Michael J. Fox Email Address

Senior Packaging Engineer and CPG

Novolex(tm) is one of North America's leaders in packaging choice and sustainability serving retail, grocery, food service, hospitality, institutional and industrial markets. With the addition of Heritage Bag Company, the company has over 6,000 employees and 43 manufacturing plants in North America, including two world-class plastic recycling facilities. Headquartered in Hartsville, SC, the Company's brands include Hilex Poly, Fortune Plastics, Novolex Custom Film & Bag, Duro Bag, Bagcraft, De Luxe, General Packaging and International Converter.

Proven R&D and multi-functional package development leader on a regional and global scale. Consistent track record in advancing packaging and product innovations from strategy through scale-up and market execution. Extensive experience in: Consumer research and matching insights to packaging technologies, leading innovation and change, partnering with suppliers/customers, and identifying technologies and technical approaches to meet project objectives. Key strengths include: End-to-End project management. Consumer understanding, translating consumer needs into specifications, packing line understanding/development, risk assessment, IP strategies, competitive understanding, building collaborative relationships and leading/managing teams to deliver innovation and change. Demonstrated technical packaging engineering principles and skills: • Leading the development of pilot, unit, and production tooling technologies • Packaging material properties • CQV (DQ/IQ/OQ/PQ), • DFMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) • Design of experiments (DOE) • Free-body & stress-strain analysis is required & FEA (finite element analysis) • Geometric tolerance & tolerance stack-up analysis (GD&T) • Gage repeatability & re-calibration system & methodology • Statistical Analysis techniques • Familiar with CAD/CAM, Solid Works, Catia design platforms • ISO (International Organization for Standardization) & GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) • CAPE and TOPS software