Eric Lewis Mba, Jmt, Pmp, Ssbb Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

NXT/ CLT, a growth market company accelerator that provides a place for minority entrepreneurs to grow their businesses as well as network and create partnerships with one another.Core responsibilities include setting and executing the organization’s strategy, allocating capital, and building and overseeing the core team and stakeholders.

► Laid soild groundwork to ensure that clients created growth for their workforces to facilitate continued growth and leadership.► Clients worked with include: Amazon, City of Charlotte, Siemens, Sealed Air, OctaPharma, Bank of America, MetLife, BNR Global, Metrolina Green House, Samaritan’s Feet, The Urban League, Central Piedmont Community College, and Wingate University.Key contributions include:★ Propelled a 20% growth in revenues and profits by expanding sales to 2 new partners and delivered 20 different customers for BNR Global working with the Southern United States Trade Association (SUSTA).★ Headed team charged with providing consulting, coaching, training, and development to more than 3,000 persons in leadership, process improvement and project management.

► Create Leadershift, by helping leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth.

Lead organizational transformation, strategy and planning for Charlotte Works, supporting expansion of existing companies across the region.► Manage economic development team; collaborating with community partners to recruit domestic and international business and industry to the Charlotte region.► Establish strategic direction for the organization, devising methods to improve business performance and align talent and workforce systems.► Engage private-sector employers with collaborative partners to identify workforce, economic development, and education needs to develop comprehensive solutions that meet the needs of employers.Key contributions include:★ Orchestrated and implemented a 3-year strategic plan which increased organizational effectiveness and provided crisis management strategy to support over 45,000 citizens during COVID.★ Mastermind and led efforts to create training and education opportunities for more than 700 youth and young adults (ages 16-24 years) (ages 16-24) by collaborating with businesses to provide S.T.E.M fairs, apprenticeships, internships, and scholarships.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

► Leveraged experience and comprehensive knowledge to drive a culture of business excellence.► Designed, developed, implemented, and evaluated major processes, programs, policies, and strategies tailored to accomplish strategic goals of Management and Financial Services.Key contributions include:★ Established process improvement roadmaps for reducing communication time by 12% during the budgeting cycle by leading the Strategy and Budget team through design thinking continuous improvement events. ★ Facilitated 18% increase in receipt of business inspection fees through outlining process improvements for the collection of the fees, while guaranteeing continuation and enhancement of services.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

► Brought onboard initially as a consultant and swiftly promoted to spearhead the $100 million joint Department of Energy (DOE) and Celgard, LLC energy start-up project of a state-of-the art technology plant.► Coached, advised, and offered thought leadership to the CEO, functional Vice Presidents, Directors, and Plant Managers.► Utilized Waterfall and Agile processes to accomplish various project success.Key contributions include:★ Ignited a 70% increase in production capacity by leading a 5-member project design team and a 25-member cross-functional team in the successful start-up of the $100 million technology plant.★ Developed global strategy for the launch of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) migration and conversion project from legacy systems to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 ERP system in Asia and Europe.

Vernon Ca

Accountable for developing and implementing strategic initiatives, managing and optimizing commercial risk (supply, price & legal) in relation to the procurement and execution of distribution services, transportation, and International Supply Chain management for MasterFoods USA’s (Mars chocolate, Pedigree pet food, Uncle Ben’s rice) regional network.

Took full accountability for managing expenditures of ~$160 million.► Optimized commercial risk in relation to the procurement and execution of distribution and co-packaging services, transportation, and international supply chain management for inbound and outbound centers across the United States.► Created supply chain network strategy that delivered cost savings of $6.5 million via warehouse consolidation and supplier management refocus.

Chandler, Az

Guided global teams in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Managed and directed a $15 million budget, including procurement of logistics and administrative services, managing vendor relationships, global risk, and integrating merger and acquisitions, lead the global strategic long-range capacity plans for 15 distribution centers worldwide.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

•Full P&L responsibility for daily management of all operational functions at multiple sites in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona with revenues of $90 million, a staff of 4 direct reports and 48 indirect reports, along with all fleet management.

Mba, Business

Bs, Business Management

Supply Chain Management

• Executive Management Program

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• Executive Management Program

Leadership Excellence

Community Leadership

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