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South Holland, IL, US

South Holland, IL, US

South Holland, IL, US

South Holland, IL, US

• Coach, develop, and lead 1st shift operations of large meat processing facility with 5 direct reports and 250 union employees.
• Designed and implemented a supervisor scorecard targeting safety, quality, and productivity to identify opportunities and lead process improvement initiatives.
• Established a company-wide safety culture reducing OSHA recordable incidents by 70%.
• Eliminated 30 hours of daily overtime by optimizing equipment setups.
• Executed new product launches to successfully diversify our product mix to enter new markets.

South Holland, IL, US

• Led a cross-functional team utilizing Six Sigma principles to improve final product yield by 0.5%, resulting in $250,000 of savings.
• Developed a job instructional training program responsible for identifying gaps in operator performance and standardized key responsibilities to improve overall productivity.
• Initiated an RFP for packaging to identify low cost, high performance options resulting in $180,000 of savings across three categories of packaging.
• Collaborated with front-line supervisors to identify efficiency losses and created an action plan to correct.

South Holland, IL, US

• Led cross-functional team to improve final product yield by 5%, resulting in $950,000 of savings.
• Spearheaded the implementation of a virtual management system to automatically track minute-by-minute line performance.
• Managed cook and chill operations across all three shifts to ensure balanced cook schedule and standardized cooking procedures resulting in a 10% reduction in overcooked product.
• Increased daily production on capacity constrained line by optimizing product schedule and completing value streams resulting in $120,000 of positive labor variance.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Responsible for all FCRA financial institutions credit data within a 5 state territory.
• Conducted audits and initiated data cleanups to ensure credit-reporting accuracy.
• Analyzed trends in monthly files submitted by FCRA approved companies to ensure accurate reporting.
• Collaborated with upper management to develop training materials for new hires.

Kenosha, WI, US

• Supervised day-to-day management of a team of 34 employees in the packaging department.
• Responsible for meeting daily production schedule of 100,000 pounds of product.
• Exceeded plant-wide production efficiency of 70% and increased efficiency to 75%.
• Monitored required raw material and packaging inventory in order to meet production standards.

Iowa City, Iowa, US

• Identified possible liquid dental polymers using a Stress and Shrinkage Analyzer.
• Cured monomer solutions under UV to observe the “shadow cure” phenomenon.
• Experimented with different monomer solutions to minimize oxygen inhibition in Esstech Nail Gels.
• Increased viscosity of monomers with minimal changes to the monomer formulation in attempt to diminish oxygen inhibition in electron-beam cured free-radical polymer coatings.
• Presented research at the regional conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

South Holland, IL, US

• Tracked and recorded production rates of packaging lines to monitor loss time.
• Identified 30% loss time and collaborated with team to brainstorm ideas on reducing.
• Developed startup procedures for a new $6.5 million production line.
• Performed trend line analysis of machine hours versus labor hours to predict future production costs.
• Simplified room layout following 5S principles.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Conducted continuous improvement activities in Data Acquisition Services.
• Analyzed and reviewed spreadsheets in order to identify errors and initiate updates.
• Communicated daily with 10 person team for list of database corrections.
• Cleared the back log of over 1,000 database corrections.
• Audited information received from Tier 3 financial institutions.
• Developed educational material to be used to teach future Interns and New Hires how to perform continuous improvement activities.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering