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Ryan’s strengths include production leadership, Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, KPI management, root\-cause analysis, workforce development, technical documentation, and cross\-functional collaboration with R&D, engineering, and operations teams\. In high\-volume and 24/7 manufacturing environments, Ryan has led shift operations, managed training and schedules, monitored safety, quality, and output, and developed SOPs and standardized training programs\. Concrete results include increasing production output by 10%, reducing overtime by 20%, reducing onboarding time by 25%, reducing process deviations by 15%, and raising operational efficiency from 45% to 70% through KPI tracking and training on operational codes and fixes\. Ryan holds an MBA from Liberty University and a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Exercise Science from Emmanuel College\. ## Services - Root Cause Analysis - Manufacturing Scale\-up - Commercialization - Technology Transfer - Technical Operations - Microsoft Office - Quality System - Microsoft Excel - Operations Management - Technical Documentation - Regulatory Compliance - Hoshin Kanri - Safety Programs - Performance Management - Continuous Improvement - Key Performance Indicators - Preventive Maintenance - Process Optimization \(Manufacturing\) - Lean Manufacturing - Standard Operating Procedure \(SOP\) - Training Programs - Quality Control - Technical Support - Workforce Development - Team Leadership - Team Management - Cross\-functional Team Leadership - Leadership - KPI Reporting - KPI Implementation ## Highlights - Owns end\-to\-end operations from production through shipping, including supply\-chain coordination\. - Manages 7 direct reports and 60 indirect reports in current operations work\. - Increased production output by 10% through a shift reorganization while maintaining safety standards\. - Reduced overtime by 20% through improved scheduling, resource allocation, and labor management\. - Raised operational efficiency from 45% to 70% by implementing KPI tracking and training operations personnel on operational codes and fixes\. - Reduced process deviations by 15% through proactive troubleshooting and collaboration with R&D teams\. - Reduced onboarding time by 25% through improved training procedures, increasing early\-stage employee effectiveness\. - Delivered the Americas production plan in a 24/7 manufacturing environment across Printing, Weight Sorting, and Finishing operations\. - Led high\-volume shift operations and managed performance, training, and scheduling for teams of 12 employees or colleagues\. - Defined personnel and equipment KPIs to improve performance visibility, accountability, and issue resolution\. - Led Lean continuous\-improvement initiatives using X\-Matrix and Hoshin Kanri to reduce defects, downtime, and waste\. - Improved equipment performance through preventive and corrective maintenance standards and Lean manufacturing practices\. - Managed site safety programs through training, compliance, and hazard awareness\. - Developed budgets and controlled labor costs, overtime, and cost\-per\-thousand targets\. - Created SOPs, standardized training programs, and technical documentation to improve operational consistency and workforce capability\. - Provided global technical support for new product and process launches, including scale\-up, troubleshooting, and adoption across multiple manufacturing sites\. - Managed product and equipment development trials to identify process gaps and meet performance, quality, and cost objectives\. - Directed operations within a Product Development Innovation Suite using Lean principles to improve workflow efficiency, equipment utilization, and productivity\. - Implemented standardized training protocols across multiple manufacturing locations to strengthen knowledge transfer and workforce readiness\. - Proactively coordinated with inventory weeks in advance to prevent carton delays and production bottlenecks\. - Partnered with R&D, engineering, operations, customers, and internal teams to support innovation, commercialization, production, and delivery requirements\. - Managed Emmanuel College's cross\-country program, including recruitment, budgeting, scheduling, fundraising, and NCAA compliance\. ## Experience - **Speciality Products Manager at Lonza Capsugel** (2025\-01\-01–2026\-01\-01) — \- Delivered the Americas production plan in a 24/7 manufacturing environment, ensuring quality compliance across Printing, Weight Sorting, and Finishing operations\. \- Improved equipment performance using preventive/corrective maintenance standards and Lean manufacturing practices to increase uptime and efficiency\. \- Defined KPIs for personnel and equipment to drive performance visibility, accountability, and rapid issue resolution\. \- Led Continuous Improvement initiatives \(X\-Matrix, Hoshin Kanri\) focused on reducing defects, downtime, and waste\. \- Managed site safety programs to reduce incidents through training, compliance, and hazard awareness\. \- Recruited, trained, and developed employees while managing performance and staffing needs\. \- Developed budgets and controlled labor costs, overtime, and cost\-per\-thousand targets\. \- Created SOPs and training programs to improve consistency and workforce capability\. \- Communicated key production metrics to leadership and cross - **Senior Technical Support Specialist DFS at Lonza Capsugel** (2023\-09\-01–2025\-03\-01) — Led implementation of new manufacturing processes and emerging technologies in partnership with cross\-functional teams to improve product quality, safety, and