Gregory Martin DavisOrange, CA 714 271-2746

gdavis439@att.net

Objective: Quality Manager of Plastics, Packaging Manufacture, Food & Beverage Operations. To drive business growth, customer satisfaction and bottom-line profit through my skilled technical and engineering leadership in Quality and Manufacturing. Professional Experience Summary: Unusually broad range of expert knowledge and achievement in developing the Quality Systems for diverse companies and plants ranging in size from entrepreneurial high-growth operations to Fortune 100 enterprises.

Multi-plant Quality Management, lean manufacturing; yield improvement. o Extrusion Blow Molding, Injection Moldingo Thermoforming, PET Stretch blow moldingo 5-axis CNC, secondary ops & assembly to support aerospace and defense o High volume assembly of electronics and consumer productso High speed liquid filling of Beverage, Water, Juice

Regulatory compliance specialist; Food safety GMP trainer; HACCP; GFSI. Pharmaceutical and medical GMP; ISO 9000 certification, Internal Auditor

Certified SQF practitioner; extensive experience with AIB, NSF, 3d party GMP Design Controls, New Product Development; FMEA and Quality Engineering Plant/company Safety Officer Expert in SPC and statistical quality. Supplier Quality Improvement. Post-

Consumer recycle materials for food contact.

Employment History:

Be Green Packaging LLC, Director of Quality (first Quality Manager in the company) July 2015 to Jan 1/2017; Contract Services 1/1/17 to present. An entrepreneurial manufacturer of biodegradable/compostable containers for Food Service and Commercial sector packaging. Processes natural fibers on large-format multi-stage molding machines, similar to plastic molding. Commercial parts feature high-precision complex geometries similar to injection molding. Plants in U.S. and China.

Responsibilities include development of the Quality Management System QMS, procedures, testing protocols, Corrective Actions, ECN, Product Development. Food Safety, FDA & Regulatory compliance of challenging materials.

Developed the QMS (there was none) Eliminated the primary class of consumer complaints (penetration failure) Established Food Safety/HACCP systems Saved a major commercial project in China via development of comprehensive

quality & production criteria. Largest commercial project in company history.

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Consolidated U.S. and China procedures into common Control Plan, included criteria that resulted in significant yield improvement.

Coordinated efforts to improve the application of lamination film barriers Enabled the complete reformulation of the entire company product line by

identifying suppliers of low cost material who could meet FDA requirements.

Consolidated Container Company, Quality Manager, Anaheim Manufacturing. One of the largest Extrusion-Blow Molding plants in the U.S.February 2014 to July 2015Develop and implement plant quality systems, regulatory compliance (FDA, California DOHS), GMP and HACCP for packaging systems, yield management. Primary contact with customers regarding quality.

Improved 3rd-party GMP and HACCP certification to highest score bracket in the country.

Upgraded inspection protocols on lean manufacturing principals and began Operator Inspection Program to reduce QC manpower.

Improved and standardized new product introduction processes.

Intertrade Industries, Westminster CA, Director of Quality January 2012 to February 2014 (Contract consultant to June 2012 then Full Time Regular). Medical Plastics, Aerospace and Defense, Thin-gauge and Heavy-gauge thermoforming, 5-axis CNC, Design, Manufacture and Assembly.

Directed all phases of the Quality Management System, created procedures, quality plans, train staff. Eliminated frequent customer returns for medical plastics; negotiated revised cosmetic standards with customers; revamped internal audit system to comply with major defense and aerospace clients. Upgraded ISO 9001 compliance and implemented improved ISO-compliant Design Controls.

Polycycle Solutions LLC, Continuous Improvement and Quality Manager. October 2011 – July 2012 (contract services October 2011 to Feb 2012)Manufacturer of polycarbonate food and water containers, plants in CA and Georgia. Established Quality System; coordinated engineering studies of recycled plastics, sulfones and other BPA-free materials.

Packaging Plus LLC. Director of Quality Assurance July 2004 to October 2011A vertically-integrated designer and manufacturer of custom packaging products for the consumer, food, medical, and pharmaceutical markets. Revenues in excess of $180 MM. Developed and directed the Quality System for 9 global facilities.

Eliminated high levels of customer rejections, drove improvements that achieved 2 years without a customer return.

Directed operational changes resulting in highest level of compliance to ISO 9001:2008. Established initial ISO certification at plants in China, EU, and US.

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Consolidated Container Company (CCC). Quality Manager Western Region December 2001 to July 2004Drove the quality improvement of food & industrial packaging manufacturing in 9 extrusion-blow molding plants within an $800MM company. National Trainer for GMP & HACCP, was the National Technical Contact for strategic bottled water clients.

Nestle Waters North America (Nestle S.A.) December 1997 to November 2001National Quality Laboratory Manager/ Packaging Quality Manager Directed one of the country’s premier certified chemistry/microbiology water laboratories to become a proactive problem-solving resource for factory operations. State-of- the art instrumentation.

Coordinated a successful initiative with Pasteur Institute (France) to establish reliability controls for all U.S. plants, which are still in place today.

GC, GC/MS, HPLC, ICP/MS, Microbiology

7 Up/RC Bottling Companies of Southern California, Inc. QC Manager, (now Dr Pepper-Snapple Beverage Company. Director of Quality Assurance Sept 1980 to 1997$600 MM in revenue. Carbonated beverages, water, hot fill, juice. State of the art high speed bottling, pasteurization, membrane filtration. Responsible for nine factories in US and Puerto Rico.

Some Achievements, all companies Developed Lean Manufacturing sanitation procedures and eliminated off-shift

sanitation activity resulting in direct labor reduction of $300,000 annually and decrease in associated downtime by 75% (Nestle Waters).

Coordinated FMEA team to eliminate losses from stress crack formation in HDPE water bottles, resulting in $40,000 per month in scrap reduction (CCC).

Drove process yield improvements resulting in $500,000 annual cost improvement (7Up/RC Bottling)

Enabled the use of Post-Consumer Recycled plastics (PCR) for food-contact packaging (a new product category) by developing effective Risk Mitigation and regulatory strategies (Packaging Plus LLC).

Coordinated 6-sigma project with Dow Chemical that reduced root causes of plastic taste & odor (CCC).

Established chemical monitoring programs for acetaldehyde (AA) in PET and qualification of new, lower cost resins (Nestle Waters).

Education and Personal Degreed Microbiologist, B.A., California State University, Fullerton. Member American Society for Quality ASQ, American Society for Microbiology ASM, SQF Practitioner (Safe Quality Food). Consulting microbiologist.

Enjoy mountain sports, foreign languages (reading proficiency in Spanish, French; currently in 2nd year college Mandarin Chinese). Married to Becky; three grown children. I derive great personal satisfaction from solving the impossible” problem.

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