Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Manufacturing Reliability Site Resource
Kellanova
2024.10 - 2025.08
Identifying and implementing solutions to improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), reduce downtime, and enhance production efficiency.
Developing and delivering training programs for operators, supervisors, and leadership on reliability methodologies, systems, and tools.
Leading and facilitating root cause analysis (RCA) events to identify and resolve issues that impact reliability and productivity.
Utilizing data to identify trends, monitor performance, and track the effectiveness of reliability initiatives.
Working effectively with cross-functional teams, including operators, maintenance personnel, and supervisors, to drive change and implement solutions.
Applying and adapting methodologies like Autonomous Maintenance, Reliability Maintenance, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
Identifying and executing projects to reduce operational costs, such as optimizing maintenance schedules and minimizing equipment failures.
Operations Technician
Restek Corporation
2022.02 - 2024.09
Track and maintain raw materials as necessary to facilitate their respective process.
Process and manufacture products in assigned area to maintain appropriate inventory levels and service backorders in a timely manner as determined by operation requirements.
Maintain records and databases as required in their respective process.
Identify, recommend and implement measures to improve process, quality and efficiency.
Understand equipment and process errors to determine solutions.
Update, file and distribute operations related procedures and documentation.
Internal Audit Reviews.
Sr. Specialist, Operations Process/Vision Support Technician
West Pharmaceutical Services
2008.03 - 2021.09
Manage CAPA’s.
Manage, track and complete investigations of DR’s & OOS’s.
Identify, recommend and implement measures to improve process, quality and efficiency.
Lead tracking, trending, and analyzing operations related performance data to identify abnormalities.
Assist the training coordinator in leading operations training.
Understand equipment and process errors to determine solutions.
Update, file and distribute operations related procedures, documentation, and validations.
Development of charts and graphs to track, trend and analyze.
Compose new procedures for envision process and high value process areas.
Setup SVIM and assist with installation of Seidinader vision machines.
Develop configurations for product on vision machines.
Tune tooling and configuration for improvement.
Create defects libraries for new item configurations.
Support APW – average piece weight process.
Trouble shoot issues with vision machine and vision inspection processes.
Clean and create challenge samples for vision inspection process.
Assist engineering, planning, and operations with new item setup, process and quality improvements.
Weekly down time and run reports for vision, KPI weekly data, Lilly SRM quarterly reports.
Assist with testing, development and implementation of software for vision inspection and high value process areas – PPQ, Summary reports.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Lock Haven University
Lock Haven, PA
Skills
Overall equipment effectiveness
Root cause analysis
Total productive maintenance
Process optimization
Equipment troubleshooting
Data analysis
Cross-functional collaboration
Operations management
Compliance auditing
Inventory management
Problem solving
Effective communication
Training development
Project management
Quality improvement
Self-Directed
Research
Friendly, positive attitude
Analytical thinking
Organizational skills
Timeline
Manufacturing Reliability Site Resource
Kellanova
2024.10 - 2025.08
Operations Technician
Restek Corporation
2022.02 - 2024.09
Sr. Specialist, Operations Process/Vision Support Technician