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Huntington, Indiana, United States

Portland, Indiana

Muncie, Indiana

Managed materials department for a locomotive component assembly and remanufacture plant including purchasing, receiving, shipping, and warehousing.

Muncie, Indiana

Managed warehouse supporting a locomotive assembly plant, including receiving, shipping, warehousing, kit assembly, inventory control, and discrepant material disposition.

Lake Charles, Louisiana Area

Managed Supply Department with personnel at 5 bases along the gulf coast, and a 6th in Anchorage supporting 21 domestic and 8 foreign bases. Direct oversight of all shipping, receiving, warehousing and logistic activities along with Tooling and GSE group responsible for the distribution, inspection, calibration and repair of all specialized tooling and ground support equipment. Ensured compliance with import/export documentation requirements, ATF/ITAR/DOT compliance. Provided direct… Show more Managed Supply Department with personnel at 5 bases along the gulf coast, and a 6th in Anchorage supporting 21 domestic and 8 foreign bases. Direct oversight of all shipping, receiving, warehousing and logistic activities along with Tooling and GSE group responsible for the distribution, inspection, calibration and repair of all specialized tooling and ground support equipment. Ensured compliance with import/export documentation requirements, ATF/ITAR/DOT compliance. Provided direct supervision of Night Material Coordinators responsible for after hours urgent part purchasing and logistics. Worked alongside Planning and Procurement Manager, and Strategic Sourcing Manager under the Direction of the Director of Supply Chain to address all Supply Chain related concerns.•Lead Logistics department in analyzing shipping practices, including shipping methods, package consolidation, carrier service levels, and courier utilization. This enabled us to better educate the ground level decision makers resulting in a 28% reduction in freight expenses within 3 months. Ongoing improvements have maintained a 32% decrease in freight costs.•Revamped company export documentation, processes, employee education, and approval processes. Produced a best in industry process for producing required documentation for customs clearance. Highlight of our success was the first ever successful initial entry into a foreign country to begin operations where the initial provisioning, aircraft and supplies were able to be imported into Suriname without problem avoiding costly delays which had been experienced in past foreign entries.•Lead collaborative effort in improving inventory accuracy, employee education, and department standards resulting in an 81% decrease in annual inventory write offs•Utilized computer design software in redesigning warehouse layouts resulting in a 52% increase in space utilization while increasing quick access to high usage parts. regulations Show less

Ogden, Utah

Supervised Inventory Analyst team responsible for ensuring the highest possible inventory accuracy at one of Icon’s production plants, the supporting parts warehouses, two distribution centers, and various global 3pl warehouses. Worked closely with the production plant management to minimize interruptions to the flow of needed goods to the facility, and ensure accurate reporting and backflushing of goods. Provided feedback and training to various departments in various tools and reporting… Show more Supervised Inventory Analyst team responsible for ensuring the highest possible inventory accuracy at one of Icon’s production plants, the supporting parts warehouses, two distribution centers, and various global 3pl warehouses. Worked closely with the production plant management to minimize interruptions to the flow of needed goods to the facility, and ensure accurate reporting and backflushing of goods. Provided feedback and training to various departments in various tools and reporting methods to improve employee productivity and inventory accuracy.•Reduced cost of inventory write offs for production facility from 0.20% to 0.08% of per unit material cost•Reduced Inventory Distribution Center write offs in Distribution center by 63% in the first year of involvement•Instigated Inventory Analyst department involvement in FreeMotion division of company. Conducted extensive audit of inventory, processes, and documentation and presented to executive group findings and recommendations resulting in overhaul of division implementing most of my recommendations. Resulting improvements brought inventory accuracy from 84% accuracy to 99%, decreased inventory write offs by 97.5% and provided increased profitability.•Developed first effective process for conducting regular audits of inventory held at international 3pl warehouses.•Drafted into interdepartmental team headed by IT division responsible for transitioning from legacy MRP system to SAP to address excessive past due orders. Succeeded in reducing past due orders from 54% of pending orders to 2%. Show less

Conducted walk through inspections in randomly assigned HUD properties in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Responsible for supervision of small production area mass producing evaporitive cooler covers along with various custom canvas products.

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