- Manage all marine transportation functions within Nutrien including; strategic planning, negotiations, operations, reporting and payment. - Coordinate International Marine shipments to the US and Canada including; ensuring regulatory and operational compliance, customs filing and charter party advice, survey and stevedore sourcing and contract negotiation, scheduling, booking, laytime verification, condition rate maintenance and invoice payment. - Executed negotiations on multi-million dollar contracts often covering multiple years, with track record of achieving savings compared to benchmark competitors and industry standards. - Create and maintain budgets, analyze results, measure overall costs, and steward performance vs. plan, while ensuring efficient deliveries.- Manage operations of raw material supply chain for over one-million tons of phosphate rock raw materials annually, while administering pricing, inventory and operational continuities for the forecasting, planning and scheduling.- Knowledge and understanding of international INCOTERMS, customs requirements, C-TPAT/PIP programs, maritime regulations, safety, TWIC, MTSA, HSA, ISPS, DHS & DOT guidelines, along with the Jones and Bowater Acts provisions and restrictions.- Work with internal customers in sales, marketing, procurement, raw materials, legal and accounting to develop and implement key strategies for forecasting, reporting and ensuring transportation and distribution needs are fulfilled and supply and sales contracts accurately address logistics concerns and interests.- Office Safety Representative & SaRT member.- Mentor and coach fellow employees working closely to manage duties and objectives.- Functional understanding of Lean Six-Sigma principals and concepts having been team member on numerous Green and Black Belt projects, Kaizen and Process Mapping events.

Member of board of directors for the Denver Transportation club. 2007-2012Work to help further awareness and knowledge of transportation industry within Denver area, along with working to foster a professional and social network of transportation professionals in the community.

- Lead operational transfer from facsimile to internet based Transportation Management System (TMS). Establish & maintain system updates, instigate and advise on functionality improvements. Design and standardize documentation and tracking for outbound operations at seven distribution centers, accounting for store use and RTV routing capabilities. - Create reporting system for carrier, rate, and exception management, with cost forecasting tools at time of freight spend. - Daily interaction with vendors and suppliers managing supply chain flow of goods into seven nation-wide distribution centers. - Lead carrier contact for securing capacity both for immediate needs and future requirements including; new carrier sourcing, contract negotiation and analysis focusing on best price/performance for most efficient cost effective results. - Orchestrated transformation from % based Fuel Surcharge System to a mileage based program, reducing company fuel cost liability. - Facilitated logistics for nation-wide sales drives and "Hot Market" specialist, successfully operating in a "First to Market" environment.