Experience

M2 Ingredients

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

• Vice President Operations

  • Oct 2021 - Present

• Director Of Engineering and Safety

  • Feb 2021 - Oct 2021



Ballast Point Brewing Company

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

• Director, Engineering

  • Jun 2019 - Feb 2021

  Lead a team of Engineers and Facilities Technicians to improve operational efficiencies, teamwork, and budget performance. Implemented preventative maintenance program and 5s program. Managed capital projects. Drove the establishment of a sustainability committee. Lead Root Cause and Corrective action process.

• Director, Craft & Specialty Projects

  • Feb 2018 - May 2019

  Lead a cross-functional team to support innovation projects. Implemented project management tools and established communication strategies to keep projects on time and budget. Managed Capex submissions for innovation. Performed capability and capacity analysis in support of new product innovation. Provided scenario planning for capacity scale up of innovation products.

• Director of Research and Development

  • Oct 2013 - Feb 2018

  Ran all aspects of a 5 barrel brewery. Created and continually expanded an employee brewing program, allowing employees from all departments, Accounting to Warehouse and Retail to Quality, the opportunity to contribute to the liquid development process, anchoring a robust culture of creativity and innovation throughout the company. Lead the team in new product development. Lead research projects to supply information to production facilities for production improvements and test new ideas. Show less



TE Connectivity

• Switzerland
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Value Stream Manager

  • Jan 2013 - Oct 2013

  Improved Customer Satisfaction by scheduling and prioritizing the order book, and being a direct contact to hear and react to the voice of the customerSet KPI (Delivery on Time, Inventory, Cost of Past Due Orders, Safety, Scrap) and implement recovery plans when targets slippedProvide monthly forecasts on shipments and past due reductionManage all programs and projects relating to the value stream, including supply chain, manufacturing engineering, continuous improvements, new business development, CapEx, logistics Show less

• Process and Manufacturing Engineering Manager

  • Dec 2011 - Jan 2013

  Formally Deutsch Engineered Connecting Devices, now TE Connectivity. Manage Manufacturing Engineering employees and activities including but not limited to, new product development and introduction, lean manufacturing and continuious improvement activities, work across borders between Tecate, Mexico and California manufacturing sites, capital expenditures and ROI calculations, customer audits, tooling, preventative maintenance, OEE, SPC.

• Quality Engineer

  • Mar 2009 - Dec 2011



Qimonda

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Technical Supervisor

  • Jun 2008 - Feb 2009

  Led a team responsible for equipment maintenance, process functions, and operations of batch furnace chemical deposition processes, in a high volume semiconductor manufacturing facility.Directed daily operations, interviewed and hired employees, identified training needs, took disciplinary action and performed other supervisory duties for 16 employees.Improved team productivity over 15% in the first 3 months by providing organizational direction, team building, and coaching and developing employees.Drove operational efficiency, increasing utilization of the automated process qualification system from 12% to over 90% by challenging assumptions, defining job responsibilities, and securing training. - Participated in a cross functional team to help other departments achieve the same success.Focused team efforts on 5S program (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain), improving safety and efficiency. Implemented standard responsibilities and training goals across all shifts for each job type by negotiating with other technical supervisors to achieve consensus.Cultivated a stronger interdepartmental relationship between manufacturing and engineering.Developed and maintained vendor relationships to improve response time and parts lead-time. Show less

• Process Engineer

  • May 2005 - May 2008

  Led a performance improvement team for bottleneck equipment, driving multiple projects to reduce process time, defects, and down time and improve manufacturing logistics. - Eliminated the need for capital expenditure of $1M. - Prepared and presented bi-weekly progress presentations to staff level management. Developed and presented many process change presentations, with a remarkable 100% approval rate. - Changes for process optimization, capacity improvements, cost reduction, and sampling plansEmerged as a department leader owning over half of the department’s processes and training junior and senior engineers.Determined design and performance requirements for new equipment purchases.Reduced equipment installation by 6 weeks, or 33%, by negotiating and working with vendors, technicians, and the equipment engineer and coordinating time schedules, allowing first production to stay on schedule - Received a Qimonda Special Recognition award for this accomplishment.Department leader for New Product Introduction and Ramp Team, resolving a departmental production qualification problem allowing the company to keep qualification on schedule.Responded to a night shift power bump, recovering all tools quickly, minimizing production loss - Received a Qimonda Special Recognition award for this accomplishment.Identified opportunity outside job scope to reduce down time and cost, and improve safety, by trouble shooting the equipment and re-writing a maintenance procedure. Reduced process defects by 35%, improving overall product yield by 2%. Show less



Eltron Research

• Research Scientist

  • Sep 2002 - May 2004

  Reasearch in Materials Science Reasearch in Materials Science



Virginia Commonwealth University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student

  • 1997 - 2001