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About Nick Di Domenico

Nick Di Domenico

Executive Director | Solutions Provider

Nick Di Domenico has a strong background in operations management and continuous improvement, specializing in helping businesses thrive. In 2001, concurrent with receiving his master’s degree in management, Nick established and operated a canteen within the New York City of Technology, serving 12,500 students, faculty, and staff six days a week. From there, Nick became an expert in vendor relations, managing pricing strategies, and optimizing operational costs.

Later, a scientific internship lead to Nick’s 20 years of management in the highly regulated pharmaceutical field. There, he amassed a proven track record of developing and maintaining positive relationships with customers and employees, ensuring high satisfaction and retention.

Professional Background

Nick’s experience in implementing new operational policies and procedures aligns perfectly with your organization’s commitment to innovation. His enthusiasm for creating memorable client experiences and strategic approach to business development and marketing are valuable assets helping organizations expand their portfolio and enhance brand presence. Nick is: 

  • Resourceful, meticulous, and a driven strategic leader.   
  • Trained in Industrial Engineering and continuous improvement with 19 years of logistics, manufacturing, and quality experience in the highly regulated pharmaceutical field.   
  • Fast-learning, self-starting, and able to thrive with limited resources.  
  • Experienced in providing vision and guidance across multiple departments to develop employees and identify areas of opportunity.   

Work Experience

  • Entered LTS as a Process Data Analyst and grew progressively in responsibility into Planning Manager, Associate Director of Fabrication, Director of Production, and ultimately, current role. 
  • Led > $1MM project successfully integrating two New Jersey and Minnesota sites to create a unified North American organization. 
  • Leads, inspires, and supports Project Managers on both sites.  
  • Ensures a consistent standard of work and communication with clients. Identifies opportunities for external training and promotes personal development. 
  • Utilizes business development data to set annual departmental budget, project labor requirements, and forecast R&D revenue for the three-year window. 
  • Works closely with Business Development to support the acquisition of new business. Builds and maintains client relationships. 
  • Monitors quality and health of Research and Development projects ensuring progress and client satisfaction. 
  • Supports organization interdepartmentally daily by troubleshooting and improving existing processes utilizing Six Sigma methodologies.  
  • Provides contemporaneous resolutions. 
  • Built a highly effective team over three shifts while overseeing all aspects of pharmaceutical production operation, ensuring high product quality and customer satisfaction. 
  • Ensured compliance with FDA’s current good manufacturing practices, company policies, OSHA Environmental Health & Safety standards, state agency regulations, and all standard operating procedures.   
  • Conducted quality and safety internal and external audits. 
  • Coached, mentored, and motivated a shop floor workforce of approximately 50 employees.   
  • Implemented hiring strategies, employee development, and disciplinary actions. 
  • Inspected returned products and determined root causes for process failures, anomalies, and customer complaints.   
  • As subject matter expert, authored complete investigations and implemented corrective actions, including effectiveness checks. 
  • Interfaced with FDA, DEA, and client inspectors to ensure satisfactory GMP inspections by providing accurate data from multiple sources effectively and expedited. 
  • Reviewed all documentation required for GMP Production including manufacturing batch records, logbooks, and cleaning tags. 
  • Processed documentation revisions and modified existing processes to increase efficiency. 
  • Mapped processes utilizing Microsoft Visio. 
  • Drove establishment of new processes and executed all aspects of new product line introduction or revision including potential product quality impact.   
  • Completed documented change control process. 
  • Created required SOPs, authored and executed operational qualifications, and executed Factory Acceptance Tests. 
  • Performed shop floor training. 
  • Created, maintained, and presented performance data to measure productivity.  
  • Presented to the Leadership Team monthly.   
  • Identified and removed obstacles to meet product quality, scrap rate, and throughput goals.   
  • Engineer. Sought out new opportunities at the announcement of plant closure in 2009. 
  • Provided VP Operations with precise strategic data to support organizational objectives such as labor planning and machine capacity requirements. 
  • Conducted ROI analysis for new equipment and process modifications. 
  • Participated in internal quality and safety audits providing potential corrective and preventative actions for observed deficiencies. 
  • Identified and implemented process improvement opportunities utilizing six sigma tools and methodologies: Reduced changeover cycle time of IMA Encapsulation machine. 

Education:

  • NYU Tandon School of Engineering (fka Polytechnic University), Brooklyn NY – BS, Mechanical Engineering (1997-2000) 
  • Freshman Design Project Winner – Underwater Retrieval System (1997) 
  • Mermaid Prize for Writing Excellence (1998) 
  • NYU Tandon School of Engineering (fka Polytechnic University), Brooklyn NY – MS, Management (2001-2005) 

Certifications:

  • Six Sigma Green Belt (2009) 
  • Certified Food Manager (CFM) (2001)