Joe Blackerby Email and Phone Number

- First employee brought on to form the Launch Team, responsible for scaling Metropolis Technologies via deployments and installations in new markets.- Source vendor partners, negotiate vendor pricing, manage vendor scheduling and track progress of vendor installations to ensure projects are executed successfully, delivered within roadmapped timeline, and launched under budgeted threshold prior to being transitioned to local Operations teams.- Analyze, track, and create weekly APR reports for data trend visualization through Tableau to ensure computer vision software is functioning properly.

- Create launch strategy for assigned territory, and create and optimize processes for rolling out new ghost kitchens within markets. - Help secure all licenses and permits by working with city officials to ensure a seamless launch of new ghost kitchens. - Pivoted from launching ghost kitchens in 2019 to COVID-19 test sites during 2020. Namely working to successfully launch test sites for the NFL at 4 organizations within a timeframe of less than 10 days.

- Hired as the first employee on the Nashville team to scale & manage the companies second city, including but not limited to operations, marketing & P&L management. - Hiring, training, and managing a fleet team, creating a schedule for team members, sourcing and securing fleet assets and providing site planning assistance. -Study and analyze reports such as utilization data, system health information/asset availability, and ridership data to implement daily schedules & deployment areas

- Lead all aspects of day-to-day operations as a small business owner.

- Responsible for Logistics Operations from sourcing carriers, negotiating carrier rates, scheduling carriers, and coordinating with the production team to ensure product availability for carriers.

- Create from scratch and maintain a book of business generated via cold calling.- Negotiate customer budgets in contrast with driver’s rates to enlarge company profit margin. - Delegate tasks to assistants working directly on my account and provide mentorship & on job training to prepare them to launch their own book of business after 12 weeks of training.