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Torrance, CA, US

Future Blue Group is a premier Packaging Development and Sustainability consultancy dedicated to assisting brands in crafting strategies to select cost-competitive packaging while integrating sustainability principles. Our expertise extends to enhancing the visual and tactile appeal of packaging and quantifying its environmental footprint, including CO2.

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Culver City, California, US

* Scent Tab Cost Savings: To improve gross margins across the supplement portfolio, I negotiated our most expensive packaging component, our proprietary custom scent tabs. Was able to yield a 25% reduction, cost saved $300k annually, and locked in a 3 year contract.* Process Improvement: Developed a new standard operating procedure with Quality Assurance.

Culver City, California, US

Working for a highly successful B-Corp science base supplement and personal care company that believes in incorporating sustainability and transparency into everything that we do! I manage a team of Packaging Engineers and lead corporate Sustainability. We conduct a life cycle analysis on all our packaging to determine our environmental impact to best.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Brands: Honest Beauty, Honest Skin, Honest Diaper, Honest Cleaning, Honest Baby
• Was on the working team to help Honest IPO on 5/5/2021
• Report directly to the C - Suite team.
• Manage a team of seasoned packaging professionals who are responsible for go-to-market executions, cost savings, and brand maintenance.
• Led strategic planning for innovation and future sustainability initiatives.
• Developing a 3-year packaging sustainability roadmap. Which will include Terracycle, Loop, How2Recycle, Moving to 100% post-consumer recycled resins, and Timeplast.

El Segundo, California, US

• Brands: Acne, Sensitive Skin, Age Reform, Environmental Shield, Resurgence, Man, White Brilliance
• Led strategic planning for innovation and future sustainability initiatives.
• New Product Launches – Murad MattEffect Cushion Compact:
• Business Impact: 2nd fastest selling SKU at Sephora. Target to exceed our #1 SKU (>$3M NOS)
• Led packaging development for materials, custom color, compatibility and testing.
• Managed the project timeline (< 6 months) to ensure components arrive before production.

Blackfriars, London, GB

Manage the Package Engineering R&D team for new product development, brand maintenance, packaging specifications and manufacturing. Closely collaborate between Marketing, Sourcing, Operations, Creative and Product Development for all executions.

El Segundo, CA, US

• Brands: Shakeology, Performance, Boost, Activit, Body Beast, Reset, Beachbody Nutritionals, and 3 Day Refresh
• New Product Launches – Beachbody Performance & Boost:
• Business Impact: Project is forecasted to bring incremental growth to Beachbody.
• Led packaging development of 8 custom packages for powder supplements.
• Led all packaging COGS discussions to identify packaging solutions that met the margin requirements.
• Sustaining the Business - Packaging Specifications:

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Principal Packaging Engineer Manager R&D (Managed 4 Direct Reports); Sustainability Lead. Brands: Neutrogena Naturals, T/Gel, Rainbath, and Norwegian formula
• Launched 5 Neutrogena Natural SKUs using post-consumer materials
• Business Impact: $15M NOS Y1. Fastest growing brand since its launch in 2010.
• Led development of custom & stock packaging solutions for new product launches.
• Won Cosmetic Executive Women Eco Award for best sustainable packaging for 2012.
• Qualification of Post-Consumer “FDA friendly” Recycled Resins for J&J Consumer Divisions

Oakland, CA, US

• Package Engineering Supply Chain Project Manager; Sustainability, Cost Savings, and Kingsford Category LeadBrands: Brita, Glad, STP, Kingsford, Armor All, Green Works, Pine-Sol, Kingsford Charcoal, 409, and Tilex1).
• Business Impact: Cost avoided the plant ~$1M per year in throw away and downtime. – Utilized statistical base sampling to determine supplier’s variability for blow molding trigger bottles. – Interpreted wall thickness.
• Business Impact: Identified $3.6M in annual cost savings for the 2011 fiscal year. – Conducted a series of design of experiments (DOEs) to prove that down gauge pallet stretch wrap material would not jeopardize the.
• Business Impact: – Identified alternate secondary packaging options that led to $300K in annual savings (e.g. corrugate with vents for high humidity environments and shelf ready shippers).

Oakland, CA, US

Supported all packaging needs across all the global business units. Managed rapid response, supply assurance, brand maintenance, and cost innovation projects. Supported brands were 409, Tilex, Glad, Pine-Sol, Kingsford, Match Light, Glad Ware (Joint Venture with P&G), Brita, Green Works, and Armor-All. Supported and led projects for Latin America's supply.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Snacks Package Engineering Manager R&D - Snacks and Beverage Global Business UnitBrand: Pringles1) Thermoform redesign for Pringles single serve tub to achieve material cost savings: Technical Lead
• Business Impact: To reduce resin weight and actualize material cost savings. – Managed technical design criteria between all suppliers and corporate design. 2) Packaging specification management.
• Business Impact: Ensured quality and compliance with production components.3) Managed eastern and western European Snack business
• Business Impact: Responsible for successful plant start ups after executing in North America.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Coffee Package Engineering Manager R&D / Products Researcher; Snacks and Beverage Global Business UnitBrands: Folgers, Millstone Coffee 1) Folgers Kangaroo new on-pack lid design and pouch - cost savings and improved.
• Business Impact: Created incremental growth of $6.1M annually for flavored coffee SKUs. – Achieved 20% logistical cost avoidance through designing the thermoform to support double-stacked unit loads. – Received patent.
• Business Impact: To be launch ready in the event a competitor launches a comparable plastic coffee package in market. – Led focus group discussions to understand how to translate packaging performance attributes that.