Engineer Quality Assurance

Douglas Neil Frost

Email: abo94p@r.postjobfree.com

Address:

City: Charlotte

State: NC

Zip: 28211

Country: USA

Phone: 704-***-****

Skill Level: Any

Salary Range:

Primary Skills/Experience:

25 years of packaging experience on both end user and converting sides of the fence. Primary focus on flexible packaging applications for frozen foods, coffee, retort, tobacco and pet food applications.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 1/2001 to 8/1984 (Materials Engineering, Polymer focus)

Job History / Details:

Summary

25 years of packaging experience on both end user and converting sides of the fence. Primary focus on flexible packaging applications for frozen foods, coffee, retort, tobacco and pet food applications.

Skills

Diverse knowledge of customer packaging challenges and correlation to converting material/process solutions.

Balanced interaction with internal Sales, internal plant production and external customer production and quality teams to find solutions to issues and meet challenges.

Experience

July 2000 to Current

Sonoco - Flexible Packaging Charlotte, NC

Account Development Manager

Manage the technical side of the end user flexible packaging applications

Specify packaging components to meet shelf life and machining requirements

Develop new structures for innovative options to customer challenges.

Assist converting plants in performance-based tests for quality assurance

Direct problem solving efforts for customer and internal converting resolution

Focus on retort packaging, tobacco, coffee, frozen and pet food markets

Co-Designer of a microwave-venting package for frozen food application

Provided technical input and trained peers on new system to quote structures

Collaborated with 3rd party converters (pouch makers) to meet end-user needs.

May 1995 to June 2000

Snyders-Lance Charlotte, NC

Corporate Technical Packaging Manager

Originated a packaging material vendor rating system (still used today).

Supported all aspects of the packaging materials used in all production areas (film, folding carton and corrugated)

Collaborated with engineering group during installation of automation upgrades

Authored specifications for all packaging films, cartons and corrugated items.

May 1991 to April 1995

Eagle Snacks (Anhuesher-Busch) St. Louis, MO

Corporate Packaging Engineer

Established bag dimensions and case size standards for all new snack food products

Instituted post-bag fill packaging test methods for production plants

Coordinated annual packaging material cost saving initiatives (film & corrugated)

Provided corporate support on packaging issues for seven production plants

Maintained supplier relations between plant and corporate purchasing Implemented a material specification system for films, cartons and corrugated

Created variable bag-fill volumes for high-altitude shipments of snacks

March 1987 to May 1991

PMS Consolidated Buford, GA

Corporate Process Engineer

Monitored extrusion equipment for seven plastic-additive extrusion plants.

Compiled monthly summaries of production throughputs and efficiencies Coordinated the data collection for EPA reporting of hazardous materials New equipment evaluation analyzes for lab and production areas.

May 1984 to March 1987

Printpack Inc Atlanta, GA

Process Engineer Coextrusion Dept

Wrote specifications for coextruded films (four extruder, 102 cast line).

Supervised 3-shift quality control lab, established test procedures Provided technical support for process meat and boil-in-bag applications Process optimization studies for multi-layer film, multiple die production.

Education and Training

1984 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC

BS Materials Engineering, Polymer focus

Co-Operative Education program from 1980 - 1983 David Taylor Naval Ship and Development Center as a Materials Engineer trainee in the composite propeller development program for Naval Surface landing ships

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