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Responsible for growing innovation competency across the enterprise through improvements to processes, skills and culture.• Executed cadence of crowd-sourced idea challenges across global enterprise that doubled idea productivity and increased participation rates. Honored with highest award granted to an associate for outstanding contributions (only 7 recipients among 6,000+ employees).• Increased collaboration among R&D associates that cut-across business units and regions through coordination of the first biennial Global Innovation Summit. Facilitated ongoing community building among the fledgling 5 global technology platform teams that were inaugurated at the Summit.• Defined a curriculum of 18 classes for Innovation/R&D training of global associates and developed customized course offerings on Stage Gate, Intellectual Property, Voice of Customer, Design of Experiments, Project Management, and Injection Molding. Fulfilled vision of R&D Green Belt that had languished for 10 years.

Akron, Oh, Us

NSF I-Corps Sites program. Prepare scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory by translating technology into commercial products. Guide team through the customer development process using the business model canvass and other training materials from Steve Blanks Lean LaunchPad curriculum (learn fast, learn often, learn cheap). Technology opportunity is in the ophthalmic medical treatment space.

Akron, Oh, Us

External partnering and technology development to feed the Innovation Incubator Team and deliver new revenue streams through product and service innovation.• Advanced state-of-the-art in non-traditional, anti-microbial technology leading to spinout of new company based on emerging field of plasma medicine (a company first).• Led platform team through technology roadmapping process for non-chemical skin disinfection. Team outputs and methods set the standard for 6 other technology platform teams to model.• Discovered source of contamination in surgical preparation market and conceived solution which enables entry of $100M+potential market. Refocused technical team to exploit opportunity beginning December 2012.

Franchise owner of FocalPoint Business Coaching, affiliated with Brian Tracy; served executive coaching needs of CEO’s and owners of small businesses. Responsible for all aspects of business including P&L, marketing, sales and service delivery to clients.• Achieved profitability by year 2 through mastery of network-based marketing and client retention.• Created strategic business and marketing plans to drive top line growth working one-on-one with over 10 CEO’s of small business enterprises across varied industries.• Developed proficiency in marketing and sales through mastery of proprietary training materials, one-on-one teaching and observation of client results after putting principles into practice.• Coached renewable energy start-up during business plan competition at University of North Carolina including perfecting elevator pitch and prepping for investor Q&A, leading to first place award.

Irving, Tx, Us

Leader of two Product Development teams in wipes category responsible for commercialization of new-to-world product and maximizing growth and profitability of core products. Owner of stage-gate and portfolio management processes for Family Care business unit.• Led team that designed and commercialized new-to-world product Cottonelle® Rollwipes. Promoted as “biggest innovation in a century” in the product category. Utilized consumer research tools to optimize consumer acceptance and achieve $200M annual sales projections in volumetric testing. • Designed and implemented proprietary stage-gate business process that achieved 35% increase in product launches for Family Care Business Unit within one year of implementation.• Pioneered implementation of Portfolio Management process for R&D projects across all company Business Units and achieved cycle time reductions of 25 -50% on development projects.• Led wipes lifecycle maximization team and expanded contract manufacturing capabilities to overcome in-house capacity constraints while containing costs and improving quality.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsibilities focused on manufacturing process improvement for both quality and cost benefits.• Appointed to Innovation Council because of reputation for idea generation; trained division on Creative Problem Solving (CPS) techniques and facilitated numerous CPS sessions.• Initiated and implemented process to create pipeline of cost-saving ideas for barbecue sauce category. Personally credited with implementing $5M annual savings. • Resolved major quality issue that jeopardized $200M barbecue sauce business. Overcame finger-pointing among functions; achieved successful, coordinated response utilizing business damage control, root-cause diagnosis, and robust solution implementation.• Led joint R&D and Operations quality improvement program exceeding goals, where prior programs failed. Eliminated competitive disadvantage vs. key competitor on salad dressing product texture.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Upstream technology development for Packaged Soap & Detergents Division.• Developed patented fabric softener technology with team; saved $3M annually and delivered improved product performance recognized by consumers.• Discovered unique chemical behavior of fabric softener system and exploited phenomenon to improve product stability by inventing novel processing technique.• Changed economics on liquid detergent project from impractical to attractive by developing processing alternative that avoided capital investment.

Ms, Chemical Engineering

Bs, Chemical Engineering