Experience

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  McCune Consulting

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Consultant

    • Nov 2011 - Present
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    • Packaging areas of interest include food, drugs, medical instruments, transportation/handling, and environmental impact.• Presented to Tarrant County Public Health group on correlation between packaging and public health.• Initiating conversations with local non-profit organizers on the role pa...

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  University of North TX Health Science Center Fo...

  • Fort Worth, Texas

  • Doctor of Public Health Graduate

    • Sep 2001 - Aug 2011
    • Fort Worth, Texas

    Doctorate of Public Health conferred May 14, 2011• Examined new requirements for health care packaging includingopportunities for 
counterfeiting, green packaging, and compliancepackaging. 
• Doctoral efforts focused to packages for food, drug, and cosmetics in support of policy 
role by FD...

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  Gen Probe

  • Greater San Diego Area

  • Senior Manager, Package Engineering and Label Design

    • Sep 2007 - Nov 2010
    • Greater San Diego Area

    • Leadership role tasked with elevating the function of Package Engineering from serving
a research driven product development company limited to putting a product in a box to
a new cost and consumer focus seeing internal and external customers as clients and working to establish creative packagi...

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  Equity Packaging

  • Tarrytown, New York

  • Consultant for Kraft Foods

    • Jun 2007 - Sep 2007
    • Tarrytown, New York

    • Retained for support to Desserts product segment and cost reduction. • Introduced multi division effort to progress development of innovative packaging. • Multiple visits to Midwest manufacturing site to address glass packaging concerns.

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  U.S. Pharmacopeia

  • Expert Committee Member

    • 2000 - 2005

    General Chapters–Packaging, Storage, and Distribution

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  Alcon Laboratories, Inc.

  • Fort Worth, Texas

  • Director R&D, Package Development

    • Apr 1993 - Dec 2004
    • Fort Worth, Texas

    • Directed and supervised International design efforts and analysis of statistical data for strategic package changes to achieve Australian acceptance in face of recall and protect sales in Asia/EU.• Oversaw development of package engineers and cross functional teams responsible for first use of ...

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  The Clorox Company

  • Pleasanton, CA

  • Project Leader II

    • Apr 1990 - Mar 1993
    • Pleasanton, CA

    • Project Leader II responsibility was to establish direction for Packaging Development and to integrate it within the newly established Strategic Business Units of Laundry or Home Cleaning. • Responsible for innovation and creativity of multiple market launch packages for laundry and home cleani...

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  AstraZeneca

  • Newark, Delaware

  • Manager, Package Development

    • Mar 1975 - Mar 1990
    • Newark, Delaware

    • Instrumental in growing the core business function of Packaging Engineering from being a single contributor to a staff of fourteen and establishing a new bricks and mortar office and laboratory dedicated to evaluating packaging dimensions, transportation, and chemistry.• Supported OTC transfer ...

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  United States Navy

  • Lieutenant

    • 1966 - 1969

    • Back to back tours for New Construction/Commissioning for Dubuque LPD-8 and Newport LST-1179. • Following tour was Naval Ocean Systems Command, Global Long Range Sound Detection and Tracking of Soviet Subs and all other vessels of interest.