John D. Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Regional manager and senior project engineer overseeing engineering and capital activities for three (3) of Pilgrim's plants in: Broadway, VA, Douglas GA, and Russellville AL. This includes: fresh poultry, protein, and hatcheries of each plant,#Regional Engineering Manager, #Capital Budgeting, #Capital Management

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Worked internationally with Cherkizovo Foods in Tula, Russia on a working conceptual design of a cook plant for ready to eat foods for the given product lines at Cherkizovo Foods. This also included an AGV system that delivered fresh pork to the cook plant. Worked with design staff to develop concept designs for cook plant to manufacture ready to eat products. Coordinated design information from equipment vendors and design staff. Presented project plans to owners via Skype and MS Teams. Project Value $500BInstrumental in the coordination design and remodeling of a plant for Wholestone Farms in Fremont, NE. Project Value: $40M• Developed the raw material handling system using a 16" auger conveyor to transport offal product to the new protein plant via a VRAM pump. Conducted coordination design meetings on process and project management issues with Wholestone Foods and internally at Epstein.#Pork Processing

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Initiated cross functional engineering leadership to corporate and plant teams on all levels including contractors and vendors. Managed projects simultaneously from design, organization, and execution • Designed and Managed the Installation of a 3-cell Fanuc palletizing system for three portion control lines with a Robotics integration company MMCI. Saved the company over 300K / year in direct labor costs Project Value: $900K• Managed the design and installation of automatic rotating filler for 2, 3 & 5 lb. tubs of margarine. Improved line capacity by 21% & potential revenues. Project Value: $800K• Initiated and managed an ammonia piping retrofit project that upgraded the production refrigeration system efficiency by 15%. Project Value: $1.08M• Managed a cooler upgrade project adding hot gas defrost system to lower cooler temperature for FSMA compliance. Project Value: $580K• Installed a new CIP sanitation system for a production line. Eliminated customer complaints of off taste product by 100%. Project Value: $125K#Capital Budgeting, #Capital Management, #Capital Planning, #Project Management, #Robotics

Georgetown, Delaware, United States

Managed materials handling conveyor projects for poultry companies nationally and locally in Delaware.

Lumber Bridge, Nc

• Managed the design and construction of a 14-bay haul facility with a truck scale and administration center Increased raw material throughput and efficiency by 30%. Reduced DOA by 20%• Designed and managed the construction of a 56,000 CFM CO2 air dilution and energy recovery HVAC system for the plants cold storage and shipping areas requiring six hundred tons of refrigeration Decreased the PPM of Co2 in the cooler by 40%. Project Value: $2,300,000• Designed bid and installed process equipment and packaging capital projects. This included packaging machines, vacuum tanks, dense phase transport, dewatering equipment. Projects ranged in value from 250K to 800K #Poultry Processing #Poultry Industry #Refrigeration #Ammonia

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• 9 year career with American Sugar Refining developing, designing and installing capital projects for ASR’s sugar refineries in North America. Projects Completed:• Ion Exchange Project – Modernized the sugar filtration process through ion exchange. Saved $250K / year. Project Value: $26M• Solar Energy Project - Installed a 36KW PV array. Project Value: $500K• AGV Project – Installed an AGV system at C&H Sugar. Through automation and man-power reduction saved ASR and C&H Sugar $535K / year. Project Value: $2M#Sugar #Foodprocessing #processengineering

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed and implemented equipment used in the storage of spent nuclear fuel for power companies.

Federalsburg, Md.

#Refrigeration #AmmoniaBuilt turn-key skid ammonia and CO2 refrigeration systems. Built screw and reciprocating compressor units. Designed and did stress calculations for ASME code pressure vessels.

Salisbury, Md

#Poultry Processing #Poultry Industry #Refrigeration #AmmoniaInstrumental in the development of PSM programs for Perdue’s fresh poultry processing plants by providing surveys of plant ammonia refrigeration systems. Field verified ammonia refrigeration systems and assisted in the development of Process Safety Management programs in all of Perdue’s fresh poultry processing plants.

Master Of Science Construction Project Mgt, Construction Management, Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Operations Management And Supervision, 3.56 Gpa

Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician

Studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Dayton's Mechanical Engineering Technology Program.