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Orrville, Ohio

Washington, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

- Partnered with Client Services to transition all claims from customer service to newly formed Claims group (OS&D) to examine the overall company financials and to create KPI’s to help see company trends.- Streamlined corrective actions with the AR/AP group on all OS&D claims presented by McDonalds International, Bloomin’ Brands, and Chipotle brands. - Developed internal KPI’s to each facility and their total claims per month separated by the highest product claimed.- Coordinated with IT to develop a Proprietary system to accommodate OS&D claims internally and externally.- Yielded savings over $30,000 in November and December 2016 for McDonalds claims against Vendors.Eliminated over $120,000 in claims for all Clients since being hired in October to Present.- Reconciled with external vendor for over $90,000 in seal claims to help support our clients and help with their loading practices at the DC’s.

Youngstown, Oh

- Directed Supervisors in day to day operation, inventory goals, safety, quality, and on time shipments.- Daily meetings with supervisors to adjust shipping measures, reduce shipping errors, quality of product leaving facility, and truck turn time efficiency.- Enforce compliance through developing standard operational procedures, State of Ohio procedures, USDA, and Food Safety audits. - Control inventory levels by monthly and weekly physical inventory counts, daily cycle Counts, and audits by supervisors and leads. Develop process of cycle counting without using scan guns to both production and warehouse sides of facility for end of month financial reports.- Facilitated inventory audits with multiple sites that averaged 99.2% accuracy level. - Designed and developed MRP based spreadsheets to minimize unneeded inventory while keeping inventory levels at 80% capacity to drive down use of outside storage.- Increased cooler production efficiencies from 91.7 per hour to 130 per hour in shipping routes leaving facility in six month span.- Implementation of WMS into warehouse. Taught and directed supervisors and leads to use system, troubleshoot system errors, use trace reports, and utilize Microsoft dynamics to analyze data for weekly meetings. - Implemented safety team for first and second shift to gain knowledge, risks, and create procedures to use in facility to gain best practices in company. Zero OSHA recordables for both 2015 and 2016.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

- Managed 16 warehouses within North America and Canada to achieve results on Safety, Cost per case, MUDA, Truck turn time, OS&D, Detention, and Total cost out.- On- Site liaison during Stockton, CA Facility start up. Collaborated with planning, customer service, transportation, and cost and strategy to ensure obstacles and tasks were successful during the transition.- Facilitated inventory movement in transition of Chatsworth facility close to moving product and best practices to our San Bernardino facility. Met with both facilities to determine storage, transportation, pallet capacity, and negotiated contracts to ensure safety and production would be maintained.- Developed and monitored a 20 million dollar annual financial budget by spend type for each facility.- Achieved a combined fill rate of 99.2% in all facilities in their productivity.- Achieved facilities pallet capacity to 85% and two hour truck turn times from loading to ship for each site.- Increased from 112 carriers to 160 carriers into Muscatine facility by negotiating rates and lanes to improve facility output.- Negotiated contracts between six overflow facilities due to increase of production within the HNA factories.During the Heinz/ 3G transition took on both warehousing and Transportation Analyst positions to help with carrier compliance and customer relationships. - Aligned transition from BPCS to SAP on-site to three facilities to help with system errors and adjustments to each location’s WMS.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

- Directed over forty employees in a food processing plant that produced over 200 varieties of soup.- Daily production for 800,000 pounds of soup varieties per day with quality testing and taste panel to be able to distribute.- Transitioned into supervisor of warehousing, production, and packaging areas as well as Night sanitation during first two years of employment.- Daily meetings with employees and management on production reports, previous day results with efficiency and percent of daily schedules completed.- Developed daily kitchen and warehouse process to ensure food totes were returned to freezer with correct weight using tracking system on floor while keeping waste at 3%. - On time daily starts at the beginning of 2011 fiscal year were over 260 minutes of lost production time. - - Decreased set up time reduction in eight months to 90 minutes combined (4 lines). - Green Belt project completed and achieved by reducing production time with packaging labels to generate 20,000 savings to company results.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Criminology/ Sociology

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies