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Boise, Id, Us

Boise, Idaho Area

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Responsible for all operations across each of Mountain Land Design’s five showrooms and warehousing locations. Leadership is focused on nurturing ideas from the 80+ employees to increase profitability by improving internal processes as well as increasing our customer base and volume.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Sales Manager over a territory consisting of eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. Leadership produced annual sales of >200K units, grossing >$44M in margin and equating to 19% YOY growth. Influential in prospecting and landing all new business by cultivating the relationship and handoff to one of six local market managers.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Responsible for strategic planning and tactical business execution for Idaho, Nevada and Utah territory. Develop and implement tactical plans based on market place analytics to drive additional business through new distribution and existing Associate Contract Distributors (ACDs). Foster partnerships with trade customer, designers, architects and key influencers to grow margin, revenue, share and volume. Develop GAP analysis for each trade customer’s store locations and utilize competitive data from the trade (e.g. price sheets, programming, policies/procedures) to improve sales mix and market share. Lead support organizations to effectively manage multifamily projects, single family builders and training events across the market.• Drove significant increases in the following key metrics during my tenure: Total Units Shipped - 132%, Total Gross Sales Dollars – 127%, Direct Cost Margin – 120%, Jenn-Air Luxury Brand Sales Dollars – 282%, Laundry Category Sales Units – 138%.• Grew top 4 accounts by 167%, 114%, 112% and 150%.

Cleveland, Tn

Responsible for teaching, coaching, and mentoring on all Whirlpool Production System (WPS) tools and lean event initiatives within a 1.4M sq/ft manufacturing plant of 1500+ hourly associates and 95 salaried leaders, with specific goal of managing the Lean People Development Plan by establishing and growing the organization’s competencies. Develops future state vision and production improvement roadmap, providing direction for WPS/Lean implementation and sustainability at all levels of the Cleveland, TN operation. Identifies opportunities in the areas of safety, quality, cost improvement, and best practice standardization in order to deliver improved business results by driving problem solving and standardized work improvements with appropriate cross-functional teams to maintain process discipline and 5S standards. Drive FMP (Factory Master Plan) initiatives, product line initiatives, and change management communication and execution for projects. Creates strategic plans and fosters innovation to enable business goals and objectives to be positively met; to include but not limited to talent development, customer experience, and employee engagement at all levels of the organization.

Chattanooga, Tn

Responsible for all budgetary, people development, and operations objectives for a 24x7 Inbound Department within a Fulfillment Center. Specific responsibilities include managing and leading a team of 4 Operations Managers, 12 Area Managers, and 1000+ hourly associates by coaching and mentoring the team to ensure performance objectives are met, building positive employee relations and building leadership bench strength within the Fulfillment Center. Drives creation of quality initiatives, process change initiatives and other Lean initiatives to enable their functional area and ultimately the Fulfillment Center to meet and exceed business plan.• Responsible for the overall safety, quality and performance and customer experience of either Inbound or Outbound operations.• Will set and clarify requirements and expectations for Operations and Area Managers. Measures performance, provides feedback, and holds Ops Managers accountable for their performance and the performance of their departments.• Leverages the Operations and Area Managers by sourcing and nurturing ideas, and rolling them into the creation of improvement plans for the functional area.• Takes proactive steps to ensure that best practices are shared across all departments, shifts and among the network.• Works closely with support staff (HR, Finance, Facilities, Safety, IT and other Sr. Operations Managers) to build and secure support and resources for projects and initiatives in their area, as well as providing needed support and resources for other staff initiatives.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Functional operations manager responsible for driving process improvement. Focused on analyzing safety, quality, and productivity process path gaps and leveraging my experience and leadership to drive improvements and sustainable results. Data analysis and resourcing, along with kaizen and lean concepts, allow me to influence peers, deliver business metric improvements, and mold our team's culture.

Reno, Nevada Area

Led multiple departments (inbound, outbound, inventory control, learning, and lean) within several high tempo buildings (fulfillment centers, delayed allocation, sortable, non-sortable). Drove training and operational plans for my teams, which consisted of 170+ associates and processing 600K+ units within an 8 hour shift. Maintained fully automated systems involving the latest technology, to include crisplants and automated sorters. Drove VCPU improvements while challenging daily safety and quality standards. Fully integrated within startup ramp that included hiring 4400 associates and ramping to a building inventory level of 9.5 million units over the course of 5 months.

Mountain Home Afb, Idaho

Led large teams and junior officers to prepare for exercise/real world deployment within the communications career field. Responsible for operational up-time for all classified/unclassified computer networking (SIPRNet/NIPRNet), telephone, radio, and satellite communications. Managed $14M of equipment, a $2M squadron budget, contingency training for 200+ airmen, and base-wide communication plans and programs. Also served as an instructor focused on recruiting, motivating, and educating college ROTC students in leadership, Air Force doctrine, and career guidance.

Florence, Indiana

Slot supervisor responsible for overall operation of 1350 slot machines across 2 operational floors. Managed team of 90 associates involved in multimillion dollar transactions on a daily basis. Designed staffing model, hiring and training plan, and facility coordination involved in ramping a startup operation. Hosted distinguished guest and coordinated large entertainment events and marketing venues.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemistry & Mathematics

- Virginia Army National Guard Marksmanship Team Member (Pistol & Rifle) - Regimental Cadre Staff (Cpl & Ops Sgt) - Rat Challenge Cadre.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer And Information Sciences, General

Activities and Societies: Summa Cum LaudeInformation Systems Management with focus on e-commerce and computer networking.

Education record

Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services