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Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Purchase, lease out and manage commercial real-estate

1212 Heritage Links Dr, Wake Forest, Nc 27587, Usa

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Oversee 140 employees in production from reception of bulk product to finished goods, warehouse management, logistics, and order procurement and handling for supply chain facilities in Nebraska, North Carolina, Brazil, and Canada, and warehouse and re-tapping facility in Mexico. Coordinate demand and capacity planning, master scheduling, and integrated business planning, as well as product range and inventory management. Provide issue resolution and site management support for over 500 employees in research, sales, customer solutions, marketing, production, quality control, and supply chain planning for North Carolina facility. Lead 45% of supply chain sales, and warehousing, logistics, and procurement.Major Contributions:• Secured over 20% continuous growth through product range flexibility and market response times in Brazil.• Initialized lean, high volume production startup in Nebraska.• Saved $2M with capacity and product range expansion in North Carolina.• Increased revenue by eliminating redundant inventory through strategic process and data analysis.• Cut product complexity by 40% in relation to revenue streams.• Reduced yearly scrap costs by $4M.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Managed 15 employees in supply chain design and product development, demand planning, product range management, and global capacity expansion. Conducted market strategy and supply chain specification compliance, as well as phase in and phase out plans.Major Contributions:• Established new department for product range management and process handling.• Reorganized supply chain management for clearer focus and order efficiency.• Increased forecast accuracy 80% with streamlined communications and collaboration in sales and regional demand planning.• Devised annual strategic process for long-term market needs assessment through capacity expansion and network optimization strategies.• Commended for strong leadership and superior results.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Evaluated production economy and supervised new product introductions, development, and optimization. Completed troubleshooting and issue resolution for 8 product groups.Major Contributions:• Saved $40M with capacity optimization project.• Streamlined industry processes and performance with strategic communication plans.• Headed production move of high quality product to toll manufacturing.

Tianjin City, China

Supervised 16 employees in production optimization and follow-up, troubleshooting, granulation, and waste treatment for 2 factories.Major Contributions:• Secured $8M through annual process improvements and optimization.• Cultivated production factories into best performing facilities in company, with 11 out of 16 benchmark products named best in global benchmark.• Built 6 managers through performance evaluations and coaching, focusing on interpersonal skills and network building.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Directed 155 employees in 2 production factories. Conducted production, maintenance, scheduling, quality compliance, and optimization.Major Contributions:• Boosted strong teamwork and collaboration, as well as efficiency and production, through organizational changes and strategic team building.• Increased productivity by 40% and attained $2M yearly through continuous improvements.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

I managed process engineers ensuring efficient production execution, handling deviation, trouble shooting, optimization and technology development. I had 5 engineers in my team.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

I was responsible for a product family ensuring efficient execution, optimization and technology development.• Took initiative and carried out a big raw material substitution which resulted in a 10% yield improvement and a cost saving of $3-4M per year• Developed a dynamic model combined with statistical tools which halved production outside specifications

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

I did research of new products towards the paper industry, responsible from development in the laboratory to full scale and trial at customers’ paper machines. I was responsible for R&D collaboration for two of Faxe Kalk’s biggest customers. • On the start up team for three new production facilities• Developed a whole new production family

Cscp, Supply Chain

Activities and Societies: The Association for Operations Management http://www.apics.org/default.htm

Msc, Chemistry