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CAREER SUMMARY Entrepreneurial business Leader with extensive manufacturing experience in the food industry, and 12 plus years in Operations, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Sanitation, Safety, and Quality, including shelf-stable infant food, soups, sauces, and meal sides in flexible pouches, semi-ridged trays, cans, frozen foods meal sides, dry goods, and refrigerated Ready-to-Eat meat products. A broad knowledge of continuous improvement, and the proven ability to bring this knowledge to the shop floor via finely honed communication, and people development skills. A dedicated hands-on leader and coach with a passion for consistently developing leaders throughout all levels of an organization. Key leader in operational excellence that produced 33% bottom line growth over the last two years that lead to the October 2014 Private Equity sale of Wornick Foods to Baxter Food Group. Areas of Expertise 5S/Standard Work Manufacturing Operations Regulatory Compliance & Auditing TPS (Toyota Production System) Lean Manufacturing & Root Cause Analysis Toyota 8 Step Problem Solving Capital & Cash Flow Planning Project Management Sanitation & SSOPs HACCP, GMPs & SOPs Safety Training & Program Development Maintenance TPM/PM Program New Business Development & Sales Private Equity Sales