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Develop and implement business strategies that navigate changes in a newly disrupted market through focus on operational efficiencies, internal culture development, and new revenue streams. Manage operations, resource allocation, and critical decisions that impact stakeholders, employees, and the customer experience. Navigated operational production and enhancements to drive profitability throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.• Revolutionized conventional manufacturing processes by developing an innovative “factory-within-a-factory” production model that enabled traditional manufacturers to produce non-organic goods simultaneously with organic goods to answer the demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.• Championed the development of an omnichannel revenue model to expand reach outside of traditional brick-and-mortar retail sales; created a consumer-direct, OEM white label, and trade channels from the ground up and developed distinct sales and marketing strategies for each channel.• Advanced sales team performance and enhanced skill sets by investing in Carnegie sales and other professional training.• Successfully navigated pre- and post-pandemic operations, ensuring workflow fluidity that matched the ever-changing environment; worked closely with counsel on developing processes to not only remain open, but continually drive revenue and create a safe working environment.

Grew the organization into a top-tier competitor within a highly competitive, established environment. Developed operational processes and created a family-focused culture that optimized productivity and increased internal cohesiveness. Advanced operations, implemented process improvements, and developed innovative technology platforms that enabled global success and secured industry-leading clients including, but not limited to, HP, Apple, Google, Tech Data, Ingram Micro, BenQ and ASUS. Executed company vision operationally, oversaw global business administration, technology implementation, and participated in M&A initiatives. • Enabled the successful execution of overseas expansion to transform a third party-agency-network to an owned-operating-subsidiary model by creating a global financial and operating KPI reporting interface that effectively rolled-up robust foreign-operating-subsidiary financial and operational data to the US-based executive team; identified, implemented and customized a leading ERP platform to meet country-specific needs that supported business objectives.• Developed innovative software solutions including Cruz WMS and InnoView® – a global trading partner and freight and logistics management platform still in use today, enabling increased supply chain transparency and delivering critical insight to global stakeholders. This custom software system created a strategic differentiator to elevate future sales efforts within a competitive marketplace, driving growth.• As right-hand to the CEO, drove operational excellence and delivered exponential growth that enabled the eventual strategic sale of the organization.• Promoted to Executive Vice President based on outstanding success as a GM delivering oversight across all aspects of business administration and technology implementation.Officer, Director, Shareholderhttps://www.aircargonews.net/business/acquisitions/rhenus-acquires-miami-based-freight-logistics-group/

Supervised personnel across all departments and managed all aspects of business administration, directed development of key operations software including warehouse inventory management systems (WMS), transportation management systems (TMS) and forwarding back-office systems, managed offsite IT resources (US, CA, IN), designed and implemented sophisticated EDI systems to ensure quality, actionable supply-chain data was delivered consistently to a worldwide trading-partner network.As information systems manager built IT department from the ground up creating a modern IT infrastructure, hired and managed IT staff and IT contractors (on and off shore), prepared IT platform to be a strategic differentiator.Director, Shareholder