MJG

Empowering Your Vision, Driving Your Ideas

Hi. It's great to connect.

I'm Mike. In addition to being a dad, enthusiastic explorer,
focused tinkerer, ice cream and coffee enthusiast,
I LOVE bringing
-concepts to execution, and
- executions to successes
within the consumer, commercial, and business arenas.

Continuously broadening the landscape

Experience

Investment Properties     2025-present
Owner / Operator / Manager
Property Management including renovations.
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Newell Brands / Yankee Candle      2024
Sr. PMO Program Manager / Brand ReLaunch
Led Project Management Office and Product Portfolio for Brand ReLaunch of Yankee Candle Division.
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Motif Foodworks      2021 - 2023
Senior Program Manager
Startup plant-based food science technology.
Program management from R&D to commercialization to finished product.
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DSM i-Health      2011-2021
PMO Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Market leading agile fast moving consumer product goods
(FMCPG) brand.
Global program management including new product development and strategic growth projects.
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TOPPS, Inc      2010-2011
Project Manager
Eminent Sports, Collectable and Entertainment brand.
Energetic new product project management launches.
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Pelican Products     2005-2009
New Product Development Manager
Premier storage case manufacturer.
Led and managed new product development (NPD) group for innovation, commercialization and product lauches.
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Suddekor      2004-2005
Manager of Engineering
Leading décor printer for laminate industry.
Award winning facility and project management including new construction and standup of an overlay processor manufacturing site.
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LEGO      1990-2004
Senior Product Manager, Project Manager
Renowned consumer brand.
New technical product development and deployment for global construction and educational toy products.
Project Engineer
Large-scale (> $$M) engineering capital expense production and packaging projects and process enhancements.

Endlessly fueling the pipeline

Portfolio / Body of Work

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Portfolio Management/ PMO Staff Management

  • Business Strategic Dialogs (Strategy Plans)

  • Brand Acquisition and Mergers (multiple)

  • Functional Team Builds with Change Management

  • Data Analytics Department Standup

  • AI Implementation and Integration

  • Phase Gate/ Stage-Gate with Agile Cycling

  • Global/ International Business Models

  • Engineering Product Development / Design

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

  • Consumer Package Goods (CPG)

  • Dietary Supplements

  • Hard Goods / Durable Goods - Cases

  • Food Ingredients

  • Collectibles

  • Construction Toys / Educational Materials

  • Software Services/ Applications

  • Integrated Mixed Engineering Technologies
        [Electronics, Control, Mechanical, Design, Facility]

  • Food Technology

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES & INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS

  • Technical Vendor and Business Partner Management

  • AI Implementations

  • IT Project Portfolio Management

  • IT Systems Review Board Chair

  • ERP Upgrades (Oracle)and Transformations (SAP)
        incl Financial,Trade Marketing, Supply Chain Modules

  • Master Item Data Management

  • Brand Data Segmentation

  • Data Analytics Departmental StandUp

  • Business Pre-Implementation Analysis

FACILITY AND OPERATIONS

  • Facility Manufacturing Construction & StandUps
       Suddekor (103,000 sq ft),
       Motif Foodwork Facility (84,000 sq ft),
       DSM Quality Assurance / Control (2,500 sq ft)

  • Compliance Review and Corrections

  • Business Continuity

  • Production Line Design and Installs

  • Warehousing and Logistics InstallsPlanning

  • Re-Layout and Implementations

  • Distribution Strategy

Perpetually leveraging academics to build tomorrows

Education

Master's Degree
Engineering Management / MBA Concentration
Western New England University
Bachelor's Degree
Computer Science
Westfield State UniversityPMP : Project Management Institute
Certified Scrum Master : Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner : Scrum Alliance
Six Sigma Green Belt : SSGI
Certified Data Analytics : eCornell
Certified Business Analytics : Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management

Quietly disrupting the status quo.

Let's Converse

+1.413.297.4044
[email protected]
mgiuggio.com

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