operational efficiency across global operations\. \-Managed product and equipment development trials, identifying process gaps and implementing improvements to meet performance, quality, and cost objectives\. \-Provided global technical support for new product and process launches, ensuring successful scale\-up, troubleshooting, and adoption across multiple manufacturing sites\. \-Directed operations within a Product Development Innovation Suite, applying Lean manufacturing principles to improve workflow efficiency, equipment utilization, and productivity\. \-Developed and delivered standardized training programs and technical documentation to strengthen manufacturing capabilities in safety, quality, and process excellence\. \-Partnered with R&D, engineering, and operations teams to drive innovation, continuous improvement, and succes - **Shift Leader DFS at Lonza Capsugel** (2021\-03\-01–2023\-09\-01) — Directed shift operations for a high\-volume production environment, ensuring timely execution of production orders while meeting or exceeding departmental productivity and safety goals\. \-Managed performance, training, and scheduling for a team of 12 employees, fostering a strong safety\-first culture and driving continuous improvement in shift efficiency\. \-Participated in daily production meetings to provide updates on order status, coordinate priorities, and resolve operational issues in real time\. \-Monitored key performance indicators \(KPIs\) related to safety, quality, and output, implementing corrective actions to maintain compliance and meet changing production demands\. \-Collaborated with cross\-functional teams to support smooth production flow and minimize downtime across shifts\. Key Achievements: \-Implemented a shift reorganization that increased production output by 10% while maintaining safety standards\. \-Reduced overtime by 20% through improved scheduling practices - **Shift Lead at Lonza** (2021\-03\-01–2023\-09\-01) — Directed shift operations for a high\-volume production team, ensuring timely execution of production orders and meeting departmental productivity goals\. Managed performance, training, and scheduling for a team of 12 colleagues, promoting a safety\-first culture and driving continuous improvement in shift efficiency\. Participated in daily production meetings to report on order statuses and resolve operational challenges in real\-time\. Monitored KPIs related to safety, quality, and output, implementing corrective actions to meet shifting demands and ensure compliance with safety protocols\. Key achievements: Implemented a shift reorganization that increased output by 10% while maintaining safety standards\. Played a pivotal role in reducing overtime by 20% through efficient resource allocation\. - **Senior Operator at Lonza** (2019\-04\-01–2021\-03\-01) — Supported all phases of production, ensuring raw materials were prepared, processed, and transported efficiently across departments\. Acted as shift lead in absence of the primary leader, managing production continuity and team oversight\. Assisted in training new team members, focusing on operational safety and adherence to production standards\. Key achievements: Developed training procedures that improved team onboarding speed by 25%\. - **Senior Relief Operator at Lonza Capsugel** (2019\-04\-01–2021\-03\-01) — Supported all phases of production by ensuring raw materials were prepared, processed, and efficiently transported across departments to maintain continuous workflow\. \-Served as shift lead in the absence of the primary supervisor, ensuring production continuity, team coordination, and adherence to safety and quality standards\. \-Assisted in training new team members, emphasizing operational safety, standard procedures, and production best practices\. \-Collaborated with team members across departments to support efficient material flow and minimize production delays\. Key Achievement: \-Developed and implemented improved training procedures that reduced onboarding time by 25% and increased early\-stage employee effectiveness\. - **Head Coach at Emmanuel College** (2018\-03\-01–2019\-02\-01) — Led the college's cross\-country program, managing recruitment, budgeting, scheduling, and fundraising activities while ensuring strict compliance with NCAA regulations and built a collaborative team environment through effective leadership and communication\. ## Education - Bachelor of Science, Kinesiology and Exercise Science — Emmanuel College - Master of Business Administration — Liberty University ## FAQ ### What does Ryan do? Ryan currently works in operations and owns end\-to\-end operations from production through shipping, including supply\-chain coordination\. Ryan manages 7 direct reports and 60 indirect reports\. ### What are Ryan's core strengths? Ryan specializes in continuous\-improvement projects and operational efficiency\. Key strengths include production leadership, process improvement, Lean manufacturing, KPI management, root\-cause analysis, training and development, workforce development, technical operations, and cross\-functional leadership\. ### What did Ryan do as a Shift Lead at Lonza? At Lonza, Ryan directed high\-volume shift operations, managed performance, training, and scheduling for a team of 12 colleagues, and monitored safety, quality, and output KPIs\. Ryan participated in daily production meetings, reported order status, resolved operational challenges in real time, and implemented corrective actions to meet changing production demands and safety requirements\. ### What did Ryan accomplish as a Shift Lead at Lonza? Ryan implemented a shift reorganization that