- Lead the manufacturing in all aspects of operations performance including safety, service, planning, production, quality, financial performance, inventory management, capital project implementation, and materials organizational.- Support and champion the integration of Enterprise Lean Sigma into the business resulting in reduced losses and improved machine efficiencies. - Develop and execute an overall plant manufacturing strategy, including organizational development.

- Manage distribution activities, facilities, and personnel to achieve supply chain and cost improvements, while maintaining a safe working environment.

• Advanced a training project proposal to support the knowledge and skills required for front-line leadership, operators, and journeymen mechanics by partnering with external local providers and developing resources to close the gaps.• Collaborating with the business to implement the global learning management system at the Brazilian facilities. • Led local training needs assessment process, ensuring contact with all segments of the region’s business and effective reporting of findings through to the Learning and Performance organization.• Develop, implement and evaluate annual training, learning, and development plans within the region

• Guided the transformation of the site training group from a coordinator model to a learning and performance model.• Mentored and developed training personnel and subject matter experts in material development and delivery to ensure the appropriate application of adult learning methodologies.• Led the development of management of organizational change policy and the implementation of it at the site. • Partner with the business to develop and implement competency assurance procedure and process for all safety critical tasks.• Partnered with the Safety Health and Environmental Department to ensure training aligns to all regulatory and procedural requirements.• Performed needs analysis and developed one, two and three year training plans for the site.• Developed and delivered local curricula and programs in alignment with global standards• Sourced external training resources and providers to support delivery of the training plan.• Implemented metrics to demonstrate value and transfer of learning to the business.

Taught mathematics in a parochial school which allowed me to hone my skills in developing and delivering lessons that incorporated a variety a learning modalities such as technology, hands-on-learning, and self-guided discovery.

• Executed capital projects to improve plant performance and environmental compliance. • Identified, defined, and executed projects and improvements related to yield and energy. • Liaison for the complex with outside vendors of natural gas, electricity, steam, nitrogen, and oxygen.• Developed systems to forecast and/or monitor key parameters pertaining to energy and yield.• Lead person in evaluating, analyzing, and negotiating contracts for back-up power and natural gas.

• Responsible for procuring raw materials for the North American titanium dioxide plant sites and a silica gel plant. • Wrote, reviewed and executed contracts for key raw materials.• Identified and qualified new raw material resources.• Analyzed proposals and negotiated pricing and terms for raw materials. • Developed/maintained vendor relationships with over thirty key suppliers.

• Utilized Six Sigma DMAIC tools and methodologies to achieve project objectives to increase yield, improve operation/control of fluidized reactors, reduced potential for environmental releases, and reduce maintenance turnaround time on environmental equipment.• Assisted in training and coaching Green Belts.• Provided technical support to operations for capital projects, process hazard analysis, and daily operation.

• Managed a staff of up to fifty-five technical and non-technical personnel in union and non-union environments to ensure manufacturing unit achieved budgeted production, efficiency, costs, quality, environmental, and safety goals. • Ensured manufacturing unit achieved budgeted production, efficiency, costs, quality, environmental and safety goals. • Identified and generated capital expenditure requests. Participated in the budgeting, design, and installation of capital projects. • Implemented and ensured compliance with major revisions in safety, health, and environmental procedures. • Developed and led reliability teams to focus on elimination of downtime incidents which resulted in an on-stream and production records for the plant. • Identified and implemented controllable costs reduction initiatives in the production area.• Facilitated incident investigations and root cause analysis.

• Conducted process troubleshooting, improvement projects, process control support and plant trials for continuous and batch processes. • Long-term emphasis on increasing plant yields, de-bottlenecking process equipment, providing support to meet environmental permits and improving safety performance. • Optimized and installed equipment to reduce product contamination, allowing the company to retain a $10MM per year customer.• Lead Project Engineer on a $17MM capital expansion o Directed the efforts of maintenance, instrument and electrical, operations, and engineering in commissioning and start-up of the plant. o Conducted pilot plant studies to determine design parameters. o Developed material balance, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, and process control logic. o Selected equipment, evaluated drawings pertaining to vendor supplied equipment, plant layout, and piping.