Design Engineer
Resume:
Allen Aldridge CPP . 973-***-**** . 973-***-****
Current Job Title: Senior Associate Principal Engineer
Packaging engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and
developing paperboard, flexible and ridged plastic containers for consumer
goods products.
Mondel?z/Kraft/Cadbury Experience
2004 - Present Senior Associate Principal Engineer - Packaging RD&Q
Global Chewing Gum - Whippany, NJ
. Innovation lead for Global gum packaging in Kraft Center of Excellence
for gum and candy. Providing design and packaging management for
several global packaging initiatives.
. Work cross functionally with marketing, supply chain, legal,
regulatory, etc., to help oversee successful delivery of multiple
projects. Responsible for ideating, discovery, Proof of Principal
(POP) trials, creating detailed project timelines, product
development, project status reports and presentation of project
results to Management.
. Leading NA packaging team for the migration from legacy Cadbury to
Kraft specification system. Built team to identify, update and
migrated over 900 unique packaging material specifications including
criteria for material characteristics, quality standards and packaging
instructions.
. Development of new environmentally sustainable confectionary packages.
. Manager of 4 direct reports plus 3 indirect reports
Prior Experience
2002 - 2004 Adams division of Pfizer Inc. Morris Plains, NJ
. Package Design Coordinator for Gum packaging. Managed packaging
graphics with designers and convertors. Developed timelines and
attended press runs for press approvals.
. Digital Asset management - developed and maintained intranet site for
global management of Adams confectionary graphics including die lines,
logos and illustration bank. Established online intranet global design
standards catalog.
2000 - 2002 Schering-Plough Healthcare, Berkeley Heights, NJ
. Associate Package Design Manager - Managed all aspects of foot care
packaging graphics including, developing design briefs, working with
creative agencies, creating estimates and timelines and attending
press approvals. Developed several special projects including a color
management program and initiated a digital asset management system.
Managed the packaging graphics re-design of consumer products
including: Tinactin, Lotrimin and Clear Away.
1994 - 2000 Nabisco Foods Lifesavers Division, Parsippany, NJ
. Senior Package Design Coordinator - Managed all aspects of the
packaging design and production process including vendor management,
project tracking and reporting, approval of designs, copy and printing
for four different candy brand groups; Gummy Savers, Bubble Yum, Now
and Later and Intense Fruit Chews.
1979 - 1994 Self-employed Consultant Aldridge Design and Double A Graphics
. Owner operator of design firm specializing in packaging for 15 years.
Providing structural and graphic design for consumer goods companies.
Accounts included: Shelcore Toys, Somerset, NJ; Briarpatch, Millburn,
NJ; Nabisco Foods, Parsippany, NJ; Landor Associates, NYC, Foote, Cone
and Belding ad agency, NYC; Interbrand agency, NYC; American Home
Products, NYC.
