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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Miamisburg, Ohio, United States

Developed and maintained manufacturing schedule in coordination with machine outages, machine constraints, raw material availability and groundwood requirements while optimizing grade and basis weight sequences across six paper machines. Assured adherence to customer requirements by maintaining flexible machine schedules and utilized unplanned inventory and stock. Assumed additional duties for #3 paper machine when it was restarted to make specialty papers. Served on both Groundwood #4 Offset on and Roto product teams. Assumed duties of Sartell-based mill planner upon the shutdown of the two SC paper machines. Worked directly with the coated machine line manager on all scheduling issues, approved trims from all three planners, and placed active schedule into Majiq. Applied and rewound all unassigned inventory. Assisted Optivision team with conversion to new order management system. Participated in mill Kaizen event to increase groundwood productivity at Androscoggin. Served as back-up to department director in his absence. Responsibilities included preparing weekly planning report for distribution throughout the organization. Sought technical assistance from Greycon to improve current trim package in an effort to increase winder throughput at Androscoggin.

Loveland, Ohio, United States

Assisted Inside Sales Reps with logistics issues such as freight analysis, cross-docks, trans-loads, and returning stock. Planned stock for the outside warehouses for Freesheet grades. Participated on the Freight Team to aid business in making logical freight selections for cost benefits. Led On-Time Performance Team. Maganged carrier reporting website.

Responsible for leading and tracking specific efforts captured under the FAST program to reduce mill production costs. Led grade rationalization effort that were the result of International Paper's purchase of Champion International. Initiated many trials involving print quality improvements for rotogravure paper and troubleshot customer quality problems. Acted as Coating Superintendent in the absence of superintendent. Led and coordinated capital projects that related to the coating area. Responsible for completing mill safety metrics on a yearly basis including employee involvement and individual projects to reduce TIR. Participated in recruitment efforts for the Technical Department.

Sartell, Minnesota, United States

Represented the Sartell Mill to engage with customers and CTS representatives to resolve mill quality issues and claims. Implemented and maintained Supplier Quality Assurance programs at the mill. Led multiple Beta team projects in a partnership between Champion and R.R. Donnelley. Served as the Sartell Mill representative during Time, Inc. quality review meetings, relayed customer needs to mill management and ran mill trials to meet changing customer requirements including sheet bulk improvement. Conducted engineered clay trails for cost savings and quality improvement. Developed new grades for customers such as Coldwater Creek, Avon, and Time, Inc. Participated on the corporate roto and offset team as well as in numerous customer meetings with CTS. Sales, Marketing, and other mill representatives. Responsible for evaluation of grade quality after the start-up of the gap former in 2000.

West Nyack, New York, United States

Engineering position in the Coating Department at the West Nyack Technical Center. Majority of projects concentrated on the development of ink jet coatings for the Hamilton Mill. Initiated lab work and pillot trials performed at West Nyack and traveled to the mill for machine trials.

Performed research work for the optimization of existing cast and machine coatings and experimental coatings for future production. Conducted preparatory experiments for and assisted in operational trials.

Engineering Management (Paper Science And Engineering), Paper Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Lambda Chi Alpha; Student TAPPI

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