Experience

Lyons Magnus

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Vice President of Operations

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Cincinnati Metropolitan Area



Welch's

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Plant Director

  • Sep 2015 - Jan 2021

  Pennsylvania, United States Lead 2 juice processing/manufacturing plants including Welch's flagship plant, all Grape Harvest operations, and all support departments - Engineering, Maintenance/Reliability, Processing, Ops Excellence, Packaging, QAFS, HR, Labor, Planning, Service, Finance, IT, Safety and Regulatory.



Ainsworth Pet Nutrition

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Manufacturing & Operations

  • Sep 2011 - Sep 2015

  Pennsylvania Led and improved successful Operations and Lean Transformation at 2 APN Plants, 2 Distribution Centers, and multiple Co-Man partners. Directed and improved all support areas: Production/Packaging, Processing/Mixing, Extrusion, Warehousing, Lean CI Transformation, Planning, Service, QA, Food Safety, HR, Safety, Regulatory, Sustainability, Engineering, Maintenance, New Product/Package Development. During this time, also consulted professionally via DJP Endeavors on Project Management and… Show more Led and improved successful Operations and Lean Transformation at 2 APN Plants, 2 Distribution Centers, and multiple Co-Man partners. Directed and improved all support areas: Production/Packaging, Processing/Mixing, Extrusion, Warehousing, Lean CI Transformation, Planning, Service, QA, Food Safety, HR, Safety, Regulatory, Sustainability, Engineering, Maintenance, New Product/Package Development. During this time, also consulted professionally via DJP Endeavors on Project Management and Operational Improvement. Show less



Giant Eagle, Inc.

• United States
• Retail Groceries
• 700 & Above Employee

• Plant Director

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2011

  Greater Pittsburgh Area Started up successful Beverage Plant and all support operations in Giant Eagle's venture into beverage manufacturing. Also consulted professionally with a large local Brewer - helped start up Brewery operations, staffed their plant, improved capabilities, landed major Bottling Contracts/new customers.



National Beverage Corp.

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• VP Operations

  • Jan 1998 - Jun 2007

  Ft Lauderdale, Florida Led successful Operations in Eastern Region. Multiple Beverage Plants, all Distribution operations and all end to end support functions. Drove game-changing improvements and fueled company growth and shareholder profit.,



PepsiCo

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Jan 1985 - Jul 1997

  Detroit, Michigan Area Promoted six times to positions of ever-increasing responsibility, across all areas of Beverage manufacturing. Including Production Manager where we achieved World Class output, Quality, and Safety. - and Product Availability Manager that drove game-changing Supply Chain systems and metrics.