I am a hands-on professional with over 32 years of direct experience in industrial settings. Over that same timeframe I’ve also spent time in commercial and residential spaces with similar task scopes. Through my career I have performed various roles in Food/Feed, Wet Corn Milling, Grain/Oilseeds, Foundry, Protein, Large Scale Utility, Bottling, Refrigeration, Animal Nutrition, Fertilizer, Gelatin/Collagen/Collagen Peptide, and Chlor-alkali production facilities ranging from entry level operations, maintenance & reliability, up to and including facility general management and direction. Earlier in my career I also spent time in the agricultural space working with livestock, feed, animal health, and farming machinery. As such I have operated and worked on/around a very broad range of equipment types. I have 14 years of experience in leading people, directing operations, handling personnel issues, performance management, environmental stewardship, safety leadership, resource planning/forecasting, budgeting, production forecasting, and project management. I have many years of experience with engineering, reliability, maintenance, manufacturing, feed & food safety, aseptic packaging, compliance, and safety management. In my leadership roles I have made it a standard practice to coach personnel and to lead by example. My nature is to utilize innovation when needed to solve problems and I enjoy helping others to practice innovation as well. I strive to maintain a great moral compass and I promote high levels of team trust. This practice has allowed me to maintain and receive high levels of loyalty from my direct reports, peers, and supervisors while achieving great results. I strive to form appropriately sized and effective teams that can solve problems quickly.Skilled in starch enzyme based liquefaction & saccharification, corn sweetener manufacturing (maltose, glucose/dextrose, fructose), feed/food, Boiler Operations, Water & Waste Water Treatment, Environmental Reporting, Chlor-Alkali Operations, RCM, Control Systems Design, Electrical Wiring, Instrumentation and Reliability Engineering. Certified Automation Professional CAP, Certified Control System Technician III CCST, and Master Electrician.I strive to build reliability into system design while achieving the highest feasibility level of reliability efforts with responsible cost and resource forecasts.