Business manager for Morning Foods comanufacturing, cold form bars and cereal.

Design to value team, supporting bar projects.

Sole gatekeeper for Packaging on all Snacks PWR's. Manage 10 vendor reps and 4 contractors executing PWR's while executing 10-12 projects of my own.Interact with Sales, Finance, Marketing, Logistics, Supply chain, Co-packing, Co-man, Specialty Channels and Production facilities to problem solve, develop execution plans and resolve conflict on PWR's.Actively participate in Continuous Improvement of the PWR process.Accomplishments:Successfully executed over 219 projects across Snacks, Kashi, Canada and Specialty Channels in 2010.Partnered with Logistics Innovation to deliver PWR process overview presentations to Kashi, Snacks and Specialty Channels BU's Packaging Engineer - Cost Optimization 2007 to 2010 Responsibilities:Manage cost optimization projects involving all packaging materials for all internal manufacturing plants and external co-manufacturing plants.Report savings tracking against budget to executive leadership teams.Organize project teams from cross functional groups to validate and execute cost savings.Active Technical representation on Corrugate, Stretch wrap and Shrink wrap procurement bids. Accomplishments:Executed over $5 MM in annual cost savings. Generated an average of 4 cost optimization project ideas with over $500M savings potential annually. Successfully eliminated excess secondary and tertiary packaging materials while maintaining package performance.Understanding of the Kellogg supplier bid process, as technical representation for the RFP and clarification meetings while also having responsibility for the qualification and implementation of suppliers.

Adavanced Research and Development for PET bottles, working to qualify and performance test barrier resin technologies. Managed analytical lab including permeation measurement, FT-IR analysis, GC analysis and predictive shelf life modeling.

Quality Engineer responsible for carbonated soft drink containers working with Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury to qualify new designs while addressing any quality concerns with day to day manufacturing. Expert in envirnomental stress cracking.