Jon A. Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Atlanta, Georgia

• Lead annual and long-term planning process for Bodyarmor/Powerade, developing company volume and revenue growth targets from channel and customer level volume and price package plans to achieve category share growth.
• Create insights tools for category and competitive pricing to identify gaps in the market or to our pricing strategy.
• Own financial performance management to identify volume, rate, and mix drivers and areas of risks/opportunity.
• Create Trade Promotion Optimization routine with scorecard views for retailer, bottler/wholesaler, and company.
• RGM lead for innovation (price architecture, competitive landscape, package evolution)

Boston, Massachusetts

• Designed overall beverage price architecture for company portfolio (40+ brands ranging from Drinkworks branded to spirits partnered brands), created from spirits and cocktail price benchmarks and internal beverage.
• Directed and implemented beverage pricing during multiple new state and wholesaler expansions, including determining state price groups within the US.
• Owner of sales performance, with creation of dashboards and analysis tools for sales and cross functional teams.
• Price promotion schedule lead for appliance and beverages during critical holiday timeframes, based on analysis of past promotion effectiveness and company budget/promotion spend.

New York, New York

• National promotion efficiency lead by developing tools and routines to identify ineffective discount promotions, and training region teams in order to optimize the discount budget.
• Managed promotion spend innovations that integrate a machine learning platform to continuously identify ROI of investments and redistribute spend to more effective promotions.
• Led US Revenue Management financial reporting, including identification of volume, rate, and mix drivers, reporting on commercial performance, and reporting of key metrics for global and US focus brands.
• Generated user friendly financial dashboards to increase visibility of top line and promotion spend for senior management and field teams.
• Developed and implemented discount promotion programs, from working with region teams to apply a national strategy at the localized level to analyzing implementation and performance through the three-tiered system.

San Francisco, California

• Reliability Engineer for the Hydroprocessing Refinery Unit (June 2015-June 2016)
• Reliability Engineer for Blending & Shipping, Utilities & Environmental Refinery Units (January 2014-May 2015)

Richmond, VA

• Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance (MIQA) lead for the Tyvek® business.
• Team lead in evaluating/developing appropriate maintenance plan strategies for all PSM critical equipment in the area.
• Reliability participant in 1st and 2nd party Tyvek® PSM audits for MI/QA elements.
• Completed Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) in Tyvek®.
• Utilized reliability engineering principles for bad actor investigations to determine mean time between failure (MTBF), maintenance cost, life cycle cost of equipment, etc.
• Machinery Lubrication Analyst (MLA) Level 1 certified; Vibration training certified

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Achieved Six Sigma Black Belt certification within 20 months in the role. Overall project financial savings greater than $7.7MM.
• Decreased asset downtime due to waiting on product from an off site warehouse. Developed a supermarket at the onsite warehouse to alleviate downtime when upsets in upstream processes occur.
• Introduced a “Pit Stop” approach to a routine cleanup shutdown for an asset to decrease downtime through efficient planning and communication. Improved coordination of maintenance work into shutdown based on.
• Analyzed sheet profile on spin lines in order to optimize yield through understanding the most important parameters in the process. Completed comparison between online control systems.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Led quality tests on multiple elastomer roll coatings to be used in the Tyvek® manufacturing process.
• Wrote and conducted tests as a member of the Bonding process workstream.
• Completed daily bonder quality segregation checks and searched to find causes of segregations to lower losses.
• Analyzed the Bonding steam system for improvement opportunities to help different styles of Tyvek® run smoothly and reduce quality segregations.
• Installed and monitored troubleshooting cameras on the bonder to investigate downtime reasons.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Mechanically designed a bracket to run tests in an experimental facility.
• Conducted bacterial challenge experiments on various styles of Tyvek® and leading competitors.
• Designed and ran a DOE with multiple styles of Tyvek® under varying conditions on a pilot bonding line.