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Engineer Project Manager

Location:
Tallmadge, OH, 44278
Posted:
August 31, 2010

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Jamey Matheny, PMP

*** ****** ** ? Tallmadge, Ohio 44278 ? 330-***-****

ablmae@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

V It is my desire to work for a company where my talents, unique multi-

disciplinary experience and skills in food manufacturing, food safety and

sanitation, maintenance, engineering and project management can be

applied.

V Protecting public health through food safety practices that emphasize

continuous improvement and prevention can best be done by partnering with

and leading all stakeholders to develop, implement, maintain and audit

comprehensive Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP's) that will

deliver sustainable business results while making responsible choices for

the environment and for society.

V Food safety is best approached by implementing a rigorous culture that

emphasizes

o Corrective actions

o Monitoring procedures

o Verification procedures

o Record keeping procedures

Accomplishments

V By leading plant personnel, vendors and contractors I was instrumental in

installing and integrating HACCP Metal Detection on 15 production lines.

I wrote SOP's and conducted operator and maintenance training.

V In partnership with the Quality Assurance department, I was the Project

Manager to lead the initiative to install Manufacturing Control Point

(MCP's) at about 300 locations in the plant. MCP's are magnets,

strainers, filters, fluid draw sample ports and observation access

points.

V I was the Project Manager to engineer, install and integrate Clean In

Place (CIP) systems. This included the writing of SOP's and the

production of PIN charts. Once the SOP's and PIN charts were completed,

the systems were then validated and documented to ensure that desired

results were obtained. This also included employee orientation and

training.

V As a Project Engineer I was responsible to train contractors and ensure

compliance with all OSHA, GMP, Food Safety, Plant Policies and Procedures

to ensure the external people coming into the plant were in compliance

with the same regulations employees complied with. I produced, with the

input from all plant stakeholders, a Contractor Conduct document that

every non-employee was required to read, agree to and sign before they

entered the plant.

V In partnership with the Employee Health and Safety and Quality Assurance

departments I introduced a system to catalog Material Safety Data Sheets

and standardize the handling and storage of chemicals. This system

embraced requirements mandated by OSHA and GFSI.

Experience

V At a dairy foods manufacturing plant I was a team member who helped the

plant successfully attain a passing audit by The British Retail

Consortium (BRC) to be certified as being compliant with the Global Food

Safety Initiative.

V I am a Project Management Professional (PMP ). As you may know, to

become a PMP a project manager is formally evaluated and certified by

the Project Management Institute (PMI ) to have demonstrated experience,

knowledge and skills to lead and direct Project Management teams. A PMP

credential is a global credential earned by the best project managers

after certifying a work history in project management, fulfilling

educational requirements and the successful completion of the PMP exam.

A PMP credential is maintained by earning Professional Development Units

and adhering to a Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

V I have participated in teams to develop Key Performance Indicators

(KPI's) and metrics to track plant performance including GMP and

sanitation initiatives.

V I have worked in a plant and been responsible to engineer systems to

ensure allergens (milk and soy products) were handled, sequenced and

cleaned properly.

V I have extensive experience engineering and managing capital projects to

meet corporate portfolio goals. Projects ranged from $5 thousand to $5.4

million.

V I have experience with starting and sustaining a rodent control programs

at plants that I worked in was done with a partnership with licensed and

certified vendors which resulted in the total eradication of rodents

while using and handling rodicides in compliance with label instructions

and all applicable regulations.

V I have experience supervising and leading teams ranging from 2 employees

to 45, including peer supervisors, managers and hourly workers.

Education

V ESI/George Washington University - Project Management (Associates

Certificate)

V Crosswind Project Management, Inc. (Continuing Education)

V Ohio State University - Business and Engineering (No degree)

V Kent State University, Stark Technical College (Continuing Education)

V Cleveland Institute of Electronics (Distance Learning while I was in the

USMC)

V The University of Akron OH - Business and Engineering (No degree)

V Hondros College - Cleveland, Ohio (I was a REALTOR )

V The United States Marine Corps - Communications Electronics Technician

Skills

V I am diplomatic, motivating and team leader as well as an outstanding

hands-on technician.

