Process Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Manager, Process Design En
Resume:
Jeffrey A. Taylor
Medina, MN **356
763-***-**** ************@*****.***
Summary
Technical professional with process/product/project engineering and project management experience. Recent experience integrated process design engineering with process engineering and R&D/product engineering to insure successful outcomes at both internal and contract manufacturing locations. Experienced with small to large scale start-ups of both processes and products, meeting or beating project schedules and budgets. Experience delivering as both a cross-functional team member and leader at all stages along the product/process development continuum from feasibility screening through commercialization.
Professional Experience
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Technology Manager – Process Systems Development
April 2005 to August 2012
• Led successful Process Design effort on the commercialization of a vegetable texture improvement process for retorted entrees and frozen vegetables. Succeeded in producing a “firmer” vegetable product/ingredient.
• Led successful Process Design effort in transition of existing baking mix to zero trans fat formulation, resulting in cost avoidance of $2MM.
• Led successful Process Design effort, and Process Engineering effort for integration of fruit snacks at a contract facility. Resulted in additional product capacity of 10MM LBS, and $500M initial cost savings (50% toll reduction).
• Lead Process Design Engineer on a “fruit bar” project which resulted in a more reliable and accurate feeding of dried fruit.
• Lead Process Engineer in the investigation, testing and installation of Optical Sorting Equipment on Vegetable Blanching / IQF processing lines. Product quality improvement, increased throughputs, reduced labor costs; along with reduction in system waste were experienced.
Technology Manager – R&D Cereal Division
May 2003 to April 2005
• Extrusion System Platform Lead.
o Ensured system readiness for on-site startups during integration of Whole Grain formulation onto Twin Screw platform for cereal products.
o Completed “Tier Two” product migration from existing cooking platforms – to Twin Screw platform, in support of operations needs. Migration allowed for delay and reduction in capital investments.
o Start Up of “Domestic” cereal, on CPW - Mexico, Twin Screw system in support of Twin Screw cereal capacity needs, eliminating need for immediate $5MM “Domestic” TS capacity capital investment.
o Support of Supply Chain needs for cereal products (new and existing), as it pertained to the Extrusion System Platform.
Senior Engineer – R&D Cereal Division
May 2000 to May 2003
• Twin Screw Rate Improvement. Lead in Process Design - R&D effort in doubling rates (2X) to Twin Screw Extrusion system products. Doubling of rates allowed for rescheduling of capital equipment investments, avoiding a $10MM capital investment.
• Modified Process Flow for existing product, allowing operations to delay capital investments on cereal systems, with cost avoidance in of $4MM.
Senior Engineer – R&D Snacks Division
May 1997 to May 2000
• Worked primarily on fruit snack platform products.
o Process Rate and Control Improvements in cooking platform, eliminating need of additional systems.
o Introduction of multi-color product – new product introduction.
o Improved cooling unit operation on existing product lines, increasing uptime of downstream unit operations, resulting in increased packaging rates.
Additional Relevant Experience
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Senior Process Engineer (L4)– Capital Projects
Process Engineer (L3) – Capital Projects
Process Engineer (L2) – Systems Improvement Group
Unisys Corporation (formally Sperry Corporation), Minneapolis, MN
Semiconductor Operations – Process Engineer
Education
B.S. Chemical Engineering – University of Wisconsin - Madison
Training
• Project Management Skills for New Product Development.
• Fan Engineering.
• HACCP & Food Safety Training.
• Design of Experiments (Internal GMI and Stat-Ease).
• Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Taguchi Methods.
• Getting Things Done – Workflow Management Concepts and Techniques.
• Evaporation and Evaporators.
• Reliable and Economical Pneumatic Conveying Systems.
• Designing Problem-Free Bins and Hoppers.
• Heat Transfer and Psychometrics of Air Drying.
Honors
United States Patent
• Patent No. 7,033,625 Labelless, Rolled Food Item And Its Fabrication
o Granted April 25, 2006
• Patent No. 6,874,296 B2 Labelless, Rolled Food Item and Its Fabrication
o Granted April 5, 2005
Affiliations
American Society of Chemical Engineers
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