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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Led development of new product innovation for ecommerce, DTC and external supply chain across all major brands.• Launched new team of logistics planners, project managers, external supply chain managers and developed new cross functional relationships.• Streamlined existing business strategies and led new corporate initiative to improve project management tools, timelines and processes. • PEAK new project management, reporting directly to senior leadership.• Managing external supply chain sites, developing kpi’s and onboarding new external manufacturing partners.

Murfreesboro, Tn

Operations Manager• Drive safe culture through daily safety conversations with operators and Line Lead Teams, daily human and food safety risk planning, and completion of safety work orders and safety observations• Lead daily operations of 120 salaried and wage employees safely producing over 200,000 cases of product over seven production lines with an annual $60 million budget• Directly manage and develop 3 salaried Managers and 1 Line team (Line Lead, Process Lead and Maintenance Lead) through candid daily coaching, bi-weekly individual meetings, and annual performance appraisals• Serve as Department Safety Improvement Coach for corporate safety initiatives and ergonomic improvement projects• Execute culture change by building capability of production teams through trust based coaching and initiatives such as Shiftly Direction Setting• Lead point of contact for Yoplait facility with corporate business to team to develop and deliver supply chain initiatives like rate strategy and product formulations

Murfreesboro, Tn

-Operations Project Lead, created and managing budget of 500m+-Developed Start-up plan, project deliverable's, training plans, milestone dates, financial tracking health checks, and predictive and preventative maintenance. -Leading Factory Acceptance Testing to verify all steps meet continuous improvement goals.-Review and set project scope, equipment selection and system layouts.-Developed training for production department, mechanics and training leads. Created sanitation standards and changeover matrix.-Weekly review of project status with communication to project team, department and key business stake holders.

Murfreesboro, Tn / Lodi, Ca

-Lead team of 5 salary resources (processing/ packaging, operations supervisors and maintenance lead) and 45 wage employees -Design, implement, and sustain a system of reliability technology and continuous improvement on a production system (processing and 3 packaging lines). Tools implemented include: 5S, Total Preventative Maintenance, Process Centerlines, Clean-Inspect-Lubricate, Defect Handling, Daily Direction Setting, Standard Operating Procedures-Increased line reliability by 14% and production throughput by 30%+ in 10 month period-Executed several new packaging material, processing ingredients and size change tests, driving large cost savings for the corporation-Created and implemented proactive trigger audits (KPI’s) to identify and prevent human safety and food safety incidents before they occur-Created training and assessments to increase employee’s technical and troubleshooting capabilities

-Lead team of 10 operations reports.-Managed scheduling, overtime, team disputes/ coachings, and daily job tasks.-Increased productivity by structured break procedure. Met goal of 20% reduction in manpower from schedule adjustment.

Sacramento, California

Assisted project managers with State owned properties.Updated building materials to meet new Energy Efficiency standards.Drafted plans (autoCAD) for various state owned building projects.