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Greater Milwaukee Area

Managing the process for acquiring, developing, and supporting the design of forecast to plan for Project Unity including Sales and Operations Planning, Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning• Completed enterprise HLD (high level design) for the Forecast to Plan Components * Business Unit Workshop Facilitation and Lead * Requirements gathering * Business Process Design documentation• Completed DD (detailed design) based on high level design decisions * Business Unit Workshop Facilitation and Lead * Business Process Design Documentation Updates * ARIS process model development

Richmond, Virginia Area

Provided leadership, governance and administration of master data for materials and related data elements in SAP ECC produced and sold. Oversaw direct reports including 3-master data coordinators with indirect responsibility for 6 mill / converting master data coordinators.• Improved material master data accuracy over 95% by employing governance procedures and quality focus.• Measured and improved forecast accuracy by grade family to 85% by utilizing best fit analysis.• Created high-level and detailed demand plans for 3 paperboard mills, resulting in operational efficiencies. • Implemented and utilized SAP ECC and APO including DP, SNP, GATP and PP/DS components, sun-setting legacy applications.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Managed demand planning, capacity planning and master production scheduling functions for 2-paperboard mills. Led direct reports including 2-capacity planning managers and 1-demand planning supervisor. • Created, led and participated in division sales and operations planning process, leading to balance between production and sales with inventory. • Created Perfect Order Index (POI) metric and led improvement project, enabling outside-in view of customer service. • Oversaw block schedule creation and schedule adherence, resulting in 90% on time delivery to customers.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Led and consulted with all MeadWestvaco divisions on processes, strategies and tactics. Engaged in warehouse layout and design, transportation analysis, master production scheduling, forecasting and planning, inventory control, and process mapping.• Completed warehouse layout for chemical plant, creating efficiency for put away and picking.• Developed local dray analysis, resulting in 50% reduction in carriers.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Served as project lead for interfacing module of Advanced Planning and Optimizer (APO) SAP R/3 with IBM Trim optimization and training lead for IPS. • Completed 13 successful SAP implementations, resulting in 1 systems platform for organization.

Menasha, Wi

Various mill and management positions including:General MillProduction ControlFinishing SupervisorMPII Coordinator Manager, Forecasting and Scheduling