Kenneth Whiting
Email: ************@*****.***
Pearl River, New York 10965
Cell: 845-***-****
Qualifications
Results driven Manufacturing Professional with 25+ years' experience
with multiple disciplines and customer relations assignments.
Exceptional track record of meeting financial goals based on
creativity and a strong focus on quality and customer service. Broad
based background in manufacturing and production planning including:
Schedule preparation Leading & Developing Teams
Standard operating procedures
Proficient in SAP, Oracle Project Management
Customer Service & Satisfaction Lean Manufacturing
Budgets, Planning & Control Master Scheduling, MRP
Dynamic leader adept at establishing a strategic plan and ensuring the
effective execution in intensely competitive environments. Flexible,
adaptable and innovative. Effective team leader and independent
contributor.
Highlights
1996 - Key member in the design of a manufacturing suite in the Pomona
Facility that enabled production to support class 2 thru class 4 drugs
volume increase.
1997 - Selected to lead a team that launched eight strengths of
Warfarin Sodium tablets, from the Pomona facility resulting in a sales
increase of $15 million in the first month.
2001 - Launched Generic Prozac (Fluoxetine) capsules from our
Northvale facility with sales reaching $340 million in the first year.
2002 - Launched Breast cancer drug Tamoxifen tablets, from our
Northvale facility with sales reaching $200 million in the first year.
2004 -Present Transferred back to the Pomona facility to start-up
the midnight shift. Duties included: Overseeing all phases of
manufacturing, compounding, Spir A-Flow granulation, liquid fill
encapsulation (Isotretion), compression, and encapsulation. Performed
ERP/warehouse transactions duties, staging materials for the upcoming
day shift. Monitored building emissions during the course of the night
making sure they are within EPA guidelines.
2013- Launched three strengths of Generic Niaspan (Niacin) from the
Pomona Facility with sales reaching $ 970 million.
Experience
Barr Laboratories/Teva Pharmaceuticals, Pomona, NY 1996 /
2014
Manufacturing Supervisor
Implemented operational improvements to enhance quality, improve
production times and reduce costs.
Achieved company production goals by motivating production workers.
Maintained necessary level of communication between shifts allowing a
consistent production flow.
Responsible for achieving production requirements.
Continually reengineered process to insure products were produced on
time and are in good quality.
Oversaw the production process and managed the production schedule.
Monitored the production process, adjusted schedules as needed and
provided management with updates.
Planned and laid out work to meet production schedule requirements.
Worked with managers to implement goals by providing necessary
production support.
Reviewed operations and conferred with technical or administrative
staff to resolve production and processing problems.
DEA capabilities, dispensing & manufacturing class 2 thru class 4
drugs.
Par Pharmaceuticals, Chestnut Ridge NY
April 1994 to1996
Compression / Encapsulation Supervisor 2nd shift
Monitored compression, encapsulation operations.
Reviewed and processed competed MBMR's.
Performed warehousing duties, staging finished blends for further
processing for the upcoming day shift.
Lederele Labs / American Cyanamid
June 1989 to1996
Pharmacy dispensing department
Compounding department, utilizing Gemco 50 double cone blenders,
Littleford blenders
Coating Department, utilizing Vector Freund 60 inch pan coaters,
prepared aqueous based solutions.