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• Lead and manage new product development process for industrial mineral wool insulation products• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure Owens Corning delivers the best possible products to market• Foster the relationship between customers and Owens Corning

• Collaborate, influence, inspire and energize others to understand and frame opportunities. • Work with cross-functional, diverse teams that deliver outstanding work on mission-critical objectives.• Display a dynamic leadership capability with an aptitude that ranges from critical thinking to manually driving results.Past projects include: • Create independent and market driven strategy for Owens Corning to enter the low temperature mechanical insulation industry • Accelerate go-to-market efforts with glass fiber reinforced polymer reinforcing bar (GFRP) in different infrastructure sectors, in both the United States and abroad• Understand application specific needs for geomembranes in the mining sector, segment the market, target correct applications, and position geomembrane products to win in the industry through short-term and long-term strategies

• Work with Core Components of SAP including Material Management, Material Availability, Inventory Control, and Forecasting. • Deployment of global SAP ECC Upgrades• Blueprint, Create Specs, Test and Implement new functionality in SAP Systems• Create Demand Segmentation and Safety Stock Reporting ToolsImplement Demand Sensing and Inventory Optimization Systems

Optimized Demand Planning Processes and Deployed SAP implementations * Creation of Functional Specifications for BI extracts into a SQL Server to a user front end* On-site assistance for a plant SAP Transition* Blueprinting sessions with international teams to outline new processes for SAP developmentDeveloped Web Applications while part of an Agile Team* Back and Front End Development with Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap* Installation & Implementation of Google Search Appliance* Front End Development of Static Web Pages* Daily huddles with international teams* Use of Vagrant and other standardized tools for developmentLearned Best Information Systems Security Practices for a Manufacturing Company* Deployed a Global Update of Java from SE6 to SE8* Evaluated and Implemented Secure File Sharing Tools* Extracted IIS Logs from Web Servers and Imported into Splunk for Analysis* Used code-analysis tools to secure Ruby on Rails applications* Completed SANS Security Essentials Bootcamp Style course (SEC401)