Product Development Manager - Flavor Group for The Lebermuth Company. For over 100 years we have been a leader in providing the finest flavors and fragrances.
Product development manager with nearly 10 years experience in the flavor and fragrance industry. Specialize in the distillation and formulation of essential oils and their analysis with strong mint emphasis. Also provide customers with excellent products and service though business to business technical sales.
Manage the flavor group at The Lebermuth Company including new product development, QA/QC, regulatory, and distillation. The Lebermuth Company has over 100 years experience providing you with the highest quality essential oils, fragrances, and flavors. We will be happy meet all of your flavor and fragrance needs including certified natural (NPA) and certified organic (NOP) products.
I.P. Callison & Sons (IPC) is the market leader in the global supply of premium mint oils, mint flavors, and mint-related ingredients.
For the past century, we have been a supplier to the chewing gum, oral care, confectionary, and personal care industries.
• Produce reformulations of mint oil and specialty chemicals for sales in the flavor and fragrance industry.
• Cultivate and maintain sales connections with major customers developing superior working relationships, especially with key individuals in R&D, production, and decision makers.
- work directly with customers to develop new products and improve quality of existing products.
- create and deliver effective sales/technical presentations.
• Conduct laboratory and pilot plant trials to verify performance and scalability of new product formulations.
• Involved with installation of new equipment that resulted in a 5X production volume increase including:
- establish new procedures for equipment operation and train employees on procedures.
- diagnose and troubleshoot problems both internally and in collaboration with the equipment supplier.
- adapt and optimize current processes to run on new equipment.
- ensure products from new equipment meet or exceed quality standards.
• Manage and train staff of 9 production employees and 1 chemist.
Gameday Housing has reinvented the ND football housing market by offering fans access to reasonably priced company owned homes, and we continue to lead the market through technological innovation and superb client service.
Gameday Housing is the most prominent football weekend housing brand in the Notre Dame market. During peak season our website receives more than 300,000 hits and is visited by thousands of unique visitors, and our website appears in the number one search position for "notre dame football weekend housing" on google. We enable ND fans to rent and list housing at fair market values for every football weekend.
• Manages all aspects of 6 rental properties from booking tenants to maintenance and upkeep
• Sells service to new clients wanting to list properties on gamedayhousing.com
• Supervises addition of new property including finding profitable properties, acquiring them, and managing construction and rehab projects on properties
Graduate assistant in the laboratory of Lyle Isaacs, PhD. Completed the Chemistry MS program. Studied supramolecular organic chemistry including the requisite organic synthesis and analysis. Completed five semesters of teaching college chemistry in the lab and in the classroom.
The university of Maryland offers a top ranked graduate program in chemistry with a graduate community that presently consists of 150 graduate students, 50 faculty, 50 post-doctoral researchers, and nearly 50 technical staff members, visiting researchers and students from allied disciplines.
• Studied the supramolecular chemistry of cucurbit[n]uril compounds under direction of Dr. Lyle Isaacs.
• Practiced organic synthesis of small molecule compounds.
• Taught both general and organic chemistry instructing 40-200 students per semester in classroom and lab
• Earned consistently outstanding ratings on student teaching evaluations.
I.P. Callison & Sons is the worldwide leader in mint industry. Peppermint and Spearmint oils are purchased from the field and the processed and sold to oral care and confectionery companies. This position was in charge of processing oils to meet strict customer quality targets in terms of both chemical composition and sensory evaluation. All planning was undertaken from initial chemical and quality inspection, to production planning, to making final product, and performing quality control check.
Undergraduate research under joint supervision of Dr. Paul Helquist and Dr. Olaf Weist for a small molecule synthesis project with funding provided from Beacon-Circagen Pharmaceuticals (d/b/a Errant Gene Therapeutics).