Davis Pfeifer

Background

About Davis Pfeifer

Developed first automated hops transfer system for AB at the Houston brewery resulting in significant productivity improvement and cost savings • Team member in the development of a proprietary filtration process with savings of $ 2.1 MM. Managed production tests, laboratory analysis, data interpretation and presentation • Developed a volatile clean up method for process material resulting in savings of $ 500 M. • Team member for production roll out of new products; Bacardi Silver, Spykes, Peels, Wild Blue and Chelada. Responsible for production materials, directing hourly employees, equipment set up and QA. • Subject matter expert for AB in the areas of leaf and trap filtration, in line yeast control and turbidity monitoring instruments. • Lead for system-wide installation of instrumentation to monitor and control yeast addition for fermentation and yeast recovery and turbidity for filtration • Project Leader and member of multidisciplinary teams, setting project goals and timelines to deliver products to market Specialties: • Hands on experience in test method development and validation • Start up experience including; acceptance testing, project scope/schedule development, system troubleshooting. • Process instrumentation commissioning and sample verification • Presenting projects to upper management • Evaluated new equipment for cost and functionality • Developed training programs for processes and equipment