Daniel Desoto, Jr Email & Phone Number

Sarasota, Florida Area

Originally from Baltimore, MD, Dan DeSoto brings a longtime relationship with the Sarasota-Manatee community, having owned a residence here since 2001 before permanently relocating in 2010. This enduring familiarity with the area serves as a benefit to his customers, who choose his expertise on residential opportunities throughout University Park, Lakewood.

Jacksonville, Florida

Suddath Global Logistics is a diversified multimodal transportation, warehousing and distribution management company, providing transportation and supply chain management services for corporations around the U.S. and the world.

• Led the Contract Logistics division to achieve division and corporate goals. Provided leadership and operational expertise to ensure that all work performed was within the scope of each Distribution Center meeting.
• The Contract Logistics division consisted of approximately 3,000 people in three countries with 65 warehouses totaling 15 million square feet.
• Drove top line growth of over 50 percent during the period from 2004 - 2010.
• Led successful integration of Kuehne + Nagel and USCO.
• Completed restructuring of operations resulting in a manpower savings of $4.8 million.

• Lead relationship management, strategic business development, and operational execution to ensure delivery of exceptional service to JC Penney. Determine the division’s strategic direction and oversee the consistent.
• Managed the RFQ process that resulted in the award of a 5 year contract valued at +$500 million.
• Recruited and trained a new management team dedicated to the JCPenney Division.
• Successfully managed the construction and up fit of 4 super centers totaling 1.6 million square feet.
• Oversee the recruitment and training of 1600 associates over a timeframe of 18 months.
• Developed operational performance and financial goals and ensured customer service expectations were met or exceeded.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Charged with overall performance of a multi-location region including the achievement of objectives related to sales, profitability, management of costs, safety, productivity and customer service and satisfaction.
• Engaged in every new customer start up including one of the largest in the organizations history.
• Gained an excellent reputation for implementing seamless start- ups, on time and on budget.
• Established the Customer Transition and Integration group (CTI), a group of seasoned operations project managers to focus specifically on new start up transitions.

Baltimore, Chicago And Atlanta

• Managed operation of several large distribution centers over ten years including Baltimore (200,000 SF), Chicago (600,000 SF) and Atlanta (450,000 SF).
• Successfully turned operations around through reorganizing and mentoring local management team, leading business development efforts, and improving financial performance.
• Hired, developed and mentored several high performance managers who are key operations leaders today.