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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Orange, Ca, Us

• Leading Paper Mart's logistics and transportation operation to achieve strategic e-commerce growth objectives.• Establish, communicate, and implement short-term and long-term goals for the company to maximize cost-effective solutions while creating efficiencies.• Source and negotiate all agreements with freight forwarders, drayage, domestic and cross-border TL/LTL, intermodal, and parcel carriers.• Streamline inbound/outbound transportation solutions to support customer requirements.• Coordinate with freight forwarders and drayage partners the cadence of container deliveries to optimize warehouse efficiencies that exceed customer expectations of product availability. • Maintain Customs compliance with broker selection, HTS classification, and document accuracy.• Manage carrier performance through KPI's to drive improvement and optimization.• Conduct regular business reviews with partners to communicate expectations and review results. • Identify issues using continuous improvement methodologies to ensure impactful resolutions. • Provide leadership to train and mentor direct reports to learn and implement best practices.• Present company leadership with regular updates on forwarder/carrier spend and performance using analytics to support decisions.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Led the inbound/outbound transportation, 3PL warehousing, and overall logistics management strategy execution in a multinational environment.• Successfully managed the international and domestic transportation and warehousing budgets for electronic consumer goods.• Sourced vendors and negotiated all contracts with freight forwarders, ocean carriers, drayage truckers, domestic carriers, integrated parcel carriers, and 3PL warehouses to optimize logistics spend and service levels for high value electronic consumer goods.• Established and managed performance through KPI’s and created utilization strategies for all logistics vendors.• Managed the dropship and inventory program to support the multi-channel sales strategy including e-commerce, enterprise, reseller, and government accounts.• Led continuous improvement activities to ensure customer satisfaction and to achieve the company's strategic objectives.• Worked closely with the Supply Chain, Sales, and Executive groups to ensure the right logistical strategies and processes are in place to support the company goals.

Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Jp

• Responsible for the PC division’s $90M+ logistics and transportation budget.• Managed freight forwarders performance importing ocean cargo and air freight imports from APAC to US, Canada, and Mexico warehouse locations.• Implemented and expanded a door-to-door drop ship to customer logistics model, creating perpetual savings and transit time efficiencies.• Oversaw the pick-up and delivery timing of containers and operational performance of third-party contracted warehouses with JIT goods.• Award winning Six Sigma Black Belt and Project Manager with documented project savings of over $45M.• Developed and led the PC division’s Lean Six Sigma projects with responsibility for employee training and mentoring.• Coordinated with internal and external compliance auditors to maintain internal controls and ensure compliance with corporate governance.

The Hague, Zh, Nl

• Managed ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) employees in vessel, yard, rail, and clerical operations. • Responsible for implementing and managing an automated terminal inventory system that accounted for and maintained the location of over 20K inventoried containers.• Led the terminal in obtaining ISO 9000, 14000, and 18000 certifications. • Appointed as the internal auditor and external audit coordinator to maintain terminal compliance. • Trained management and union employees on use of all terminal operating systems. • Responsible for evaluating, planning, and maintaining multi-departmental staffing, equipment reliability, and maximum throughput of goods from the container terminal.• Developed and promoted continuous improvement activities within the terminal operation to increase efficiencies and achieve performance goals.

Tokyo, Jp

• Managed and coordinated processing 45K inbound containers and 25K outbound truckloads annually within three cross-dock and warehousing facilities. • Managed 200 operations personnel and implemented training programs to increase warehouse efficiency by over 35 percent. • Facilitated training of WMS, YMS, and TMS systems with the various operations departments.• Responsible for maintaining the data integrity of the ERP with focus on YMS/WMS/TMS .• Developed ISO procedures to achieve and maintain ISO 9001:2000 certification for the multiple facility campus. • Coordinated facility-wide safety program that reduced safety incidents by 50 percent within the first year.• Implemented continuous improvement programs for management and non-management employees to achieve performance improvement and cost reduction goals.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Managed and directed a team with over 160 warehouse operations personnel in unloading, loading, and sorting responsibilities. • Executed staff adherence and accountability to the union labor agreement.• Organized and implemented training programs to reduce employee turnover by 40 percent.• Conducted operations training classes for management and new hires.• Responsible for personnel development and advancement within the warehouse.• District and regional UPS company awards for operational excellence and customer service.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business

Bachelor Of Science In Business Management, Business

Business Administration And Management, General