Production Supervisor, Project Manager, Production Manager

Summary

Strong analytical skills; able to evaluate processes and improve production with regard to quality, safety, and practicality; was able to increase throughput of the original coated oats line by 40%; was able to develop work arounds in existing systems to keep production going while the second line was installed; was able to determine which support systems were able to accommodate a third line and which needed to be expanded.

Experience

August 1997 – August 2015

ConAgra / 21st Century Grain Processing / Viterra / Richardson Milling

Production Manager, Coated Grains – responsible for overseeing operations for three production lines; scheduling production, labor, ingredient and supply deliveries; tracking line efficiencies daily to determine trends; look for bottlenecks to production throughput and ways to improve quality and yield; participated in installation and start up of second line in 2008 and third line in 2013; returned to ConAgra as project manager in 1997; was shift supervisor in 1998; went back to quality manager in 1999 until 2007; was coated oats manager starting in 2003.

March 1988 – June 1996

ConAgra Specialty Grain

Quality Assurance Manager – responsible for developing and implementing quality assurance and sanitation programs for the new oat mill; developed some testing methodologies; oversaw start up of new coated oats line in 1994 and ran line for almost two years while also working as QA manager.

October 1984 – March 1988

Diosynth, Inc.

Chemist – assisted with final construction and start up of operations at new heparin plant; worked as an operator and then as a chemist; developed test methods to determine potential yields of raw materials and tested potencies of finished products; worked with production personnel to make processes more efficient.

Education

BA degree from Dana College

Majors in Biology and Chemistry

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