Operations and engineering consulting to the food industry.

Contract engineering and project management for the food and beverage industry.Providing operations support for capital planning, cost improvement, and process improvement projects.

• Responsible for engineering in four manufacturing plants located in PA, GA, TX, and CA• Managing a consolidated 2013 capital plan for the four plants of $24 million• Served as operations acquisition lead for the purchase and integration of a refrigerated dressing plant, the integration team was awarded the 2012 Gold Founders Award• Managed a plant consolidation project to generate over $8 million in annual savings• Acted as interim plant manager in North East plant to turn plant performance from over $1 million negative to budget to over $6 hundred thousand positive by the end of the quarter• Implemented energy reduction projects to generate over $4 hundred thousand in savings in 2012• Oversaw the addition of a high speed processing and bottling line at the North East plant to increase production capacity and reduce costs

• Responsible for three manufacturing plants producing salty snacks, approx. 600 employees located in TX, PA, and OH• Responsible for engineering, food safety and compliance, environmental compliance, new product development, cost improvement, capacity expansion, and safety• Supervised three plant managers, VP of Engineering, and Director of Food Safety• Designed a fourth plant to allow for growth, plant attained a LEED certification of platinum and was named 2011 food plant of the year by Food Engineering Magazine