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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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Minneapolis, Mn

Reporting to the CEO - I led strategy and execution of regulatory compliance and process standardization, as well as built programs to advance product quality. My team included 10 Minneapolis-based quality and regulatory professionals along with 3 Plant-based Quality leaders and their teams. Together we worked to deliver the product quality our customers expect while meeting food safety and regulatory requirements. I was so fortunate to have adopted a fantastic team of individuals who are smart, hard-working, supportive of one another and are sure to have fun along the way.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Reporting to the Vice President of Supply Chain Human Resources – I led five corporate and 20 plant-based Learning & Development (L&D) professionals in design and execution of learning for over 12,000 employees across North America. • Developed and delivered different types of learning to build capability of Supply Chain employees. Focus areas included: technical skills, leadership skills, employee engagement, coaching, and communications • Set L&D strategy, then led planning and execution to address needs across all sub-functions of supply chain including sourcing, logistics, manufacturing, engineering, global safety, and environment.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Reporting to the Vice President of Continuous Improvement (CI), I supported and often led the design and delivery of CI training for more than 10,000 plant-based employees and nearly 3,000 corporate employees. The CI initiative returned several million dollars in productivity and increased operating capacity. • Implemented organizational design processes and actions strategically planned to drive CI culture change.• Developed and Implemented Mastery concept and infrastructure to support its execution.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead the manufacturing training leaders in developing learning for their plant locations.• Grew the training organization from six training professionals to having a training professional in nearly every facility. • Pioneered the distance learning program. We used a creative “loan to own” program to get the program off the ground and created the infrastructure to execute training.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

In this position I had the opportunity to merge the Pillsbury and General Mills Quality teams for the Flour division. We established team and individual accountabilities utilizing skills and passions of each quality manger to ensure a smooth transition of General Mills as a supplier to newly acquired Pillsbury plant locations.• Executed Quality College integrating legacy General Mills employees with legacy Pillsbury employees.• Recommended steps to bridge identified gaps thus successfully bringing these two organizations together.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Reporting to the Plant Manager at the largest flour mill in the country, I managed a $2MM budget and four quality professionals. • Changed the scope of accountability for the quality team. Increased their ownership in resolving issues. Eliminated unnecessary analyses. Brought in new technologies. Built a quality lab on the operations floor.

West Chicago, Il

Reporting to the plant Quality Manager I supported all West Chicago cereal manufacturing quality and regulatory needs: Implemented procedures to ensure product safety and quality; directed responsibilities of our team of seven quality professionals.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Reporting to the Director of Quality for Big G products, I managed Cheerios Business Unit product quality by understanding consumer preferences, establishing appropriate attribute requirements and managing the quality measurements for these cereals.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Established and implemented a design and testing program to ensure delivery of premiums that were safe and performed as expected.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human Resource Development

Master'S Degree, Chemistry

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry