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• Oversaw procurement, vendor management, equipment, facilities, fleet, human resources, EHS, and other aspects of operations within a construction company.
• Built and managed relationships with 75+ subcontractors and vendors.
• Supervised and trained two IT managers to manage services and support to employees, projects, and equipment; owned IT, including cybersecurity, project management software,
• Managed safety activities, including training, compliance, worker’s comp, and safety audits.
• Represented company on a $7M purchase and property improvement for new headquarters.
• Managed $3M in equipment, established best practices for equipment utilization and productivity.

• Introduced strategic purchasing practices factoring quality, pricing, support, convenience, capability, and availability.
• Gained vendor-preferred status, improving services, pricing, performance, and collaboration.
• Negotiated a $1M incentive program with material supplier, dampening impact of pricing volatility.

• Scaled wholesale CPG distribution business from one to three distribution centers across Illinois to better service retail customers and increase competitive advantage.
• Developed a team of 200 (including 175 union employees) in sales, delivery, and marketing, scaling HR and EHS functions.
• Grew case sales by 125% over seven years through integration of brand and distributor acquisitions, managing SKU proliferation, and onboarding of new employees, equipment, facilities.
• Led strategy, acquisition integration, organizational alignment, and compliance.
• Scaled a $7M fleet, managing all assets from acquisition to disposal and developing subsidiary equipment finance lease business.
• Implemented WMS, ERP, Route Optimization, CRM, fleet management software and hardware, reducing cost of sales by $2M.

• Restructured sales and distribution system (75 routes across three locations) through best practices and performance analysis, increasing on-time deliveries, reducing cost per stop average by 5.4%, and decreasing.
• Trained and led a 60-person team to support partnerships, field marketing, capital expenditure projects, compliance, and quality.
• Decreased yearly expenses by $253,000 through budgeting, contract negotiation, and project management.
• Reduced worker compensation by $300,000 in one year by performing quarterly case reviews and improving safety practices.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Political Science

Executive Management Program