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Mason, Ohio, United States

Operations Platform Team Director for Hair Care & PC Liquid Making. Working collaboratively with 15 manufacturing locations globally to accelerate value creation and reapply best in class manufacturing principles. Global Hair Care Making Digital Masterplan Owner. Developing digital solutions required for manufacturing of the future including touchless and unattended operations

Mason, Ohio, United States

Delivered $10 Million in net structural saving projects by expanding supplier network for raw materials while maintaining consumer superiority of our products. Owner of Hair Care Engineering Process Design. Delivered new formulation in North America delivering $1MM cost saving with superior consumer performance. Worked cross functionally across technical community in both raw material and engineering platform teams to deliver value.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Manage capital projects to deliver new initiatives or improvements at lowest feasible cost, fastest schedule, and with an instantaneous start-up. Deliver this work through managing and leading cross functional team including commercial team, finance, marketing, HR, safety, quality, and operations.Focused on deodorant/antiperspirant and skin care packing technologies.• Responsible for managing over $13 million in capital projects• Managed technical projects in both consumer goods making and packaging departments• Consistently led five to ten projects simultaneously with different project teams and success criteria • Developed cost estimates for projects in feasibility and conceptual stages• Experience with construction management • Site leader for Capital Systems Management owning $30 million per year in capital spending across multiple project managers. Responsible for providing capital forecasts to executive management of the Skin & Personal Care business unit. See less

Iowa City, Ia

Manage capital projects to deliver new initiatives or improvements at lowest feasible cost, fastest schedule, and with an instantaneous start-up. Deliver this work through managing and leading cross functional team including commercial team, finance, marketing, HR, safety, quality, and operations.• Responsible for managing over $1 million in capital projects• Managed technical projects in both consumer goods making and packaging departments• Responsible for technical specification and site design of liquid making projects• Consistently led five to ten projects simultaneously with different project teams and success criteria • Developed cost estimates for projects in feasibility and conceptual stages• Developed project schedules of varying detail in Microsoft project to manage milestone events through construction activates • Experience with construction management • Site leader for lean project management practices (Engineering Work Process) as a part of IWS (Integrated Work Systems) methodology

Iowa City, Iowa Area

Build and develop highly autonomous and capable team to solve complex problems to enable productivity and cost savings goals.• Responsible for operation that produced $1 Billion in sales of Shampoo and Body Wash including the following brands: Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Herbal Essences, Old Spice, Aussie, and Olay in an FDA regulated manufacturing environment • Managed highly complex business with over 400 SKU’s• Led and managed team of twenty-five operators and technical leaders to deal with challenging business climate• Delivered monthly business results relating to cost savings, reliability, and product forecasts• Led and managed cross functional and diverse teams to deliver projects in production areas• Leader of Progressive Pillar Team in process focusing on equipment maintenance delivering results in Break Down Elimination, Mean Time to Repair, Maintenance & Repair Costs, Maintenance Standardization and Optimization, and 5S Standards

• Building capability on operating teams in loss elimination, autonomous maintenance, and progressive maintenance • Led and designed system reliability improvements eliminating two overtime shifts per month• Identified and delivered over $450,000 per year in cost savings projects• Led and conducted over forty quality investigations improving process and product quality• Site ownership of inventory tracking system and department ownership of loss elimination and progressive maintenance programs

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.76 Gpa

Focused electives on finance and leadership to strengthen skills that are not a focus in an engineering background and are required.

B.S., Chemical Engineering, 3.87

Activities and Societies: Michigan State University AIChE member Member of Omega Chi Epsilon, Chemical Engineering Honor Society CRC.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering