JEFFERY FEYEN

12831 Red Gate Road

Evansville, IN 47725
Home: (812) 867-7833 Mobile: (812) 453-5189
jf7a0370@westpost.net

CAREER SUMMARY
Career professional with extensive experience in management, engineering and opt
imizing processes. Strong competencies in research, analysis, problem solving,
troubleshooting, identifying options, development of new systems that bring maxi
mum efficiency structure, and bringing closure to projects. Successfully manage
d cross-functional teams with diverse technical backgrounds; proven track record
for budget controls, problem solving and crisis management. Proficient in Power
Point Presentations, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office Project,
and Microsoft Visio.
* Performance Driven Qualified new metal can vendor on six different packaging
lines which led to new vendor can contract and a cost savings of over $60,000,00
0 over five years.
* Innovative and Creative Led implementation of new and cost-improved packaging
designs for cans high speed filling lines.
* Results Oriented Project team leader on multi-sites standardization project t
hat led to a plastic bottle reduction from 64 to 9 bottle sizes, resulting in ov
er $2,000,000 cost savings.
* Risk Management Project Team Manager for Serialization Execution project team
of 27 people with representatives from corporate and five manufacturing includi
ng sites in Puerto Rico and Italy.
* Strategic Thinker Responsible for the strategic preparation/execution of the
Continuous Innovation work plan resulting in implementation of Continuous Improv
ement tools such as meeting management, change management, problem solving and t
eam building.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB 6/1986 12/2009
(Global manufacturer of biopharmaceutical and nutritional products with over 30,
000 employees and $20 billion in annual sales.)
Packaging Technical Service Manager (7/2003 12/2009)
Responsible for leading Packaging Technical Services which provided manufacturi
ng support, problem resolutions and support of efficiency improvement initiative
s. The department actively participated and supported Product Development, Tech
nical Transfer and Product launch teams on all packaging related issues.
Coordinated project to transfer pharmaceutical packaging line from Puerto Rico
to Mt. Vernon, IN meeting all project time lines, user requirements and project
costs of $2.5 million.
Coached a continuous innovation team that reduced a product cycle time from 46
days to 21 days resulting in an annual cost savings of $950,000.
Assisted in the development of short and long term strategies in the packaging
department such as running all the 95cc bottle products on one line to reduce ma
jor changeovers by 50%.
Corporate Serialization Execution Finishing Team Lead (3/2008 10/2008)
Project Team Manager for execution of serialization; team consisted of 27 peopl
e including representatives from corporate and five manufacturing sites. Team i
dentified project strategy, equipment and serialization technology for each pack
aging line at five manufacturing sites including sites in Puerto Rico and Italy.
Assisted overall ePedigree and electronic serialization tracking of products te
am to comply with California state law in project direction and timing.
Supported electronic serialization track and trace team in development of ePedi
gree / Serialization Capital Authorization Request of $49 million.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTD.)

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB (contd.)
Manager Manufacturing Operations CPO Packaging (7/2002 7/2003)
Manager Continuous Innovation (CI) Site Leader (5/2000 7/2002)
Responsible and accountable for the strategic preparation and execution of the C
ontinuous Innovation work plan to assure the sustainability and effectiveness of
the CI program. Responsible for establishing the framework to sustain a cultur
e of Continuous Innovation and operating with special attention to process optim
ization.
Developed and implemented the strategy and framework to sustain the CI process
at the site.
Led three successful waves of CI optimization teams (approximately 24 teams) th
at improved the organizational effectiveness of the site.
Helped develop CI dashboard which contained the key performance metrics for the
site.
Trained optimization team leads to use the CI tools such as meeting management,
change management, brain storming, problem solving, RACI forms, and team buildi
ng so they could transfer this knowledge to their teams and throughout the organ
ization.
Manager Pharmaceutical Packaging Tech Services / Packaging (1/1997 5/2000)
Manager Pharmaceutical Packaging Tech Services (1/1993 1/1997)
Associate Manager Pharmaceutical Packaging (9/1990 1/1993)
Senior Packaging Engineer (6/1986 9/1990)
THE TORO COMPANY 10/1980 6/1986
(Leading worldwide provider of turf maintenance, equipment, and precision irriga
tion systems, with more than 30 U.S. distributors and 135 international distribu
tors in 140 countries.)
Packaging Engineer
GRACO, INC. 5/1977 10/1980
(World leader in fluid handling systems and components to the manufacturing, pro
cessing, construction, and maintenance sectors, with 2,400 employees and $800 mi
llion in annual sales.)
Packaging Engineer
EDUCATION
COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS, St. Paul, MN * 1985
Master of Business Administration Business Management
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT, Menomonie, WI * 1977
Bachelor of Science Packaging Technology Concentration

References Available Upon Request