Experiences at The Coca-Cola Company

Sensory Lab Manager; over 15 years experience
Lab Exploratory led to 3 Brands Totaling Half Billion Cases (2008)

In budget/ on time
In past 3 years, performed exploratory work on 3 beverage brands (half billion stat case sales in 2009). My sensory experience also includes testing dispensing equipment. Success was based on critical project management, team leadership with in-budget/ on-time delivery.

High pressure; high productivity
The "go to" person in the lab. Thus,used to a high pressure work environment; in fact, excel under pressure. My productivity was 50% above average for the 20 person lab.

Precision Work In Field Applications.
Successful labs are precision driven; I was the architect of much of that meticulousness. Fifteen percent of our experiments required field application. Additionally, I recruited and maintained a 300 person taste panel. Use of the panel drove per interview cost down by 15%.

Excellent Communicator: keeper of secrets.
Won praise from clients for my everyday language reports of highly technical sensory. All work involved highly secretive projects whose secrets when they came my way died a quite and undivulged death....

Identifying and aligning disparate business unit spend for information.

Aligning disparate business unit spending for information to reduce duplication and leverage corporate spend.

My responsibilities included strategically positioning the information center within the company; developing and expanding client relationships, increasing awareness and use of the information center and its services and contracting for appropriate information services. In addition, the information center was operated as a profit center which required that I manage to a budget....

Competencies, demonstrated experience and accomplishments with expected competencies.

Manage the acquisition, organization and dissemination of information resources within Coca-Cola. Negotiated information service contracts, assessed client needs, evaluated products offered by vendors, and disseminated information to users via multiple mechanisms, e.g., website, email, newsletter, training sessions, seminars and other events....

Helped produce new-product rollouts for regional bottler meetings. Duties ranged from administrative assistance to proofing slides to onsite event coordination.

OD practitioner leading change in a newly constructed organization. Teamed with counterparts in the other two regions to identify and create processes/methods that maintained consistency across this new organziation. A strategic resource capable of leading cross functional teams.