Broad technical and business background in providing value added products and services in the food and dietary supplement industries.
Creative professional able to work outside the box.
Skilled communicator who develops and motivates productive teams and establishes effective working relationships with scientists and non-scientists alike.
QFD
Pilot plant design and operation
Article and book authorship
Quality Assurance
Statistics
Project management
Change agent
Moving bed chromatography
R & D
Expert witness experience
Working with unionized workforce
Partnershiping with customers and suppliers
Facilitating management/union steering teams
Experience organizing and facilitating large general meetings
Teaching
Problem solving
Quality control
Customer service
Entrepreneurship
Membrane technology
Extrusion
Technical management
Training
Reengineering
SPC
Technical sales
Quick learner
Spray drying
Micro-encapsulation
ISO 9000
Design of Experiments
Six Sigma
GMP
HACCP
Nutrition Now, Inc
Vancover, WA
Director of Product Development 1999-2000
Natrol, Inc.
Chatsworth, California
Vice President of Research & Product Development 1998-1999
Folexco/East Earth Herb, Inc.
Eugene, Oregon
Director of Technical Services 1995-1998
Manager Continuous Improvement Processes 1992-1995
Technical Services Manager, Western Division 1988-1992
Imperial Sugar Company
Sugar Land, Texas
Manager Chemical Researh 1981-1992
Senior Research Chemist 1979-1981
American Crystal Sugar Company
Moorhead, Minnesota
Reasearch Chemist I & II 1976-1979
Spreckels Sugar Company
Woodland, California
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, Oregon State University
Postdoctoral Research for Distinguished Professor Cheves Walling, University of Utah