V Due to my education, extensive work history and varied responsibilities,

I have expert skills and team leadership talents in most areas of food

manufacturing, food safety, processes, process control, plant

engineering, plant operations, quality assurance, quality control and

sanitation.

V My computer skills are at an expert level. I excel with Microsoft

products such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Project and Power Point. Also, I

am proficient using AutoCAD to produce hydraulic, process flow,

electrical, and floor plan diagrams. I have experience implementing and

using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) used for master

sanitation, asset management and preservation and projects.

V Having good communications skills enables me to skillfully write standard

operating procedures, project charters, statements of work, scopes of

work, and control system functional descriptions.

Employment History

Land O'Lakes, Inc., Kent, Ohio - Project Engineer

2002 - AUG 2010

V My role at the Kent, Ohio facility as the Project Engineer was to apply

my project management skills to a wide variety of capital projects and

teams to support the Kent plant and the Land O'Lakes corporate portfolio.

V Having experience in value added engineering and the project management

of process and packaging equipment systems for food and consumer unit

packaging, case packing, conveyance and palletizing, including robotics

and sophisticated automated manufacturing process control are a couple of

my strengths.

Land O'Lakes, Inc, - Purina Mills, Inc., LLC St. Louis, MO - Project

Engineer

Aug 1992 - 2002

V Purina Mills, Inc., LLC is a wholly owned company of Land O'Lakes, Inc. I

worked for Purina Mills for nine years before I was promoted into Dairy

Foods Engineering.

V I was the project engineer and team leader to manage the project install

automated bag palletizers at 18 plants in 12 states. This included all

the conveyor systems, palletizers, metal detection and stretch wrappers.

The Ohio State University (OARDC), Wooster OH -Supervisor - Physical Plant

Jan 2000 - Oct 2000

V The OSU campus that I worked on was an Agriculture R&D campus.

V As a Supervisor of both the Electrical and HVAC maintenance groups within

the Physical Plant department I lead teams who supported a campus of 125

buildings and 2,220 acres of farmland and all the associated farm

research centers.

Furon Company, Felsted Division Holmesville OH- Supervisor

May 1991 - March 1992

V At Felsted I led the maintenance team as a Maintenance Supervisor. I was

also the 1st shift production supervisor.

The Gerstenslager Company, Wooster OH - Plant Engineer

July 1980 - Feb 1990

V This position supported both the custom body trucks and trailers and

sheet metal stampings divisions.

V As the Plant Engineer I led all of the maintenance teams. Members of my

teams were the Plant Maintenance Superintendent, three maintenance shift

supervisors and the vehicle maintenance supervisor. There were a total

of 45 maintenance persons on various maintenance teams.

Community Volunteer Activities

American Red Cross 2007 - Present

V As a highly trained volunteer and experienced member of the Disaster

Action Team of Portage and Summit counties, Ohio I am a DAT coordinator

that leads teams to serve people who have been affected by disasters. I

actively serve the communities of Summit and Portage counties by

responding to disasters of all types.

V I am a certified trainer in CPR, AED and First Aid.

Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc.

V I am a certified adult literacy tutor. This required specialized

classroom and self paced training, study and testing to obtain this

credential.

T.R.Y. (Truly Reaching You) 2010 - Present

V Truly Reaching You Ministries is a relationship-based reentry

organization in Akron, Ohio that reaches out to men who have served their

sentence and are returning to their communities. As a volunteer to this

organization I serve in whatever capacity needed to help them begin their

lives anew while avoiding past mistakes by learning new life skills and

positive habits.

Professional Affiliations:

V Member of the Project Management Institute and I am affiliated and active

with the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Project Management Institute.



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