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Wilmington, DE, US

• Directed strategic space planning process for divestiture of $6B Nutrition & Biosciences business to IFF. o Led managing process to select disposition of each global facility asset. o Created IT tool describing.
• Directed strategic facilities planning process for $40M+ sale of Chestnut Run Laboratory to new owner, MRA Group. o Spearheaded program to relocate 500+ personnel from Wilmington, DE application development office and.

• Controlled annual facility services budget of $95MM with 7 direct reports leading 200+ employees and 400+ embedded contractors with scope covering facility maintenance, research crafts fabrication, fire and life safety.
• Developed $150M site modernization plan of leveraged operations reducing operating cost per researcher by 50%.
• Facilitated Operational duties of overarching $350MM+ capital renewal project of campus buildings and grounds. Project transformed R&D-centric facilities into a business research center housing 60% of business.
• Guided site through corporate restructuring resulting in a 30% reduction in personnel.
• Defined and executed 5-year facilities capital planning process based on life cycle of building infrastructure components delivering increase in YOY facilities re-investment by 50%.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Transformed process development organization of 50+ technicians, technologists, chemists, and engineers into a valued competency center.
• Programs engaged highly toxic materials (HTM) and significant health risk chemicals (SHRC).
• Achieved 70% reduction in safety incidents through performance management and disciplined stage gating processes.
• Instituted Process Safety Management (PSM) mechanical integrity and quality assurance elements ensuring compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations.
• Ideated and implemented $15MM capital investment in facility consolidation and modernization.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Led 80+ R&D employees including polymer, dispersion, formulation, print testing, and commercial product support.
• Quickly identified need to listen more intently to customer needs and drive learnings into valued technology solutions. Led collaborative exercise with key customers to define voice-of-customer (VOC), establish.
• Guided successful development of crosslinked dispersion and encapsulated dispersion technologies, re-establishing market leading technology with critical OEM and commercial printing customers.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Led team of 8 process engineers and 14 technicians. Team focused on dye purification processes in support of Artistri™ textile ink programs, self-dispersed pigment (SDP) process optimization to overcome inefficiencies.
• Achieved 18% cycle time improvement through refreshed evaluation of process scaling factors, resulting in the most economical three-phase SDP oxidation processing.
• Proposed and guided $1.6MM capital project to relocate process development assets and personnel from satellite lab facility to Experimental Station Site in Wilmington, DE, resulting in a $600K, 10-year NPV.
• Achieved an 18% cycle time improvement through a refreshed evaluation of process scaling factors, resulting in the most economical three-phase SDP oxidation processing.
• Proposed and guided $1.6MM capital project to relocate process development assets and personnel from a satellite lab facility to the Experimental Station Site in Wilmington, DE, resulting in a $600K, 10-year NPV.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Operations Manager, Digital Printing (Ft. Madison, IA) – Managed pigmented dispersion and digital ink manufacturing operations and guided site capital planning
• Operations Leader, Automotive Finishes (Front Royal, VA) - Led paint manufacturing operations and co-led site quality assurance team in a high-performance team environment