B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Kent State University, Kent, OH 3.50 /4.0GPA

SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE

Packaging Technical Expertise and Project Management - Stage Gate Project

Management, as well as Earned Value Project Management (PMI), (Process

Design, Plant Automation, High Speed Packaging Equipment Design / Layout

Design) for the Food and Beverage industries.

Responsible for proposals, capital and engineering estimates, scheduling,

staffing projects, specifications, project cost and time management, the

leadership and direction of multi-discipline teams, equipment design,

managing vendors and construction contractors, plant consultation on

sanitary construction, CMMS Systems, automation and reporting, startup and

commissioning.

Experienced in processing and packaging of food and beverage: Bulk

ingredient areas, mixing, extruding, sheeting lines, dryers, ovens,

chilling / cooling and robotic pick and place packaging, equipment design,

aseptic, hot and cold fills, CIP Systems, liquid handling, powder, and

solids in bulk, glass, cans, cartons, packets,

Aseptic, hot and cold fills, liquid, powder, and solids in bulk, glass,

cans, cartons, packets, stand-up gusseted pouches, HFFS and VFFS, Machine

design, Flowrappers, bags and shippers. Planned ingredient, dry storage

warehousing, frozen warehousing with pick to light, narrow aisle, high bay,

robotic palletizing, and automated storage.

POSITIONS HELD

2001- Current: Consultant, PM, Sr. Packaging Engineer (LeMond

Management, LLC)

1997-2001 Consultant, Sr. Packaging Engineer (Team Lead, Project Manager)

(Fluor Corp.)

1994-1997 Plant Engineer / Process Engineer (Supervised 45) (Sara Lee)

1990-1994 Site Engineering Mgr. / Process Safety Mgt. (Supervised 60)

(Pillsbury)

1990. Consultant, Packaging-Process Engineer (Conceptual & Integration)

(Sverdrup)

1983-1988 Plant Engineer, Resident (Supervised 40) ($4 B Company)

(Pepperidge Farm)

1974-1983 Project Manager Corporate (Supervised field crews) (Baker

Perkins)

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

( Standards: 3A, AIB, BISSC, USDA (FSES & FSIS), FDA, ATF, cGMP's, EPA,

AQMD,

PSM / RMP, Bio Terrorism Act (FD&C #201f), ISO22000

Certification & Food

Safety Management Program, BRC British Retail

Consortium.

( Training: Project Leadership, Proposal & Engineering Estimating,

Presentations, HACCP, TQM, SPC, IQ, OQ, PQ, Lean Manufacturing,

Change Management, QCDSM (Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety,

Morale), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) Corporate Quality

Standards (CQS), Asset care (7 Pillars), Operator based

maintenance, Maintenance based operation, Quick changeover,

Problem solving (Formal Failure Analysis (FFA) facilitation),

Short Interval Control (SIC), Benchmarking, Sanitary Design of

Machinery,

PLC Programming & Plant Communications, RFID Tagging

Projects, Six Sigma - Black Belt / Lean Manufacturing.

( Computer: ACT, CAD, Solid works, Primavera, SureTrak, MS Project, CAPE,

TOPS, MS Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook, etc.

PRODUCT EXPERIENCE

Bakery: Full process of breads, buns, crackers, cookies, pies,

sweet goods, in trays and flow-wrapped in film, VFS, sweet

rolls in bags, case pack. Also mechanical freezing, case

and palletizing, Fanuc robotic applications.

Beverage: Beer, soft drinks in cans & bottles, plastic & glass,

secondary casing and palletizing, re-useable shippers,

caustic bottle washing, depalletizing, bottle handling

conveying, zero-pressure conveying systems.

Confectionery Full line experience in preparing candy and chocolate

products, chocolate handling, gum products, marshmallow and

hard candies..

Granular: Bread crumbs, four (pouches, bags), sugar (single serve

pouches, bags)

Can Making: Can making, can end systems (metal and paper)

Coffee: Coffee, conveying, casing and palletizing (vacuum pack

bags, cans, metal & plastic)

Frozen: Pizza, breads, rolls, cookies, sweet goods, meats in

cartons, entrees in trays with secondary cartons &

shippers, breads, rolls, cookies, pies, and vegetables.

Juice: Gusseted pouch, hot fill, stand up gusseted pouches,

secondary case packing

Modified Atmosphere: Shelf stable entrees in trays, dinners in trays,

secondary cartons,

.and bakery products.

Pasta: Spaghetti (trays, clamshells, cartons, short goods and

long goods), boxed dinners, CPET frozen tray dinners.

Pet Food: Extruded process, dry and semi-moist pet food (bags and

cans)

Red Meat: Breakfast sausage in cartons and secondary cases,

patties on sheets,

bacon on card, and wrapped, wieners in film, meat cuts in

cases, large

sausage in film, country hams, smokehouse and rail system,

retorting, ham canning

Snacks: Chips (bags & fiber cans & triangular plastic cans, fiber

end cans). Pretzles, full process, single serve, bulk.

