• Developed client's departmental organization to service global sourcing and vendor quality. This analysis justified a 20% increase in headcount and created 3 new positions dedicated to New Product Introductions while identifying potential savings of over $500,000 per year.• Developed departmental global travel policy and procedures for client's staff of 34.• Reworked client's Terms and Conditions boilerplate. Revisions incorporated to over 50% of document.• Developed competency spectrum and training plan for supply chain department personnel.• Realized $250,000 cost savings annually (30% of spend) through ingredients supplier, co-packer consolidation and price negotiation.• Designed layouts for one dry and two wet food processing facilities for two separate clients.• Qualified co-packer for organic certification. The only co-packer in Canada certified organic for both wet and dry processes.

Warehousing and Distribution, Project Management

• Developed the first Supply Chain Strategy for client - Metals and Plastics Portfolio. $14MM spend from over 100 suppliers. Other supply chain strategies from other buyer portfolios followed suit.• Implemented Asian metals sourcing strategy to achieve savings of over $1MM in first year vs $7MM total spend.• Eliminated 10% of supply based as a result of hardware VMI implementation.• Managed the first dual Asian/regional sourcing plan for client incorporating features of low cost from offshore and high flexibility/response from local supply. Involved 7 suppliers in total. Ensured supply continuation while reducing safety stocks from 2 months to one month for affected parts.• Implemented supply strategy for electrical harnesses, fans, power supplies and ballasts. $8MM spend and 35 suppliers.• Developed REACH compliance program resulting in 85% positive response from supply base within the first month.• Managed RoHS compliance system for supply chain department.

• Developed the first strategic business plan for a 130MM$ confectionery site, focusing on optimized resourcing and quick change overs to realize the most profitable year to date. • Provided leadership to the site and turned around a sub-performing team of 20 tradespeople so that after one year they ranked first or second in most KPIs. • Reduced changeover times by 50%. Reduced scrap by 50%. Reduced absenteeism to less than 2%.• Initiated, developed and implemented a Quality/Performance Improvement Project for a complex, difficult to run product. Improved productivity, changeovers and quality by over 100%.• Developed a grass roots GMP program for the manufacturing facility and implemented across four production shifts.

• Starting off with primarily regional responsibilities became Senior Buyer with global purchasing responsibilities for grain-based ingredients (pasta, noodles, bread stuffing, cereals) and domestic responsibility for co-packer, food ingredients and packaging, capital equipment, MRO, and supply chain.• Managed the Supply Side of a 70MM$ foods business including ingredients, packaging and co-packing while also managing the grain based ingredients, capital equipment and MRO for a 150MM$ petfood business.• Negotiated savings of $500,000US on breadings and pasta over a two-year period against a budget of 7MM$ US. • Saved 1MM$ on Capital Equipment Purchases over a one-year period against a budget of 3MM$.• Sourced and negotiated for equipment and contracts for the construction of 2 new plants – value 20MM$, one project being a five-month turnaround. • Recognized as an excellent business planner by achieving Actuals vs. Predicted/Planned spend to within 5% each year.

• Responsible for maintenance and operations of a world scale canning plant. MRO budget of $1MM. • Installed various capital projects to $1MM including meat processing, can-filling and packaging.• Achieved equipment reliability improvement from 50% to 95% for extrusion production module. • Lead the capital and operational improvements for the introduction of an innovative canned product new to Mars.

Managed departments of engineers, technical specialists and trades people in a world scale petrochemical plant in Alberta.