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Milwaukee, WI, US

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Serving on Board of Directors, helping to navigate the brewery through the competitive craft industry
• Founding Member of the brewery, enabling New Barons go from a part time home-brewing operation to a commercial, functioning brewery with a positive revenue generating taproom amid a global pandemic.
• Scaled brewing system from 5 gallons to 15 gallons to commercially brewing on a 3.5 BBL system, ensuring SOP's, safety expectations and quality control are followed.
• Led $140k project for ~1700 sq ft taproom build out, acted as general contractor working with architects, meeting with building landlord, and tradespeople to create a unique, inviting space for Milwaukee to come join.
• Supported other team members, from marketing to finance to event planning to lead successful projects and craft the brand of New Barons.

Milwaukee

• Helped drive projects surrounding big fixes to planning software tool (SPM) completion and process enhancements or changes, validate planning tool upgrades, working with teams globally and across multiple business.
• Drove validation of global process elimination with Planning S&OP tool (SPM), helping complete over 200+ total test scenarios ensuring proper functional validation. Leveraged Alteryx knowledge, automating validation by.
• Support USCAN inventory management teams, creating ad-hoc analyses, reports, and dashboards to highlight inventory challenges or risks to the business, highlighting gaps that cause inventory turns to decrease or remain.
• Led systemic business application logic changes to save business ~$3M annually.
• Identified process gap that drove up inventory ~$1.2M weekly, manually managed process while helping develop and implement plan to systemically resolve the issue.
• Analyzed processes that were causing $5M+ headwind toward inventory estimates through Supplier Warranty Program parts, operationally trapped inventory, obsolete inventory, etc., and led process improvements to reduce.

Waukesha, WI

• Provide in depth trending of CT/PET products & analyze breaches leading to improved product quality.
• Developed dashboard tool providing key stakeholders with high-level visibility of Post-Market related metrics: driving improvement in quality of records, minimizing late global reporting of MDRs, identifying workflow.
• Drove collaboration across multi-functional teams, simplifying workstreams and reporting.

Waukesha, WI

• Complaint Handling
• Review & process CT/PET medical device complaints, focusing on patient safety & risk, evaluating hazardous situations, & facilitating complaint investigations
• Identify complaints that require further assessment under 21 CFR 803 (MDR)
• Develop job aides that increase team productivity by more than 15%
• Collaborate with customers, field engineers, & online engineers to promote better accuracy, completeness of complaint data & improve patient safety
• Led piloting activities for various tool implementations

Greater St. Louis Area

• Investigated market size and saturation to determine the feasibility and profitability of entry into the Healthcare & Medical and Secondary Aircraft Structural markets
• Utilized my research skills in collecting data from various sources, including the internet, company contacts and trade journals
• Reported potential profits of over $600,000 and $7,200,000 in the Healthcare/Medical and Secondary Aircraft Structures markets, respectively.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Focuses on the Medical Device Directive and the 2007/47/EC changes in order to understand and help communicate new directives for faster product compliance and market acceptance
• Look at how the regulation changes effect companies that export products to Europe and how companies manage regulation changes – impact of discovery can help drive accelerated customer purchases and drive quality and.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Analyzed current nebulizers on the market and researched areas to improve on via customer surveys - voice of the customer informed the group on market needed changes that translated to increased revenues
• Gathered data to implement new changes to nebulizer and used CAD software to create a prototype – this prototype work short-circuited market beta testing and evolved a product with quicker market success
• Submitted recommendations to World Health Organization for use in new nebulizer in 3rd world countries – faster acceptance of the product resulted in improved health outcomes

Masters Of Science (Ms) Degree, Healthcare Technology Management

Combined business, medical technology and healthcare cirriculum through Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin to.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs) Degree, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Phi Delta Theta, Extra Hand's For ALSCombined the strengths in medicine and life sciences with engineering and.