Christopher Dennis Email & Phone Number

Swedesboro, NJ, US

Rosemont, IL, US

US Foods® helps customers Make It, with products and services that shape the communities where they live and work. US Foods® has been in business for more than 150 years, spanning five generations and building on a legacy that began with delivering supplies on wagon trains to the Western Frontier. Today, US Foods is a publicly traded Fortune 150 company on.

Henderson, North Carolina, US

• M.R. Williams is a privately owned, $700M/yr—top ten national wholesaler with approximately 350 employees. M.R. Williams serves 1400 DSD customers per week across the convenience space. Vice President Operations |.
• Leads all operations, warehousing, transportation, facilities, EHS, loss prevention and insurance, managing $25M in distribution and transportation P/L. Shepherding safety-quality-cost renaissance, achieved 6.7%.
• Company integrator of two simultaneous strategic construction projects ($10M) and launch of new fresh food manufacturing business achieving 20,000 units shipped launch week.
• Led cross-functional teams in establishing SIOP, driving out inventory deficiencies, and streamlining product flow. Achieved highest fulfillment rate this decade. Sold 1.74M more items in 2023 (worth $42M) due to.
• Enhanced safety achieved a critical 50+%worker compensation decrease twice in two years. Investments in warehousing and transportation safety earned a near-perfect risk assessment of 99.27% while materially reducing.
• Laser focused on inventory control, updated fee structure grew ancillary accounts receivable 25%, reduced tax stamp losses 500%, and damages 17% YoY, and achieved net positive inventory.

Seattle, WA, US

• Transferred to Charlotte, NC to “relaunch” struggling region. Implemented standard work, communications tools and practices, and restructured management team. In six months, improved units per labor hour 16.4% yielding.

Seattle, WA, US

• Opened South Jersey delivery region March 2021, growing four nascent delivery centers into nine high-performing super-region leaders through strategic staffing, standardization campaign and meticulous capacity.
• Revitalized ailing Delivery Centers implementing full employee buy-in to critical safety procedures; empowering and challenging managers to proactively overcome barriers.
• Expanded capacity by 50% in four months, increasing deliveries from 2 to 3+ million.

Seattle, WA, US

• Launched Delivery Center DJZ5, through hiring and developing 36-member leadership team to oversee 450 operations associates. Guided Center to surpass performance of sister sites in Hudson Region by October 2020.
• Oversaw Center’s aggressive performance during Holiday season, delivering over 1 million packages, peaking at over 50,000 packages a day during week preceding Christmas, leading Hudson region in cost and quality.
• Revitalized separate ailing Delivery Centers by partnering with site leadership to implement full employee buy-in to critical safety procedures; empowered managers to proactively address logistics, turning centers into.
• Developed and deployed intuitive program to optimize receiving processes, providing managers and associates with mnemonic aids, logic, and tracking tools to rapidly increase associates’ confidence and performance.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led a team of six managers, 16 direct line supervisors, and 500 associates at Amazon’s largest capacity North American Fulfillment Center. Drove week over week productivity and quality gains, culminating in Northeast.
• Created processes and best practices which led the site in on-time service level agreement execution (99.998%), lowest defect rate, and lowest unit cost. Maintained a consistent 4.8 out of 5.0 employee satisfaction.
• Conceived and led implementation of production cross-training program which curates higher performing employees for full spectrum cross-training resulting in increased operational effectiveness and employee morale.
• Identified and corrected key knowledge and behavioral gaps in safety and workflow. Reengineered processes and physical layout using the kaizen method, driving down the 2019 safety incident rate by 73% as compared to.

Seattle, WA, US

• Managed labor and transshipment ensuring 2 million customer orders weekly. Established a hallmark of safety, timeliness, and accuracy by leading 1200 employees in receiving and shipping hundreds of millions of dollars.

Washington, DC, US

• As a commissioned naval officer, I held several executive roles spanning business, security, infrastructure, and distributed operations and achieved the rank of Captain (O6). An atypical armed forces leader, I thrived.
• CEO of the largest employer in Sicily, IT. Negotiated union contracts, reduced fraud, and expanded productivity while achieving management-labor harmony.
• Optimized $350 Million budget of $10 Billion infrastructure. Championed natural gas heating, 1-megawatt peak photovoltaic field, and public LED lighting. Though the customer base grew, it consumed 5% less power.
• Streamlined hotels, retail, and restaurants earning Navy best-in-class awards. Hotels sustained 99% capacity, patronage increased two-fold in three years, and anchor retail stores reversed a multi-million-dollar.
• Headed a $200M construction project. The ship was the first to complete a complex overhaul and meet all key parameters ahead of schedule. Earned highest Congressional ship rating.
• Orchestrated U.S. Navy's on-site response to the 2010 Haiti disaster, facilitating 24/7 humanitarian transfers of victims, water, medicine, and food, aiding thousands of Haitians.

Ma With Distinction, National Security And Strategic Studies

Political Science

Naval Senior Leader Seminar