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• Product Design and Development • Project Management • Packaging
• Relationship Management • Sourcing • In-house Manufacturing
• Contract Manufacturing • Private Labeling • Print Production
• QA • Creative • Operations • Continual Process Improvement
Results-oriented professional with eighteen years of progressive building and creating across across a broad range of positions in varied industries. Proven ability to combine leadership, project management and understanding both the strategic and tactical sides of challenges. Supports the operations, product and manufacturing teams, improving margins and positioning products and companies for success.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jamberry, Product/Packaging Designer and Developer
January 2012 – December 2014
• Grow company revenues by successfully developing products from ideation through manufacturing and packaging that meet market and production requirements.
• Define and communicate to manufacturing, all product specifications and requirements including size, weight, colors, materials, finishes, packaging materials, packaging die lines, unit packaging and case pack requirements, SKU(s), and so on.
• Determine packaging type and specifications according to product needs, cost limitations and manufacturability.
• Work daily with national contract manufacturers, and Chinese low mix high volume manufacturing.
• Establish timelines, objectives and document all research, proposal, design and development progress using project management groupware. Maintained documentation for COGS and BOMs.
• Work daily in cross-functional teams on conceptualization of product features and execute all phases of the design and development process. See attached Doc. titled "My Development framework"
• Conduct reviews of mature products to optimize, discuss line extensions and take advantage of new technologies, methods, packaging, relationships and vendor pricing.
• Travel to industry specific expos & trade shows to find new product and packaging ideas, new raw materials, new manufacturing methods and develop new strategic relationships
• Manufacturing liaison, visit overseas and national manufacturers to observe manufacturing processes, discuss use of best materials, review samples, develop tooling, reinforce accountability and discuss pre launch concerns and advise on best practices to correct issues.
• Continual communication, feedback and process improvement, to cut time & cost and increase efficiency & quality.
• Involvement in the design and development of 20 retail and promotional products, ten of those being the primary designer and product developer.
Jamberry, Director of Operations & Manufacturing
December 2011 – February 2014
• Brought on board as one of the foundational builders and leaders during the start-up phase and tasked with creating and scaling all aspects of operations and manufacturing.
• Build an efficient 15,000 square foot production facility and manage the staffing up of three production teams and three manufacturing shifts.
• Work closely with the CEO to set up Jamberrys current manufacturing technologies, methods, processes, specifications and formulations.
• Vetting strategic partners, select suppliers, evaluate equipment needs, purchase capital equipment, source and test raw materials.
• Transform and standardize manufacturing to produce the core product that accounts for 85% of sales.
• Efficiencies gained allowed a staff of four on one eight hour shift to produce what previously took a staff of thirteen working across three shifts a day, five days a week.
• Reduce the manufacturing error rate from 15% to <1%.
• Re-configure product specs for greater manufacturability, 15% gain in product throughput while using less raw materials, time and labor.
• Establish efficient processes, policies and procedures to improve margins, increase quality and enhance the customer experience.
• Coach employees on safety, best manufacturing practices and continual process improvement.
• Manage the staffing life cycle, interviewing, hiring, training, development and separations.
• December 2011, from a production staff of six employees, built out, staffed and managed manufacturing, production, packaging, order fulfillment, vendor relations, purchasing, supply chain, product specifications & testing, QA and facilities.
• In February 2014, managing over seventy employees and working with over sixty suppliers and manufacturers. Direct involvement in product development and cross functionally with creative.
Jamberry, Sourcing & Purchasing
January 2012 – October 2014 (Director between 3/2014 and 11/2014)
• Domestic and international sourcing and purchasing of over forty finished goods and ten raw materials used to manufacture and fill orders from 450 SKU’s.
• Manage freight forwarders on the international and national transit of products and materials via ocean container, air and common carrier as well as the import and customs/broker process.
• Experience with FOB China FCL shipments in 20', 40' & 40'HQ and national LCL shipments.
• Develop and manage relationships with raw material suppliers and national and overseas manufacturers.
• Completed transition to turnkey terms with contract manufacturer’s consolidating multiple in house purchases.
• Manage strategic partnerships with contract manufacturers and suppliers of manufacturing equipment.
• Find, test and implement the best manufacturing technologies, methods and materials.
• Define product specifications and perform quality testing of all contract manufactured products and raw materials.
• Maintain purchase order files (i.e. quotes, blanket orders). Used Great Plains purchasing module.
• Source and purchase packaging including display, carton, corrugate, tubes, bottles, jars, pumps, poly sleeves and so on.
• Daily involvement in product development, packaging and print production projects.
