Aurora, Ohio, United States
Driving packaging material sustainability advancements covering all of Nestlé USA for Design for Recycling (D4R) and Virgin Plastic Reduction (VPR) to deliver Nestlé's Vision of "None of our packaging ends up in landfills or as litter".
Lead the structural packaging development of sustainable packaging. Driving design for recyclability, virgin plastic reduction, paperization, and fit for purpose initiatives both by division and enterprise wide.
Packaging lead for developing recyclable CPET light barrier shrinksleeves with light blocking properties, launching the 2nd generation SBUX Creamer cap, industrializing recyclable polyolefin shrinksleeves on Ovaltine, designing and industrializing a new Coffee-Mate overcap design, and successfully industrializing impact co-polymer Coffee-Mate caps to address for breakage
Packaging specialist supporting ensure supply material shortages and defect correction across multiple material categories from qualifying back-up PET resin qualifications to material defect correction on spin trimmed extrusion blow molded containers as well as capability exploration on adsorption isotherms for beverage powders for shelf life evaluations
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT: Communicate as lead with new and existing customers and distributors, both global and domestic, in designated territories and coordinate with production, engineering, and quality teams. • Drive quality, delivery, performance, and new product development across Southern California, Sweden, Turkey, Australia, Russia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and South Africa. • Communicated end user concerns and requests to engineering and marketing to initiate 109 engineering changes, 24 new products requests, and 100+ website changes. TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS: Deliver customer-specific application support for a wide product mix, including Piezoelectric and DC MEMS Accelerometers, Dynamic Load Cells, Modal Hammers, and Pressure Sensors. • Develop 350+ concise and effective solutions for 200+ end users in the fast-paced test and measurement environment, including Vibration Lab, NVH, HUMS, HALT/HASS, and Flight Testing applications.
SALES: Delivered daily technical B2B sales for a superior client experience, envisioned and executed technical and commercial proposals, and utilized experience in contract negotiations for sustainable market growth. • Generated 200.9% annual revenue growth, drove profitability with 770 basis point increase to 42.4% EBIT. • Grew NDT inspections revenue by 69.8% by upgrading equipment and work area, streamlining processes, and accelerating output in heightened demand through adding flexible workforce. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: Led a team of six skilled labor direct reports who managed service and inspections. • Developed employees through offsite technical training, standardized calibration scheduling, and extended access roles to field operations software for better asset management. OPERATIONS: Reconciled P&L statements and orchestrated resources to meet project deadlines. • Implemented Lean principles (visual Kanbans, 5S, shadow boxing), resulting in established min-max levels and redeploy for an average 94.2% drop in DSOH and 31.3% reduction in financial inventory. • Achieved 99.92% operating efficiency by successfully deploying two new underreaming technologies while setting and re-setting three world records in tool size and type for Rhino® XC & XS2 products. • Lifted asset utilization by 14.6% through reduction of total tool fleet, expansion into new workspace, and active engagement of technicians on work order goal setting.
PRE-/POST-JOB: Educated location personnel in planning and analysis to expand sales knowledge in three primary product lines through full command of the suite of proprietary modeling software. • Led record North America casing exit run and co-published resulting case study, which involved in-depth application research into global best practices, parameter selection, and risk mitigation plans. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT/ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS: Tracked product performance and improved assembly, operation, and cutter selection. Executed failure analyses, evaluations, and engineering changes. • Revamped Drilling Record System reporting, including 300+ job logs driving innovation of a legacy product. NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Tracked new technology performance for multiple products with detailed field test reports to share with design engineering, reliability, operations, and business development. • Operated the first run in North America for Rhino® XC ream-on-demand technology in Alaska.
• Developed knowledge through classroom lecture and hands-on field maintenance of core product lines in five facilities and completed Engineer-In-Training courses for two business segments.
Revised and wrote Qualification Test Reports and Procedures under the apprenticeship of a testing engineer as well as updated engineering drawings as part of a product acquisition from Honeywell