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Knoxville, Tn, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

● Lead the following teams: Distribution Strategy, Engineering and Automation; Global Logistics including imports and domestic; Distribution Engineering and Integration, Facilities Management for all real estate including warehouses and stores.● Led the launch of our supply chain transformation with facilities in Dallas and our East Coast Distribution Center, driving enhanced EBITDA savings, improved customer delivery times (best in class), and aligned inventory to improve store order flow.● Implemented Locus Robotics with a full suite of automation platforms.● Enhanced and drove 3X productivity improvements by interleaving pick and pack functions.● Redesigned network inventory structure and locations to improve both priority and ground shipments in excess of 99% on time.● Full P&L with extensive experience in negotiating transportation, consolidator, imports contracts on a full range of platforms while driving in excess of 15% savings.● Responsible for our Supply Chain sustainability goals and meeting corporate initiatives including reducing our Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 50% by 2025.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

● Lead Sam's Club's highest volume fulfillment center with over 1000 associates and managing our hybrid facility that fulfills both sortable and non sortable products out of one building. ● Led the expansion of Sam's Club's first operational hybrid facility (direct to consumer) responsible for delivering all of Sam's products to the delight of our members. This included leading and managing the expansion and design of the facility as we increased square footage by 25% and tripled our staffing while reviewing warehouse and automation design.● Lead 3 different business units focused on fulfilling various orders across Sam's multiple businesses. ● Managed the building expansion and implementation of 60 packstations, bin creation, racking, and full responsibility for all infrastructure.● Hired over 400 additional associates to meet the expected growth from 5,000 units to over 70,000 units a day.● Created entire continuous improvement culture with implementation of Gemba walks and visual management boards, production meetings and updates, and creating a focused safety culture with the entire team.● Full P&L and Capex budget management. ● Experience in automation development, IT infrastructure, expansion planning WMS/OMS integration.● Developed entire leadership structure for new facility for both current facility and 2nd facility in current development.● Led creation of KPI’s around Safety, Quality, Cycle Time, and Productivity, and overall Team focus with both leading and lagging indicators, pareto charts, and developing countermeasures through gemba walks and partnership with each of our associates.● Improved all metrics including Safety with a 22% reduction YOY; improving cancellations by 71%, drove cycle time down on numerous process times.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsibilities include:- Leading both Regional Distribution Center and our Fulfillment/Direct to Guest facility.- Overall safety improvements of 36% lower incident rates.- Drastic improvements in quality on both Fulfillment and Store deliveries.- Company leading performance improvements across multiple buildings.- Driving significant performance improvements through team member performance management as well as detailed use of LEAN principles in the key areas of Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for the overall performance of a 2.2 million square foot Regional Distribution Center servicing Target stores and .com facilities along the East Coast. Accountable for an operating budget of approximately $40 million that supports $2 billion in annual sales. Oversee the safety, training, and growth of the hourly and executive teams to create a positive, union-free work environment with over 600 hourly, management and temporary team members.-Improved performance from one of Target's poorest performing buildings to a top 5 in every metric.-Increased budget savings and increased overall cartons per hour.-Experienced with LEAN, process and continuous improvement and driving efficiency across the organization. -Led extensive change management including temporary worker utilization, union avoidance, expense planning and cost cutting initiatives, automation technology integration, and team member and executive engagement.-Improved safety performance by 70%.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for the overall performance of a 1.6 million square foot Regional Distribution Center servicing 80 Target stores along the East Coast. Accountable for an operating budget of approximately $40 million that supports $2 billion in annual sales. Oversee the safety, training, and growth of the hourly and executive teams to create a positive, union-free work environment. -Improved Key Performance Indicators from 26th (poorest performing building) to 3rd in Target Distribution.-Consistent performance exceeding budget goals in every year of the past 3 years.-Superior safety, quality, cost, and delivery.-Experience in extensive change management including temporary worker utilization, union avoidance, expense planning and cost cutting initiatives, automation technology integration, and team member and executive engagement.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for all Inbound receipts into our Phoenix Distribution Center. Led a team of 8 Group Leaders and 130 team members responsible for all departmental metrics.-2009 Distribution Leadership Award Winner-Oversee Inbound Operations leading 8 Group Leaders and 130 team members.-Improved overall performance by 8%.-Department performance improvement moved from 15th to 1st out of all DC’s.-Improved overall budget performance from -12K to positive 22K.-Increased scores in all areas of department Opinion Survey.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led multiple distribution center Human Resource Departments in various locations including responsibility for overseeing the opening of our fulfillment distribution center and locations in Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, and California.-2007, 2008 Distribution Leadership Award Winner-Lowered Team Member attrition from 70% to 17% in 18 months.-Hired and trained over 500 new team members in 18 months.-Led HR Teams in multiple regions with extensive traveling.Human Resources Manager, Little Rock, AR 2005 to 2006Mervyn’s Human Resources Manager, Plano, TX 2004

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