* Led Planning and Scheduling Team to meet supply targets and support operational efficiency. * Fostered development and growth of a newly expanded department by mentoring leaders, determining and filling gaps in required skills, and gaining buy-in to the departmental mission. * Drove cultural change to enable people and processes to move away from transactional activity based scheduling to integrated short, medium, and long term planning and scheduling. * Created new process for measuring and evaluating fixed and firm zone scheduling attainment. * Brought visibility to Master Planning elements and forum for taking action to rectify conflicts. * Involved in process mapping current state and developing system requirements for a future state ERP system.

Managed Rough Cut Capacity Planning to strategically balance bulk wine inventories across the Gallo Cellar Network. Ensured winery activities support the balance of grape supply and customer demand in order to effectively manage the flow of incoming new vintage grapes and previous vintage bulk wine through to finished goods. Chartered and led Continual Improvement projects designed to optimize product flow through the Gallo Cellars and achieve end-to-end integrated Operating Strategies

Led Operations Team in the start-up and operation of a new, state of the art wine production facility. Advocated for and designed an organizational structure that created a Lean Operating environment - the cornerstone to the operational success of the start-up and continued sustainability of the Operation Team's effectiveness. Responsible for employee development and strategic direction for ~90 employees across multiple shifts and responsible for ~140,000 Tons of grape production.

* Received 4 weeks of comprehensive training in Lean Principles, Problem Solving, Kaizen, and Statistics. * Led project Team focused on developing Operating Strategies across Gallo's Cellar Operations from outside winery production to bottling operations. * Led project Teams that determined efficient usage of tank capacity, streamlining product flow and improving tank utilization.

Managed Maintenance and Production Operations at this Premium, boutique winery with a focus on quality, efficiency, environmental, and safety initiatives. Led crews of ~25 employees across multiple shifts in Cellar, Barrel, Warehouse, Bottling, and Harvest Operations, responsible for ~4,500 Tons of grape production.

Managed a Maintenance crew of ~25 on graveyard shift focusing on Preventative/Predictive Maintenance and special projects.

Balance the requirements of Supply Chain, Wine Making, Maintenance and Production to create the most efficient and effective bottling production schedule. Created a role where a single individual could combine the responsibilities of 6+ finished goods planners to order all labels for bottling production in order to streamline communication and minimize obsolescence and ordering expenses.

Service existing accounts to push current promotions and improve standing of wine portfolio.

Managed projects and implemented new tools to improve the wine making process and operational effectiveness.