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Florida, United States

Orlando, Florida Area

Global responsibility for the development of new materials, technologies and products.

Responsibility for new business and product development for the diversified products division for food & beverage, OTC, Infant nutrition, and beauty, home, health segments. • Managed commercial activity in evaluating new sales opportunities to ensure new projects met business objectives and strategy, established project deliverables, resource allocations, and technical execution plans. • Generated high quality book of new business opportunities for newly emerging packaging conversions, working directly with customer brand managers and marketing, building strong trusted advisor relationships.• Developed manufacturing technology gap analysis, identifying new technologies, and competitive landscape in support of platform strategy and asset refresh program.

United States

Led global business technology initiatives for consumer plastics division, including new product development and pilot plant operations. Managed commercial execution of all consumer food & beverage business during aggressive growth strategy period. Developed technology platform approach and go to market strategy to support newly defined transitional business needs. • Commercialized $36MM in new business sales over an 18 month period while identifying resource needs and developing expanded project team to support growth.• Led productivity initiative programs successfully capturing over $1MM in bottom line savings.• Developed business cost model and quoting process reducing turnaround times by 50% and streamlining resource allocation costs.• Managed R&D BM technology funnel and stage gate process prioritizing competing business needs and long term strategic objectives. • Honored in 2015 with the Presidents Global Business Award in recognition for Excellence in Innovation & Technology.

Led process-engineering development in a highly specialized and regulated chemical processing technology for high barrier industrial and consumer chemical applications.• Developed improved manufacturing processes resulting in a 10% reduction in manufacturing conversion costs.• Significantly impacted company KPI goals through the implementation of engineering process controls and tooling management reducing downtime by 30%, improving productivity by 20%, and reducing quality defects by 80%. • As head of engineering determined root cause and corrective actions in response to a major manufacturing issue that could not be identified by leading consultant PHD’s in chemical engineering consequently shutting down two manufacturing plants. By establishing root cause analysis and implementing a DOE was successful in saving the business from major catastrophic losses in revenue.

W.Muller is a world leader in co-extrusion technology serving the plastic packaging industry. My primary role was in supporting the expansion of new technologies into global regions and managing the technical implementation and application development.

Uk

Launched inter-divisional start-up team to initiate the development of new products and services by exploiting technologies across multiple business units. • Successfully aligned cross function team in spearheading new multi-process product development.• Developed lower cost solutions and competitive advantage resulting in major business awards.• Consulting Council Member for the British Health & Safety Executive for establishing machine safety standards that resulted in the adoption of machine safety standards worldwide.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Plastics And Polymer Engineering Technology

Design Engineering/ Project Management

Advanced Leadership Program