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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Plainfield, Illinois

• Demonstrated strong leadership and quick decision making skills to motivate team of 14 manufacturing professionals
• Worked cross-functionally with Quality, Processing, Engineering, and the Warehouse to achieve established deliverables
• Drove DMAIC project to reduce downtime on Rinser using data collection, strategic maintenance, and process improvements
• Sent out daily reports to effectively communicate major watchouts on each line to the salary team
• Anticipated major risks to production and mitigate with quick decision making skills regularly

Columbus, Ohio

• Efficiently managed 3 Can Lines and 1 Keg Line in a high pressure environment to hit specific line efficiency, quality, and process loss targets
• Motivated 3-4 operators per each Can Line and 4 on the Keg Line to take ownership of their equipment
• Drove root cause analysis to help solve reoccurring problems on the floor with 5 Whys, abnormality reports, and PDCAs
• Strategically collaborated with Mechanics and Electricians to quickly troubleshoot production, safety, and quality issueson the floor and develop long term solutions when possible
• Methodically put safety first by performing regular risk assessments on overall environment and employee behavior
• Worked closely with Quality Analysts to ensure only the highest quality beer is produced and packaged

Greater St. Louis Area

• Explored different facets of supply including warehouse logistics warehouse, logistics planning, quality, brewing, safety,and operations
• Participated in a PDCA project with Brewing Department to reduce downtime on the production floor when packaging Chelada and presented to senior leadership

South Bend, Indiana

• Communicated with tenants regularly to make sure they were up to date on policies, insurance, and facility maintenance
• Generated interest and recruited future residents through phone calls, email, social media, and personal tours
• Served as an emergency contact within the community for lockouts and for several power outages

• Instrumental to the External Relations team working to foster relationships with the student body and with the surrounding community
• Provided pivotal support in this first year of transition from the Phone Center to NDlistens and encouraged deeper culture change in the organization
• Coached callers on best practices in interacting with alumni, parents of students, and friends of the university
• Supplied additional information, answered specific questions, and engaged in conversation with individuals who call in seeking help

Stinson-Remick Hall

• Responsible for cold calling alumni, parents, and friends of the university to build rapport and to maintain those external relationships
• Employed sales strategy techniques and soft skills to raise funds for the University and often experience recovery from rejection
• Enhanced social skills, reading the conversation to fuel excitement towards making a donation or to address concerns and complaints
• Regularly achieved incentives put forth by management

Chicago Heights, IL

• Implemented IPT testing to decrease product loss and reduce cost of $150,000 in wasted raw material
• Trained 20 employees on updated laboratory instrumentation to improve QA repeatability and accuracy
• Determined source of mold contamination, compiled humidity data, and proposed four potential solutions to mitigate it
• Presented findings to room of all salaried staff

Woodridge, IL

• Researched the work being done by drug discovery companies concentrated in the Cambridge and San Francisco areas
• Used company resources to create a database in Google Sheets of drug discovery startups to be used by the sales team for cold calls
• Presented the database to company executives and engaged in sales strategy conversation
• Created an extensive map of companies and their contact information in the concentrated areas to be used for planning business trips

Downers Grove, IL

• Effectively multitasked, stayed calm, and worked efficiently while in a high pressure, fast environment
• Succeeded relying a strong team to achieve fast and friendly service

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Activities and Societies: Hall President of Welsh Family Hall, Chem-E Car Team, AIChE, Baraka Bouts

Notre Dame Chemical Engineering Study Abroad Program, Chemical Engineering

Pilot Plant Team Member •Worked within an organization at the forefront of gas absorption and carbon capture technology •Followed a P&ID.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Student Government, National Honor Society, Model UNHigh Honors Student, Treasurer of Student Government 2014.