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Lead MarCom, Product Management and Strategic Marketing teams for the Horticulture Business unit, ensuring effective employee engagement, strategic leadership and Business unit growth.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Lead Global Vantage™ Food business unit, managing global P&L, ensuring effective employee engagement and strategic leadership.
• Accomplished top- and bottom-line growth with 50% improvement in EBITDA on a $160M P&L.
• Implemented new strategic planning process, producing updated strategy and 3-year plan.
• Boosted employee engagement across 100 person global business unit, increasing Annual Engagement scores over 100%.
• Improved customer experience and sales execution by… Show more Lead Global Vantage™ Food business unit, managing global P&L, ensuring effective employee engagement and strategic leadership.
• Improved customer experience and sales execution by reorganizing and talent development of Food Commercial team. Show less

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Oversaw team to ensure portfolio of products achieved sustainable commercial growth.
• Achieved 50% improvement to EBITDA on $130M P&L by accelerating value creation through enhanced product management processes. Led Product Management while directly managing other functions.
• Interim Customer Care manager Nov 2020 - Nov 2021 and Quality Director Sept ’21 Jan ’22 completed departmental reorganization and transition group to reporting structure.
• Interim Business Unit Leader Feb ’22… Show more Oversaw team to ensure portfolio of products achieved sustainable commercial growth.
• Interim Business Unit Leader Feb ’22 May ‘22 drove closure of talent gaps in Food organization and supported C-suite with restructuring while managing BU. Show less

Pittsburgh, PA

• Managed large portfolio of products and global P&Ls to drive revenue and profitability growth on $250M annual revenue business.
• Achieved financial results of 40% improvement to EBITDA by driving bottom-line growth through improved asset utilization, novel commercial strategies, market management and supply chain strategies.
• Attained a sustained 50% price improvement by implementing new Bromine sales and supply strategies in Asia Pacific region.
• Completed CapEx growth strategies… Show more Managed large portfolio of products and global P&Ls to drive revenue and profitability growth on $250M annual revenue business.
• Completed CapEx growth strategies for Bromine and Brominated derivatives, including $75M expansion of Bromine infrastructure and $15M in Bromine ISO assets.
• Instituted new North American logistics strategy, resulting in best-in-class service levels while reducing annual spend over $1M for Oil Field products. Show less

Middlebury, CT

• Accountable for relationship management and performance of Industrial Performance Products division.
• Drove value creation in $170M divisional strategic alliance portfolio through commercial, operational and technical excellence projects.
• Improved supply-side co-manufacturing agreements from breakeven to over 16% gross profit margin in less than 1 year.
• Created key agreements for $1B M&A transaction ensuring post divestiture performance of Agrochemical business.

East Hartford

• Managed engineering projects and process performance for Polycrete and Mixed Aggregate product lines. Led CapEx projects from Financial justification through implementation, managing continuous improvement.
• Increased capacity in Mixed Aggregate 50% and Hardener cells 20% by implementing process improvements.
• Reduced turnaround time on complaints over 60% and warranty claims over 20% by delivering new Quality Complaint System and Supplier Qualification Program and serving as plant Lean… Show more Managed engineering.
• Reduced turnaround time on complaints over 60% and warranty claims over 20% by delivering new Quality Complaint System and Supplier Qualification Program and serving as plant Lean Six Sigma expert. Show less

South Windsor, CT

• Responsibility for market development of the Hydrogen Generation and Transportation market segments within or adjacent to the fuel cell industryKey Accomplishments
• Development and implementation of Strategic Planning Process
• Development and implementation Black Hat Initiative (competitive intelligence gathering and planning process)

• IPD Team LeadManage Molded Components and Fuel Processing System (FPS) Integrated Product Development (IPD) teams with overall responsibility for the design, development, verification, validation, and delivery of key.
• Took over FPS IPD team after Q1 which had a 100% over run and ended the year on budget and with all key objectives complete
• Molded Component IPD team consistently delivered on their key… Show more IPD Team LeadManage Molded Components and Fuel Processing System (FPS) Integrated Product Development (IPD) teams with overall responsibility for.
• Molded Component IPD team consistently delivered on their key objectives on target and on budget every year while I was team lead Show less

• Manage tailgate operations transition
• Lead transition of manufacturing processes to outside supplier from supplier selection through FAI
• Achieved $5 million annual savings from activityManage development and implementation of an electrodes rapid prototyping lab
• Budgetary responsibility of $0.6 million capital project
• Manage project to successful completion by target online date

Overall responsibility for operations development and operation of production manufacturing cell for Molded Components. I was responsible for all capital and labor in the cell as well as ongoing continuous improvement activities. In addition to day to day activities, I was the ACE pilot responsible for continuous improvement activities across the plant and.

Conducted metallurgical evaluations on Turbine parts (high pressure and/or high temperature stage) to determine compliance with internal quality requirement. Additionally, lead several continuous improvement projects in the department, including training and implementation of a new EDM cutting machine.

Mba, Strategic Management

Ms, Finance

Ms, Engineer Science: Applied Statistics

Bs, Chemical Engineering