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New Brighton, Minnesota, United States

Building and maintaining an extensive nationwide network of high-performing Fire and Life Safety Systems Service Providers within the APi Group family and 3rd party partners to deliver the highest level of service to our customers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Minneapolis, Mn

Responsible for executing all activities required for managed transportation on-boarding. Analyze customer needs with highly effective Project Management skills and communication. Create and provide training/support for Business Development Executives. Lead onsite customer visits for reconnaissance purposes and conduct user training; Drive customer evolution process improvements.

Minneapolis, Mn

Provide ongoing data analysis, interpretation, and reporting along areas of customer payment and billing data, carrier pricing and performance, and business development. Confer with logistics management teams and key stakeholders to determine and recommend ways to optimize service levels, maintain efficiency, and minimize costs. Monitor industry standards, trends, and practices to identify developments in logistics planning and execution to ensure best in class logistics solutions for clients. Develop and maintain models for logistics uses such as cost estimating and demand forecasting to support organizational goals and objectives. Assist Business Development Executives with new customer implementation and integration needs.

St. Paul/Mpls, Mn

Chief Operations Manager and advisor to logistics organization Commander. Actively involved in all matters relating to morale, welfare, health, and readiness of all employees. Managed and directed personnel resource activities. Interpreted and enforced policy and applicable directives. Established control procedures to meet work goals and standards. Recommended or initiated actions to improve functional operation efficiency. Served as the subject matter expert in areas of Professional Development, Career Progression, and Personnel Relocation.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Supervised all material management personnel, facilities, activities, and systems involved with requirements determination, procurement, inventory control, and receipt, storage, and issues of base supplies and equipment. Directed supply chain management team consisting of 28 personnel that managed over 75,000 sq. ft. warehouse space, 14,000 line items, and a stock fund account valued at over $32 million.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Excelled in supervisory position over 5 subordinates, while developing a first rate training program that was recognized by higher headquarters as “Best Seen to Date” during intense Operational Readiness Inspection. Wing Military Liaison to Lockheed Martin’s warranty return program for C-130H model aircraft reparable assets.

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Successfully executed all entry-level material handling roles and delivery methods to effectively fulfill all requirements as mission dictated. Performed in customer service role as data processing and ordering clerk, established and maintained impeccable rapport with back-shop customers. Appointed to position of Operations Supervisor, led team consisting of 5 personnel who held more rank and time-in-service than me. Assigned to warehouse management team charged with maintaining accountability of highly classified aircraft avionics assets and nuclear operational assets.

Little Canada, Mn

Supervised 12 full-time and 10 part-time employees while overseeing all warehouse operations, to include shipping/receiving, locating stock, pulling stock, inventory, showroom staging, stock prep for customer pickup, data analysis, and discrepancy resolution. Established checks-and-balances procedures with furniture staging area on all outgoing deliveries, thusly decreased customer delivery rejections by 60%. Streamlined receiving processes, decreased in-bound shipment unload time by 30%.

Bachelor'S Degree, Organizational Leadership

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), General Studies