Experience

Oregon Cherry Growers

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

• • May 2020 - Present

• • Dec 2018 - May 2020

  Project and engineering lead for major renovation of The Dallas facility including optical sorting.

• • Apr 2015 - Dec 2018

  Responsible for operations, engineering, quality assurance, R&D, planning and inventory for multi location cherry processing growers owned coop.



J.R. Simplot Company

• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Dec 2007 - Apr 2015

  Reporting directly to the Board of directors, responsible for profit and loss of a Sino-American JV frozen potato products manufacturing facility. Local staff direct reports included Engineering, production, logistics, raw product procurement and development, Quality assurance, finance, administration, HR and customer relationship. Primary customer is McDonald’s China.>400 employees in 4 proveniences, operations in Beijing, Hebei and Inner Mongolia

• • Oct 2000 - Nov 2007

  Responsible for all aspects of frozen potato products manufacturing facility. Engineering, quality, environmental, safety, HR, admin. 400 hourly union, 38 salaried. 6 direct reports. 450 mm lbs. annual production. 24 HR/ 7 days per week. 3 production lines. 4 packaging lines. Export market specialty. McDonald’s supplier



Nestlé

• Switzerland
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Logistics Manager

  • May 1998 - Oct 2000

  Managed $11.5 mm, >1 billion lbs., distribution and inventory management dept. Responsible for inventory accounting, deployment and accuracy, 3rd party warehouses. Developed first effective strategic inventory planning and deployment systems. Negotiated storage contracts with 3rd party vendors. Team member for SAP and Manugistics business solutions implementation. Supervised 4 salaried, direct reports Managed $11.5 mm, >1 billion lbs., distribution and inventory management dept. Responsible for inventory accounting, deployment and accuracy, 3rd party warehouses. Developed first effective strategic inventory planning and deployment systems. Negotiated storage contracts with 3rd party vendors. Team member for SAP and Manugistics business solutions implementation. Supervised 4 salaried, direct reports



McCain Foods

• Canada
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Engineer, R&D center

  • 1995 - May 1999

  Responsible for project work in R&D, Industrial Eng., and Process development. Specialized in batter and breading technologies and processes. Member of “World Batter Technology Team”. Responsible for project work in R&D, Industrial Eng., and Process development. Specialized in batter and breading technologies and processes. Member of “World Batter Technology Team”.



Universal Frozen foods

• • 1992 - 1994

  Responsible for all manufacturing related activities. Utilize, develop, guide and direct department heads to insure plant profitability. Responsible for engineering, administration, production, sanitation and regulatory affairs to maximize customer satisfaction and shareholder return on investment. Ann. Budget = $8mm, 125 people, 15 direct salaried

• • Oct 1989 - 1992

  Responsible for generation of efficient master production schedules that ensure established customer service levels at least cost. Provide long term and short term production plans for effective budgeting purposes. Led sales forecasting software implementation.



Lamb-Weston

• • 1987 - 1989

  Supervise, direct, coordinate and lead hourly and salaried employees in the operation of the plant on an assigned shift to attain production goals within budgeted cost. Insure company policies, procedures, sanitation requirements, satisfactory employee relations and quality standards are maintained or exceeded. 5 salaried, 250 hourly non-union crews.

• • 1986 - 1987

  Responsible for performance, training and conduct of 15-20 unionized Quality Assurance Technicians. In sure state and federal regulatory guidelines were meant or exceeded. Responsible for customer specification compliance



Lamb Weston

• Connnell, Washington

• Production Supervisor

  • 1984 - 1986

  Responsible for training, performance and conduct of 30-50 hourly union production employees related to receiving, preparation, processing and packaging of frozen potato products Responsible for training, performance and conduct of 30-50 hourly union production employees related to receiving, preparation, processing and packaging of frozen potato products



New Holland CE - CNH - Fiat Industrial

• Machinery Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Territory Sales Manager

  • 1980 - 1984

  Responsible for the acquisition and development of a strong agricultural equipment dealer sales organization to meet assigned objectives, increase market penetration and foster a favorable company image. Responsible for the acquisition and development of a strong agricultural equipment dealer sales organization to meet assigned objectives, increase market penetration and foster a favorable company image.