Manager Operations

R obert Cordtz

**** *. ***** ******** ** Healdsburg, CA 95448 707-***-**** *********@*****.***

Objective ___________________________________________________________________________

A n opportunity to obtain a position in a company that manufactures food or beverage products.

Profile _____________________________________________________________________________

Motivated, personable business professional with over ten years of beverage manufacturing experience. Talent for

quickly mastering technology and problem solving.

Flexible and versatile – able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure. Constant drive to improve systems and

create tools to simplify tasks. Excellent team-building skills.

Skills Summary ______________________________________________________________________

Mechanical Goal Oriented Team Leader

Computer: Hard& Software Cost Analysis Safe & Sanitary

Problem Solving Bilingual (ENG/SPA) Time Management

Professional Experience _______________________________________________________________

VIBRANZ, INC.: CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER 2010-APRIL 2011

Vibranz, Inc. was a start-up beverage company that did $2MM in its first year; I developed the operations

department to have a consistent, compliant, and extremely well documented product.

Responsible for all aspects of producing a probiotic tea:

o Manage a team of four (QA, Logistics, Production, and Brewer)

o Designed many spreadsheets to organize all data around production

Developed the product

o Came up with systems to produce on a large scale

o Managed a relationship with the co-packer

o Formulated eight flavors

o Created a technical reference manual that identified:

Packaging/blending specs

QA analysis procedures

SONOMA CIDER MILL: MULTIPLE POSITIONS 1999-2009

Sonoma Cider Mill was a sparkling juice company that also did co-packing for other beverage companies

(Nestle, Pepsi, Republic of Tea, etc.)

I started working at Sonoma Cider Mill when I was 14, I moved from bottling line operator, to mechanic, up to

Operations Manager.

As the operations manager I:

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Developed a QA department that met the standards of Nestle and Pepsi

I managed a complete overhaul of our bottling line, including purchase, reengineering and

installation of a tunnel pasteurizer.

Put in place weekly reporting systems to help track the movement of the company

Implemented a HACCP plan

At the company’s peak, managed a team of 90 production workers.

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