Warehousing: Receiving (cans & bottles, bulk & pallets,

returnables), storage racks, order picking (robotic &

manual), fork trucks, RFID systems, conveying.

PARTIAL LIST OF CUSTOMERS

American Home (pasta, flour)

Coca Cola (soft drinks, PET, glass, 1500 bpm)

Dial (stew, breakfast sausage - canned meat products)

DiGiorno (pasta, flour)

Edwards Baking (Pies)

Entenmann's (baked goods)

Florida Crystals (sugar)

Flowers Baking (Pies, full process, and packaging)

Franklin Mushrooms (Organic mushrooms and vegetables)

Friehoffer's Baking Company (breads, buns, sweet goods)

General Mills (Cereals, full process and packaging)

Harlan Bakeries (Pies, full process and packing)

Hill's Pet Foods (Dry and semi-moist)

Interstate Brands (cakes, breads, full process)

Kraft Foods (Juices, Marshmallows)

Kraft Foods (Oscar Mayer)

Lipton (salad dressings)

Miller Brewing (beverage at 2200 cpm and 1500 bpm)

Minute Maid (juice)

Nabisco (cereals, cookies, full process, and packaging)

Nestle (Frozen entrees)

P&G (Pringles chips, snacks)

Pepperidge Farm (breads, cakes, cookies, pretzels, snacks)

Pepsi (soft drinks, PET, glass, 1500 bpm)

Pillsbury/General Mills (pizza, snacks)

Ralston (cereals, snacks, system design)

Rich Products (frozen dough products - breads, buns, biscuits,

cookies, pizza shells)

Russell Stover Candies - chocolates

Safeway (Bakery goods)

Sara Lee Bakery (Breads, buns, sweet goods)

Sara Lee Meats (red meat, bacon, ham, sausage, meat cuts, low temp

rendering)

Smithfield Foods (Ham processing, Turkey Processing, Process and High

Speed

Packaging Design, Sanitary Design,

Project Management)

Tetley Tea (Tea, chocolate, cocoa, syrups)

Tropicana (juice, and juice blends)

Weetabix North America (Cereals)

Weight Watchers - Frozen entrees

Wrigley (Chewing gum, Life Savers, Safety and Capital Projects)

PROJECT EXPERIENCE BY PRODUCT

Bakery

General Mills / Pillsbury, Wellston, OH Plan & specify a new lines to

flow wrap and carton

finished pizza products. (Full process / packaging)

Dare Foods, LTD. Kitchner, Ontario, Canada Project Manager / Engineer

for Cooling and packaging of bakery goods.

Edwards Baking Company, Atlanta, GA. Project Manager for a full pie

baking line.

Entenmann's, Bay Shore, NY Project Engineer for a new baking line, and

several waste reduction studies.

Entenmann's, Chicago, IL, Project Manager to improve chocolate handling,

and the chocolate enrobing process.

Flowers Baking Company, Thomasville, GA. Project Engineer for a pie

baking line.

Friehoffer's Baking Company, Albany, NY. Project Manager, several full

lines: Bread, Buns, Sweet Goods. (Full process / packaging)

Harlan Bakeries, Inc. Indianapolis, IN. Lead Designer / Project Manager

for a pie process and baking / freezing / packaging line.

Interstate Brands, Kansas City, MO. (12 locations) - Lead Engineer in

bread, rolls, cakes, and sweet goods line revisions.

Pepperidge Farm, Willard, OH Project Engineer for several cookie,

cracker, snack and pretzel lines, chocolate tempering and

chocolate and flavor enrobing.

(Full process / packaging / mechanical &

system controls)

Rich Products, Murfreesboro, TN. Project Manager for a automated case

packing area. Eight lines feeding into a full robotic case

palletizing area.

Beverage / Juice

Pepsi-Cola Company, White Plains, NY Consultant to prepare production

line equipment standards and documentation, and CMMS.

Tropicana, Brandenton, FL Lead Engineer to concept, install juice

blending operation.

Cereals

Nabisco, Naperville, IL Project Manager / Lead Engineer in building

addition, as well as two new cereal processing lines. (Full

process / packaging, design & supervision on mechanical and

controls engineering)

Ralson, St. Louis, MO. Project Engineer (Wrote Functional Specification

for automation) for several new product lines, at two

locations: Battle Creek, Sparks Nevada.

Ralston, St. Louis, MO. Lead Project Engineer for new packaging area at

Sparks Nevada.

General Mills, Minneapolis, MN Lead Engineer for a cereal accumulation

area revision, as well as packaging area, and cartoner

redesign.

Weetabix, Clinton, MA Consultant to Capital Improvements and cost

savings.

Entrees

Nestle, Solon, OH. Project Engineer for a study to improve sealing and

conveying for a proprietary equipment line.

Weight Watchers, Massillon, OH. Lead Engineer to improve product

handling, product coding, sealing and several packaging

area improvements.

