Heidi Akkerman Email Address

Co-Op Student

Hormel Foods, is a multinational manufacturer and marketer food and meat products like ham, sausage and other pork, chicken, beef and lamb products.

My recent experience has been in industrial engineering, and innovation project management around new product development for Hormel Foods. However, in the last year, my work has shifted away from project management and I am now focused on new product development and stage gate process optimization. I have a large enterprise project around stage gate, prioritization, resource management, and portfolio management. Previous to my Hormel career, I had eleven years of project management experience and successfully completed projects up to $5MM in capital investments. I gained technical insight to chemical process design as well as a strong understanding of property accounting rules and strategic sourcing strategies. My goal is to further my experience as a Project Manager in an innovation role that will allow me to gain proficiency in project and portfolio management. Specialties: Project management, chemical processing technology, Lean Six Sigma, innovation process development