Provides overall business level leadership and strategy for material planning, and the procurement of goods and services. Collaborates across all functions, but especially with operational planning, warehouse, and other operational teams. Identifies potential suppliers and sources and assures annual PPV targets are met. Monitor supplier performance and ensures contractual obligations are met.

Oversee teams in charge of Planning, Scheduling, Inventory, Shipping and Receiving at Cazenovia manufacturing facility. Member of the Plant Leadership Team where I am spearheading advancement of capacity based planning and resource management through data analytics and continuous improvement.

Lead a team of product line specific planners tasked with scheduling and monitoring customer orders for Knowles Precision Devices high mix, low volume manufacturing environment. Regularly worked cross functionally with Operations, Engineering, Quality and Sales to provide the best possible service to our customers. While in this role, introduced an analytics data driven approach to help track order progress through the manufacturing process to better inform our customers of their order status and help set priorities within the facility. Additionally helped to develop more informed data visualizations to better guide material supply and support data driven decision making.

Project Manager in charge of integration of large sales opportunities by coordinating multidisciplinary teams withing the organization. In addition, managed internal improvement projects including but not limited to lean initiatives, development of standard work, and overall system improvements. Manages the engineering team tasked with creating and managing internal job routers and supporting documentation for all incoming orders.

Manages and oversees the Anoplate Customer Service Department. Continually working on improving the Anoplate customer experience while fostering a positive and developmental work climate. Increased production flow throughout the organization by balancing expedites and high visibility customers. Streamlined the integration of new high value, technically challenging products into Anoplate’s production cycle. Organizes sales, engineering, production, and quality teams to efficiently introduce new products. Overhauled and re-integrated a new phase-gate system utilized by the entire organization as a medium for monitoring and controlling new projects. Additional responsibilities include guiding and overhauling Anoplate’s plating on non-conductors work cell. Assists in negotiating customer contracts, purchasing of raw materials, outside services, and scheduling product flow through the department to meet customer established delivery dates. Manages customer service team that oversees orders from over 1400 different customers.

Oversees the planning, implementation, and tracking of a specific customer integration projects. Works closely with customers and quality department, managers, engineers, facilities and operators throughout the plant to make sure that the direction of each project is on schedule and meets the customers’ expectations. Manages projects through Anoplate’ s internal gate system as well as other prioritized projects for engineering, costing and operations. Also serves as a support for inside sales for all Territories.

Territory manager covering 17 states including Western New York, the Midwest and much of the Northern United States. Developed and fostered new business to the Anoplate Corporation to achieve company sales goals within the aerospace, defense, and commercial manufacturing industries. Successfully grew one of Anoplate's most mature and stagnant territory by 20% in 2 years. In addition, was responsible for managing company digital marketing campaigns as well as integration of a new CRM system.Anoplate is committed to providing world class plating, anodizing and metal finishing services that satisfy customer expectations and requirements in a timely, cost effective and environmentally responsible manner.

CrossFit Level 1 instructor with additional certification from the Gymnastics Course. Lead over 250+ hours of functional fitness group training sessions of all skill and age levels. Additional experiences include programming, one on one training, and community engagement.

At RCM I served as the Marketing and Sales Engineer for the North Eastern United States. It was my responsibility to identify prospective customers and help manage their projects from design through construction. While at RCM I developed a multitude of marketing materials and long term sales strategies for the company.RCM Digesters provides a relatively simple solution for waste management and energy production for both family farms and large regional waste centers. Over the past 30 years, RCM has been a pioneer in many leading agricultural and renewable energy sectors.

Promoted from Program Representative to develop and execute custom training programs targeting underserved communities, government employees, and agriculture organizations about the benefits of farm energy audits and available incentive programs. I developed presentations focusing on energy efficient farm equipment used in dairy, poultry and swine operations as well as opportunities to reduce farm energy use. I frequently worked with local and state agencies to increase participation and coordinate the recruitment of farms to serve as demonstration sites. Partners include Milk Cooperatives, State Energy Agencies, USDA, and state farm bureaus. Responsible for developing and executing training of contracted field staff that are used to perform farm site visits necessary for the completion of farm energy audits.

Responsible for providing support and selling participation in the Agriculture Energy Efficiency Program (AEEP) and the NY Agriculture Disaster Program sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Program (NYSERDA). Conducted outbound calls and visits to equipment manufacturers, equipment dealers, and agricultural organizations across the state of New York. Also provided on site support for active and potential customers.

The goals of the NSF GK-12 project are to enrich high school student science learning and engagement, and to enhance teacher and graduate student professional development. Instructed as a co-teacher of the “global environment” class in the Central Square and North Syracuse School Districts that students took for college credit. Responsibilities included enrollment in a college teaching seminar as well as significant program and lesson planning. Organized activities focused on experiential and inquiry-based classroom and field-based activities. Teaching experience was further enhanced through the delivery of “road shows”, experience based lessons that were requested by teachers throughout the state of New York. Responsibilities also included the development of brochures and promotional literature as well as a teacher’s guide to student research and a web based environmental lesson database, both of which were presented at the NSF GK-12 national meeting.

Performed laboratory research in the fields of enzymatic hydrolysis, cellulose de-crystallization, and hot water extraction. Involved in the development and publication of methods for an ethanol production process using sugars extracted from wood chips. Oversaw student labs and graded exams for introductory course in Matlab and Mathcad.

Performed analytical chemical analysis on customer submitted pharmaceutical drug products for a contract research organization performing GLP/cGMP compliant analytical testing. Specialized in Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS), Direct Exposure Probe Mass Spectrometry, and X-Ray Powder Diffraction. Performed general maintenance, calibration and validation of all instruments. Additional responsibilities included compiling of analytical data into reports submitted to clients as well as collaborating with potential clients on method development.