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Phoenix, Arizona Area

Privately owned company producing bubble wrap for eCommerce and retail markets servicing the flexible packaging markets such as air courier, e-comm, medical and banking. Leading manufacturer in bubble wrap and bubble mailers using HDPE films. Customers include Amazon, 3M USPS, Fed Ex, UPS, Ebay, Best Buy, Macys and any business that mails product.*Responsible for Start-up of a brand new plant of 165,000 sq ft building operating 7 lines producing bubble mailers in a 24/5 operations.*New Plant Start-Up.*Responsible for the fiduciary results to an annual budget of $30MM in Sales.*Responsible for 90 employees and 7 direct reports.*Responsible for a visual workplace while driving KPIs using Lean Manufacturing.*Manage an Operation to support 65% growth in Sales*Safety - Zero loss time accidents.*Quality - Reduced DPPMs from 2500DPPM to <950 DPPM from start up conception.*Scrap - Reduced scrap from 9.5% to <4.0% which had a direct impact to the bottom line.*Uptime - Increase uptime from 45% to 80% by creating better standards of operation procedures and through employee accountability to their results.*Growth deployment of equipment increase by 300% from start-up to increase capacity to support Sales growth demand.

Sheboygan, Wi

Privately owned company producing industrial coatings for metals, plastics & woods.Coating systems include: water reducible solids alkyds, waterbase acrylic emulsion, urethanes, epoxy & zinc rich primers, waterbase urethane coatings, component hi-solids polyester bake system, and conventional solids. *Responsible for all production, maintenance and warehouse operations.*Direct supervision of production/warehouse management staff of 6 and union production staff of 40.*Responsible for continuous improvements of manufacturing and business processes.*Responsible for capital improvements to improve throughput and to reduce operating cost.*Oversees the Health, Safety & Environmental of the facility*Interaction with Sales and Lab to manage new product introduction, plant process improvements and production/formulation issues.*Responsible for driving KPI and Metrics*Increased on time deliveries from 95.2% to 99.5%*Introduced trailing and leading safety indicator tracking.*Increase productivity gals per man-hrs by 19%*Structured the maintenance work load through the use of maintenance request forms to drive scheduling priorities and regular PMs.*Reduced travel time and employee time wasted searching for raw materials by organizing the warehouse into a visual system.*Reduced OT variable labor hours by 50%.*Increase annual volume throughput from 1.41M gals to 1.55M gals.*Introduced daily cycle counting of finished goods to increase the confidence level of accurate inventories on the HP system to 96.8%*Used DuPont’s Task Based Risk Assessments as a continuous improvement tool.

Troy, Alabama

Private label manufacturer in peanut butter, trail mix and nut butter in the retail & industrial market. Responsible for start-up to full operating capacity of 3 line operation. Responsible for SQF, HACCP, GMP, production, safety, quality, shipping, human resources, project management, capital, inventory controls, sanitation engineering, process improvements, and customer relations.*Responsible for 4 direct reports in 24/5 operation with the potential of 120 employees operating in 175,000sq ft building on 17 acres property.*New Plant Start-Up*Managed all CAPX projects and coordinated the installation of the peanut butter and nut butter lines.*Brand lines of nut butter include – natural, organic, smooth, and crunchy for retail and industrial market.*Manage $17.0.M startup operation in CAPX funds with $450M for OPEX improvements*Managed an operating budget of $2.1M with $20M in sales.*Maintain a fill rate of >98% or better.*SQF & Kosher certified*Responsible for creating an Employee Handbook.*Responsible for training all associates in Good Manufacturing Practice.*Responsible for creating a cross-functional team type of culture.Product RangeFull line Nut Butter capabilities to include conventional, natural, organic and specialty nut butters.Raisins & Dried Fruit; Trail Mixes; Snacking & Baking Nuts.Organic (OCAI) in all USA and Canada locationsKosher (OU; Procert; BCK, Beth Din) in all locationsCustomer served are US retail, Canada retail, and Industrial/Foodservice.

ALAN RITCHEY INC. – Auburn, WAPlant Manager (Feb 1999 – Jan 2011) (11 years of service)Alan Ritchey Inc is a Contractor for the USPS who processes and repairs mail transport equipment for use by United States Postal facilities and commercial mailers. Directed the startup through full operating capacity of a Mail Transport Service Center. Responsible for safety, quality, customer service, financial, human resources, capital projects, maintenance, environmental, warehouse, and production.*Experienced in operating a facility in compliance under Federal Government contracts and DOL regulations.*New Plant Start-Up*Responsible for the start-up into full scale operation.*185,000 sq ft operating facility with 22 docks which processes 40 million units. *High volume, fast pace, piece rate environment.*Responsible for 150 employees with 8 direct reports.*Annual Sales of $10 million.*Receive and process 14,400 48 ft fleet trailers and load 10,400 trailers for customer orders annually.*100% on time delivery with 100% customer satisfaction rating. *ISO 9001:2000 from ground zero to certification in less than 10 months.*Number 1 plant for operations and housekeeping.*Received the highest award, “The Eagle Spirit Award” from the customer for the top performing plant. *Developed and implemented employee incentive programs which increase productivity by 55%.*Developed and implemented “No fault” employee attendance program.*Financial - Develop annual budget and production goals.*Engineered and designed capital improvements to increase productivity.*Full P&L Responsibilities*Successfully negotiated union contracts with a cost savings of 20%. *Facility maintenance -set maintenance goals and improved PM programs.

HANCOR INC. – Olympia, WARegional Manufacturing Manager, Western United States (Oct 1995 – May 1998)Directed the Plastics Operations of 4 manufacturing sites throughout WA, CA, & TX in the production of high density polyethylene (HDPE) storm drain pipes. . (Plastic extrusion process).*Reported directly to the Vice President of Manufacturing.*Annual sales of $95 million. *Responsible for 240 employees and 4 Plant Managers.*Produced 85 million pound of plastic pipe ranging from 4 inches to 60 inches in diameter with more than 400 SKUs.*Successfully used High Performance Work Teams (HPWT) to improve the processes in Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvements and Operational Excellence in support of Corporate goals and objectives.* Built a strong loyal team who were committed to the corporate objectives.*Improved plant productivity by 35% (1200 to 1600 lbs/hr) through implementing process improvement teams and improved scheduling methods.*Developed cross-training programs.*Implemented high performance work teams which reduced variable manufacturing cost by 40% ($0.06 lb to $0.04 lb).*Reduced inventory turns from 6 weeks to 4 weeks on hand.*Improved customer service satisfaction level to 98% by reducing controllable errors.