The Industry Leading Hybrid Packaging Supplier using its expertise to drive increases in Customers sales, drive cost savings, and improve the bottom line. Berlin Packaging brings together the best elements of packaging manufacturing, distribution, and income-boosting services. We offer a comprehensive array of products and solutions to streamline packaging supply chains and grow your profits.• Manage the operational resources of the warehouse and coordinate all production and distribution efforts in a manner which maximizes profitability while providing our customers with market leading quality.• Manage manufacturing activities to meet customer expectations. Responsible for Multiple Business Units performance to achieve 100% customer thrill.• Consulting Service – Provide Consulting Services for Customers to ensure our customers bottom line has a positive impact.• Acquisition and Integration Team – 3 major acquisitions and integrations. • Efficiency Optimization across Berlin. From Building construction to internal rebuild.• Establish and maintain Quality Excellence, 5S Program, and OSHA Safety Procedures. • Internal Leadership Development Program – Developed and Managed• Manage fixed assets and operating costs. Managed over $1 million in capital expense projects 2015-2017• Achieve branch metrics and grow business by 12% on annual basis. YOY plans met for previous 6 years.

• Manage Guest Experience and Sales floor covering 136 hourly employees and 6 supervisors. • Developed a training system to have the entire guest service, food, and front end work together and develop their team for future growth and stability. Departments are now self-sufficient and can support their own needs to meet and be responsible for all financial goals. Guest Survey and Financial goals have been boosted to #3 in the region.• Ensure all developed systems, through training, support sales driven numbers to boost in-stocks, attachment rate and product flex. • Developed and Manage a program to help boost Attachment Rate to increase sales per guest by 15% by using training tools, proven sales techniques, building a “Fast, Fun and Friendly” Culture. • Developed all GE Management to support and boost sales to meet goal expectations through cross development, in person (TM) chat sessions, incentive plans, and written monthly evaluations to sustain all gains to grow for future profitability. Maintain, Sustain, Improve and total “Green” work center that meets all financial expectation and provide unmatched guest service with developed Business Walks, Leadership Status’s, Six Sigma Tools, Leadership Expectations, and GAPs. Leading Talent Management • Improved Food Service along with Health and Food Inspections to an excellent rating. • Developed a 5S/GMP.Operational Team to use Lean tools to improve work centers and eliminate lost productivity. Productivity level has increased from 82% to 94%.

Manage Plant with 7 Production Lines, 10 Supervisors, and 125 hourly employees. Plant is responsible for 900-Million food and beverage container a year, which equates to 62% of the company's earnings.Plant Improved on plant ranking from 10 to 2 in 5 months. Improved daily efficiency from 78% to 91%, which in turn increased production by 1.5 million units a day and maintained to same level of high quality. Cost Savings totaled +60K a month. Sales became increased by 20% due to improved efficiencies and customer relations. Customer Partnerships are key to growing business.Ran a Lean Team to improve daily operations in handling. Found many improved processes in quality and production. In the end the facility was able to save a total of $100,000 dollars a year. Restructured the plant operations twice due to business change and was able to eliminate 15 positions with maintaining the same workload and TQM.Spearheaded Safety Committee that was successful in reducing work related accidents to maintain and improve our industry leading safety claim rate while also improving employee moral on safety through flyers sent home, safety contests, and health fairs to ensure healthy employees.Responsible for many engineering projects where 2 lines were redesigned, installed, and had efficiency improve by 30%, which gave a 6-month payback. New Product Qualifications and Company R&D performed on multiple platforms for high level customers such as Budweiser, Arizona Iced Tea, Motts, and Pepsi.

Developed partnerships and increase sales with customers such as Pepsi, Arizona, Coke/Glaceau, and all Contracted Customers Associated by developing a one on one relationship with upper management and all floor personnel. Pepsi Sales were taken away before entering this job by 40% and given away from customer. Through multiple visits, qualification, meetings with upper management and floor personnel, the relationship was restored and sales were gained back plus an additional 25% taken from completion. Earned recognition from Corporate personnel from Constar and Pepsi. Completed man studying to improve trucking and on time delivery. Late loads, incorrect shipments, and damaged product were all decreased by 90%. This was done by implementing new strategies, procedures, and policies with follow up to compliance. Quality Claims were reduced by 65% and dollar value claims were reduced by 70%.Worked with Pepsi Locations to develop improved Forecasting and Sales which gave both customer and Constar improved visibility by 3 months.Coordinated bottle trials to deliver quality products in compliance with engineering specifications.Provided Technical Support to Customer Lines to help solve problems and improve efficiencies

Developed partnerships with customers such as Pepsi, Anheuser Busch, and Coke/Glaceau. Customer partnerships were nonexistent prior which grew Company / Customer bond profoundlyRan a Department of 8 techs, 4 Quality Leads, and responsible for overall quality of the entire two facilities. Took the facility from the #11 facility in Quality to #2 for 3 years running. Designed, Implemented, Trained and Directed a Shopfloor Online Quality System to be used by all floor personnel. System was able to eliminate 10 positions and improve productivity by all. Analyzed and compiled defective ware, downtime, and customer complaints to tie together a rolling top three issues and developed and ran team to eliminate them. We were able to bring down HFI by 43%, Customer complaints by 61%, and thus improving downtime by an average of 3 hours a day which equates to 320K savings a year. In total a minimum of 550K would be saved a year. Trained the entire facility on quality practices twice every year and had each individual complete a structure test to ensure full comprehension and reliability. Used Six Sigma tools on a daily basis to improve quality to predict issues before they would occur looking at data trends. Trained Quality Techs to evaluate this data on a hourly basis with the online software. Coordinated bottle trials to deliver quality products in compliance with engineering specifications per customer requests, needs, and improvements. Managed the Quality Departments budget for capital projects. Executed Quality Audits given by Anheuser Busch Certification, ASI, Pepsi, and our Corporate Headquarters. Was able to achieve and maintain the highest rating in all audits for my entire tenure at Constar.

This Position is at Constar's Old Bay Lane Facility

Member of the Management Development Trainee Program.Completed twelve monthly reports for the VP of Operations including Monthly Goals, Facility Ranking, and Financial Variances. Assisted all Constar facilities in the completion of their capital and C&A budgets. Audited 13 facilities in World Class Performance. Ran a World Class Performance Implementation and Development team that was able to bring all facilities from a 72% average score to a 93% through developing best practices and technical bulletins to inform all.Developed and posted safety training to the company intranet.Implemented an automated Project Appropriation Request approval system and trained Operation Managers/Controllers.