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Andrew C

Business Operations and Engineering Professional

About Me

Visionary operations executive with 25+ years of transformative leadership in engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain for the CPI, CPG and food industries. Proven track record of driving organizational excellence through strategic P&L management, lean transformation, and cross functional leadership. Specialized in scaling operations, optimizing complex manufacturing processes, and building high - performance cultures.

Jurisdiction

United States

Experience

Seniority LevelExecutive
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Owner & Principal Consultant
2023 - Present

• Small project - relaunched Netstock inventory optimization platform through ERP to the field users • Audited third party food packaging operations and 3PL facilities • Developed and led water bottling plant operation project ($110M/yr P&L) • Developed commodities, global trade and cryptocurrency transaction programs • Business Development for new verticals – real estate construction and disaster clean up

Vice President of Engineering & Manufacturing
2018 - 2022

• Assumed turn around role and P&L responsibility for $250M Atlanta manufacturing plant • Doubled plant throughput within six months through lean transformation and quality systems • Implemented comprehensive KPI framework tracking OEE, quality and cost performance metrics for plant level through to executive level reporting • Shifted the manufacturing group into a high - performing operations team • Increased manufacturing capacity by 5X through tenure

Executive Director of Engineering
2016 - 2017

• Transformed the engineering operations through strategic reorganization and upgraded design tools • Implemented New Product Development (NPD) framework as a cross functional tool • Established Value Stream Engineering model • Created data - driven Engineering Task Scrum with ROI - focused resource allocation • Deployed SMED principles to enhance operational efficiency

Vice President of Operations
2015 - 2016

• Led cross - border restructuring and cultural transformation • Managed $12M P&L with focus on operational excellence, 50+ EE medical organization • Executed staff realignments and developed high - performance team culture

Operations Manager
2011 - 2012

• Stabilized a financially struggling small environmental drilling company • Implemented cash flow modeling and job performance review systems

Engineering Manager | Global Product and Project Management
2008 - 2011

• Led Corporate Engineering team (7) in new product development (NPD) and process line optimization. • Directed EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) project team for new processing plant in Saudi Arabia from FEED (Front - End Engineering Design) through to equipment procurement and structural / equipment layout modeling. • Managed capital equipment procurement, negotiating over $15MM in contracts. • Developed tools for power and heat balance modeling of extrusion processes, used in North American engineer training.

Education

Masters of MBA - ManagementUtah Valley University
2020 - 2022
Degree of Bachelor of Applied Science, Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Waterloo
1988 - 1993

Certification

Total Certifications1

Professional Engineer, Ont.

Skills

Core skills0
Languages1

Languages

English