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Grant, Alabama, United States

Market Development Engineer and Consultant specializing in reusable polymer cores in sizes ranging from 3" to 18.5" with wall thicknesses up to 1". Clean, durable, dimensionally stable, and reusable of more than 100 turns, polymer cores deliver dramatic economic benefits vs. paper (fiber) cores.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Define and implement marketing strategies for the company's "DuraCore" precision 3" and 6" returnable/reusable/recyclable plastic cores. Focus is on primary flexible film producers and on flexible packaging converters along with high tech and sophisticated users of cores where cleanliness, dimensional tolerances, dimensional stability, and long term.

Kansas City/ Houston

 Returning to the Flexible Packaging industry after a brief hiatus, I joined Umax as General Manager of what was initially to be a Houston based joint venture effort to market off shore manufactured, sophisticated, flexible packaging products to the North American food industry. The company is a major foreign flexible packaging supplier to multi-national.

Sales manager for specialty contractor licensed to perform concrete lifting and stabilization utilizing a 2 component expanding polymer process.

Owned Recruiting and Contingency Search firm specializing in recruiting and placement of technical and managerial executives in the converting, plastics, and packaging industries

Built and started-up German Company's (Hueck Folien) first US manufacturing plant to produce high-end foil based flexible packaging structures. Business focus is on Pharma push-thru foil and blister backing plus Food/Dairy lidding. Top quality Rotogravure surface printing.

Managed $100 million, 300 employee manufacturing plant producing Roto and Flexo printed, Adhesive and Extrusion Laminated and coated high end flexible packaging structure for the food and pharma industries. This was the flag ship facility of Alusuisse, then becoming Lawson Mardon. Later, Alcan, and now Bemis.