Process Engineer at TenCate Protective Fabrics (2024-11 – 2026-06)
- Leading the way to Operational Excellence - Deploying Lean tools like 5S and SMED to reduce wasted movement
- SMED 1 - Warp Tie-back Procedure: focus on staging tools and prioritizing order of operations
- Aligning Quality, Planning, Operations, Maintenance, and Efficiency Improvement systems to eliminate wasted effort
- Capacity and Utilization Analysis
- Asset Optimization - Dyeing Jets and Tenter Lines
- Quality Improvement - Dyeing and Tentering Quality Initiatives driver
- Sustainability - CSRD Readiness/EU OMNIBUS
- Capital Appropriation
- Internal Project Stage Gate Optimization
- Operations Product Portfolio Owner
Quality Assurance Engineer at TenCate Protective Fabrics (2023-09 – 2024-11)
- Life Cycle Maximization - Quality Assurance
- Six Sigma Project Management
- Raw Material Qualification - From initial yarn spinning trials through dyed and finished fabric
- Stage Gate Project Management - Transition from Product Development to Commercialization
- CSRD Readiness Working Team - Global Sustainability supporting EU reporting standard through water withdrawal, dispersion, energy consumption/exhaust, and KPIs for improvement
Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Continental Tire (2022-08 – 2023-04)
- Single End Treatment Efficiency Project - Improved Utilization Efficiency by 8 of 15% target (begin Nov 2022 - 8% gain achieved 3/2023, targeted completion in 4Q2023) through equipment sustainability, reduced minimum threshold for functional winders, built case for friction reduction in treatment oven, and bolstered training program for repeatability
Senior Process Engineer at Berry Global, Inc. (2020-07 – 2022-06)
- Manage and mentor two Process Technicians to improve yield, efficiency, and uptime
- Real-time decisions for equipment settings and adjustments; employed tactical and strategic approach to improve yield through proven process engineering methods; demanded and received new plan for grade changes to improve yield
- Influenced scheduling of routine and non-routine maintenance
- Changed operational culture from "should we do this" to "if it makes sense, do it"
- Commercialized medical (isolation gown) and baby care (outer cover) base fabrics for major global suppliers
- Total delivered outcome of 7% First Pass Yield gain not achieved in facility/asset history
Technical Sales Manager at Avgol Nonwovens (2015-01 – 2019-10)
Technical and Sales Engineering support for hygiene customers in the US ($30MM gross revenue) Responsibilities include Business Support, Project Management for Life Cycle Maximization/Cost Transformation, Product Development to Commercialization
- Gather functional knowledge for use in product development (both push and pull), maintain a healthy working relationship with the customer for a successful product relationship for the life of the product through regular cadences and in-person visits to share internal projects and update current developments from R&D
Project Scientist, Global Nonwovens Research & Engineering at Kimberly-Clark Corporation (2013-05 – 2015-01)
Global Nonwovens R&E - Business-to-Business Group - Supporting KC Professional
- Technical Support: SMS Safety Apparel nonwoven fabrics, SMS/Meltblown Protective Fabrics, Stranded Elastic Sports Wrap - life cycle maximization, spec management, cost transformation
- Project Leader: material sourcing migrations related to Halyard Health spinoff
- Project Leader: B2B Treated Meltblown wiper commercialization in various basis weights
- Project Leader: line extension for the Safeskin* Brand - dual color, printable elastic laminate
- Process Support for Spunbond/SMS asset rebuilds (Lexington 3 and Corinth 1; $5MM capital appropriation each)
- Rebuild Support SMS asset rebuild Process Checkout at LaGrange Mill in 4Q2013 ($4.9MM capital appropriation)
- Former New Initiatives Chair, Current Communications Chair - NEON (New Employee Onboarding Network)
Material Scientist II, Global Nonwovens Research & Engineering at Kimberly-Clark Corporation (2012-05 – 2013-04)
Global Nonwovens R&E - Product Development and Commercialization in Baby and Child Care Business
- Executed a $100M line extension project for European Huggies Little Swimmers and Pull-Ups brands; $0.95MM in grade change cost savings
- Extensively researched Polyethylene resin for use in Spunbond facings, including trials at Dow Chemcial's fiber spinning pilot line in Freeport, TX and Reifenhauser's nonwovens pilot facility in Troisdorf, Germany
- Process Support for SMS asset rebuild at the KC facility in Lexington, NC (Lex 1 - $5MM capital appropriation)
Process Engineer at Avgol Nonwovens (2011-09 – 2012-05)
- Quality Assurance support for in-house ERP transition to SAP
- Facilitate, manage, and support Statistical Process Control launch program for CTQ property analysis; Produce and distribute quality reports - use Pareto charting to analyze and attack top five off-quality issues
- Produce reports and conduct meetings to reduce machine downtime
- Increase machine up-time through reliability improvement
- Increase machine up-time through process analysis and improvement
Shift/Line Process Engineer at Avgol Nonwovens (2010-09 – 2011-09)
Process Engineer on shift in hygiene nonwovens facility producing $40MM in revenue annually
- Troubleshoot critical properties online for all production lines - adjust machine parameters to improve quality and production
- Make real-time decisions for immediate impact on material processing
- Edit current material recipes to improve future processing
- Provide leadership for process improvement - reduction of downtime and increased first quality output; Twenty-four hour on-call support for processing M-F and rotating weekends
Quality/Process Contractor at Crescent, Inc. (2010-01 – 2010-03)
Acclimation to Crescent business model from raw materials to finished goods warehouse.
- Provide structure for archiving Product Development projects
- Facilitate culture change from subjective to objective quality assurance
Process Engineer at Solmax (Formerly Propex Operating Company) (2007-09 – 2009-07)
- Raw Material Qualification
- Lean Manufacturing Deployment
- Standard Work Instruction Creation
- Process Improvement
- SAP Navigation
- Internal ISO 9001-2000 Auditor
- Plant OEE Co-champion
- OSHA General Safety Certified
