Eric Newgard

Daily management of clean room,freezer/cooler, and other operations. - Consistently manage daily production operations to ensure manufacturing protocols, product specifications, quality guidelines, and safety standards are maintained. - Maintain excellent communication with other supervisors as well as production superintendent to ensure ongoing changes and problems are addressed and resolved. - Responsible for assisting production superintendent in maintaining proper staffing to support current and future production demands. - Responsible for making sure all daily paper work is completed without error and submitted to the appropriate person or department in a timely manner. - Responsible for monitoring and reporting on variances regarding production operations.

- Marketing via social media and local events - Handle book keeping for accounting - Assist in production and packaging - QA/QC for products

- Conceived, designed, and conducted research, Teaching assistant as required, Managed student labor as necessary, Ensured lab safety protocols were met and observed. - Examined the effect of fuel ethanol unit operations on lipid & phytochemical content in distillers ' grains from dry grind ethanol process for corn & grain sorghum. - Taught two semesters of "Unit Operations for Biofuel Processing," responsible for writing and delivering lectures and collaborated on course projects, direction , and syllabus. - Rebuilt a Waters HPLC from spare parts purchased on E-bay and used to conduct fermentation analysis using recharged BioRad columns. - Built a fuzzy logic fermentation process model in MatLAB. - Designed a bench scale dry grind fuel ethanol protocol.

Understand product differentiating features derived through processing that fulfilled unmet consumer needs. Then identified or developed processing technologies to a level of maturity that allowed commercialization. - Subject matter expert to project teams on processing unit operations and food science/chemistry. - Identified an opportunity and designed a process to convert a waste stream into a revenue stream while simultaneously increasing sustainability. - Identified company-wide knowledge gap and created a lipid crystallization community of practice to coordinate research activities of multiple projects for increased efficiency of effort and a knowledge competitive advantage for new products. - Conceived of a novel technology application that can enable $40 Million in new products, $3 Million/year in cost savings, and $20 Million in capital avoidance. Guided from concept up to commercialization, designing and conducting proof of concept experiments, and building commercialization road map.

Stocking shelves, running point of sales system, serving as a technical and product expert in distilled and fermented beverages.

Collaborated on experimental designs and conducted guided research. - Updated extractable starch calibration for near-infrared transmittance spectrometer. - Investigated effect of sample source errors on extractable starch prediction accuracy. - Compared influence on prediction accuracy of equations derived by various methods of multivariate statistical modelling.

Worked with Dr. Steven Eckhoff on the composition of corn steep water at different time intervals.

Summer & Winter Internships Conduct guided experiments and document findings. - Pilot plant production of all natural antioxidant for customer analysis. - Laboratory research in emulsion chemistry, focus on lecithin. - Agglomerated dextrose production process to replace competitor product. - Soy based all natural antioxidant and scaled up for pilot plant production. - Process refinement for threonine, lysine and tryptophan production. - Micelle refining of canola/rapeseed, cotton, soybean and corn oil. - Soybean oil based paraffin replica for wax paper and stick candles.