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Portland, Oregon, United States

New Start up location. Responsible for timely and cost efficient distribution of OEM tires to dealerships throughout Oregon. Ensure team is 100% customer focused. Affectively planning receiving, staffing, inventory and insuring KPI's are met to produce positive P&L results.

Meet with prospective clients. Design and quote work to be completed within timeframe. The type of work completed consisted of wood decks, brick patios and walks, fences, arbors, and retention walls. All work completed within the planned timeline. Customer satisfaction has led to consistent referrals.

Wilsonville, OR

Responsibilities include the overall operation of a 750K sqft facility plus 75K sqft annex, a 4-bay trailer shop and all routing. Facility services 250+ stores in 5 states. Lead 6 direct reports and 200 hourly associates. Coordination of 5 third party vendors. Increased UPH by 20% while decreasing overtime. Improved audit scores from last in network to.

Ridgefield, WA

Ensure all functions in a 670K sqft facility servicing 300 stores Implemented new standards in production that has resulted in a 20% increase while reducing indirect hours by 15%. Improved process in which to track and transport imports from ship to distribution center. Established core standards in facility maintenance improving FDA and OSHA audits.

Phoenix, AZ

Ensure all daily functions are complete in a 3 building 3PL facility. Oversee 6 direct reports and an indirect staff of 425+. Responsible for the communications with our customer. Insure all KPI’s are achieved per budget. Lead team through continuous improvement (CI) plans to reduce costs and increase thru put; Project included Shipping Department cross.

Bowling Green Area, KY

Oversee all daily orders are filled and shipped along with all receiving and returns. Responsible for inventory levels of > $40 mil. Eliminated yearly inventory with quarterly cycle count program at a facility savings of < $150K per year. Planned and lead re-racking project to increase the return from customer capabilities to improve customer service. All.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Contracted owner operators and company drivers. Ensure nationwide teams of drivers deliver truck units or freight per contracted dates. Contract bids and set rates. Implemented delivery scheduling, routing, and time windows. Responsible for successful export of trucks though both east and west coast ports to Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Verify all.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Establish cycle count inventory procedures to improve accuracy of audits. Implemented training and initiated procedures for distribution staff which resulted in the elimination of semi-annual physical inventories resulting in a net yearly savings of approximately 150K.

Northeastern United States

Led start-up stores in new markets. Created innovative marketing and product displays which resulted in marked increased sales of targeted high-end products. Cultivated strong customer loyalty and service satisfaction. Managed in store process to bring low achieving stores to meet and exceed company standards through determining root cause and addressing.

Pennsylvania

Initiated training and cross-training programs to improve team performance and establish standards of accomplishments. Implemented intra-departmental transfers of key staff associates to transplant new attitudes to other departments.

General Studies With Natural Science Emphasis

College Prep, B+

Activities and Societies: varsity cross county, wrestling and swimming