Ken Mikeska Email & Phone Number

United States

Customer Service - Working in a fast-paced environment providing world-class shuttle service for guest, vendors and employees. Driving Shuttle, greeting and box office ticket agent.

Warehouse Package Handler - fast work environment pace with physical work loading and / or unloading sorted packages of various sizes and weights into large semi-trailers or box trucks. Assisted Quality Assurance team with repackaging and tracking damage boxes.

Gurnee, Illinois

Menards is a steadily growing, family-owned company started in 1960, Menards is dedicated to service and quality selling a complete selection of high-quality, name brand merchandise, tools for any job and state-of-the-art in-store computers to help guests design their special projects.business owners. As a team member in the plumbing department, responsibilities selling high-quality, name brand merchandise, tools for any job, assist guests design their special projects, manage inventory, freight, stocking & restocking shelves from mega rack system and set weekly sales.

Barrington, Illinois

Support Quaker Bio-conversion projects - Fermentation & Extrusion process. AssistFood Scientist & Engineer in laboratory, pilot plant operation, Conduct laboratoryexperiments and general laboratory activities. Set-up and assist with product tastings forproject team leaders. Perform the basic food analysis equipment, pH/TA meters, brix,water activity, moisture analyzers, viscometers and other small devices. Trained onanalytical particle size distribution (PSD). Submit samples into a data system WINLIMS, microbiology and rheology. Able to manage day to day activity and work with littlesupervision.

Glenview, Illinois

Ability to innovate new skills and techniques for new products introduction across plant operations. Strong technical expertise in food improvements & food processes. Assisted Food Scientist and Engineer in the development of new or improve product projects throughout the year (natural cheese, cream cheese, cottage cheese, Parmesan cheeses, yogurts, cultures, coffee creamer & whey protein beverage). Worked in the manufacturing cultured plant three to six times a month for two years producing culture for cheeses across the world. Expertise in the operation of filtration, fermentation, cheese making, separator, HTST, homogenization, autoclave, mixing, laboratory testing and packaging Effective team work and collaboration skills that supports new product development than greater than 20 years expertise GMP, HACCP, SOP, safety programs & sanitation practices. Innovated process improvement skills resulting in two team patents. Highly self motivated, organized and willing to learn new skills and techniques. Strong interpersonal and problem solving skills.Recognized by management and team members multiple times. Innovated process improvement skills resulting in two team patents.

Glenview, Illinois

Support Food Scientists/Engineers in developing most efficient methodology and cost saving for process cheese like Velveeta cheese, cheese whiz and singles.Able to learn, operate and conduct pilot plant trials projects on pilot plant equipment (continuous cookers, laydown cookers, blenders, mixer, pumps, shear devices and the packaging line). Comprehend engineering flow charts and executed them from start to finish. Participated in plant trials startup at the manufacturing plants across North America.Conducted benchtop testing on finished product (pH, moisture titrate acidity, viscosity and melts).

Glenview, Illinois

Played a key role on development projects throughout the years for product such as salad dressing, mayonnaise, miracle whip and barbeque sauce.Learned and developed skills on equipment for producing dressing & sauces (pentax, dispax, hydro shear & powder dispersion-semi bulk). Performed laboratory testing on finished product.

Glenview, Illinois

Coordinated and managed all laboratory test. Developed and maintained documentation of all test performed.Knowledgeable on standard testing for packaging material (ASTM & TAPPI Methods).Conduct laboratory experiments physical testing on equipment (truck & railroad testing, vibration machine, compression tester, drop testing, comparator work and other benchtop apparatus).Assist and supported permeability evaluation laboratory on DSC (differential scanning calorimeter), TGA, micro scoping films layers and water (WVIR)/oxygen carbon dioxide.

Northbrook, Il.

Learn, setup and operate equipment of injection molding, sheet line, co-extrusion, plastic forming process, blow molding, film slitting and shipper design table. Change over mold details for injection molding Managed inventory