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Carol Stream, Illinois, United States

Responsible for strategically developing and maintaining long term relationships with the McDonalds system to ensure their satisfaction and continued business.

Texas, United States

Responsible for initiating, developing, and maintaining significant, sustainable and profitable business relationships with national/regional chain accounts.

The Woodlands, Texas, United States

★ Oversees the client relationship with McDonalds with accountability for sales, marketing, account management, operations, supply chain, distribution, and innovation within a multi state territory and over 1100 restaurants.★ Across 10 beverage category segments, secures business growth and improvements in volume, profit, quality, service, and customer satisfaction.★ Led the sale and marketing of Coke Zero to McDonalds locations throughout Houston, with substantial growth in the first year. Additionally, introduced the sale of Frozen Coke across all McDonald’s locations in the territory, and influenced all co-ops to add and maintain lemonade in 2023 and 2024.★ Created a 20 person Supply Chain Operations Liaison Team that provided guidance to account directors when their scope of responsibility expanded.

Greater New Orleans Area, Louisiana, United States

★ Developed and executed marketing programs to promote Coca-Cola products in McDonalds locations throughout the region, with a focus on soft drinks, tea, Juices, Water and Frozen Slushies.★ Grew sales from 22.1 million unit cases at the end of 2015 to 22.4 million unit cases at the end of 2017.★ Served as the test market for Minute Maid slushies, leading to national deployment and the achievement of millions of dollars in territory sales for McDonalds over seven years.

Greater New Orleans Area

★ Managed three operations managers, delivering results in seven regions encompassing 4500 McDonalds restaurants.★ Oversaw the installation of new beverage equipment and led service, parts, training, and quality maintenance.★ Successfully improved the quality of mechanical repairs, increasing fixed right first visit resolution percentage from 78% to 84.8% and improving completion time response in 0 to 12 hours from 62% to 67%.★ Overall, managed 52,000 calls per year (40K reactive calls and 12K scheduled calls).

Greater New Orleans Area

★ Developed a strategic operations plan for 955 McDonalds restaurants across a multi-state territory.★ Maintained the uninterrupted flow of Coca-Cola products to McDonalds locations, improving customer satisfaction.★ Improved responses to requests for equipment repair.

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Selected to be part of a newly formed global sourcing team responsible for strategic sourcing of medical supplies used in the operating room and surgical centers. Sourcing expert for two large categories, gloves and masks. Over $300M in spend with 100+ suppliers in these two categories.

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Responsible for the success of an assigned portfolio of suppliers in the medical products and services sector. Working with suppliers sales, marketing and supply chain to develop economic value added relationships with Cardinal Health.

New Albany, Ohio, United States

Customer Operations Manager, McDonalds Division, OH, West PA, Upstate NY, KY, WVDeveloped and implemented the strategic operations plan for 930 McDonalds restaurants in a five-state territory. This resulted in significantly increased customer satisfaction, uninterrupted supply and distribution of Coca-Cola branded syrups, juices, and bottled waters, as well as, improving the operational capacity of the Coca-Cola repair service network. Increased the volume and quality of beverages sold to consumers. • Developed alliances and professional business relationships with 195 franchisees, two McDonalds regional office teams, three separate McDonalds purchasing groups, four McDonalds distribution centers, • Delivered value to McDonalds by presenting sales programs, marketing and merchandising programs, and operational solutions • Delivered value to Coca-Cola by producing sales results, creating a more efficient service network, increasing product quality to the consumer.

Central Ohio

Regional Operations Manager, Columbus, Ohio (2000) Exceeded business plan results in sales, operating profits and customer satisfaction at 12 offices in Central Ohio and West Virginia. • Trained, coached and managed 12 branch office managers and teams within each retail location that resulted in improved customer satisfaction, better operating efficiencies and growth in branch sales.

Westerville, Ohio, United States

Overall team leader in branch office with 50+ associates and revenue exceeding $5 million. Ranked in the top 5 (sales and profits) out of 1200 US retail branch locations.

Ventura, California, United States

Part of the strategic planning group working on executive level requests with business planning, sales forecasting and reporting,

Ventura, California, United States

Operational and financial field audits. Management consulting to US retail branch office locations. Presentations to regional field management on internal control best practices.

North Canton, Ohio, United States

Overall team leader and general manager. Exceeded 5 year business plan in sales and profits. Built the business from under 1 million to over 2.5 million and relocated the branch from 1700 sq ft building to 7100 sq ft building. Grew the team from 10 to over 30.

Bsba, Finance

Business

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