked closely on a global team in coordinated efforts to save cost or improve quality.My job included:Maintaining packaging specifications for North & Latin American operations.Working closely with Distribution Safety (EHS) to limit risk to the company.General understanding of UN and DOT regs & legs.Providing day-to-day guidance on packaging internally and, upon request, to customers.Troubleshooting customer & internal complaints and issues related to packaging.Visiting filling and shipping sites to understand requirements and needs, then delivering solutions.Providing support to IT when troubleshooting internal shipping errors in SAP.Playing my part in supplier management, to ensure product and services are consistent and meet the needs of the company.Developing supplier audit plans and conducting audits of their production and distribution facilities.I was a member of the Institute of Packaging Professionals, Chemical Packaging Committee.

Bulk Terminal Operations & WarehousingInventory reconciliationProcess review & improvementsSupply chain crisis management & recovery executionInventory disposal/scrapping executionJob Rotation Pilot Program participant

Bayer Transformation ProjectFocus on TPU Planning TransformationHelped to develop & launch pull system in R/3, while detaching APO.Created a reorder point refresh tool.Documented all work, processes, and UAT's.At the time, the only Bayer O&I project to finish on time and under budget.Planned awesome & happy lunch meetings, as we had to accomodate our vegetarian and vegan team members.

Held role of Operations Planner for the TPU business unit (tradenames Texin & Desmopan). This included managing and improving very complex & high-profile supply chains across multiple regions. The business environment dictated many make-to-order expedites, but I still managed to plan and help execute four record-production months. I pushed our planning from spreadsheets into the SAP R/3 environment. I collaborated with business unit and inter-regional planning for our monthly S&OP process, which included an excellent effort to significantly reduce DSMI. After we decided to go away from APO software for RCCP, I created an excel tool for rough-cut planning, based on Business Warehouse reports.

Customer-facing process expert for Polyurethanes customers:Insulation - Trailers, RVs, Refrigerators, Ice Cream TrucksAutomotive - IPs, Doors, Armrests, Tonneaus, Cavity-filling, Sound absorptionHigh-pressureLow-pressure froth3rd stream BARigidSemi-Rigid

Coaching HS girls lacrosse at South Fayette as a volunteer goalie coach.2022 is my 20th year volunteering as a lacrosse coach, and I am motivated to help our goalie tandem exceed the excellent 2021 results, which included a sophomore all-WPIAL awardee and a 55% save percentage.Started as a volunteer assistant at Franklin Regional with both the HS and Youth programs after completing spring semesters at college, and developed into an experienced head coach.Held varsity head coach position with the FR Panthers in 2006-2007 with playoff appearances both seasons and a #6 state-wide ranking. I was fortunate to lead a wonderful group of young men who I had the pleasure of coaching for 6+ seasons.Moved to the South Hills and led Canon-McMillan into WPIAL-sanctioned play in 2008-2009. Worked closely with the AD and championed facilities requests for the stadium, weight room, locker room, and video analysis for the boys HS lacrosse team.

Worked for Dr. Alan Cutler in the Chemistry Department as a student researcher in the field of organic chemistry catalysis. Learned GC and NMR analysis from talented PhD students and post-doc researchers, as well as managing a lab space. Revamped lab experiments for Chemistry 1.