List of Awards
. 1st place Global Innovation Forum - Disruptive package (12)
. Kraft Inventing Delicious Excellence award ('10)
. Kraft Prism Award Jellybean ('10)
. Cadbury Innovation Excellence award for Trident Layers ('09)
. Cadbury Presidents Award for Stride ('08)
. Cadbury Prism Award Science for Students ('07)
. Paperboard Packaging Council Excellence Award Stride package ('07)
. Cadbury Prism Award Innovation Showcase ('07)
. Ameristar Award winner for Trident EZ-Close package ('06)
. Cadbury Prism Award Project Fun ('06)
. Cadbury Prism Award "Rico" ('05)
. Cadbury C&D Leadership Award ('05)
. IOPP CPP status from ('04)
US Patents Granted
7,958,998 Reclosable blister package assembly
7,913,846 Packaging design with separate compartments
7,901,719 Gum slab package with flap retention
7,811,614 Gum slab package having insertable product retention member
7,686,165 Packaging design with separate compartments
7,569,008 Packaging design with separate compartments
7,533,773 Reclosable consumable product package assembly
7,325,686 Package for dispensing and retaining gum slabs with adhesive
securement
D540,668 Cover flap for confectionary product container
7,159,717 Packaging design with separate compartments
D519,386 Confectionary product container
D512,304 Gum slab product package
8,252,352 Gum slab package with flap retention
8,221,812 gum slab package having insertable product retension member
8,172,086 package desisn with separate compartments
8,172,085 reclosab le blister package assembly
d645,735 closable product package
7,971,718 package for dispensing and retaining gum slabs with adhesive
securement
Patents Filed and Pending
201******** METHOD FOR FORMING A PACKAGE ASSEMBLY FOR DISPENSING AND
RETAINING GUM SLABS WITH ADHESIVE SECUREMENT
201******** RECLOSABLE BLISTER PACKAGE ASSEMBLY
201******** RECLOSEABLE COMESTIBLE PACKAGING
201******** GUM SLAB PACKAGE WITH FLAP RETENTION
201******** TRAYLESS DISPLAY FOR A COMESTIBLE
201******** PACKAGING DESIGN WITH SEPARATE COMPARTMENTS
201******** COMESTIBLE DISPENSING PACKAGE
201******** COMESTIBLE PACKAGE WITH CLOSURE
201******** FLIP OPEN PACKAGE WITH TIERED COMPARTMENTS
201******** ROUNDED PACKAGING FOR COMESTIBLES
201******** PACKAGING DESIGN WITH SEPARATE COMPARTMENTS
201******** GUM SLAB PACKAGE HAVING INSERTABLE PRODUCT RETENTION
MEMBER
201******** MULTI-REGION CONFECTIONERY COMPOSITION, ARTICLE, METHOD,
AND APPARATUS
201******** CONFECTIONERY COMPOSITION, ARTICLE, METHOD, AND APPARATUS
201******** CONFECTIONERY COMPOSITION, ARTICLE, METHOD, AND APPARATUS
200******** PACKAGING AND DISPLAY TRAY FORMED FROM INTERLOCKED BLANKS
200******** RECLOSABLE CONSUMABLE PRODUCT PACKAGE ASSEMBLY
200******** BLISTER TRAY PACKAGE
200******** PACKAGING DESIGN WITH SEPARATE COMPARTMENTS
200******** Package having a dispensing opening and fold over flap
200******** Resealable packaging
200******** Package for dispensing and retaining gum slabs with
adhesive securement
200******** Reclosable blister package assembly
200******** Sealed package for multiple products
200******** Packaging design with separate compartments
200******** Package for accommodating an array of consumable products
200******** Reclosable consumable product package assembly
200******** Confectionary packaging design
200******** Package for dispensing and retaining gum slabs with
adhesive securement
200******** Gum slab package with flap retention
200******** Gum slab package having insertable product retention
member
200******** Packaging design with separate compartments
200******** Packaging design with separate compartments
Fields of Expertise
. Consumer insight - Understanding of consumer trends and needs in on
the go packaging
. Package Design - Understanding of design applications in 2D and 3D cad
programs - Artios CAD, Solidworks and Illustrator.
. Patent Protection - Understanding of how to create space around IP to
avoid encroachment from competition.
. Package Barrier - Understanding of different material properties, how
to construct an appropriate barrier package that is manufacturable.
Ability to create prototype packaging + product to recreate real life
environment stability testing
. Practical experimental design - Can set up efficient experiments
(statistically designed or not) to obtain necessary information to
solve problems.
. Interactions - Both theoretically and practically, have understanding
of paperboard/film/adhesives-machine, paperboard/film/adhesives-
environment, paperboard/film/adhesives -product interactions.
. Packaging machinery - particularly product wrapping, cartoning, over
wrap and display tray forming.
. Shelf life and sensory - Understanding of the science and practical
application.
. Manufacturing requirements - Experience-based understanding about
process capability, operating windows, and the impact of packaging
changes.
. Packaging Specifications - From end-user perspective.
Education
MBA Kean University 2010
BFA New Jersey City University 1977
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