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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for all unmetered electrical services and the company’s smart street lighting network deployment.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Led a diverse team of up to 91 employees responsible for all field activities related to electric meter servicing, installation, or repair through a structural reorganization while implementing a new smart meter technology to over 600,000 customers.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Led a diverse team of 48 IBEW 29 represented employees and 4 supervisors responsible for all facets of fleet maintenance and management for the company’s 900+ asset fleet including mechanical and body repair, parts management, vehicle specification and procurement, and inspection compliance.• Accountable for a $16M annual budget including all capital and expense costs associated with fleet operations.• Led a Fleet Right-Sizing study resulting in $2.9M of cost avoidance, $674k annually recurring savings, and $270k of estimated revenue generated from the sale excess vehicles and equipment.• Served as the company’s primary contact for planning, coordinating, and executing a six month long driver’s training program focusing on skills enhancement for CDL holders resulting in the successful training of 500+ employees. • Led a project to successfully replace the department’s work order & parts inventory management system. • Selected to participate on a Business Improvement Project Team focusing on the companies’ fuel procurement & consumption process. Implemented changes resulting in approximately $10k monthly savings and recommended IT systems that will, when fully implemented, accurately capture total cost of ownership for the fleet to allow accurate, information-based decision making regarding vehicle purchase.

Hollsopple, Pa

• Hired as the company’s first management trainee, served in the Human Resources, Quality Control, and Logistics departments. • Quickly selected for the position of purchasing agent with no prior experience and less than two weeks of OJT with the outgoing purchasing agent.• Responsible for all raw material purchases for North American Höganäs High Alloys located in Johnstown, PA and Stainless Steel Atomization division located in Hollsopple, PA valued at approximately $12M annually .• Negotiated two separate raw material contracts that saved the company approximately $150,000 each. • Took the initiative to create a simple and efficient inbound raw material tracking system to ensure production, receiving, purchasing, and plant management understood their logistical situation which enabled accurate production planning and manpower scheduling.

Fort Riley, Kansas

Commander, D/1-63 AR, 2/1 ID• Selected early in the grade of Captain over peers to serve as the Commander of a 78 man M1A1 Abrams main battle tank equipped company, trained and deployed as a motorized unit to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn• Commanded a small Joint Security Station charged with teaching, coaching, and mentoring the 17th Iraqi Army Division Commander and his associated staff.• Planned and coordinated the successful execution of the 17th Iraqi Army’s Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise, enabling the 17th Iraqi Army Division to demonstrate to the Iraqi Prime Minister and the media their ability to defend against external threats.• Took the initiative to plan and execute a series of missions to counter the Improvised Explosive Device threat along a major Iraqi highway that degraded the frequency of attacks from one per 14 days to one per 30 days.Battalion Personnel Officer (S-1)• Oversaw all personnel actions for a 781 Soldier Combined Arms Battalion as the officer in charge of all human resource actions; Served as personal assistant to the Commander; responsible for the proper in-processing of all senior leaders and the timely submission of their evaluations.

Fort Stewart, Georgia

Executive Officer, D/3-7 IN, 4/3 ID• Selected over three peers to serve as executive officer, led the company for four and a half months while the commander was injured while being rated as the second in command of an organization of 67 Soldiers.• Led unit transformation from an armored to a motorized heavy weapons force, eliminated over 30 million dollars of outdated or unnecessary equipment from unit property book and updated all maintenance and operational standard operating procedures to achieve a 93% readiness rate Platoon Leader, 2/D/3-7 IN, 4/3 ID• Planned and directly led over 350 combat patrols in the cities of Iskandariyah and Suwayrah, Iraq during the Surge Campaign, earned the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Action Badge due to outstanding performance and leadership • Collaborated with Iraqi Security Forces and local leaders to create three different governing councils in rural areas enabling the flow of critical resources to over 40K Iraqi citizens. • Initiated and managed 9 different infrastructure projects ranging from reconstruction of schools to business micro-grants worth over $1.6 million dollars to improve services and economic vitality in a region inhabited by 40K and plagued with violence.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Systems Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General