David Grasse

• Hands-on leadership, oversight, planning and scheduling of day-to-day operations, distillation, fermentation, barrel maturation, blending, and bottling operations.
• Oversee all purchasing for all materials used in manufacturing processes. Manage inventory and ordering. Create and maintain vendor relationships, price negotiations and contract review. Responsible for maintaining shop management software system.
• Responsible for maintaining all federal and state compliance requirements, documentation and monthly reporting.
• Responsible for managing and scheduling customer orders and processing purchase orders and invoicing.
• Managed budgets, financial forecasts, and calculate accurate costing models to ensure achievement of organizational goals.
• Manage and schedule all equipment repairs and annual service

I oversaw the department of estimating and contract management for a multi plant magazine and medical journal printing company.

Built machine standards and managed the cost estimating system to accurately forecast project cost. I was responsible to sign off on high value proposals to be released to the sales team.

Established market pricing rates and price lists for multi -year contracts.

Used business analytical skills to evaluate profitability for all multi -year contract renewals. Recommended changes to reduce loss.