GEORGE PATTON

*** *. **** ***** **., Fresno, CA *3720

*** *. *********** **. ***** Beach, CA 93449

559-***-**** ac1473@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

I managed the technical program for 14 steel drum manufacturing plants in North America. For two years, I was Plant Manager running a plant with a workforce that varied between 50 and 100 employees seasonally. I’m an expert in quality systems, lean manufacturing, environmental and Dept. of Transportation regulations, assisting manufacturing plants world-wide with their processes, working with customers to develop the best package for their product and working with suppliers to get the best materials for manufacturing. This was accomplished through changes in manufacturing processes, product development and knowledge of requirements for packaging food, hazardous materials and other ladings.

Professional Expertise

Quality Systems, root cause problem solving, complaint resolution

Safety – plant inspections assuring the safety of employees

UN Regulatory Compliance – requirements and testing

Environmental Compliance – air, water and hazardous waste

Lean Manufacturing – optimizing cycle times, OEE

Interior and exterior coatings – performance and regulatory compliance

Coatings applications – Nordson (airless), Kremlin (air assisted airless), rollercoating with a thorough knowledge of optimizing transfer efficiencies utilizing best practices for set up and application

Oven Evaluation – determining the necessary metal temperatures to properly cure paints and linings

Lining requirements – product resistance, FDA conformance and performance

Drum performance – UN performance requirements and limitations, unlined (rust prevention), lined, pressure limits, vacuum limits, temperature limits

Forming steel – properties, surface condition, lubrication

Seaming – triple or double, heavy or light gauge

Tinplating drums – tinplating shells and discs for manufacturing drums

Galvanized drum manufacturing - preparation of bodies and flame spraying to remetallize the welded seam

Professional Experience

Steel Drum Manufacturing 1986 to 2014 – Technical Director - Steel

Greif 1997 to 2014

Assisted all 13 (now) North American plants with manufacturing, UN and environmental compliance

Assistance to sales, customers and presentations to major customers, Coca Cola, Dow Chemical, Chevron, Exxon, Huntsman, Univar to name a few.

Instrumental in the development and installation of Clean Green steel washers in Houston and Shanghai, this system uses no chemicals, just hot water, brushes and ultracentrifuges.

Recent installation of new painting systems in Houston (Nordson), New Orleans (Kremlin) and Stoney Creek, ON (Kremlin). The Stoney Creek system paints all diameters with the drums vertical.

Participated in the development and installation of a 900 drum / hr line in Houston

Rebuilt large and small drum lines in Bladenboro, NC.

Future Projects

Developing an electrostatic lubrication system, that lubricates steel on the coil line and does not require cleaning before painting or lining.

Use infrared ovens that can turn on and off in seconds, saving significant amounts of fuel.

Ultraviolet cured linings that can be cured in seconds without ovens.

Plating Technician, Quality Assurance Manager, Plant Manager - Rheem, NAMPAC 1986 to 1997

Developed quality system, became ISO 9000 registered, maintained all environmental compliance

Product development 2 patents – high pressure drum, integral sealed drum, helical cooling drum, matte tinplate, vinyl lining for foods.

Worked closely with food processors throughout California assisting with hot fill and aseptic packaging in tinplated drums and with aseptic packing in bags in drums.

Wine Chemist – Geyser Peak 1984 - 1986

Wine analysis from crush to finished wine

Bottling

Aseptic bag in box wines

Coatings Chemist

Cook Paint and Varnish 1981 – 1984

Supervised QC lab

Manufactured coil coatings, polyester gel coats, laminating resins and polyurethane foam

Dexter Midland 1975 – 1981

Formulated beer and beverage can coatings

Formulated closure coatings mainly for bottles and jars

De Soto 1973 – 1975

Lab Technician – formulating beer and beverage can coatings

Education

Last school, California State University Stanislaus, majoring in Chemistry (108 transferrable semester hours). Mainly night school while working from 1973 to 1996, taking courses pertinent to my jobs, 150 semester hours at 6 different colleges

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