Rusty Bender Email & Phone Number

Carol Stream, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

● Oversaw the Chain of Custody process for all Forest Stewardship Council and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification projects.● Supervised and mentored a team of dedicated Quality professionals.● Tracked, trended, and reported all inspections and non-conformances for quarterly review.● Managed all Internal Audits particularly those with a focus on KPIs, customer satisfaction, safety, capital asset management and IT.● Helped facilitate the transition from the ISO 9001:2008 to the 2015 standard.● Managed the calibration of all devices that weigh, count, measure, or scan.● Traveled for onsite Quality sign offs.● Created Quality Dashboard to automatically report on daily supplier status/probation, FSC/PEFC certification, departmental training, Quality Inspections, calibration status, and non-conformances.

Gurnee

Managed all aspects of Chemical Compliance including REACH and Environment and Climate Change Canada. Managing root cause and corrective action investigations of non-conformances, training employees on cGMP and core philosophies, and managing the Calibration system across all four Value Streams spanning four production sites.• Created Computerized Maintenance Management (CMM) system, minimizing audit observations and projected to reduce mean time to failure by 30%.• Automated training reporting exported from our Learning Management System (LMS) reducing process time by 50%. • Supervised a team of QA Specialists • Automated the process of reporting and validating key weekly and monthly metrics, eliminating errors and reducing process time by 70%.• Optimized the process of creating Customer Satisfaction Matrices tracking sales, non-conformances, and On Time Delivery, eliminating errors and reducing process time by 30%.• Managed the transition from MS Excel reporting to Qlik Sense.

Gurnee Il

Facilitating equipment validations including Installation Qualification, Operating Qualification, and Production Qualification, training new hires on SOPs, cGMP, Work Instructions, and good documentation practices, creating Job Instruction Breakdowns (JIBs).• Made significant advances to the Calibration system by challenging go/no go devices on a per use basis instead of a periodic interval. Ensured that all calibration service providers were ISO / IEC 17025:2005 certified with an accredited lab that was an ILAC signatory.• Supervised a team of QA Specialists • Automated Quality forms with Adobe Acrobat and embedded JavaScripts, standardizing responses and continuity. • Managed the successful transition of Quality System reporting from one ERP (Primac) to the next (Radius).• Linked all Quality reporting to obtain a single source of data, reducing errors and redundancy.

Gurnee, Il

Responsible for tracking, trending, analysis and reporting of all non-conformance data. Scheduling and Facilitating the quarterly Plant Quality Meeting (PQM) across all Value Streams and plants.• Created an in-house solution for luminosity rulers reducing the price from $1200 per ruler to 50¢.• Used AppleScript programming experience to enhance Excel formulas in reporting to harmonize data across spreadsheets. Lean Yellow Belt Certification - This certification was a one year program covering the concepts such as Standardized Work, Training Within Industry, Takt Time, Kanban, Five Whys, Poka Yoke, 7S, Plan Do Check Act (PDCA), Kata, Gemba, Kaizen, Muda, DOWNTIME, and Fishbone diagrams. Requirements included three A3 projects, three lean book reports, and an exam.

Waukegan, Il

Processed customer files to make them print ready for production. Managed customer launches, designed promotional packaging and trade show booths. Crafted AppleScripts to automate Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and QuarkXpress. • Designed automated compression system to maintain the integrity of font resource forks while making the transition from an AFP to an SMB file server.• Automated the proofing layout process to maintain consistent sizes, images, and legend placement.• Created a program to build a consistent job folder structure unique to each product line that also retrieves preflight and die information and copies customer files into the correct folder.• Created a program that will convert the artwork of a customer's entire product line into web ready graphics with minimal human interaction, reducing process time by 85%.• Automated digital filing system to enable consistency of job archive folder structure, adding correct file extensions, warning of illegal filing characters, and eliminating the possibility of misfiling jobs.• Designed a PDF flexo distortion calculator via javascript to allow consistent calculation between prepress and flexographic plating.

Taught "Publishing Principles," a course thatdevelops an overview of the printing and publishing process, including paper, inks, press operation and bindery. Students gain experience and knowledge in the area of publication planning, printing specifications and customer/printer relations. Taught "Introduction to Graphic Communication," a course thatintroduces the student to creating digital documents for reproduction. Topics include hardware and software requirements, materials and workflow issues. Emphasizes the construction of digital documents utilizing Adobe InDesign page layout software. Basic knowledge of computer operating system and some familiarity with Adobe InDesign.

Appleton Wi

Image Studios is a full-service photography and video production studio, producing award-winning photos for nearly fifty years. We offer a specialized team of professionals who are motivated by any assignment that can offer a creative and visual challenge. We handle ALL the details from location scouting, casting, set design and construction, prop and food styling. At IMAGE we are leaders in the industry of high-end professional photography and video services for Advertising, Corporate Publications, Catalogs, Brochures, Annual Reports and Websites.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin Area