• Brewery leadership role responsible for serving production teams from ingredient ordering and receiving to scheduling distributor loads at two breweries with a combined annual production of 260k bbls/yr.• Manager of $7.8MM malt contract designed to ensure quality and protect against agronomic eventualities, through barley selection and final malt blend to drive consistent brewhouse outputs.• Increased efficiency from 1.3 bbls/labor hr to 2.0 bbls/labor hr over 3 years using a combination of creative scheduling, capital projects, and heavy focus on operator training, both hands on and classroom, across brewing, cellaring and packaging. • Reduced beer waste by 2.5% (600k+) over 3 years by directing operator-led initiatives in optimization of tank draw offs, pushouts, centrifugation and packaging. • Directed the development of a tool to execute monthly inventory for tax purposes (~3.9MM/yr) with user-friendly interface to review and modify the report. Error was typically within 20 bbls (< 0.1% by volume) before manual adjustments were made. • Curtailed total unhygienic micro counts by 80% over 2 years in well water, brewing water, and deaerated water systems through servant leadership, enabling operators and removing barriers (capital, scheduling, ROI calculations etc.). • Instituted rigorous brewery sensory panel by developing a sensory scientist into head researcher, selecting relevant flavor standards and enhancing the acuity of oxidation sensory panel for measuring flavor stability initiatives.• AMBA (American Malting and Barley Association) representative sitting on the Board of Directors, Finance Committee, and Technical Committee.

Responsible for brewing department operations including safety, production efficiencies and product quality of the Milwaukee Brewery with an annual production of 7.6 MM bbls (8.9 MM hL) and 49 different finished beer streams.Brewing throughput manager setting goals and empowering 7 salaried floor supervisors and 108 union brewery workers/maintenance crafts, along with an additional 13 temporary workers during the peak season. Managed a $5.1MM labor budget and reduced hourly labor overtime by 40% by increasing brewhouse efficiencies and run to schedule parameters by improving maintenance windows, labor scheduling and cross-training. Successfully implemented full scale trials of 9 new products in collaboration with new product development teams to adjust production requirements and improve throughput while maintaining original product quality and sensory specifications. Drive initiatives for reducing beer loss, improving brewery hygiene and brewing quality through Short Interval Control (SIC) and cross-functional Focused Improvement Teams (FIT) to engage the floor operators. Generated a 20% improvement year from 2013 in our brewing quality index, which measures micro compliance, flavor stability, finished beer DO and CO2 and Right the First Time product specifications. Managed operational support for 1.3 MM bbls expansion of brewery to bring in 11 new craft products to the brewery with ingredient addition systems in brewhouse, fermentation and filtration.

Recognized as the MillerCoors subject matter expert for centrifuge maintenance, operations, optimization and overall performance at all eight MillerCoors breweries. Worked directly with centrifuge OEM service, inspection and rebuild personnel (shop floor to VP) to improve company relationships and centrifuge rebuild performance issues. Negotiated a win-win solution with OEM that completely changed rebuild inspection and documentation protocol which improved customer service to the breweries. Successfully led the development and execution of the first MillerCoors Brewing Center of Development on centrifuges. Established local brewery centrifuge expert groups consisting of hourly and salaried employees by working, training and meeting with mechanics directly to improve centrifuge skill set, equipment performance and implementation of best practices. Leading new compliance assessment process for enterprise to include SQF, GMP, process, laboratory, and asset care requirements. Technical expert on DE filtration and back up subject matter expert for milling, lautering, blending, draft filtration and inline analysis system control schemes across the enterprise.

Staff Brewer and subject matter expert in centrifuges and DE filtration for all eight of the MillerCoors breweries with specific oversight of the quality metrics at the Trenton brewery. Doubled filtration throughput across the enterprise with the introduction of new filtration media and then increased filtration by an additional 50% through optimization of centrifuges to reduce shearing of yeast. Ensured all brewing and quality standards are being met at the breweries through semiannual audits. Short term projects include building a body of knowledge for centrifuge operation and maintenance, replacing carbonating stones with cleanable alternatives and optimization of transfer from fermentation to aging through new instrumentation and automated control schemes to maximize throughput and minimize beer loss. Strategic projects include testing novel technologies to optimize transfer to aging to provide more capacity for finishing beer and maximizing throughput. Managed yeast trans-shipments across the corporation between breweries.

Supervised operators and crafts in brewhouse, fermentation, filtration and package release operations. Supported rollout of Coors in fermentation, yeast management and filtration with the joint venture. Improved product quality by reducing DO on centrifuge start ups, reduced yeast generations in fermentation by developing larger propagations, and introduced novel sanitizers in fermentation cellars to improve micro. Drove cost savings by reducing foaming in spent yeast tanks to increase solids and total volume shipped, installing automated DE bodyfeed pumps, and reducing filter body feed line packs. Promoted environmental responsibility by implementing the recycling of liquid hop buckets and DE bags. Reduced water usage by optimizing multiple CIP cycles, header packs and centrifuge shots. Developed SOPs for inoculating the propagation system which was shared with all plants with the new installation.

Gained an understanding of all brewery operations including packaging, quality, accounting, distribution and human resources through a structured training program and gave regular presentations to members of plant and corporate leadership teams to demonstrate that an understanding of each functional area was attained. Focused brewing operations project work utilized the quality database and empirical data for projects including malt inventory control, centrifuge optimization, and troubleshooting packaged product CO2 with package release beer tank data.

Project work in finishing area included using trend databases to validate the ROI on a capital project implemented to reduce downtime to packaging due to loss of CO2 in product.

Studied the activity of using an enzyme in the mash to overcome the oxidative effects in the brewhouse mash to improve flavor stability in the finished product. Determined the optimal rate of enzyme addition on a laboratory scale mash. Scaled the experiment up to the 1.5 bbls pilot brewery and brewed control and trial batches to produce a finished product to determine effects of the enzyme on flavor stability. Designed and conducted tasting trials to determine the effect of the enzyme on force-aged product.

Developed MS programs that used up-to-date data to ensure regulations and constrictions agreed upon by both brewing and packaging operations. Utilized corporate database to provide alarm analysis tools for quality assurance, packaging and brewing departments.

Coordinated professional development curriculum and taught training programs to support instructional technology. Initiated a technology committee on each campus to develop and manage a sustainable 2-year technology plan. Taught bilingual regular session and after school courses covering computer hardware and software applications to seventh and eighth graders.