Processed Meats

Hills Pet Nutrition, Inc. Topeka, KS. Project Manager for dry and moist

process as well as packaging areas. Full layout of bulk

areas, extruding, and process areas to case packer,

palletizing and warehousing areas.

Kraft Foods (Oscar Meyer) Madison, WI. Lead Engineer in reviewing and

automating luncheon meat packaging.

Snacks / Candy

Pepperidge Farm, Inc. Norwalk, CT. Project Manager to study and define

two snack and cookie lines for a children's product. New

packaging, as well as location. (Supervised 3)

Pillsbury, Wellston, OH Project Manager / Lead Engineer in relocating

several pizza shell fryers, and one full production line,

and horizontal wrapping system.

(Supervised 4)

Procter & Gamble (Pringles), Jackson, TN, Lead Packaging Engineer to

define 2 new chips can lines and support equipment using a

new sized can as well as plastic container with modified

atmosphere at 600cpm. Supervised 12 engineers and CAD.

Procter & Gamble (Pringles), Jackson, TN, Lead Packaging Engineer to

redesign can size, and install air conveying system for

fiber containers. (Cost savings project) (Supervised 3)

Procter & Gamble (Pringles), Jackson, TN. Lead Packing Engineer to define

packaging area 2 pack can unit packaging at high speeds.

Wrapping over 200 units per minute on a horizontal wrapper.

Supervised 10 engineers and 3D CAD. Startup and

commissioning. (Supervised 2)

Procter & Gamble, (Eagle Snacks), Jackson, TN. Lead Packaging Engineer to

define vertical form fill packaging, for a new product.

Study and costing for this product. (Supervised 3)

Russell Stover Candies, Kansas City, MO. Lead Packaging Engineer in

defining and executing a automation project with vision

system to keep up with the existing speeds as well as

proposed speed increases.

Wrigley, Flowery Branch, GA. Project Manager on multiple Capital

Projects. Process design, as well as high speed packaging.

Miscellaneous Packaging

Pepperidge Farm, Inc. Downington, PA. Project Manager / Project Engineer

to design packaging to handle multi sized flat crackers,

and specify custom high speed equipment. (Supervised 2)

Wishbone Salad Dressing (Thomas Lipton Co), Independence, MO. Project

Manager / Lead Engineer to redesign and automate the bottle

handling, filling lines, case packing and palletizing

areas. (Supervised 8)

Franklin Mushrooms, North Franklin, CT. Project Engineer, Process and

packaging improvements, for these organically grown

mushrooms. Container and coding improvements, revisions to

packaging areas. Mushrooms and frozen vegetables.

Thermal Processing

American Home Foods (Chef BoyArDee), LaPorte, IN, Study project for

agitating retorts.

Sara Lee Meats, Martin, TN, Project Engineer to add smoke house for

country ham, as well as optimize the handling of the hams.

Reworked the slicing area, and packaging machinery for

optimal performance.

Smithfield Foods, Kinston, NC, Field Project Manager / Project Engineer,

Process and Packaging design and installation, Pork

processing, VA Ham, Turkey,

New Construction, Sanitary design.

Can Making / End Systems

Procter & Gamble, Jackson, TN, Lead Packaging Engineer to resize a paper

end container, this was a worldwide revision. Supervised 4

Procter & Gamble, Jackson, TN. Lead Packaging Engineer on a new product

rollout. Resized package, and researched new equipment, as

well as custom designed new packaging equipment. Supervised

5

Warehousing

Star-Kist Foods, Long Beach, CA, Project Manager / Project Engineer to

add a power and free rack system for storage cooler.

Pepperidge Farm, Willard, OH Project Manager / Project Engineer to add a

200,000 sq. ft. conditioned ingredient storage warehouse.

Rich Products, Niles, IL. Project Engineer to add a 12 aisle 200,000 ft.

automated warehouse.

Construction

Pepperidge Farm, Willard, OH Project Manager / Lead Engineer in adding a

new 500,000 sq. ft. finished product warehouse and order

picking system. $50MM.

Pillsbury / General Mills, Wellston, OH Project Manager / Lead Engineer

in designing and fabricating a new Clean room facility to

handle meat products, and area revisions.

Rich Products, Mufreesboro, TN. Project Manager to set up SAP spare

parts system for a $30MM project. Supervised 3.

Rich Products, Murfreesboro, TN Project Manager / Lead Engineer in

adding a new frozen finished product warehouse, and robotic

palletizing system. $80MM.

Rich Products, Buffalo, NY. Project Lead Engineer to set up a SAP spare

parts system for a $60MM project. Supervised 3.

Sara Lee Meats, Newbern, TN. Project Manager / Project Engineer to add

200,000 sq. ft. of -20 Deg. F Frozen Warehouse facility.

Smithfield Foods, Kinston, NC. Project Manager / New Construction,

Sanitary Building Construction, Sanitary Equipment Design,

Process and Packaging Design, and Installation.

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