Keesha A. Davis, Mba Email & Phone Number

Saint-Ouen, FR

Seattle, WA, US

Omaha, NE, US

• Establish both strategic initiatives and implementation strategies surrounding the development of a world-class Supplier Diversity program at Union Pacific. Focused on the growth of UP’s spend with diverse suppliers.
• Represented Union Pacific in all activities associated with Supplier Diversity, including council participation, community presentations, and supplier engagements.
• Identified, vetted and onboarded new diverse suppliers through a review and understanding of their business profile; championed these suppliers to internal customers.
• Worked closely with category managers and business leaders to embed supplier diversity to ensure appropriate purchasing decisions were made with consideration of these strategies across all spend categories.
• Led discussions with department leaders and senior staff surrounding program’s activities, milestones and metrics.
• Collaborated with other Supplier Diversity professionals; reviewed program strategy, wins, challenges and best practices.

Omaha, NE, US

• Manage transportation & asset plan compliance & oversee all train dispatching movements within the Northern Territory; which is approximately 500 trains 14,000 track miles; in the timeliest & most cost efficient manner.
• Coordinated terminal & mainline activities with the Service Units and NCSC to meet business objectives.
• Managed the train dispatching & corridor management work force levels to ensure rail capacity was fluid, cost is within budget while and transportation metric are met.
• Managed the efficient use of locomotives & fuel to ensure that freight car cycles are effectively managed while active on the mainline.
• Devised and implemented the Nebraska Flood Reroute / Rebuild Plan during the major flood event to prevent a major system outage for the System.
• Maintained 100% on-time for Quality Service Product 202 maintenance work over 14,000+ miles.

Omaha, NE, US

• Managed a budget totaling $14 billion in assets. Steered the development, training, and maintenance of employee involvement/quality improvement to establish maximum participation and to reach the highest levels of.
• Directed company initiatives and strategies to reduce and sustain Union Pacific (UP) and foreign railroad locomotive debt.
• Traveled to network rail yards across the system in order to problem solve locomotive concerns and ensure customers are able to run an on-time operation.
• Developing a balanced locomotive network to work in line with the transportation scheduling in order to reduce waste and utilize locomotives efficiently.
• Championed a CI project to restructure the department’s locomotive plan in order to implement Precision Scheduling Railroading (PSR), while currently reducing the locomotive fleet from 8500 to 3999 locomotives before.
• Decreased company purchases with the elimination of 17% waste of fleet inventory resulting in the company’s savings of $1.8 million.

Omaha, NE, US

• Direct on-time transportation operations, and the terminal transportation plan to enhance quality, improve production times, and reduce costs. Defined expenditures, appropriation and capital improvement needs to the.
• Selected to direct daily operations of Proviso Yard the interchange intersection in the Northern U.S., leading 2 Sr. Managers, 9 Field Managers, 9 Yardmasters and 1000+ agreement employees.
• Supported the achievement of SRU operating income results and the improvement in service unit OR.
• Ensure facility integrity by maintaining and improving the physical yard layout to support safe and efficient operations and full utilization of assets
• Reorganized the union’s job structure, reduced union grievance penalties, and reduced overtime by $144,000 annually.
• Successfully managed a railcar inventory at 106% capacity resulting in an increase in car loading by $16k for 1ST Quarter 2018.

Omaha, NE, US

Combined with System Locomotive Management Position Info Above.

Omaha, NE, US

Combined with System Locomotive Management Position Info Above.

Omaha, NE, US

• Managed 350 vendor contractor employees. Effectively planned and sustained day-to-day operations, safety, maintenance, training, customer relations, profit/loss and the budget of the Mesquite and Dallas Intermodal.
• Negotiated and devised construction plans with the Engineering contractors for the expansion of Mesquite Terminal while eliminating capacity constraints.
• Led the Transportation Operations Team with the successful removal of customer UPS rail freights during Peak Season at 100% for four consecutive years.
• Governed an injury free operation for four consecutive years at Dallas Intermodal Terminal.
• Prompted annual Town Hall meeting and Drayage Partners’ Safety meeting for Drayage community to increase visibility and promote safety.
• Improved the safety performance at Mesquite Intermodal facility from 7 reportable contractor injuries in 2011 to injury free in 2012.

Omaha, NE, US

• Managed the entire workforce, the day-to-day operations, and the efficient movement of trains for multiple terminals in the Chicago complex. Developed and oversaw contracts, line-haul rates, storage and facility.
• Lead the terminal in operating 100% on-time performance with over 300+ trains for 73 consecutive days.
• Managed the terminal injury free for 620 days (includes Contractor and Union Agreement Professionals.
• Conducted Training for Locomotive Engineers in order to execute running the first Intermodal train with Distributed Power across the system.
• Developed and maintained cross-functional relationships with internal customers (RVPs, Superintendents, Law, Labor Relations, Supply, Finance, and HR), and external customers (other railroads, regulatory agencies.

Omaha, NE, US

• Trained as Manager of Yard Operations for 11 weeks on the Chicago Service Unit’s Proviso Yard. Achievements:
• Increased working knowledge of Global II Operations as Manager of Intermodal Operations.
• Gained computer proficiency in TCS and RYM functions to meet managerial obligations.
• Completed various training courses that resulted in becoming Remote Control Locomotive Qualified.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Technology

Mba, Operations Management