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Huntington, New York, Us

Directing Quality Laboratory, Audits, and Regulatory compliance in a paper tissue converting facilitys.

Austin, Tx, Us

Developing coding skills I have wanted to improve and enhance. I will be capable of Full Stack Development and expanding from there. I enjoy new and creative projects and will add other languages, AI and robotics as my interest drives me.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Development of sticky linerless labels and receipts. Establishing new specifications and testing protocols. with growing line of products. Expanding markets and products in each category applying new technology and materials to meet customer needs and allowing them to improve efficiency. Maintaining regulatory records, third party testing, and SDSs for the company.

Kingsey Falls, Québec, Ca

Orchids Tissue Paper was acquired July 1, 2019 by Cascades Paper, and the deal closed in Sept 2019. Restructuring is still occurring as of January at this location.

Kingsey Falls, Québec, Ca

Developed new tissue products for major customers on QRT tissue machine worth $8M.• Applied new specifications for startup mill and establishing goals specific to the machine limitations.• Captured and remediated issues on tissue machine by developing quality program designed around PARCView, and machine manufacturer’s software.• Established fiber sourcing and screening of attributes to develop wider range of products and increase margin.• Evaluated tissue machine process to fully utilize, and troubleshoot issues from poor design, and processes.• Utilized outside laboratories to test and evaluate paths forward for products, or capital upgrades to tissue machine.• Developed better communication path between converting and tissue machine to develop and improve quality from tissue machine and converting.• Performed inventory evaluation to determine what products were moving verses sales predictions, and to develop better first-in-first-out (FIFO) utilization.• Directed customer discussions for immediate technical feedback and product development to better fulfill their needs immediately or developing as improving products and learning machine.Company Sold Replaced Management

Vienna, At

Stand in mill site manager at a union facility. Managed quality team of 4 with added responsibility of daily direction with production team of 28, and 16 in shipping and receiving. • Identified $800,000 in potential savings with a few modifications to processes in the first month.• Evaluated current line of products and continue to recommend improvements for value added qualities.• Monitored quality daily, analyzed, and made recommendations of roll disposition. • Specified changes based upon accumulated data relating to process variations and improvements.• Improved quality program with reduction of customer claims by 75% without capital improvements. • Realized $250K USD in additional revenue through sales of paper not meeting characteristics of normal production.Paper Mill Sold

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Directed research and technical service with corporate clients and consultants around the world.Projects with unusual source materials for papermaking and identifying unique properties.• Increased client list and surpassed historical revenue of technical service by 20%, with less staff. • Increased strength or surface properties by quality testing to determine ideal raw materials, or manufacturing changes. • Managed budget, marketed, quoted, and, sold services. • Trained students for future careers and provided safety training.• Research involving, various paper making chemistries on pilot machines, raw materials for sustainability in paper making and some extrusion work.

Richmond, Va, Us

Individual contributor to laboratory projects to develop novel products for recycled materials, cup stock and folding boxboard in a international project. This was designed to evaluate the viability and direction of a greenfield mill and options for the desired product for that location for the company. • Developed new products or processes for the paper and plastics industry. Innovating and researching new avenues to employ packaging for consumers. Work involved finding innovative ideas to supply upcoming markets and technologies with those ideas. • Involvement with various customers and manufacturing locations to scale up products or obtain capital to develop new manufacturing facilities. • Evaluated emerging markets to incorporate, or develop products to fulfill new needs not met or penetrating new markets.• Innovative research involving areas of the paper industry from the refining and pulping in wet end to strength properties in converting.

Paper Science And Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Operations Management

Continuing Education, Chemistry And Management

Full Stack Certification, Information Technology