Gerald Fountain
Contract Manufacturing Sr Manager at Tropicana Brands Group
- Role
- Sr Contract Manufacturing Manager at Tropicana Brands Group
- Location
- Wilmette, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gerald Fountain
Provide technical expertise, leadership, mentoring, and innovation with a broad base in food and non-food applications. Lead and manage cross-functional teams. Authored multiple patents and granted numerous awards for innovation. Wide experience range of technologies including extrusion, spray drying, spray coating, milling, mixing, homogenization, thermal processing including aseptic, fermentation, confection processing, on-food printing, controls, and electronics. Actively involved in community programs including STEM based education including electronics and robotics as well as Scouting.Specialties: R&D Process Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Innovation
Experience
Sr Contract Manufacturing Manager
Mar 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Sr Contract Manufacturing Manager at Tropicana Brands Group
Education
University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Chemical Engineering
1990
Northwestern University
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
2000
Skills
- Consumer Products
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Ingredients
- Sensory Evaluation
- Process Management
- Gmp
- Process Engineering
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Electronics
- Sensors
- Manufacturing
- Packaging Engineering
- Quality System
- Management
- Process Simulation
- Fmcg
- Dairy
- Commercialization
- Product Development
- Leadership
- Supply Chain
- Engineering
- Chocolate
- Process Optimization
- Food Manufacturing
- Haccp
- Food Industry
- Food Technology
- Continuous Improvement
- Project Management
- Program Management
- Food Processing
- Engineering Management
- Food Packaging
- Lean Manufacturing
- Food Science
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (Haccp)
- Food
- Chemical Engineering
- Creative Problem Solving
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