increased output by 10% while maintaining safety standards\. Ryan also reduced overtime by 20% through more effective scheduling, resource allocation, and staffing practices\. ### What did Ryan do as a Senior Operator at Lonza? As a Senior Operator at Lonza, Ryan supported production by preparing, processing, and transporting raw materials across departments\. Ryan also served as shift lead when the primary leader was absent and assisted with training new team members in operational safety and production standards\. ### What did Ryan accomplish as a Senior Operator at Lonza? Ryan developed training procedures that improved team onboarding speed by 25%\. ### What did Ryan do as Speciality Products Manager at Lonza Capsugel? As Speciality Products Manager at Lonza Capsugel, Ryan delivered the Americas production plan in a 24/7 manufacturing environment and ensured quality compliance across Printing, Weight Sorting, and Finishing operations\. Ryan improved equipment performance through preventive and corrective maintenance standards and Lean practices, defined personnel and equipment KPIs, led X\-Matrix and Hoshin Kanri initiatives, managed site safety programs, and recruited, trained, developed, and managed employees\. ### How did Ryan manage operations as Speciality Products Manager at Lonza Capsugel? Ryan developed budgets and controlled labor costs, overtime, and cost\-per\-thousand targets created SOPs and training programs communicated production metrics to leadership and cross\-functional teams ensured corporate and regulatory compliance and collaborated with customers and internal teams to meet production and delivery requirements\. ### What did Ryan do as a Senior Technical Support Specialist DFS at Lonza Capsugel? As a Senior Technical Support Specialist DFS at Lonza Capsugel, Ryan led implementation of new manufacturing processes and emerging technologies with cross\-functional teams\. Ryan managed product and equipment development trials, provided global technical support for new product and process launches, supported scale\-up and troubleshooting across multiple sites, and directed operations within a Product Development Innovation Suite\. ### What did Ryan accomplish as a Senior Technical Support Specialist DFS at Lonza Capsugel? Ryan reduced process deviations by 15% through proactive troubleshooting and collaboration with R&D\. Ryan also implemented standardized training protocols across multiple manufacturing locations, improving global knowledge transfer and workforce readiness\. ### How has Ryan supported manufacturing scale\-up and commercialization? Ryan developed and delivered standardized training programs and technical documentation to strengthen safety, quality, and process\-excellence capabilities\. Ryan partnered with R&D, engineering, and operations teams to support innovation, continuous improvement, and commercialization of new processes\. ### What did Ryan do as Shift Leader DFS at Lonza Capsugel? As Shift Leader DFS at Lonza Capsugel, Ryan directed high\-volume shift operations, managed performance, training, and scheduling for 12 employees, participated in daily production meetings, monitored safety, quality, and output KPIs, and worked across functions to maintain production flow and minimize downtime\. ### What did Ryan accomplish as Shift Leader DFS at Lonza Capsugel? Ryan increased production output by 10% through a shift reorganization while maintaining safety standards and reduced overtime by 20% through improved scheduling and resource allocation\. ### What did Ryan do as Senior Relief Operator at Lonza Capsugel? As Senior Relief Operator at Lonza Capsugel, Ryan supported material preparation, processing, and transport to maintain continuous workflow\. Ryan served as shift lead when the primary supervisor was absent, coordinated teams, upheld safety and quality standards, trained new employees, and worked across departments to minimize production delays\. ### What did Ryan accomplish as Senior Relief Operator at Lonza Capsugel? Ryan developed and implemented training procedures that reduced onboarding time by 25% and increased early\-stage employee effectiveness\. ### How has Ryan addressed production bottlenecks? Ryan proactively addressed bottlenecks by coordinating with inventory weeks in advance rather than waiting to resolve shortages on the production floor\. This approach helped prevent carton delays from stalling production\. ### How has Ryan improved operational efficiency? Ryan raised operational efficiency from 45% to 70% by implementing KPI tracking and training operations personnel on operational codes and fixes\. ### What compliance and quality experience does Ryan have? Ryan has experience with GMP, corporate, and regulatory compliance, quality systems, quality control, safety programs, SOPs, technical documentation, and compliance with safety protocols\. Ryan has also managed site safety programs through training, compliance, and hazard awareness\. ### What process\-improvement methods does Ryan use? Ryan has used Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, Hoshin Kanri, X\-Matrix planning, preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, process optimization, KPI implementation, KPI reporting, and root\-cause analysis to improve uptime, efficiency, quality, and accountability\. ### What did Ryan do at Emmanuel College? Ryan served as Head Coach for Emmanuel College's cross\-country program\. Ryan managed recruitment, budgeting, scheduling, and fundraising ensured NCAA compliance and built a collaborative team environment through leadership and communication\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/ryan\-rosbury\-57b24b419