Leveraging my extensive professional experience, I’m in charge of day-to-day and long-term operations, including safety, performance, and financial results for a 280-person food packaging manufacturing plant. My job is to build and implement business strategies and roadmaps that entail capital project planning, cost saving verification, financial reporting, maintenance activities, and salaried and bargaining unit training. I’ve been able to mitigate risk and ensure safety for my staff via training, communication, and collaboration. I also bridge gaps between our leadership staff and plant teams to review our successes and failures and strengthen trust through action.● CAPEX Projects: Planned and executed two major capital projects worth combined $75M for production modernization over two-year period which improved production by more than 300,000 cans per day.● Safety Management: Championed all aspects of safety culture change within plant by fostering environment focused onbuilding and using trust to recognize hazards and communicate gaps between cross-functional groups.● Financial Management: Enhanced plant performance while concurrently generating sales increases with internal and externalcustomers by carefully managing plant’s financial performance, including $1M+ in variable and fixed costs.✪ Production Improvements: Sparked significant improvements in plant performance KPIs from 2018 to 2020, including gross line yield turnaround from 65% to 76% in first nine months of 2020.✪ Performance Management: Received perfect AA rating on 2019 BRC audit for entire facility by driving performance improvements to plant food safety program.

During my time as a Senior Brewmaster, I was responsible for strategic planning and execution, financial performance, and overall quality for beer production at the Fort Collins Brewery. It was on me to coach and mentor 12 direct reports (managers) along with 100 floor personnel to deliver first-class products with a focus on quality and production efficiency.Developed strengths of my team to drive improvements in:● Cost Savings: Slashed $500K from annual budget by guiding development and implementation of fresh processes that enhanced workflows and efficiencies.● Operational Excellence: Won 2017 Global Budweiser Cup for sensory category in recognition for developing team of owners and empowering staff to supercharge production, efficiency, and quality.✪ Team Engagement: Increased team engagement from 69% to 83% over 22 month period through careful listening and empower team to solve problems.

Earlier in my career, I managed operations for the utility systems which covered strategic planning, customer satisfaction, $124MVIC energy and fluids budgets, and capital projects. My role was to influence the overall direction and our business success byleading change initiatives and implementing innovative processes, including utility system usage reduction implementationsthroughout the facility. My scope of responsibility included capital project planning, engineering, cost execution, and start-uptasks for department.● Production Efficiencies: Optimized workloads for dayshift while decreasing idle time by overhauling operating engineer taskorganization which replaced $200K+ of annual contract maintenance with existing operating engineer labor hours.● Project Management: Ensured smooth execution of $3.5M BERS solids press project which involved extensive staff training andoperator process management.● Continuous Improvement: Enhanced overall brewery operations while concurrently reducing energy usage 15% and slashingwater usage 45% over five year period.● Professional Growth: Earned promotion in June 2011 from Assistant Brewmaster at Columbus, Ohio location to BreweryResident Engineer in Fort Collins in recognition for successfully executing $6M+ in capital projects.

Advancing levels of brewery operational leadership