Experience

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  Ferrero

  • Franklin Park, Illinois

  • Production Systems Development

    • Aug 2013 - Present
    • Franklin Park, Illinois

    Responsible for the overall facility oversight including production, warehouse, maintenance, quality and other support functions required to work during the continuous operation schedule. This includes ensuring that salaried supervisors and the hourly workforce ensure quality products at high productivity and within cost standards. All is done while fostering an open channel of communication, atmosphere and teamwork between departments and shifts.Nestlé is the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company. Our mission of “Good Food, Good Life” is to provide consumers and their pets with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories. Globally, Nestlé employs around 330,000 people in over 150 countries and is headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland.

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  Wilkleanson Inc

  • Bolingbrook, Illinois

  • SENIOR OPERATIONS MANAGER

    • Jun 2005 - Jul 2013
    • Bolingbrook, Illinois

    A privately owned building service and maintenance contractor specializing in construction site projects, facilities maintenance, and real estate owned projects.

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  Diageo

  • Plainfield, Illinois

  • OPERATIONS AREA MANAGER

    • Jun 2011 - Nov 2012
    • Plainfield, Illinois

    Led the operations via use of the manufacturing excellence approach on a daily basis by embedding lean manufacturing tools A1-A6 into the culture via 5S, visual management, asset care, and JIT inventory approach.

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  Mars

  • Chicago, Illinois

  • OPERATIONS AREA MANAGER

    • Jun 2000 - Jun 2005
    • Chicago, Illinois

    The world's second largest confectionery food company with global sales over $14 billion.; PROFILE: Planned, organized and built workforce effectiveness while providing effective management and guidance for a department of 110 Associates (indirect reports), and 4 Operations Line Managers (direct reports).

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  PepsiCo - Frito Lay

  • BUSINESS UNIT MANAGER

    • Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

    Planned, organized, and built a successful department comprised of 45 Operations Technicians and 3 Production Supervisors. Institutionalized the site quality systems to establish and ensure the quality standards for the departments were consistently obtained during production.

  • QUALITY ENABLER/SR. OPERATIONS RESOURCE

    • Jan 1991 - Jan 1998

    During the Plant Start-Up of the Jonesboro, Arkansas Plant, functioned as the primary Quality Enabler/Manager during the launching of the "WOW" production and successfully started up the Quality Control Lab on an expense budget of $240K.

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  United States Marine Corps

  • Noncommissioned Officer

    • Sep 1978 - Oct 1981