• Redesigned and improved co-packed products allowing insourcing which increased net income by over $3M per year.• Designed and implemented changeover strategy at new startup eliminating 90% of changeover activity and freeing ~900 hours of capacity worth $360k annually.• Led cross functional team in creating and validating a new cleaning method for eliminating allergens from production equipment without the need to wet clean thus reducing the risk for micro contamination as well as reducing changeover time by 69%.• Initiated and executed projects to reduce capacity loading on affected work centers from 177% to 80% reducing overtime spend and order backlog.• Led Manufacturing and QA team in overcoming first production obstacles at new facility in Tamil Nadu, India with production on schedule allowing company to receive tax incentives.• Led hourly employees on Self Improvement Plan team to act as change agents for operational improvement increasing product right first time from 60% to 99+%.• Reduced quality defect rate on products utilizing flexible packaging from 20% to 0.2% in three months.• Identified and implemented improvements to labeling application reducing scrap rate by 66%.• Executed process capability studies reducing product overfill by $150k annually.

• Performed a measurement system evaluation on plastic tube crimps improving quality by reducing variations in test methods.• Developed a cost model which estimates, by country and cost driver, the hard and soft dollar savings related to changes in pallet density enabling management to evaluate the financial impact of packaging engineering, distribution, and transportation decisions.• Created an automated “Estimated Run Out” tool giving visibility to new product soft launch date by market and reducing analysis time from 8 hours to 20 minutes.• Led an international Kaizen team in reducing order processing time by 5 days for orders to China, Vietnam, and India resulting in a 4.1% reduction in safety stock.• Led team in development, testing, and validation of new programming logic and procedures for Clean in Place system resulting in a 50% reduction in sanitizing time during changeovers.

• Led team in the creation and implementation of automated budgeting and rating processes using detailed financial modeling, saving over $2 million per year.• Partnered with senior management to create and execute processes and procedures for standardizing rate management for entire enterprise. Negotiated agreement with Department of Defense allowing us to reduce number of rate decks per site from 45+ to 4 eliminating fiscal year rate variances.• Conducted an onsite audit in the UK of Royal Air Force contracts and identified process for building foreign exchange risk into budget allowing company to avoid losses due to currency fluctuations.

• Negotiated spend reductions between 5-30% by leveraging “should cost” pricing models developed during supplier audits.

• Automated variance analysis and estimate to completion processes, reducing month end closeout time from 50 hours to 3 hours while increasing transparency.• Built payment schedules for Department of Defense contracts and analyzed spending and performance variances.