Patrick Miele Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

Mississauga, ON, CA

• Promoted to Analyst at Compass Group’s Corporate Venture Capital Firm (CDV), tasked with optimizing the Pilot Incubator Program, enhancing its efficiency and growth. My role involved enabling CDV to make well-informed.
• Conducting operator feedback interviews and facilitating opportunity calls.
• Visiting over 15 sites for firsthand operational understanding and identifying friction points.
• Performing market analysis to pinpoint opportunities in areas like Robotic Automation, Omni-channel Commerce, and Sustainability Technology, particularly in startup ecosystems.
• Improving Pilot success rates by developing structured test plans for 16 Pilots, leading to better startup solution analysis and fewer failed scaled startups.○ Implementing and monitoring weekly schedules for the Pilot.
• Developing an internal dashboard to provide insights into the Pilot Program’s current state, tracking the health of the Pilot portfolio and key metrics such as completion times and project blockers.○ Facilitating team.

Mississauga, ON, CA

• Tasked by Compass Digital to take personal accountability for CDV’s process mapping and project analysis needs of their Pilot incubator Program.
• Collaborating with Kitchen Robotics to optimize labor cost. Guided in Kitchen Robotics Pilot, Proof of Concept (PoC) by identifying operational gaps, business needs while elevating the tech’s ability to meet both guest.
• Creating data driven analyses and tools to drive business growth: ○ Analytical models to forecast revenue throughput, ROI, and other parameters to identify optimal site location of startup tech.
• Driving impact and improvements to the guest, operator experience by deeply understanding the current state practices and applying continuous improvement techniques.
• Deployed 22+ process maps (Swimlane, SIPOCH, Value stream, etc.) capturing current state practices, conducting root-cause analysis, and identifying areas of opportunity identifying 50+ friction points within team.
• Invited to lead Compass Group workshop tasked to optimize the Menu creation process, resulting in eliminating a 6-month lead time. ○ Facilitated workshop in cross functional team setting to create opportunity alignment.

Spartanburg, South Carolina, US

• Frontline responsibility for 2 multi-million dollar production lines.
• Chartered with driving Milliken from being a data-centric company to a forward leaning decision-making organization.
• Perform production line audit to ensure best practices and adherence to safety protocols. o Customer quality enforced o throughput o ISO,OSHA,ASTM standards
• Personal accountability for sustainability initiatives and waste reduction o EBIT contribution estimated at $60k o Total cost avoidance of approximately $150k on a period basis o Responsible for conducting Golden Batch.
• Conduct root-cause analysis of breakdowns, process opportunities and assign appropriate process engineer(s) to address and resolve
• Delivery of production snapshot and process improvement briefings to senior leadership and provide them insights to the plant performance.

Blacksburg, VA, US

• Oversight of all football tailgate recycling and sustainability efforts for Virginia Tech
• Increased recycling (landfill avoidance) of more than 5 tons per season
• Responsibilities included hiring interns and managing university sustainability programs
• Received job promotion in Spring of 2019
• Coordinated volunteers and interns to interact with tailgaters to encourage recycling
• Designed forms, flyers, and emails to promote recycling programs at the university

Spartanburg, South Carolina, US

• Responsible for designing and conducting hands-on experiments to test, understand and improve the manufacturing process in order to remove costs, decrease waste, improve efficiencies and optimizing production
• Performed numerous Design Of Experiment (DOE) statistical analysis tests in order to identify significant factors causing variations in productiono Findings resulted in reduction in off-quality by 52%o Solved numerous.
• Leveraged written and verbal communication skills in order to effectively communicate withAugust, 2020 - present all key stakeholders, including senior-leadership, operations management and machine operators