In no particular order - this is a list of things I am confident in and bring to the table. They are not embellished. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss any or each of these items in an interview discussion. This list is a result of a not only a 14-year professional career but even starting in early teenage years loving to learn, build, and contribute.

Business & Leadership

    • Global leadership in product and project management driving new product & business development

    • Customer & sales team solutions driver

    • Business plans, including sophisticated risk management, ROI, simulation & optimization techniques

    • Comprehensive background in business finance including a deep understanding of accurate product costing and time-series raw material simulation and optimization

    • Quantitative risk analysis and mitigation strategies, including simulation techniques

    • Confidence speaking to large crowds including under high-pressure circumstances

    • Excellent presentation material preparation for target audiences and effective, succinct message delivery

    • Background conducting training and education sessions in new product development process, quantitative analysis, quality systems, and more

    • Global team leader in launching new, global products

    • Cross-functional team builder and leader

    • Lead marketing and promotion activities

    • Product portfolio and lifecycle management

    • US and global regulation implications

    • Sustainability systems data management and driving marketing initiatives

    • Project manager for product and process development teams

    • Waterfall, Agile, and Lean project methodologies

    • Managing a wide range of project types, teams, timelines, budgets, and business strategy; see Projects

    • Greenfield & brownfield manufacturing plant construction, IT hardware infrastructure, DCS controls systems integration, collaborative software platform beta tester and trainer, R&D technology laboratory & customer business-facing showcase facilities, warehouses, rail spurs (including private party negotiation with Duke Power),

    • Flexible and adaptive to changes in scope from a dynamic and growing business

    • Exceptional cross-department team collaborator

    • Highly knowledgeable of interdepartmental project considerations including business, finance, legal, purchasing, quality, supply chain, R&D, regulatory, product management, planning, engineering

    • Confident product & process development manager from ideation through commercialization

    • Global and wide perspective from manufacturing operations, to engineering, supply chain, finance, and business. These fundamentals bring a unique capability to effectively run cross-functional teams in R&D pipelines - allowing for high percentage chances of success in new product and process development.

    • Tolling management - identifying and converting opportunities of produce vs. outsource

    • Soliciting contract manufacturers

    • NDA, CDA, JVA collaboration and preparation with senior legal and executive teams

    • Drafting supply and licensing agreements

    • Pricing negotiation

    • Managing cradle-to-grave manufactured product technology transfers, including internationally and internal + external transfers

    • Scope expertise and resourcefulness ranges through all aspects of the process, including intellectual property/legal, finance, regulatory, analytical development, quality control, quality assurance, control planning, manufacturing process, and more

    • Managing contractor teams of 30+ including concurrent projects

    • Experience managing architects & firms, structural engineers, electrical, pipe fitters, rigging, concrete, siteworks, HVAC, framers, steel work, roofers, plumbers, finishers, landscapers

    • Low voltage contractor management in access control, audio-visual, networking, comms, IOT

Technical Expertise

    • Specialty chemicals

    • Personal care

    • Pharmaceuticals (intermediates)

    • Home care

    • Industrial

    • HI&I

    • Agrochemical

    • Batch reactors, pilot scale to tens of thousands of gallons

    • Belt, double-belt, and drum flakers

    • Wet and dry vacuum technologies

    • Automated and manual packaging and labeling system

    • Pastillation

    • Crystallization & filtration technologies

    • Centrifugation

    • Tumble, ribbon, and paddle dryers

    • Particle size control via grinding, milling, drying

    • Multi-component distillation

    • Liquid-liquid extraction & phase separation

    • Process flow diagrams (PFD), P&IDs

    • Batch sheet instructions and processes

    • GMP, PSM, RMP, ISO 9001, ISO 14001

    • Leader in HAZOP reviews

    • 30+ chemistries in a manufacturing setting

    • Liquids, slurries, solids, polymers, solvents, and more

    • Go-to person for solving complex customer, quality, equipment, and cross-department issues

    • Formal root cause analysis (RCA) training and leadership for business-critical and time-sensitive investigations

    • Cloud platforms, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS

    • Creating and managing SQL databases

    • Microsoft Access databases

    • Microsoft SharePoint databases and web sites

    • Soliciting Power Automate and PowerShell engineers for time-saving database manipulation tasks

    • Microsoft Excel data tables, where appropriate

    • New product development lab & scale-up batch report reviews and gatekeeper to commercialization

    • Training new product and process development teams in quantitative analysis methodology

    • Statistical analysis - Anova, JMP, Minitab, and others

    • Excel addons @RISK simulation, decision trees, regression, advanced Solver, Power Query

    • Building quantitative models

    • Fundamental and confident understanding of quality control/assurance requirements and capabilities regarding new product and process development processes

    • CFR, Kosher, Halal

    • GMP, cGMP, FDA, ATF, DHS, ISO 9001

    • DCS & PLC I/O design, hardware, & wiring installations

    • DCS recipe programming & management systems

    • CM & SCM programming

    • Excellent Statistical Process Control (SPC) understanding

Self-Improvement

    • ERP systems: SAP, AX, Dynamics, Oracle

    • Salesforce

    • Power user in MS Office products including Excel dashboards, custom VBA macros, pivot tables, and more

    • Beta tester for corporate adoption of collaboration software platforms, including MS Teams and multiple Teams App adoptions (DocuSign, Approvals, Planner)

    • Visio, AutoCAD, TinkerCAD, SmartDraw, MATLAB

    • Hobby programming background

    • Comfortable with virtually all software, having worked with it for 25+ years

    • Participated in steering committee for corporate AI adoption

    • Multiple use cases suggested & implemented

    • Private models vs. open-source, LLM options

    • Small business owner, LLC

    • Strong in personal finance

    • Self-directed investments

    • Self-pulled several city permits for home projects and self-performed all work to code

    • Built full workshop including monolithic concrete slab, A-frame ridge vent roof with overhang soffits, 240V electrical sub panel, vinyl siding, walkway sidewalk

    • Replaced central air HVAC system

    • Installed automated central air HVAC whole-home humidifier

    • Decking stairs addition

    • Heavy equipment operation

    • Building and repairing personal computers and laptops

    • Servers

    • IOT (Internet of Things) devices

    • Self-taught network security, custom routing configurations, virtual networks, advanced firewall rules & VPNs

    • Strict policies and custom firewall rules for IOT (Internet of Things) devices

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