Expertise in Product Packaging, Production Design and Print Production
January 1993 – December 2014
In house subject matter expert at both PDC/Ziplocal and Jamberry.
• Over twenty years of experience with traditional and digital print media and production methods.
• Graphic design, file prep and file transfer.
• Paper stocks, text, gloss, cover, coated, paperboard.
• Ink, process and PMS spot.
• Packaging design, die lines, die cutting (hard and soft tooling)
• Folding carton packaging, physical product mock-ups
• Corrugate, E-flute, retail and POP litho laminated, flexo.
• Pressure sensitive label stock, BOPP, vinyl, cast, calendared, specialty.
• Packaging labels and screen deco for tubes, bottles, jars, pumps.
• Foiling (hot & cold), Illustrator files for foil and emboss.
• Coating, UV, aqueous, spot, flood, mate, soft touch, raised. Digital prime coating.
• Laminating
• Converting, perf, score, fold, glue, tuck, auto bottom, snap lock, mailer, peel and seal.
• Poly material, lip and tape bags and sleeves.
• Catalogs, brochures, post cards, NCR, posters, mailers, pads
• Bindery & finishing, perfect bind, saddle stitch, drilling, padding, folding, shrink film.
• Signage, vinyl, backlit cabinet, channel letter, banner, point of purchase.
• Build and maintain relationships with local and national print partners and vendors.
• Sheet fed and web press shops. Foil, coating, die cut shops and service bureaus.
• Perform press and finishing checks to assure compliance with quality standards.
• Ensure proper paper, print quality, finishing and converting requirements are met.
• Travel to industry specific expos and trade shows to find new materials and develop relationships.
• Taught graphic design and production design on the university level.
• Worked at a sheet fed print shop for four years. Paper selection, bindery, finishing.
Utah Valley University - Adjunct Faculty, Art & Visual Communications : ART 2400 Production Design
August 2011 – December 2011
Instruction of Adobe CS5 review with emphasis on Illustrator, printing methods, packaging design, folding carton dielines and converting, paper school, binding and assembly, on demand printing, file formats, document imposition, process, spot & duotone inks. Scheduled to teach second term but class was canceled due to low enrollment.
PDC/Ziplocal, Operations Manager, Production, Creative Department
January 1997 – June 2011
• Manage over twenty graphic designers in a production setting with multiple projects in parallel.
• Reduce a forty five day process turn time time to four days.
• Initiate policies and procedures to reduce errors by 50% while increasing output by 10%
• Key involvement in the development, testing and launch of companies first two digital products.
• User experience design and testing of two ERP platforms and two online proofing platforms
• Manage continual improvement efforts by conducting regular workflow and process debriefs.
• Involvement in staffing life cycle, interviewing, hiring, training, development and separations.
• Develop and conduct training workshops for development of employees skills and abilities.
• Investigate internal/external complaints and help designers solve root cause related quality issues.
• Hands-on experience with creating, writing and revising operations procedures.
• Liaison between third parties and production during the acquisition of four publishers and two ad agencies.
PDC, Project Management/Vendor Relations Management
January 2008 – December 2008
• One year project to design and manage the flow of 32,000 display ads to and from designers in India and Philippines.
• Establish & communicate expectations & timelines to team members, vendors and stakeholders.
• Proactively managed changes, identify potential problems, and develop contingency plans.
• Managed project metrics and reporting, maintain digital archive of completed work.
SLOC - Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games
January 2002 – February 2002
Security Specialist (government contracted)
Team lead; SLOC headquarters security detail. Worked in conjunction with personnel from multiple agencies including US Secret Service, FBI, DSS and DOD. Provided protection for SLOC executives, Mitt Romney, Italian Prime Minister, White House Staff Members, athletes and dignitaries from over twenty countries. Controlled all access points to SLOC executive offices, timing/scoring computer labs and the law enforcement main operations center. Additionally, provided security/access to the Italian national house and the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic offices located in the same building.
Provo College, Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
November 1999 – July 2000
Instruction of 50 graphic design students in Basic Design one, two and three, in four classes over three terms. Courses taught: packaging design, product mock-ups, logo design/corporate branding, print production, portfolio, and the basic principles of design.
COMPUTER SKILLS
• Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop on Mac platform • Microsoft Word, Excel & Power Point
• Project management groupware (Basecamp, etc.) • Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains purchasing module
EDUCATION
• Western Governors University. B.S. of Business Management.
Degree completion and CompTIA® Project+ certification in July 2018
• Provo College, Graphic Design. 1996
References and letters of recommendation available upon request.
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