Ronald Raeburn
Management/Quality Assurance
Colorado Springs,CO
Summary
Meticulous at quality inspections, effective at monitoring finished products and confirming specifications, conducting visual and measurement tests and returning rejected products for re-work.
Overview
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Certification
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Retail Manager
Raeburn's Discount Outlet
2025.02 - 2026.05
- Led team in daily operations, ensuring high standards of customer service and store presentation.
- Developed training programs for new staff, enhancing their product knowledge and sales techniques.
- Analyzed market trends and executed promotional initiatives that significantly increased store traffic and improved sales outcomes.
- Increased sales 25% by implementing EBAY and Marketplace to expand online customer base.
Resource Planner
Tellus Products LLC
2022.02 - 2024.09
- Analyzed market trends and project requirements to predict future resource needs. I used data-driven insights to forecast demand for manpower, materials, and machinery.
- Allocated resources judiciously, ensuring each project had access to the necessary tools and personnel, including balancing resource distribution to avoid over or underutilization.
- Created detailed schedules that outlined operational resource requirements. Anticipated conflicts and prepared contingency plans.
- Managed the continuous monitoring of resource utilization, adjusting resource allocations in real time to address project shifts and changes in availability.
- Collaborated with Project Managers and department heads to understand the nuances of each project, ensuring that resource distribution aligned with project goals.
- Prepared reports to track resource status, utilization, and efficiency, providing stakeholders with transparency and insights into resource management.
- Achieved operational excellence by identifying opportunities to optimize resource usage, reduce waste, and improve cost-efficiency, reducing vendor cost by 25% and maintaining 100% of inventory resources.
Night Shift Supervisor
Tellus Products LLC
2020.03 - 2022.02
- Supervised over 30 employees, 4 leads, 16 mold production lines, 2 packing lines, fiber production, lab and quality.
- Coordinated downtime and PM/repair work with maintenance and engineering on molding production machines to ensure optimized production.
- Conducted quarterly performance reviews, mentoring and training for over 30 employees, including 4 leads.
- Conducted daily shift safety and production meetings.
- Coordinated with maintenance to prioritize identified issues and determine courses of action to address, resolve and minimize molding production losses.
- Reviewed all data from production, fiber, and lab, inputting data into the company tracking system for real time production results and inconstancies.
- Responsible for shift schedules to include: production line assignments/rotations, employee training, vacations, breaks, overtime assignments and substitutions for employee shortfall.
Night Manager
Rich Ice Cream Company
2019.08 - 2020.01
- Managed 3 production lines, sanitation, mixing processes and storage, maintenance, warehouse, while enforcing QA policies.
- Developed new programs to ensure employee growth and safety, including forklift training and certifications, chemical safe use/handling, and proper use of PPE.
- Coordinated with vendors to revise processes to ensure accurate chemical calibration to reduce cost.
- Conducted interviews, approved new hires, managed employee performance reviews, trained and mentored new and existing employees to achieve best practices.
- Managed 11 employees and 1 lead achieving smooth, productive night shift operations, resulting in 100% on time shipment and production.
Sanitation Manager
Rich Ice Cream Company
2018.07 - 2019.08
- Managed a sanitation team of 6 employees and 1 lead with daily tear down all of 11 production machines to perform pre rinse, wash, rinse, and sanitization operations.
- Managed, maintained and trained lead employees on CIP system/program operations.
- Ensured all procedures/policies, specific dairy/allergen processes, and SOP's were in place and followed at all times.
- Conducted joint inspections with QA to ensure GMP's were followed and identified infractions corrected.
- Worked directly with Director's, Manager's and Supervisor's in all departments to ensure effective communication thru out all divisions.
- Worked directly with the chemical company (RMC) to purchase chemicals, maintain appropriate amounts of chemicals on site for efficient operations and maintain equipment for accurate and efficient operations.
- Verification and Validation of cleaning processes including CIP charts, post operation forms, MSS, and daily ATP/Allergen swab testing, resulting in zero deficiencies over the course 4 quarterly inspections.
Quality Control Specialist
US Foods
2016.06 - 2018.05
- Leveraged cutting-edge software for Quality Control Specialists to achieve end-to-end lot traceability and immediate vendor accountability.
- Received trucks and verified that all incoming product matched with the company Supplier Management Program.
- Self-driven accountability to ensure all produce was within US Foods specs (above USDA) and within the best buy dates to ensure the highest quality of fresh produce.
- Liaised between Quality Control and managers/buyers regarding produce no longer within US Foods specs, placing product on 'HOLD' and help facilitate the disposition of products.
- Led team building skills, to help achieve and promote efficiency.
Education
High School Diploma -
Tremper HS
Kenosha, WISkills
- Collaborative team guidance
- Training & Development skills
- Reliable team member
- Effective communication
- Consistent work performance
- Quality assurance
- Loss prevention
- Employee scheduling
- Operations oversight
- Department inspection
Certification
- Nevada Driver's License (Current)
- West Palm Beach Safety Counsel - Forklift 'Train the Trainer' Course (Trained in Levels 1-5)
- ASR Group continuous on line and class training 2022-2024
- OSHA 10hr Training 7/2024
- Rochester Midland (RMC) Chemical Training and Handling 2018-2020
- Solenis Chemical Company: Chemical Training and Handling 2020-2024
- Basic HACCP Workshop 3/2020 -9/2024
- SQF, GMP, ans SOP Training 3/2020 -9/2024
- Forklift Certification thru FCI on Levels 1 -5
- Basic Life Support Cert.
- Valentine CPR Cert. Heartsaver / CPR / AED /Choking &First AID
- Valentine CPR Cert. Bloodborne Pathogens
Timeline
Retail Manager
Raeburn's Discount Outlet
2025.02 - 2026.05
Resource Planner
Tellus Products LLC
2022.02 - 2024.09
Night Shift Supervisor
Tellus Products LLC
2020.03 - 2022.02
Night Manager
Rich Ice Cream Company
2019.08 - 2020.01
Sanitation Manager
Rich Ice Cream Company
2018.07 - 2019.08
Quality Control Specialist
US Foods
2016.06 - 2018.05
High School Diploma -
Tremper HS