Engineer Manager

ALBERT MERRILL

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QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Highly skilled manufacturing engineer with more than fifteen years of

experience improving quality, profitability and processes within the pharmaceutical

capsule manufacturing industry. Created global standards for manufacturing equipment

and process parameters. Managed over $30 million in capital projects installing 16

machines in four countries (Mexico, Japan, France, and U.S.).

PROVEN EXPERTISE

Six Sigma Techniques for Process Global Team Leadership and

Control Development

Capital Project Management English, Russian, and Spanish

Standardization/Technology Transfer Proficiencies

Process Troubleshooting and Environmental, Health, and Safety

Improvement Compliance

Effective Decision Maker Cost Reduction/Avoidance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CAPSUGEL (Greenwood, SC)

$800 million global manufacturer of hard and soft capsules (former Division of Pfizer)

Global Manager, Alternate Polymers, 2005 to Present

Developed innovative processes for vegetarian capsules creating new product

generating over $24 million in annual sales.

Developed R&D concept into full production process for new product.

Defined raw material specifications.

Designed equipment modifications needed to run new polymer.

Set global standards for equipment and process parameters.

Connected with customers to better understand market requirements and improve

customer satisfaction.

Redesigned mold pin to eliminate key defect which improved sales of key

product over 50% by taking market share from competition.

Managed global team and black belt projects improving yield and productivity.

Applied six sigma tools to continuously improve process (over 12% yield

gain over past two years).

Identified root cause of several key defects in largest plant improving yield

over 4%.

Implemented water treatment in large Mexican plant providing greater

process stability.

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Manager, Global Environment, Health and Safety, 2001 – 2005

Improved Divisional Audit performance achieving highest overall audit scores of any

Pfizer division (89%).

Improved colleague safety and reduced company liability.

Developed new print guarding standards and installed dust emissions

control on new process.

Supported facilities receiving ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001 certifications.

Served on Pfizer EHS Council contributing to development of Pfizer EHS policy.

Manager, Print Department Maintenance, 1999 – 2001

Led twenty team members maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing 37 printing

machines.

Installed new technologies to control ink viscosity, automate roll cleaning, and

rewired machines to PLC controls.

Reduced line clearance time by 16% by implementing performance tracking and

time studies.

Process Engineer, 1997 – 1999

Oversaw production of eight machines including quality, productivity,

troubleshooting, and maintenance.

Promoted to Senior Process Engineer within one year of hiring.

U.S. ARMY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION (Aberdeen, MD)

Project Engineer (Civilian), 1993 – 1997

Led air pollution control projects including air pollution dispersion modeling, stack

emissions sampling, and air emissions inventories at Army installations worldwide

including munitions disposal facilities.

Developed code for manipulating weather data and estimating emissions from

munitions disposal operations.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

BE Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 1992

ASQ Certified Quality Engineer

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