Director, Operations, Manufacturing, Packaging, Project Management

Timothy L. Brown

**** **** ********* ***** ******** Valley, IL 61084 Home: 815-***-****

www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-brown/15/1a4/810/ Mobile: 779-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

A progressive executive with P&L responsibility in the pharmaceutical industry with over 15 years of experience in a variety of senior leadership roles from Clinical Trials to Commercialized pharmaceutical drugs with a strong emphasis in contract packaging operations. Recent experience in managing global initiatives, building a harmonized workforce, and participation with selection recommendations of M&A.

Commercial - As an operations leader, my goal was to improve our direct and indirect costs, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and continuous improvement projects that transformed our business leading to greater quality, profitability, and client satisfaction. Each of these areas sustained performance and exceeded their target of 10% improvement year over year.

Clinical – Improved on-time and in full to client request from 35% to 91%. Our client satisfaction and ability to provide the industry’s leading customer experience rose from 75% to 90%. By revamping my clinical team’s client relationship management strategy, we have maintained a high level of customer service, 100% client retention, and expanded our client portfolio by 50% this past year.

KEY EXPERIENCES, SKILLS, & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

-Production -Fiscal Planning & Budgeting

-Industrial Engineering -Forecasting and Scheduling

-Process Engineering -Sales and Operations Planning

-Operational Excellence -New Product Launches

-Tool & Package Design Engineering -Clinical Trials and Logistics Management

-Maintenance -Project Management Body of Knowledge

-Facilities -PMP Trained

-Project Management -Lean Six Sigma

-Clinical Trials & Supplies -MS Project

-Business Development -Business Unit Management & Pods

-Quotations & Contracts -Masters Business Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Packaging Coordinators Inc. (PCI), (Formerly AndersonBrecon), Rockford IL (9/01 – 10/15)

4545 Assembly Dr. Rockford, IL 61109

***.*****@***********.***

www.pciservices.com

Director, Clinical Project Management, North America Clinical Services (5/14 – Present)

Provides leadership and guidance to a team of onsite and remote US clinical project Business Units that execute US and global clinical packaging, storage, and distribution.

Responsible for overall client relationship, performance metrics, and business reviews.

Plans and delivers a clinical revenue plan and budget for fiscal 2016 of $38MM. Incentive goals are based on a US and EU revenue strategy that focuses on 100% attainment with a stretch goal of 110% of our global clinical packaging sales.

Serves on our global clinical leadership team to harmonize and share best practices for improvements in quality, process, revenue, and client satisfaction.

Executive Director, Technical Operations (8/13 – 5/14 – Title change after the acquisition)

Vice President, Engineering & Maintenance (7/08 – 8/13 –AndersonBrecon-AmerisourceBergen title structure)

Manages a staff of Maintenance, Reliability, and Engineering professionals that report into our Commercial division of pharmaceutical services. Provided technical services that supported our fiscal growth of $256MM in revenue consisting of: Commercial Rx & OTC, DEA Scheduled drugs, Cold Chain, Biologics, and High Potent Compounds.

Provided leadership and oversight for all aspects Technical Operations:

oPackaging equipment maintenance and operations

~75 active packaging lines and over 3000 discrete assets

oMaintenance Engineering - Reliability

oProject Engineering – New business development and capital management

oDesign Engineering – Package and tooling

oMRO spares and tooling storage & retrieval

oMachine Shop – custom tooling

oIndustrial & Process Engineering – line design, engineering trials, change control, and Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement value stream initiatives.

During my tenure, my focus was to reorganize and change the culture in technical operations to migrate from a reactive to proactive state. Our equipment and packaging lines were designed and maintained to not FAIL!

oMission Statement: To provide cost effective operational services to ensure equipment reliability, asset preservation, and safe working conditions.

oVision Statement: To be the industry’s top practitioner of World Class Reliability and Maintenance.

Our engineering and maintenance work orders went from 20% planned to 90% planned and 10% reactive. As a result, our equipment efficiency (OEE) regularly achieved a world class standard of 85% and our operating and repair costs were lowered.

Sponsored Lean Six Sigma strategic and tactical projects to promote a top down and bottom up approach. Strategic and tactical projects included: Daily Kaizen, Visual

Control Boards, Rapid Intervention Teams, and Value Stream meetings.

Fostered an environment for exploration, innovation, and technological advancements for specific and general market segments, while acquiring funding for capital projects to

Provide our business with a competitive advantage.

Director, Industrial Engineering (4/07 – 7/08)

Coach, mentor, and lead a team of Industrial Engineers and Application and Controls Engineers.

Responsible for operational continuous improvement initiatives using disciplines such as, Lean and Six Sigma.

Manages the operational and technical side of quoting new business with Sales and Project Management (Equipment design, layout, rate, staffing, etc.)

Develops methodologies and work practices to maintain 5s, safety, and ergonomics on our packaging lines.

Provides technical packaging overviews for internal and external edification regarding our packaging processes.

Drafts protocols and managed the execution of all Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT’s) of new equipment.

Facilitate or participate in Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for all new and existing packaging lines.

Optimizes existing packaging line performance by increasing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), reducing Mean Time Between Failures, Mean Time to Repair, and other operational deficiencies.

Identifies and reduces common and special cause variation with our equipment and supplier of components (packaging materials).

Researched, selected, and deployed a real-time performance IT/MES management system to monitor OEE and Statistical Process Control (SPC).

Past Positions at PCI (9/01 – 4/07)

Production Supervisor

Industrial Engineer – Production, Process & Systems Engineer (PPSE)

Industrial Engineering Supervisor (PPSE)

Industrial Engineering Manager (PPSE)

EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration

University of Iowa – May 2014

Bachelors of Science, Food and Nutrition, Specialization Dietetics

Southern Illinois University-August 1997

PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL MEMBERSHIP AND CERTIFICATION

Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP)

Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Oriel-Stata-Matrix)

REFERENCES & PAST EMPLOYMENT HISTORY – Over 10 years

References

Chelsea Shortlidge, Project Manager, Engineering, Merck, 815-***-****

Tim Rogowski, CIO – Savant Financial 815-***-****

Pete Belden, President, ICS – an AmerisourceBergen Company 224-***-****

Frederick Cosby, Global Supply Chain Planner, Corning 864-***-****

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