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General Manager. Full P&L responsibility, specializing in high value added litho lam printed packaging.

2002-2007 MeadWestvaco. Raleigh, North Carolina.Vice President Operations Creative Packaging Of Americas. Responsible for all operational and manufacturing activities for six plants located in North America and Puerto Rico, with excess of 800 employees and $200,000,000 in sales. Specializing in the manufacture of paper board and plastic packaging for the pharmaceutical and high end cosmetic markets. Responsibilities including• Strategic planning, capital planning & expenditure, equipment purchase justification • Setting and achieving productivity targets affecting all aspects of the business, including labor, equipment, waste, cost of quality, materials & efficiencies• Acquisition, due diligence and divestiture recommendations• Labor union bargaining, mentoring, training and coaching• Facility wide safety program, BBS (behavior based safety), ABBS, environmental, property conservation and risk management• New project & product innovation development with strategic equipment alignment • Committee member of the MeadWestvaco North American Manufacturing Operational CouncilAccomplishments• Began the introduction of a Six Sigma and lean culture within the organization using dedicated black and green belts • Reduced working capital through purchasing, inventory management, material JIT by $3,500,000 in 12 months• Redefined cost of quality and implemented process of accountability and tracking, first year savings of $1,125,000• Re designed and configured graphic out work spend, annual savings or $625,000• Successful capital expenditure and installation of $6,000,000 press and re configuration of plant• Reduced direct labor costs giving greater flexibility of resources saving $560,000• Achieved additional $450,000 revenues annually with implementation of “sellable over program”• Implemented a “Material Utilization” process material savings $800,000 annually

2000-2002 AGI. Chicago, Illinois.Acquired by WestvacoVice President Manufacturing. AGI Media.Responsibility for three manufacturing plants, located in North America, annual sales of $65,000,000 specializing in packaging for multi media and audio markets.Accomplishments• Introduced new process in print and finishing department giving 20% additional capacity output. Direct labor savings of $875,000• Responsible for asset and equipment assessment and comparisons & recommend capital equipment projects. Cost saving of $628,500 • Lead customer contract negotiations, and joint customer programs for improving process and costs. Customer filling line uptime increase from 92.7% to 96.5%• Control finished goods inventory management. Savings $340,000

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