Chris Kellner Email & Phone Number

Davenport, Iowa, United States

Galveston, Texas, Us

KBI Corporation is a professional business and consulting firm, specializing in achieving results. Our Kempic Business Excellence team is experienced in multiple facets of business and business management. We specialize in helping clients resolve their company’s most urgent problems, issues, or projects. We work across a huge range of roles, processes and industries and share the KBI driven methods of analyzing and identifying the best path for each of our clients to take.

Davenport, Iowa, Us

2nd in command from our CEO, for our Safety and compliance publishing company. Operations, budget, and P&L management. Direct reports include but not limited to, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Accounting, IT, Production, Office Management, and Human Resources.-Build the administrative team (recruit, hire, train, coach, develop staff) with the best talent for each role.-Lead and hold the Branch team accountable for individual role metrics.-Manage expenses within defined budget categories (recruiting expenses, administrative expenses, overtime expenses)-Identifying and analyze opportunities to streamline business processes and systems.-Defining performance goal, KPI’s, monitor operational success against objectives. Development of processes and performance goals, day to day operation activities.-Develop annual sales/profit targets then achieve or exceed.-P/L and Direct Sales Distribution -Worked with Federal Government, U.S. Code of Federal Regulations

Bonita Springs, Fl, Us

Duties & Responsibilities:• Operation deliverables and executions of customer needs• Operation improvements and monitoring health of business and trouble shoot upcoming issues or concerns.• Develop continuous improvements, resolving complex issues, recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems and develop process improvements.• Responsible for implementing all quality measurable and deliverable for our customers.• Lead of cross-functional teams within the organization.• Managing budgeting within each business. P & L Statements, cost improvement activities.• Responsible for all Quality Control Methods & Record Retentions• Development and training of leadership within organization and completed the on-boarding for clerks and above.• SAP – Master user for: John Deere / Paccar / Bosch Quality & Operations processes.• Power BI and Tableau: Metric’s data collection leading towards CI’s & Root Cause Analysis • Developed, implement and maintain quality control programs • APQP, Process Flows, PFMEA,CP, AQP, Standard work. CMR’s, OSHA Programs• Billing and Budgeting transactions for all customers• RTR to Actual regular hours to OT management. • Quality Audits, LPA’s and CAPA’s• Six Sigma Black Belt, ISO Cert ASQ.Managed and ran operations as Plant Manager for Chicago Ford, Paccar Mississippi and Bosch Kentucky. Managing over 320 employees total plus managing other business during same time period.

Yuma, Arizona, Us

Responsible for coordinating and overseeing a wide variety of warehouse activities, including managing over 300 employees, multiple teams all with the common goal to achieve customer and company objectives successfully.Duties & Responsibilities:• Assists executive management with maintaining and ensure the development of the corporate quality plan.• Oversee and direct the overall quality direction of the corporation and the effectiveness of the (QMS) quality management system• Oversee warehouse functions including, quality assurance, safety department, and inventory management• Trained & evaluated employee performances; recommend & initiated hiring, promotions, transfers & disciplinary actions.• Measured work performance; compared results to objectives; takes corrective actions “applied Lean, Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement”.• Ensured optimal utilization of all warehouse resources, including space, equipment and people.• Assisted in developing and maintaining the operational budget.• Continuous Improvement & Root Cause Analysis, Metric’s data collection• Developed, implement and maintain quality control programs • Oversee Quality, Operation and Materials, Haz-Mat and OSHA• Oversee SAP Inventory set up and maintenance ensuring in John Deere guidelines. • Led SAP team (problem solving) for John Deere and Jacobson

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Head of the CHSP “Comprehensive Health and Safety Plan for the Davenport Iowa UPS Hub manage 120 Hourly employees and 18 Supervisors. • Ensure and promote safety awareness inside and outside UPS operations• RMP, DMP Certified: Hazmat certified, maintain OSHA requirements • Weekly Meeting to hourly and management staff• Employee training and tracking• Monthly Audits for Safety requirements, Hazmat log and audits for OSHA• Was lead for all OSHA and Keter Team audits and maintaining of quality records. Biggest Accomplishment: From May 2005 I accepted the Safety Manager position for one of the worst sorts for UPS working hard and determined I turned it into the top ranking Hub for the UPS organization worldwide. In 2007 I was recognized and received a national award from the the National Safety Council (2007 Green Cross medal) for my accomplishments in Quality and Safety.

• Customer service and retail sales• Book keeping (customer accounts, vendor billing and flex spending accounts)• Inventory, product management, reconciliation, General ledger and standard accounting for store.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Supervised and managed over four states 30 retail stores including 25 Wal-Mart’s kiosks, 40 outside sales reps • Analyze store inventory levels and sales rates. Responsible for recognizing company sales trends and subtle geographical differences. Plotted a course of action that allowed me to the maximization of identifiable sales opportunities. Identify obsolete and potentially obsolete inventory. Planned a course of action that will minimize obsolete inventory reduction costs. Cost controlling and financial reporting per regions and clusters• Conduct audits of store inventory reporting, coordinated special orders, meetings and other related tasks. Fraud for inventory and sales in the computer system (Cares) and (SAP) Prior to above position at US Cellular other jobs maintained. • Retail Sales, Customer Service along with being an inventory representative and helping the technicians with problem solving of cellular issues either being phones or the cellular system.

Black Belt, Six Sigma / Lean

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Business/Management