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Louisville, Colorado, United States

• Oversee production operations, including production scheduling, inventory control, safety, staffing, reporting, procedure adherence, consistency and quality. Served as interim Plant Manager.
• Track operational output measures including efficiency, yield loss, product quality, inventory accuracy, transactional accuracy. Anticipate trends which would compromise achievement of financial targets.
• Partnered with Quality and achieved increased year over year SQF scores: 2021 score of 75; 2022 score of 92; and 2023 score of 95. Production recognized for zero findings.
• Led cross functional team project focused on improving CIP process. The team achieved reduction in CIP time from 4 hours to 2.5 hours; realized downtime, energy/chemical consumption decrease.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Drove plan and strategy to execute daily operations including workflow, scheduling, monitoring of productivity and quality, and process troubleshooting to ensure on time production.
• Developed forward-thinking initiatives to boost effectiveness within production which resulted in reducing labor percent of revenue while realizing a 45% increase in output.
• Implemented operational procedures and processes which increased cGMP compliance.
• Led and supervised operations team; set clear goals and expectations to measure performance, provided feedback and trained staff on all shifts within the production department.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Led implementation and management of operational equipment effectiveness (OEE) tracking with pilot program to document/verify new customer and product specifications.
• Executed productivity and process improvement/VSM across all departments which contributed to 30% revenue growth and EBITDA for 4 consecutive years.
• Taught, trained, and coached to process management, delivering standard processes, information sharing and problem solving to support business needs.
• Built relationships with other departments and became valued resource and leader of process improvement initiatives.

Lafayette, Colorado, United States

• Oversaw working environment of production employees and ensured work is conducted in a safe manner and safety policies were followed.
• Maintained open communication with plant operations managers and general managers regarding achievement of production quality and production productivity goals.
• Ensured the appropriate maintenance and stewardship of tools and machinery.
• Led initiatives to drive continuous improvement in production processes, quality systems, workforce skills, efficiency gains and cost savings.

San Clemente, California, United States

• Increased packaging by over 50,000 units per month; a 12.5 percent increase.
• Improved efficiencies and scheduling to reduce packaging costs per bottle by.026.
• Instituted several programs aimed at greatly reducing the company’s ecological footprint and overall energy costs.
• Worked efficiently to decrease product backorders and maintain all packaging supplies.

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