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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Team lead delivering short- long term commercial strategies, marketing programs, solution launches, insights, and best practices across eight global industries.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Developed business strategies including technology prioritization, investment needs, and marketing programs to drive accelerated growth and profit.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Food and Beverage marketing and sales program lead leveraging Emerson’s wide array of automation offerings to drive advances in food and beverage production and help the industry digitally transform.

Purchase, New York, Us

Global R&D Snacks leader for portfolio transformation and better-for-you snacking. Responsibilities include acting as commercial interface, leading global and multi regional mid-long term innovation programs, and support of global brand development.

Purchase, New York, Us

Responsible for "white sheet" development of new R&D capabilities, including evaluation of open innovation partnerships, location selection, internal wiring with new R&D model and development of technical strategy inputs for Strategic Growth and Capability Plans.

Purchase, New York, Us

Strategy leader responsible for Global Foods R&D Strategic Plan, Annual Operating Plan, and worldwide innovation sharing. Role includes Chief of Staff Accountabilities for Global Foods Senior Leadership Team and development of C-suite strategic presentations including competitive assessments and emerging technology evaluations. Responsible for $12M annual budget and 3 direct staff as well as leadership of 5 person regional strategy team.

Purchase, New York, Us

Package R&D leader responsible for Quaker and Global Nutrition Group package innovation, as well as cost savings, base package support, and technical roadmaps. Developed new platform of consumer based package innovation resulting in launch of innovative package features. Built team of 6 package professionals developing skill sets for insight-based package design.

Purchase, New York, Us

R&D leader for $550M bars category with responsibilities for new product/process innovation and improvements to existing items. Dramatically improved nutrition of $350MM line of products while maintaining sensory parity through extensive collaboration between marketing, product and process development, insights, and sensory department. Led combined team of 7-8 food scientists and process engineers in over 40 projects annually. Delivered technical analysis of potential acquisitions.

Purchase, New York, Us

Responsible for all cereal process/product development including management of over 30 projects and $790K in cost savings. Led team of 3 providing product development and engineering support for fast-paced initiatives. Evaluated potential contract manufacturers and led startups of new products.

Purchase, New York, Us

Built thermal process platform within PepsiCo Foods. Installed 2 new pilot processes, completed multiple co-packer evaluations and developed and commercialized new process exceeding startup expectations. Technical project manager coordinating package R&D, external development, process/product development, and contract manufacturing.

Purchase, New York, Us

Responsible for project management, process development, design, testing and scale up of processing equipment to produce extruded cereal with a unique appearance resulting in a $2MM incremental sales on existing business. Project manager for multiple R&D capital projects with total annual budgets up to $1.3MM.

Purchase, New York, Us

Key process engineering support for plants starting up new products and special packs items from bench top to plant. Developed prototypes, led plant testing, and provided capital costing information for new cereals and flanker initiatives. Provided process engineering support for cost reduction project resulting in annual ingredient savings of $1MM.

M.S., Food Process Engineering

B.S., Chemical Engineering