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Rohnert Park, CA, US

New Barn Organics is a plant based food and beverage company. We make simple, nourishing organic food that honors the land and the people who produce it.

Modesto, CA, US

Crystal Creamery is the largest privately owned dairy in California with operations at two plants and eight depots. Northern California consumers associate the Crystal Creamery brand with the freshest, local dairy products. The Humboldt Creamery brand was founded in 1929 by a cooperative of dairy farmers. Today the brand is associated with the delicious.

In 2013, Hostess was purchased by the investment firm Apollo Global Management and Metropolous & Company, which previously owned the maker of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and specializes in reviving consumer brands. Among the products included were Hostess's Twinkies®, Ho Hos®, Ding Dongs® and Donettes® snack cakes. I was tapped by the new ownership to turn.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Premium Waters is a private-label bottled water company. PWI operates multiple plants including locations in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia.I developed the brand new supply chain strategy and helped lead the sustainable growth of PWI in the fast-paced bottled water category, sponsoring a lean.

Chosen to lead $60mm Glacier Clear (bottled water company owned by DFA) in 2000, we were able to take the company out of bankruptcy to profitability within 8 months and sold Glacier Clear to PWI in April of 2002.

Led plant team of Hill's most productive plant in the production of 1.2mm lbs of pet food per day, lowest cost producer in the Hill's system.

Kansas City, KS, US

I oversaw 3 cheese plants in the upper Midwest as well as VP of Productivity for all DFA manufacturing facilities. I performed this role for just 6 months at which time DFA asked me to take over CEO/President role of a bottled water company that DFA had just purchased out of bankruptcy.

Topeka, KS, US

Responsible for leading the lean transformation that had started 12 months prior to my arriving, plant was only large can operation in the system as well as dry food production

Oakwood, Georgia, US

Dutch Quality House® provided ready-to-cook, ready-to-eat specialty and prepared foods.

Calistoga Mineral Water was one of the first and oldest bottled water producers in America. I took on a turnaround opportunity in Calistoga, including revamping plant and workforce and improving all operational metrics.

Purchase, New York, US

Great opportunity to lead the Frito Lay research and development manufacturing plant. The plant's role was to produce new products for test markets which meant the plant and teams were very flexible in running multiple lines all in the support of new products

Purchase, New York, US

I went to work for Frito Lay after graduation, within my first 2 months I was given the start up assignment of the 3rd shift cracker line which included 42 team members. I worked my way up to the position of Operations Manager in Frito-Lay's R&D manufacturing plant.