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Denver

Managing and working with COO to modernize company technologies while providing round-the-clock IT support to staff and executive team. Work with drivers and dispatch staff to accomplish the KPI goals, scheduling, Payroll, and more.I.T. Duties include:• General Help Desk issues such as Mobile devices, tablets, PC’s, and software.• Administrating local Exchange servers and databases.• Responsible for IT/Device Inventory & assignments of devices.• I.T. Onboarding, training, and setup of new hires.• Develop work flows for software and hardware processes.• Research new technologies and software that could help the business.• Networking administration• Network and I.T. installation at new sites.Operations Supervisor• Schedule drivers for weekly duties• Submit weekly/monthly reports on KPI’s.• Work with drivers to get most out of their daily performances.• Plan out logistics of push/pull charter routes while balancing contract runs.• Plan bus utilization.

Denver, Colorado

Responsible for all aspects of logistics management and distribution activities for assigned facility including P&L, customer satisfaction, inventory, shipping and receiving, and delivery of product. Manages, develops, trains, and coaches staff.

Greater Denver Area

Recruited to help prepare a locally-owned production and warehousing company for sudden growth-oriented challenges: lack of processes and procedures, cost overruns due to shipping errors, poor management communication, and increasing employee turnover. Established standards for health, safety, hygiene and security. Directed receiving, warehousing, maintenance, and distribution while overseeing efficient receipt, storage, value-added servicing and dispatch of automotive oil products. Worked closely with clients, suppliers, and transport companies. Planned work assignments and appraised results; monitored work quality. Recruited and coached employees.• Organized warehouse by product, labeled slots for picking, and instituted “The Airlock System" to help employees understand step-by-step fulfillment procedures. Reduced turnover by 50% and shipping losses from ~$10,000 to virtually zero within three months.• Improved layout and efficient space utilization.• Maintained warehousing, handling, and shipping legislation requirements.• Managed stock control and reconciled with data storage system; regularly produced reports and statistics for management decision-making.

Gainesville Fl

Helped build a successful team that developed new hardware and software for Food distributors. Created new marketing strategies that lead to the profitable sales of our products. Moreover, applied oversight to finances, project management and compliance.- Project Management- Investor Relations- Compliance- Financial Reporting- Sales

Gainesville, Florida Area

Reorganized the board of directors, launched a membership-based recruiting campaign, and assembled a strong management team to handle rapid growth while creating a system for soliciting local donors and sponsors. Doubled membership within six months.

Gainesville, Fl

Worked with >150 drivers and transportation team; managed payroll, back-hauls, fuel management (IFTA fuel tax), logistics, and warehouse transfers. Tasked with planning and executing an entirely new system of paperless delivery, requiring diligent coordination of procedures, best practices, workflows, hardware, inventory, software, and retraining of 1000's of employees.• Oversaw the successful companywide deployment and training for proof-of-delivery (POD) scanner system, beating the deadline by six months and saving the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in shipping errors.• Created the POD training materials and wrote the customer service troubleshooting manual used companywide.• Effectively reduced cost on P&L via new process implementation; substantially improved payroll accuracy via introduction of new software and organized a new fuel data system that saved eight hours per week.• Built new scheduling system that decreased build times by up to 75%.

Omaha, Ne

Class-A CDL driver responsible for safe operations of Class-A vehicles including DOT logs, inspections and compliance. Successfully drove 48 states in 11 months without any accidents, incidents or tickets.