Full P&L responsibility for a biofuel production facility with revenues over $150M/year.

Responsibilities• Manage all aspects of 59-million gallon/year ethanol plant operation, safety, environmental compliance, product quality• Responsible for operational P&L results• Develop annual business plans and long-term capital strategies• Provide guidance to Controller in development and review of operational and cash flow forecasts• Interface with Board of Directors and shareholders• Community relations interface – plant tours and off-site presentations with federal/state/local legislators, business groups, media, school groups, Corn Growers, othersAccomplishments• Achieved 12-years of no lost time accidents, and three consecutive years without an OSHA Recordable• Managed, developed, and/or implemented $22M+ in capital improvements resulting in $7.2M+ in repeatable net income improvements• Promoted and advanced POET culture across team • Accomplished greater than 90% scorecard rating six-years in a row• Received POET’s Top Performer award for Operations for 2013, and Overall Performer for 2014• Fostered and developed culture of managing safety, problem solving/implementation, and environmental protection and compliance• Facilitated development of leadership and management skills in reports and across teams

Responsibilities• Promoted constant improvement with the goal to safely reduce costs while meeting our customers’ needs• Responsible for reconciling WIP and finished goods physical inventories to SAP inventories. Expected to maintain budgeted or favorable variable usages on raw materials and utilities• Provided direction for process to cross-functional partners, shift supervision, and operating team. This included setting priorities within process, and working with other process areas to balance priorities for the benefit of the site• Responsible for scheduling product campaigns and rates, ensuring raw material inventories were at appropriate levels• Worked with the production to set budget, forecast spending, and generate monthly financial performanceAccomplishments• Eliminated plant annual outage while still achieving all PSM required inspections and increasing planned OST. Developed and implemented strategy to utilize plant capacity to create monthly mini-outages. Then planned a work schedule that level-loaded all outage work. Success resulted in reducing site workload during the site’s annual outage, and creating a more disciplined approach to process start-ups and shutdowns• Participated in the Disciplinary Action Review Committee to ensure consistent and fair discipline was rendered across site• Increased recoveries of a crystallization project from 25% to 50% while maintaining cycle times. This was done consistently by sub-cooling the mixture and minimizing the temperature gradient across the jacket• Assisted chemists in a batch reaction optimization pilot project, resulting in a 1.0% yield increase.