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Cypress Bend, Arkansas

Selected to fill newly created position of Safety Manager at Clearwater Cypress Bend. Duties and responsibilites include overall responsibility of safety program at site. Work closely with other managers to maintain safety as a core responsibility and to ensure integration into all job functions and tasks within the mill.

Cypress Bend, Arkansas

Assumed responsibility for safety program management while working under closely with the Human Relations Department. Duties included ensuring regulatory compliance, training development and oversight, leading audits, communicating with floor employees.

Cypress Bend, Arkansas

Served as staff, advisor and resource to mill leadership in areas of mill strategies, mill assessment, training and communication. Coordinated all safety activities for site, furnishing guidance, research and administrattion service to assist in maintaining an effective safety program. Facilitated team training with the site departmental managers to develop that group into a more resourceful team.

Cypress Bend, Arkansaas

Led the Vision Incentive at Cypress Bend. Served in this capacity to promote the defined values of the company at the site level. Value, Integrity, Strategy, Impartiality, Opportunity, Natural Resources.

Cypress Bend, Arkansas

Selected as one of four employees millwide to enter a salary position that included learning each department's process and to fill supervisor vacanies as need throughout the mill. Worked primarily in the Pulp and Utilities Areas during this time. Assigned to a permanent shift supervisor position after approximately 1 1/2 years of managing millwide.

Cypress Bend, Arkansas

Entered Utilities Deparment at entry level Utility position. Worked upward through the line of progression to mid level. Duties included operating the Recovery Boiler and Evaporators and operating the Water and Waste Treatment Facilities and Equipment. Additionally worked the B Operator Job which included managing the Auxillaries Equipment, Boiler Water Treatment and operating a PFI (pressurized furnace for industry).

Cypress Bend, Arkansas

Various jobs in mill including working in Pulp Mill Area as an Equipment Operator distributing chips to the digesters driving a RaygoWagner Chip Dozer.

Bachelor'S Degree, Health / Education Major; Biology Minor, Bachelor Of Science Degree

Activities and Societies: University of Arkansas/Monticello Football (2 years) Phi Lamba Chi Fraternity

High School, College Prep

Activities and Societies: Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Senior Class President, High School Football Team Captain, Yearbook Editor