Fred Coleman Iii, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Champaign, Illinois, US

The mission of Coleman and Associates, Inc. (CAI) is to work with public agencies, owners and private developers to create and execute inclusive procurement opportunities and strategies for Minority, Women, Disabled, and Veteran Business Enterprise (MWDVBE) firms. The goal is to enhance the utilization of MWDVBE firms where they are underrepresented while.

Champaign, IL, US

• Serve as the chief architect and administrator for the development, operation, and reporting on the program to increase minority and female business enterprise utilization in capital infrastructure design and.
• Developed the minority and female business section in the newly updated design qualifications based selection policy.
• Developed and implemented a new scoring concept to execute State and University utilization goals in the qualifications based scoring criteria used for selection of architects and engineers.
• Developed and implemented a separate policy to meet new Board of Trustee goals for utilization of minority and female construction-related business in University-wide low bid capital construction programs.
• Developed and led eight training sessions on the application of the minority and female construction-related policy.
• Execution of capital construction minority and female construction policy has met and continues to meet 15% goal in Urbana and 22% in Chicago.

Start new Midwest Region office, including development of business plan, marketing, client negotiations, contract management, and project management of civil-engineering related design and construction management.

Champaign, IL, US

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration teaching and performing administrative duties in the Industrial Distribution Management program (now Supply Chain Management). Taught senior level.
• Generated $30,000 in client fees from industry sponsored practicum project teams
• Identified and successfully recruited 6 new clients for practicum projects: University of Illinois, FEDEX, Kimberly-Clark, Carle Hospital, Provena Hospital, and PlastiPak Packaging Inc.
• Authored a $25,000 Caterpillar sponsored supply chain case for a case competition
• Introduced and taught Microsoft Project Management in the Supply Chain Management Research I class.
• Developed a customized Supply Chain Management textbook for Supply Chain Management Research I class.

Champaign, IL, US

Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in transportation engineering. Undergraduate courses included: geometric design, transit route planning, introduction to transportation engineering, and geographic information systems. Graduate courses included: highway safety, human factors, and transit route network planning. Conducted transportation engineering.

• Supervised 90 person 3-shift high speed Zest/Camay bar soap packing operation, promoted to Light Duty Liquids Plant Production Planner for Eastern United States, promoted to Mechanical Manager for Ivory Bar Soap.
• Develop innovative safety compliance and tracking system for high accident rate department
• Turn-around of a demoralized and racially diverse production and mechanical department raising production efficiencies from 64% to 76% in a nine month timeframe.