Principal Consultant | Packaging Engineer
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Travis possesses a unique background in design, manufacturing, and quality to solve challenging problems for the packaging industry. He has experience in leading international teams to launch new packaging and equipment across global sites. He has also managed one of nine ISTA Thermal Transport Labs in the US to provide the cold chain testing needs of the e-commerce consumer goods industry.
Travis has successfully commercialized over 50 products using his design and project management skills. Throughout his career he has qualified new parts and molds on injection-molding and blow-molding machines. He is innovative and continually seeks to innovate products, packages and processes using his background in the plastics and packaging industries. Travis has contributed to 12 patents for the design and functionality of plastic containers.
His professional experience includes roles at Graham Packaging as a Senior R & D Engineer where he led cross-functional teams to assist in the implementation of the R&D projects and generated patentable ideas and trade secrets. He was also a Packaging Program Manager at Adept where he initiated and drove packaging qualifications and new package designs in support of product initiatives, packaging design and performance enhancements and cost-improvement efforts.
Travis is a graduate of Penn State University, with a BS in Plastics Engineering. He has been featured in MSC Simulation World Magazine and was a Society of Petroleum Engineers Conference Speaker ’20.