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Expert has led and consulted in business development for national consumer brands, engineering and strategic consulting services, and for entrepreneurial new consumer products. He has also worked with inventors in bringing their products to the marketplace.

Expert as led the process developement, engineering and construction activities for a Fortune 50 consumer products company. He started up and led the operations of a 350 person, nationwide engineering and consulting firm. He has provided strategic consulting in expansion, acquisition, divestiture for these companies.

Expert led the commercialization of a fundamental through-air-drying tissue process, as well as multiple technical innovations. He led commericalization of an innovative food (cookie) product on a fast timeline.

He has consulted with a major food company on the personality factors that promote more rapid innovation and commercialization, based on Myers-Briggs personality types.



Expert has worked much of his career in the confidential tissue and consumer products business and has participated in the legal collection of competitive directions.

Expert led the process development of a food process, taking it from 27% efficiency to 95% efficiency, while concurrently leading the design and construction of the national plant costing $175 million.

Expert has facilitated the corporate strategic planning of a consumer products category team that resulted in successful pricing and product implementation plans. He is capable of training teams to share their data to develop an aligned plan for discussion with senior management.

Expert has worked with product development and process development teams to develop new concepts for testing and implementation. He has continued the process to develop an introduction strategy for the business.

Expert has led teams to develop new concepts for products and/or manufacturing to make significant improvements in operating or construction costs.

Expert has worked with new product development groups to mesh new technology with consumer product ideas. This has been taken from concept through process development to commercialization in the paper products business, the food products business and the pulping business.

Expert has led the devlopment of technology portfolios for the paper products business, evaluating the market size and profit potential of each and including them into a strateic plan for the business. This plan was shared with senior management and implemented successfully to increase the profit of the segment.

Expert's primary experience is in the through air dried tissue paper making business. He has experience with all creped through air dry paper making processes, and facilitated the licensing of one of the processes for a paper machine vendor.

Expert has led the design and installation of several sanitary tissue paper machines, and in the process has evaluated several papermaking process options throughout the process.

Expert has led the fast-tracking of a converted tissue product and an innovative food product, both of which were produced at required production quantities, quality and rate within 9 months of the start date.

Expert led the development of a 5-gate project management process, starting with ideation, and ending with verification of the process at rate. This process received the client company's Gold Key Award for the the impact it had on their capital implementation approach.

Expert has facilitated complete business teams, from product development through engineering, manufacturing, sales and distribution in a strategic planning process that develops alignment in approach and results in a plan that all disciplines support.

Instituted a Project Management approach that leveraged vendor engineering and saved over 40% on a paper engineering job originally estimated at $200 millionSupported an Italian company's licensing of a technology that successfully started up in a new, $70 million plant in the statesPerformed due diligence on a $1.2 billion pulp and paper business acquisitionTrained engineers in mutlivariable experimentation and cause and effect process diagramming to bring process efficiencies from 27% to 95%.Developed options analyses and cash flows to help a Fortune 100 company decide on plant siting.