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Mentor, Ohio, US

- 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.

Stamford, Connecticut, US

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

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bs Chemical Engineering

Ma In Education, Middle Childhood - Math And Science