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Denver, Co, Us

Evergreen, Colorado, United States

Manage quality control activities for this leading manufacturer of clinical-grade hemp products—helping maintain production at an industrial scale and ensuring all requirements are met on an ongoing basis to maintain cGMP and USDA Organic certifications for healthcare, nutrition, and pharmaceutical companies• Tripled piece-per-hour production rates by leading key equipment upgrades, improving internal processes, streamlining the facility layout, and enhancing employee role clarification and training efforts• Supervise teams of up to 5 technicians in day-to-day production activities—training them in new production processes/equipment, setting priorities, performing order sequencing, ensuring proper plant sanitation, creating all needed documentation, and verifying the quality of all work product• Apply Microsoft Excel to create detailed batch production worksheets for every job, calculating the required inputs for the product to meet targeted batch size; additionally create spreadsheets to support new products and update the company's ERP system with ongoing job details/results• Set up, calibrate, and maintain a diverse array of production equipment, troubleshooting and repairing any machinery breakdowns and overseeing preventative maintenance efforts to maximize uptime• Drive continuous improvement efforts to increase throughput, reduce costs, and improve quality—including implementation of a new bottling line in 2019 and an automatic carton folder in 2022• Collaborate with the Sales team to ensure the smooth introduction of new customer products and packaging options, including the launch of a high-potential new topical product line in 2022

Englewood, Co

Returned to industry, applying metallurgy and engineering expertise to help recover scrap metal from recycling plants using air, gravity, vibration, eddy currents, magnets, and other methods• Implemented upgrades and process improvements to improve plant efficiency, including upgrading the fans and control system on the cell in a manner that improved ongoing throughput by 70%• Set up and operated a Guidetti recycling cell for recovering copper from wire scrap, capturing over a million pounds of copper annually for sale to various manufacturing/production companies• Weighed out materials for shipment to customers, conducted test runs and experiments on material from new sources, and documented all processes/results for reporting to plant management• Performed scheduled equipment maintenance on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis throughout the plant to prevent costly breakdowns and production stoppages—conducting root cause analysis on any process or equipment failures in order to determine corrective actions and deploy long-term solutions CAREER HISTORY & HIGHLIGH

Denver, Colorado, United States

Attained teaching credentials from the Denver Teach Today program and taught Middle School classes throughout the Denver School District• Demonstrated strengths in training program design, teaching, and public speaking—simplifying complex math concepts into simple, easy-to-understand concepts to improve student success and confidence

Denver, Colorado, United States

Performed website creation/editing for bicycletourcolorado.com, sherpapacker.com, and other clients• Applied strong knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and PHP

Batavia, Ohio, United States

Recruited to help maintain/improve manufacturing operations for a major Ford transmission plant• Deployed and continually improved a heat treat quality system to meet QS9000/W-HTX requirements, receiving the highest global score on the Ford Heat Treat Quality Survey in 1996, 1997, and 1999• Utilized MS Excel to analyze uptime, downtime, and repair logs of manufacturing machinery—determining Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and creating a predictive maintenance schedule• Led continuous improvement efforts within the heat treat department; examined equipment failures, analyzed failure data to prioritize problems, and drove creative solutions and process improvement initiatives resulting in increased uptime, decreased maintenance time, and reduced repair times• Project-managed key furnace overhaul projects—ordering replacement parts, sequencing work, scheduling skilled trades involvement, distributing technical information to maintenance team, inspecting completed work, and conducting machine qualification to return equipment to production• Drafted work instructions for manufacturing processes and equipment safety checks• Supported Metallurgical Lab technicians, providing support coverage on vacation and sick days and processing samples to expedite results; key activities performed include sample preparation, hardness testing, optical metallography, and crack detection on heat treated parts• Purchased equipment to support the manufacturing/testing of new products and to provide the capabilities needed to accommodate any strategic product changes

Designed induction heating coils and fixtures for gears, camshafts, bushings, and other automotive parts, in addition to conducting machine qualification runs prior to shipment to assess process capability• Evaluated materials microstructure to determine metallurgical quality, applying statistical analysis techniques to prove machine capability and ensure adherence to customer requirements• Provided metallurgical expertise to the sales/service teams to help design proposals and close deals, in addition to running induction heat and quench process cycles to meet customer quality targets