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Tallmadge, Ohio, US

Tallmadge, Ohio, US

• A boutique consulting firm that specializes in application integration using Mulesoft technology and provides staff augmentation and project management to businesses and governments.
• Manage General Services Agreement with Salesforce including workflow documentation.
• Secure business with new and existing customers.
• Develop client partnerships to expand their Mulesoft practice.
• Manage interview process and hiring of new employees and contractors.
• Hire Marketing Director and oversee strategy and execution.

Akron, Ohio, US

• Cascade Locks Park Association is a non-profit organization responsible for the management of the historic Mustill Store Museum, House, Park, and Schumacher Mill Site in the Northside District of Akron, Ohio. Our goal.
• Managed Volunteer Life Cycle – recruitment, onboarding, training and scheduling, and retention.
• Administered membership renewal process, resulting in increased and consistent revenue stream.
• Special event management planning, execution, and marketing.
• Ran day-to-day office and sales operations.
• Produced quarterly newsletter including content, design, and distribution.

• Evoplanning - software-as-a-service business providing turnkey event management solutions to corporate, professional, and non-profit organizations
• Managed direction of software application, sales, marketing, and customer service.
• Fostered deep understanding of details regarding customer events to create appropriate fields in software to capture required information for online registration form.
• Coordinated changes to application with developer to create additional customer functionality.
• Creatively worked within the confines of the existing application to solve customer needs.
• Averaged ten events per year for nationwide conference planner, First Class Conferences, since 2006.

• evosolutions LLC – Copley, Ohio – Consulting firm providing technology resources to corporate businesses for staff augmentation.
• Directed sales and marketing, customer service, project management, and identified business opportunities.
• Secured business with First Class Conferences to develop a system to manage the nationwide business’ registration data for continuing education courses. The software application was spun off into evoplanning.
• Identified and coordinated details for owner to be presenter at 2008 COSE Small Business Conference and at Software Freedom Day in October 2008.
• Managed, marketed and coordinated details for three public informational seminars on service-oriented architecture and enterprise service bus technology.
• Created press releases and marketing materials.

• The former Matrix Essentials Hair Care Company
• Working with $25M budget, implemented direct-from supplier sourcing program for cost reduction of $500k.
• Optimized stock levels for migration of hair color manufacturing to Canada.
• Negotiated cost savings in tubes category of $150-200k by working with marketing, package engineering, quality assurance, and plant engineers to optimize and standardize tube heights, diameters, and packaging.
• Worked with multi-functional teams to absorb increased perm production with addition of Redken brand.
• Implemented technical, art, and packaging changes to standardize componentry and optimize production.

Akron, Ohio, US

• Locally owned chemical distributor providing rubber chemicals for medium to large businesses in the U.S. and Canada.
• Identified cost improvements, process improvements, and increased customer satisfaction.
• Reduced transportation costs for inbound ocean containers by 63% by changing freight brokers.
• Reduced costs for U.S. Customs clearance by 57% through negotiations with a new supplier.
• Realized faster arrival times of containers from ports from ten to four days by changing import brokers.
• Directed the transition to a new Canadian warehouse to improve service levels and reduce costs by 5%.

Akron, Ohio, US

• Joint venture between Rubber Chemical Divisions of Monsanto & Akzo Nobel
• Imported Rubber Chemicals from five worldwide locations.
• Developed and effectively managed critical relationships with freight brokers – detecting potential classification discrepancies and anticipating possible inland/sea transportation
• Avoided delays which would impact customer service by proactively communicating with European counterparts to resolve future supply issues and managed inventory levels of imported products to meet target customer.
• Reduced container demurrage charges by 35% through effective time management of in bounds to plants, warehouses and customers.
• Communicated pre-alerts to freight brokers and U.S. warehouses to improve work streams which resulted in reduction of missed orders from 15% to zero.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation, Rubber Chemicals Division
• Managed the distribution of ten million pounds of rubber chemicals per year between plants and toll locations.
• Served on toll manufacturing redesign team, general rubber products business team and the inventory management redesign team.
• Oversaw daily schedule and communication with six toll operations (outside manufacturing locations).
• Coordinated projects that reduced potential waste by $500k/year through milling, rebagging, repackaging, and reworking expired and/or damaged material.
• Consulted with toll operators to develop production plans and instructions on all aspects of each project.

• Commercial Transport Division of North American Van Lines
• Managed the performance and equipment utilization for up to 80 drivers.
• Managed truck maintenance schedules, increasing fuel efficiency, and optimizing driver potential.

Bachelor Of Arts, Psychology

Economics

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