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Midland, Texas

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

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Baton Rouge, LA

• Responsible for the sourcing strategy and daily regional logistics activities involving the warehousing and transport of non-hazardous and hazardous package and bulk products via all available modes of transport.
• Recruited and empowered a Logistics team of professionals that reduced annual Logistics costs by $10 Million
• Led a cross-functional team that negotiated, contracted, and implemented a strategic warehouse for a Global Business
• In collaboration with customer service developed a cross-functional team that proactively addressed process issues.

Houston, Texas Area

• Manage and negotiate freight costs for the $500 million transportation category in North America developing and implementing strategic sourcing strategies. This includes LTL, Truckload, Parcel, Hot Shot, and Bulk.
• Documented over $60 M in savings thru negotiating better freight prices and moving transportation volume to lower cost modes of transportation.
• Lead auditor for supplier contract compliance. Worked with Legal and Field Operations to ensure suppliers performance and invoicing met contract expectations. Trained new team members.

• Responsible for managing all rail, truck and terminal activity in the Southwest region including the Tulsa Refinery, Houston Chemicals Operations, and all Terminals within the region. Ensure all carriers, contractors.
• Part of the team that managed the construction of a 300 railcar capacity storage facility adjacent to the La Porte, Texas production units. Led in the identification and implementation of a Third Party Switching.

Leader of the organization responsible for the day-to-day management of Dow’s 25,000 railcar fleet. This incorporates maintenance scheduling and execution and rail fleet coordination. Part of a team that implemented two major initiatives. 1) Replacing 1800 expensive maintenance lease tank cars with 1600 owned tank cars that will result in a NPV of over.

• Responsible for developing and implementing strategic and tactical planning for the 5 billion pound Global Caustic Business. Developed relationships with Co-producers and Chemical Traders for the purpose of negotiating.
• Negotiated global exchanges and swaps that realized over 1 million dollars in cost savings.
• Led the Global Caustic planning team located across the globe to reduce inventories by 25% without loss in service levels.

• Led the Epoxy Products Site Logistics Organization with a $10M budget at a large integrated site which consists of 45 employees (exempt and non-exempt) spread across 9 production units, 5 warehouses, and multiple truck.
• The Texas Operations Site Logistics function implemented a program to hire new employees into a bargain for environment, motivate them to obtain an associates degree in Process Technology and train them for Process.
• Used Six Sigma methodology and Operational Excellence initiatives to reduce service failures by 50% and labor costs by 40%
• Implemented a Cycle counting program which improved inventory accuracy and helped reduce service failures.
• Led the Order Fulfillment sub-team that re-designed the customer complaint process resulting in decreased response time and increased accountability.

• Managed Site Logistics operation across all businesses at the Hanging Rock Site with an operating budget of $5M. Supervised 8 employees with responsibility for 30 contract employees for all Site Logistics activities.
• Reduced Site Logistics Caused Service Failures at Hanging Rock by 60% from a 1997 rate of 5.42/1000 shipments to a 1998 rate of 2.1/1000 shipments.
• Reduced the number of Hanging Rock Site Logistics Activity Schedulers and Technicians by 33% from 12 in Jan. 1998 to 8 in Jan. 1999. This was accomplished through implementation of the Product Load & Ship work process.
• Improved the working relationship between Site Logistics light industrial contractors and Dow employees by developing and supporting clear roles and responsibilities and implementing regular contractor “performance.

• Managed Bulk Truck inspection stations and Bulk Truck Scheduling including direct supervision of eleven weigh masters and two schedulers. Managed the Trailer Staging Facility and the associated Package Truck Operations.
• Reduced the Cycle time for loading 40% by implementing "Carrier Self Inspection" program.
• Managed the Bulk Truck Carrier Performance for Texas Operations conducting regular monthly performance reviews resulting in improvements in on-time-delivery and reduced service failures.
• Successfully completed a Site Logistics Cost Analysis for the Chemicals, Metals, and Specialty Chemicals Channel to Market initiative. This study provided the Site Logistics costs for truck shipments and analyzed the.
• Part of several different business teams that successfully implemented SAP

Bs, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: APICS, Industrial Engineering Society

Mba, Management

Activities and Societies: Graduate Teaching Assistant

Bachelors Of Science, Industrial Engineering