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Olive Branch, Ms, Us

Wayne, Pa, Us

Responsible for L&D Operations in the Americas region to include building organizational capability within the L&D network, enhancing the customer experience, shaping L&D strategy, and advancing the Teleflex people-centric culture to support the vision of being an innovative, highly trusted global provider of clinically relevant medical devices in order to genuinely make a difference in the health and quality of people's lives around the world. Responsibilities include leading the North American Distribution Center (NADC) in Olive Branch, Mississippi, the Americas Trade & Compliance team, and the South American L&D Operations team.

Munich, De

Siemens, a Fortune 100 global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation, and digitalization, is one of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies. Responsible for all operations at the Southaven Logistics Center, which includes a team of approximately 250 employees. This facility, which houses products for three separate business segments – Energy Management, Process Industries and Drives, and Digital Factory – is the main U.S. storage and fulfillment center for over 15,000 SKUs coming from Siemens factories in the US, Mexico and overseas and shipping to both external customers (Distributor, OEM, Retail, End-Customer) and internal partners in the US, Canada and Mexico. In addition, this facility operates a Modification Center and Reverse Logistics Center as well as hosts a Quality Laboratory.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Greenlee, a division of Textron Inc. which is publicly traded and ranked 209th on the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. companies, is a professional tool manufacturing company that primarily services the electrical, communication, and utility markets. Led a team of 100 employees, including a salaried staff of 15, and responsible for all operations for Greenlee’s only distribution & kitting center. Specific responsibilities included $7.1M profit/loss budgetary oversight, staff hiring/development, environmental health and safety, quality control, purchasing, material receipt, warehouse slotting and inventory control, late-point configuration/kitting, order-fulfillment, reverse logistics, new product introduction, LEAN continuous improvement, and transportation compliance.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Directly managed a staff of 7 salaried front-line supervisors and coordinators that collectively represented approximately 70% of all distribution related personnel and activities from material receipt through order fulfillment. Furthermore, regularly served in an Assistant Plant Manager capacity for overall plant operations for strategic vision setting, continuous improvement project development, inventory strategy, quality improvement, staff hiring and mentorship, profit/loss accountability, and interaction with other key supply chain elements to include sourcing, manufacturing, customer service, and executive leadership.

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for strategic planning and daily oversight of nuclear force operations, readiness, and operational procedures for 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 14 Ballistic Missile Submarines, and 210 aircraft.- Ranked as the #1 (of over 100 total) company grade officer for the entire combatant command in 1 st quarter 2012; ranked as the #1 (of about 15 total) company grade officer for the Operations Directorate in 1 st & 4 th quarters 2012. - Awarded a Joint Service Achievement Medal for work while leading top group of 14 joint military and civilian duty officers.- Reported daily to Director of Nuclear Operations (military equivalent to Chief Operating Officer); represented Nuclear Crisis Action Team in nuclear force status briefs to Combatant Commander (military equivalent to Chief Executive Officer) and his senior staff (military equivalent to Board of Directors/Vice Presidents) during the nation’s largest global strategic exercise. - Dedication to process improvement led to innovation of multiple new ways to provide the most current and comprehensive nuclear force status information to senior leadership for potential President of the United States level briefing; collaborated with computer software engineers to reduce daily processes by 88%, leading to over $22,000 in annual man-hour savings.

Washington, Dc, Us

Led as both a fully qualified watch officer (ad-hoc teams of up to 30 people) and division officer (up to 15 direct reports as Main Propulsion Assistant and Communications Officer) in several capacities while serving as the direct representative of the Ship’s Commanding Officer, managing operations for a $2.1 billion warship through numerous missions in varying environments. - Ranked as the #1 (of 9 total) junior officer on the ship and awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal. - Assigned most-challenging and vital collateral duty as Quality Assurance Officer; maintained strongest QA training program amongst 12 Kings Bay crews and supervised three intensive maintenance periods with no delays in recertification.- Led team of approximately 30 people in training, certification, and execution of a highly complex radiological purification media replacement; awarded Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for flawless execution.

Washington, Dc, Us

Completed Navy Nuclear Power Engineering Training* and Submarine Officer Basic Training, which were required prior to submarine service. * The nuclear power training combined with subsequent service and qualification as a supervisory watch officer in a nuclear-powered submarine engine room were necessary building blocks to eventually complete U.S. Department of Energy Certification as a Navy Nuclear Power Engineer in February, 2010.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Political Science - International Relations

Master'S Degree, Engineering Management