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Successful and rewarding career in executive management and leading the engineering design of large capital equipment for the food, chemical, plastic and laundry industries.

Sidney, OH

Peerless is a food equipment company dedicated to creating value for the worlds’ leading bakeries and food processors by developing and applying customer-focused, innovative technology for excellent solutions. Customers worldwide trust Peerless to deliver high quality, reliable equipment that meets critical sanitation requirements and provide attentive.

Sidney & Troy, OH

-Led a small team of highly skilled R&D engineers to resolve current warranty issues at both Hobart and Peerless by utilizing TRIZ and other creativity tools.-Developed new equipment designs with state of the art electronics and robust mechanical features to position our products as leaders in the food processing industry.-Identified cost effective.

Sidney, OH

- Designed and released new product line of KleanVue mixers promoting optimum sanitation, ease of maintenance, durability and safety.- Improved sanitation, control and configurability of Sandwiching Biscuit Creamer product line by incorporating servo drive system to replace chain and line shaft drive components.- Increased profitability across product.

Manufacturer of industrial mixers for the food, pharmaceutical, chemical and plastic industries. Used visionary leadership skills and strategic planning initiatives to transform Littleford Day, Inc into a nimble organization resulting in lower machine costs, improved manufacturing efficiencies, reduced inventory and shorter delivery cycles achieving.

- Created a Research & Development team to release new and inventive solutions to the marketplace on a quarterly basis resulting in five new patents, a new product line of lab mixers and numerous product improvements including coolers that are 50% faster establishing a differentiated market advantage. - Shortened new order releases by more than 75% which.

- Justified the vision of using 3-D Modeling, Finite Element Analysis, Stereolithography and other high technology software packages to improve the accuracy, timeliness and flexibility of product releases for purchase and implementation. - Reduced warranty expense from over $1,500,000 to under $100,000 in less than one year by correcting existing field and.

American manufacturer of plastic and rubber injection molding machines for this German based company. Created standards and procedures to increase productivity and technical capabilities for the entire company. - Spearheaded the creation of an engineering standards reference manual complete with policies, standard machine structures, specific calculations.

Consultant in the automotive, pharmaceutical and machining industries.

- Ran the R&D lab to develop new equipment lines such as dry cleaning systems, washer extractors, dryers, folders, presses and permanent press machines. - Developed a unique line of washer/extractors that had 99.9% vibration isolation along with an industrial dryer that reduced drying time and used less fuel.

Mba, Finance

Education record

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering