Geoff Nichols
Business Development Manager at Herculite Products, Inc- Claim this Profile
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Sharon Fowler
Geoff was a great asset to the company we worked for especially with product development and printability issues. I learned a great deal from him.
Michelle Cole
Geoff is a highly accomplished leader and Six Sigma Black Belt who drives change and delivers both innovative strategies and business solutions. His diverse background, excellent leadership skills, and strong work ethic enable him to quickly access and solve complex business problems while balancing technical, operations, and business demands. As a Process Engineer at Avery Dennison, he skillfully aligned business leaders, customers, and suppliers across the globe to help start-up a new business and drive sustainable process improvements. He thrived in this fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. He demonstrated his ability to link strategy and execution by translating complex technical issues into business language and by using business analytics to develop executable processes that drove accountability and balanced the risk/ reward ratio. This project required collaboration across 6 countries to both specify and install equipment and to develop and execute the process and procedures. His results-orientation combined with the unique combination of excellent leadership AND technical astuteness make him an asset that is difficult to replace. Thank you Geoff for both what you delivered and for what you taught me along the way.
Sharon Fowler
Geoff was a great asset to the company we worked for especially with product development and printability issues. I learned a great deal from him.
Michelle Cole
Geoff is a highly accomplished leader and Six Sigma Black Belt who drives change and delivers both innovative strategies and business solutions. His diverse background, excellent leadership skills, and strong work ethic enable him to quickly access and solve complex business problems while balancing technical, operations, and business demands. As a Process Engineer at Avery Dennison, he skillfully aligned business leaders, customers, and suppliers across the globe to help start-up a new business and drive sustainable process improvements. He thrived in this fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. He demonstrated his ability to link strategy and execution by translating complex technical issues into business language and by using business analytics to develop executable processes that drove accountability and balanced the risk/ reward ratio. This project required collaboration across 6 countries to both specify and install equipment and to develop and execute the process and procedures. His results-orientation combined with the unique combination of excellent leadership AND technical astuteness make him an asset that is difficult to replace. Thank you Geoff for both what you delivered and for what you taught me along the way.
Sharon Fowler
Geoff was a great asset to the company we worked for especially with product development and printability issues. I learned a great deal from him.
Michelle Cole
Geoff is a highly accomplished leader and Six Sigma Black Belt who drives change and delivers both innovative strategies and business solutions. His diverse background, excellent leadership skills, and strong work ethic enable him to quickly access and solve complex business problems while balancing technical, operations, and business demands. As a Process Engineer at Avery Dennison, he skillfully aligned business leaders, customers, and suppliers across the globe to help start-up a new business and drive sustainable process improvements. He thrived in this fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. He demonstrated his ability to link strategy and execution by translating complex technical issues into business language and by using business analytics to develop executable processes that drove accountability and balanced the risk/ reward ratio. This project required collaboration across 6 countries to both specify and install equipment and to develop and execute the process and procedures. His results-orientation combined with the unique combination of excellent leadership AND technical astuteness make him an asset that is difficult to replace. Thank you Geoff for both what you delivered and for what you taught me along the way.
Sharon Fowler
Geoff was a great asset to the company we worked for especially with product development and printability issues. I learned a great deal from him.
Michelle Cole
Geoff is a highly accomplished leader and Six Sigma Black Belt who drives change and delivers both innovative strategies and business solutions. His diverse background, excellent leadership skills, and strong work ethic enable him to quickly access and solve complex business problems while balancing technical, operations, and business demands. As a Process Engineer at Avery Dennison, he skillfully aligned business leaders, customers, and suppliers across the globe to help start-up a new business and drive sustainable process improvements. He thrived in this fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. He demonstrated his ability to link strategy and execution by translating complex technical issues into business language and by using business analytics to develop executable processes that drove accountability and balanced the risk/ reward ratio. This project required collaboration across 6 countries to both specify and install equipment and to develop and execute the process and procedures. His results-orientation combined with the unique combination of excellent leadership AND technical astuteness make him an asset that is difficult to replace. Thank you Geoff for both what you delivered and for what you taught me along the way.
Experience
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Herculite Products, Inc
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United States
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Textile Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Development Manager
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Feb 2021 - Present
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Division Manager
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Feb 2014 - Feb 2021
Lamination of narrow plastic reinforced products for industrial, agricultural, and tent products. Lamination of narrow plastic reinforced products for industrial, agricultural, and tent products.
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Cooley Group
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United States
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Textile Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Manager
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Aug 2009 - Jan 2013
Promoted to Product Manager for the largest division within the company reporting directly to the VP of sales. In this role I was responsible for all internally produced products and all sourced and imported products. Launched two successful products in the first year in this position. Responsible for all technical aspects and support for our global customer and supplier base
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Plant Manager
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Feb 2008 - Aug 2009
Promoted to Plant Manager to stabilize the operations and focus on building a team that could take the organization to the next level. Responsibilities included P&L statements, human resources, daily operations, safety and asset allocation.
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Quality Manager
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Feb 2002 - Feb 2008
After successfully turning around a turbulent converting operation, was quickly promoted to Quality & Converting Manager while maintaining Converting Manager responsibilities. Major responsibilities include: Strategy team representative, corporate quality and improvement initiatives as well as converting operations and new product development / implementation (see below), customer complaints, on-site quality lab, and process engineering and design at the Lancaster Film Extrusion facility.
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Avery Dennison
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United States
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Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Process Engineer
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Apr 1993 - Feb 2002
Start up of the self adhesive postage stamp, Duracell Powercheck label. Recruited as a printing expert and operator at the infant stage of the business life cycle, the challenge was to start-up a new process and plant. During this dynamic and intense life cycle of development, growth, maturity and decline, was selected for promotions to Tooling Coordinator to Project Engineer to Tooling Manager to Process Engineer based on outstanding performance. Gained expertise in negotiation, vendor relations, capital management, and was a key member of a team that successfully launched an $80MM business. In this role I was a core team member of the powercheck battery label of 9 people. As the business and demand of the product progressed the number of employees increased by over 300% resulting in a business that is still in production today.
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Lead
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1984 - 1992
Mastercraftsman Press operator / Lead supervisor. This facility was one that produced high end quality labels. These labels were produced on some of the finest Mark Andy and Gallus presses. They were a variety of print methods; rotary screen, flexo, letterpress, and offset. My daily responsibilities were to oversee the rotary screen printing department, to ensure specifications were met that the customer had defined. This included color, graphics, label size, quantities, and any other attribute the customer provided.
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Aide
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1984 - 1988
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Education
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2004 - 2008
RIT
Science, Quality, Engineering, Science -
1980 - 1983
Bradford High
High School, Petroleum Engineering, Mathmatics
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