Gary Bode Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, BC, CA

The Global Fulfilment (GF) North American Infrastructure team oversees all Strategic Initiatives in both Canada and the United states Distribution Centers, with initiatives that are typically a blend of physical infrastructure and technical components. As a Senior Project Manager, I am responsible for leading several infrastructure development projects.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Led a high-impact, priority project to unblock our product commercialization pipeline, successfully driving 110 new product introductions (NPI) through the end-to-end go-to-market process with expected revenue of +$40M.
• Facilitate workshops and discussions with large stakeholder groups to solve complex problems that span many business units, using influence and reporting to drive actions to completion against tough deadlines
• Implementing organization-wide business operations improvements and change management to support
• Responsible for leading large, transformational IT projects that streamline and optimize Article’s ability to commercialize products at scale, with the goal of radically improving NPI
• Form the link between software product managers and engineers in the Technology team, and the Product Engine team that designs, develops and delivers new products to market.
• Completed an in-depth, 6-month long Discovery Phase and readiness assessment for a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementation, identifying key business ops areas that needed to be addressed with the conclusion.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• At Fuel Network, we focus on helping innovative and progressive tech organizations manage how they plan their talent resourcing to cater for their growth plans, while future-proofing their business for the unknown. We.
• Setting the strategy and vision for the business, financial reporting & planning, and budgeting
• Project management and resource planning for digital projects with multi-disciplinary teams across multiple locations and time zones
• Working closely with clients to understand their unique resource requirements and tech stack, developing scopes of work and technical requirements with them, and matching them with best-fit options from our partner.
• Tightly managing our resource pipeline of talent by finding, vetting and onboarding software development agencies to grow our network of partners
• Designing, optimizing, and managing back-office operations for banking, accounting, contracting, invoicing and payroll

Kingsey Falls, Québec, CA

• Cascades Recovery is one of the largest recyclers in Canada, and in my role I was responsible for the two largest facilities in Western Canada. I oversaw the daily operations and manage a team of about 60 direct and.
• Management and accountability for supervisors and their teams running key site functions, including shipping, receiving, scale-house functions, inventory management, production, maintenance, health & safety, and.
• Strategic resource planning to ensure that the plants were optimally resourced at all times, making use of permanent, temporary and contracted staff across fluctuating demands
• Project managing a multi-million dollar facility expansion and upgrade projects, resulting in an increase in site processing capacity of over 60%
• Create and implement various Lean and improvement projects to raise the efficiencies and standards of the plants, while driving cost reduction initiatives
• Developing new KPIs, and monitoring them to manage teams and departments for high-performance and profitability

Diep River, ZA

• Polyoak Packaging is the largest manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging in Southern Africa, supplying food and beverage industries.
• Most senior executive on site, responsible for all operational and financial aspects of a large manufacturing site which produced packaging for food and beverages at high speed and volume
• Reported into the Chief Executive and was accountable for the P&Ls of the entire site and division
• Oversaw managers for all departments - 34 professionals and almost 200 factory staff on site
• Led an 18-month, multi-million dollar project to expand and upgrade the site – managing cross-functional project teams for construction, engineering, equipment supply and production
• Key Strategic responsibilities included operational budgeting, capital budgeting and project management of critical business growth and cost-saving initiatives

Diep River, ZA

As a Production Manager for this business unit which injection-moulds PET preforms, I was accountable for all costs under production control that impacted the income statement and profitability of the business. What began as a small department, grew into a substantial one as we quadrupled our size and production capacity, and expanded our skilled team.

Diep River, ZA

I was involved across all divisions within Polyoak and executed several successful projects to increase plant productivity, streamline workflow and to set up new factory services. One of my main projects was to establish a brand new manufacturing plant and division for the company, which produces PET preforms. I managed the building work, electrical and.

Erkurhuleni, Gauteng, ZA

BAC manufactures a wide range of evaporative cooling products, including cooling towers, evaporative condensors and ice thermal storage units. As a project engineer, I assisted and supported the sales team in advising on equipment selection and sizing and then creating the factory production orders for these units.Any special requirements for the customers.

Mba, Business

B.Sc Engineering (Hons), Mechanical Engineering

Certificate In Wine, Wine Steward/Sommelier