Expert Details
Executive Leadership, Operations, Process Improvement, and Business Growth and Expansion
ID: 739687
, USA
Education
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Work History
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| Years: 2023 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: General Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert is GM of a wine and spirits industry company. He specializes in operations, executive and servant leadership, process improvement, orchestration of business expansion and growth, company change, team-building, and communication. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2023 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Expert and Consultant | Department: |
Responsibilities:On-site and remotely alike, Expert consults on operations and management. He leverages his depth of experience in process improvement, structural operations, and change management.Expert's core skills include capital investment leadership; business growth in production and manufacturing specifically; systems orientation; and growth orchestration at a high level. In this capacity Expert serves as an adroit team builder, executive leader, and deeply skilled communicator with internal and external customers alike. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2013 to 2023 | Employer: (Undisclosed) | Title: Vice President and General Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:For a decade, Expert assumed GM responsibilities and high-level supervision for this vertically integrated business of winery and vineyards incorporating multiple brands.Among other achievements, he increased case production significantly; constructed infrastructural expansion and machinery growth; led additional volume increases; set the business up to handle triple-digit growth; supported an agile, complex new business model (agility and complexity); built the organizational structure to 170 full-time winemaking staff from 20 employees -- to cover quality, warehouse, laboratory, logistics, maintenance, administration, cellar and management on a 24-hour basis. He developed a bottom-up capital plan and an expense budget from zero and implemented training systems, competitive wages, safety programs, an emphasis on standard operating procedures, a sitewide project management system, the bones of an HACCP and GMP program, quality management systems, and other core components of a successful business. Key instances of Expert's leadership and implementation experience include project management at the multimillion-dollar capital level; critical improvements in operational efficiency; the complete technical development of 3 bottling lines; establishing supporting systems; integrating 6 million gallonsworth of new systems; installing a full solar array and battery storage system; insulating tanks sitewide; and constructing a new 365,000-square-foot warehouse. He also led the major growth of the winery's potable and wastewater infrastructure. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2000 to 2013 | Employer: Numerous Wine Industry Players | Title: Consulting General Manager, CEO, GM, Operations Director, and Manager of Quality Improvement | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert served a winery as Consulting General Manager from 2012-13.Before this time, his title elsewhere was CEO and General Manager (2010-11). Previously he was Director of Operations and General Manager at a winery and wine estate (2008-10); Capital Assets Manager for a wine estate (2007-08); Manager of Quality and Process Improvement -- as well as Packaging Analysis and Development -- for another vineyard (2004-07). Expert's prior role was Director of Strategic Projects for a forest products company, which he also served as Chief Quality Officer. |
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Fields of Expertise
executive leadership, executive management, wine, winemaking, winery, vineyard, vineyard business, vineyard expansion, vineyard operations, quality management, continuous quality improvement, quality improvement, change management, management, business consulting, Consulting, business operations, operations, operations management, communication