Joel A. Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Overseeing contract compliance at the Baltimore plant for North America’s largest and most advanced roofing and waterproofing manufacturer. GAF has proudly protected homes, businesses, families and communities for over 130 years.

For more info, visit: https://www.standardindustries.com/our-businesses/roofing-waterproof/gaf/

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Contract Negotiation (130+ million usd Portfolio).
  
• Led supply chain optimization projects including plant relocations, new product launches and escalation shortage calls.
  
• Assessed supplier scorecards and addressed supply chain risks.
  
• Collaborated with operations, sales and product engineering teams to secure parts availability and resolve shortages for dealers/customers.
  
• Implemented various cross-functional projects.
  
• Drove continuous improvements efforts to mitigate price and invoice discrepancies in collaboration with back office team.
  
  

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Leveraged team, vendors and processes by challenging the status quo.
  
• Captured over $125k in direct savings from market bidding to support needs for 2019 through mid 2020

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Directly responsible for saving over $16k in direct savings and posting $32,500 in projected savings over five years.
  
• Running various data sets to generate shortage reports for all commodities, and distributing output to the entire organization
  
• Working closely with management to develop SOPs to streamline supply chain processes
  
• Negotiating piece price with supply base and leveraging untapped opportunities to mitigate shortages
  
• Carrying out shortage reduction strategies, met goals, and reduced shortages by 64% in less than 60 days
  
• Assisting in the transmittal of encrypted blueprints to certified vendors to support military contracts

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Participated and provided insight in the 30, 60, 90-day kit fill rate review
  
• Reviewed and requested updates of line shortage reports from all commodity buyers
  
• Assumed supply chain support and reporting duties during Change Control Board meeting

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Collected and coded variables into spreadsheets for federally funded research.
  
• Performed output data analysis and reporting using statistical analysis tool.
  
• Presented a research paper and a research poster at two academic conferences, namely, the 2016 annual meeting of the Southern Rural Sociological Association (SRSA), and the 2016 annual meeting of the Southern.
• Created animated graphs explaining economics models to support supervisor presentation.

Rock Hill, SC

• Managed storewide projects involving cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, multi-million dollar operation
  
• Assumed direct responsibility for preventing theft and fraud in a fortune 500 company
  
• Performed complex metrics-based fraud investigations from credit, cash or check transactions
  
• Analyzed KPIs and partnered extensively with senior leadership to address opportunities
  
• Assumed direct responsibility for forecasting sales and monitor payroll budget
  
• Developed and implemented daily strategies to attract, train, and engage a dynamic team of up to 30 retail associates, and ensure compliance standards across various levels of operations.
  
  

UNC Charlotte

• My primary role was to rearrange the structure of the club and develop strategies to revamp club activities in order to increase membership base and partnerships with both on-campus and outside.
• Developed the Mission and Vision statements of the Club
  
• Designed the FIRST logo of the Club since club inception
  
• Built strategies and produced marketing collateral to enhance the image of the French Club on-campus
  
• Communicated insights and ideas to management team
  
• Crafted sign up sheets and email blasts for membership base
  

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Essential Functions and Responsibilities encompassed such dimensions as Store Management and Operations, Merchandising, Customer Service, Loss Prevention and special assignments as assigned by mid and senior management.

SGA - UNC Charlotte

• This collegiate campaign for Winning Senator Akofa Dossou aimed at presenting her as a viable candidate to represent all students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences within the Student Government Association.
• The winning campaign collected a whopping 241 student votes!
  
  As a Campaign Manager, my role was to coordinate the campaign's operations such as Compliance with SGA Elections Act, Campaign expenditures, On-campus.
• Developing and executing a successful campaign strategy in less than two months.
  
• Creating campaign literature such as pamphlets, skinny fliers, interactive and traditional posters, and a campaign blog.
  ***** To view updated interactive poster, go to: http://about.me/akofa
  
• Performing GOTV (get-out-the-vote) activities.
  
• Following-up with voters through social media outlets to display Senator Dossou's results and thank them for voting.
  
  The outcome of the campaign was her winning as one of the Senators for the College of Liberal.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• This Marketing Internship is designed to immerse each chosen season's intern into the sphere of media planning, event planning and sports marketing
  
  Duties performed:
  
• Maintained trade fulfillment databases of 300+ commercial partners of the Carolina Renaissance Festival (CRF)
  
• Coordinated relations with commercial partners and the media (online and print)
  
• Assisted with the execution of print, television, radio, and online advertising programs
  
• Gained practical knowledge from meetings leading to sponsorship agreements
  
• Participated in the mail-based distribution of admission tickets to affiliate organizations
  

Master’S Degree, Agbusiness/Applied Economics, Final Semester

Activities and Societies: Honor Society - Gamma Sigma Delta - Inducted on April 28, 2016GPA: 3.61 • Cconducted a set of federally funded.

Bsba, Marketing & Certificate In Business Entrepreneurship, Belk College Of Business

Activities and Societies: Holder of a TRANSITION Certificate from the University Career Center at UNC Charlotte (December 2012)..