Don Gregory Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California

• Responsible for the supervision and training of the Logistics staff for the Home Appliance Division.
• In charge of the negotiation and maintaining of transportation service contract agreements.
• Designed and maintained SOP’s and KPI’s for operational tasks within the Logistics Department.
• Maintained full P&L and cost evaluation responsibility for budgetary decisions regarding all transportation activity within the Home Appliance Division..
• Oversees the Logistics team support efforts for all national convention and trade show transportation moves throughout the United States and Canada.
• Lead projects to improve operational processes and cut operational costs.

Fullerton, California

• Responsible for the supervision and training of the Professional Plastics Freight and Logistics staff and Export Department staff.
• Instituted new procedural guidelines for shipment documentation processing regarding bill of lading, ISF, and Commercial Invoices.
• Created CT-PAT / Homeland Security initiatives and guidelines for company headquarters, Freight & Logistics Department, and Warehouse Distribution locations.
• Responsible for negotiating all LTL and Intermodal contracts with carriers and 3PL Companies and vendors.
• Ascertain industry/logistics best practices to identify new and/or unique programs to differentiate Customer from the marketplace and drive customer satisfaction.
• Developed root cause analysis and problem resolution for all logistics operations.

La Palma, California

• Responsible for the planning and direction of client company’s transportation and inventory needs.
• Performed and coordinated on-site physical inventories.
• Coordinated and performed independent vendor reviews and audits.
• Performed logistical and procedural analysis to solve client’s inventory and distribution problems.

Long Beach, California

• Responsible for the supervision and training of the ILWU Equipment Logistics Staff, Warehouse Staff, and Intermodal Staff
• Instituted new training programs for logistics software for Logistics Staff and Intermodal Staff.
• Responsible for maintaining ocean container inventory for the entire Western Region of the United States (Pacific Northwest & Pacific Southwest Regions).
• Responsible for the freight management of multiple local terminals, warehouses, and off dock depots.
• Developed cost saving operating procedures which saved the operations department $300,000 below normal operating cost during first year of existence.
• Instituted logistic and procedural processes for equipment tracking and recording that included the hands on training of all logistics personnel.

Long Beach, California

• Responsible for all import and export freight traveling to the Long Beach and Los Angeles via railroad.
• Monitored industry trends and negotiated pricing for transit costs.
• Instituted new container tracking system via the internet as a means of tracing containers to the Los Angeles Harbour.
• Managing Inbound and Outbound freight to meet customer needs.
• Coordinated the movement of GACP Pool Chassis between local terminals and local railheads.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.6

Activities and Societies: Dean's List - Graziadio School of Business & Management, Member of Pepperdine Alumni Association, Alumni of.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Communications