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 the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and inside its doors, you’ll find us developing leading-edge solutions to help customers’ operations flourish.As VPO-IT, will quickly acclimate to the US Foods team to transition to a full-time VPO role. VPOs direct and oversee the overall operations and site management of their assigned Distribution Centers (DCs). Negotiates and administers collective bargaining agreements. Implements and ensures that procedures are followed to provide a safe, efficient, service-oriented, and profitable department.

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 | Raleigh-Durham NC• 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% increased customer fulfillment, 6.9% increased thruput, and 10% sales growth. • 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 purchasing and operations improvements. Perfect peak dispatches vs. 60% year prior. • 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 EMR and DART to better than the industry standard. • 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.• Enriched operations and transportation culture achieving healthy attrition levels, a 35% reduction.

• 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 reduced operating costs of $4.0M, improved hourly employee retention 4.1%, and reduced recordable injuries 9.68%.

• 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 planning. By end of 2021, startup region achieved second in network for quality while quadrupling volume and leading in cost. Quarter 1, 2022, South Jersey region was #1 in North America.• 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.

• 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 region leaders for performance. • 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.

• 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 Region’s 2019 holiday season top volume and cost. • 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 score and perfect 5.0 safety leadership index, highest of any site manager. • 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 2018.

• 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 of retail goods in and out of the 1,000,000 ft2 Amazon Robotics Quick Deploy Site.

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 overhauling organizations, discerning opportunities from data alongside anecdotal observations, and leading change.• 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 annually, earning 2015 and 2016 efficiency awards. • 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 deficit to black in one year. • 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.• Led distributed operations across 11 time zones. The organization was a network maintenance awardee and achieved the highest readiness and mission accomplishment rates during 3-year tenure.• Revitalized community emergency management, achieving FEMA National Incident Management System certification. Shepherded community, air and seaports through volcanic eruptions, floods, protests, evacuations, and refugee crises without operational disruptions. • Earned two US Navy-wide best-in-class helicopter maintenance production efficiency and quality awards and three consecutive workforce readiness awards.