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Edgewater, Florida, United States

Contractor support to Boston Whaler

Jonesboro, Arkansas

• Manage the day-to-day input of EXWORKS transactions into JD Edwards Enterprise One and SAP for North America.• Responsible for the entire life cycle of repair parts used in the service and repair of wind towers located on wind farms.• Analyzes and coordinates logistics functions related to cyclic production and repair needs of 15 wind farms in North America.• Coordinates the transportation needs for both inbound and outbound freight along with tracking control. • Assists with warehouse operations to include rotating inventory, picking and packing, crating and shipping repair parts. • Conducted annual on-site inventories for six wind farms while teaching process improvements in both stock control and inventory management.

Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

Allegis Corporation, established in 1969, is a leading supplier of latches, handles, hinges and related items. We provide complete and innovative access hardware solutions from product to design to production support for our OEM, MRO and aftermarket customers worldwide.Responsible for managing the transportation and warehousing of Industrial access hardware for 10 branches located throughout North America.* .Monitored and supervised pallet loads of hardware picked and packaged by employees for subordinate branches. * Coordinated transportation needs for both international and domestic destinations for inbound and outbound cargo. * Managed a team of 6 warehouse workers that handled 9 million dollars of fixed and rotating stock at the central warehouse.* Conducted annual internal audits at subordinate branches in accordance with ISO 9001:2008* Mapped out a South Central Territory for sales that reached over 1000 new and potential customers.• Managed new customers by analyzing industrial hardware needs for manufacturing and sustainment in field maintenance.• Provided vender managed inventory, customer managed inventory and quality control of industrial hardware.• Coordinated monthly meetings with customers while developing close relationships with purchasing and engineering staff.

Afghanistan

Regional Quality Control/Quality Assurance Lead• Responsible for the quality inspections, maintenance and repair of Route Clearance (RCV), Military Intelligence (MI) and Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Mine Resistant Vehicles throughout assigned regions. • Inspects the compliance of contracted Government equipment within assigned regions.• Provides support and guidance for assigned site QA/QC personnel. • Interface with customers on disposition and quality issues to identify and analyze maintenance systemic issues. • Currently monitors work practices and maintenance techniques throughout eight sites in the southern region and six sites in the northern region of Afghanistan. • Constructs detailed reports of findings and provides recommendations to the Theater Lead, Regional Leads and Quality Assurance Manager on logistics, maintenance, modernization and operational matters. • Manages manufactures publications, maintenance updates, compliance requirements and safety standards. Frequently travels by tactical air to reach outlying Forward Operating Bases (FOB’s) to conduct site assisted visits and inspections. Interprets military orders and advises supported commands concerning current ongoing maintenance operations and procedures. • Coaches and teaches site leadership on approved procedures to accomplish both logistic and maintenance tasks. Works with regional leadership to synchronize maintenance and logistics performance metrics with repair time cycles. Interacts with program managers, engineers and other program contractors, concerning vehicle repair, upgrades and de-processing of theater specific equipment. • Troubleshoots and supervises the repairs of complex electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems. • Reviews and reports defective parts or components received from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) to Program Engineers and Theater Managers.• Expert on Battlefield Maintenance and Logistics.

Shreveport, Louisiana

Assistant Director Mechanical Operations - Overseen 15 Managers, 11 Foreman, 7 Lead men and 394 Union personnel. Supervised both the maintenance and fleet modernization of 500+ locomotives, used system wide. Performed duties as the primary instructor on railroad rules and operating procedures (GCOR). Coordinated and supervised remote repair operations covering 3,500 miles in the U.S. and 3,000 miles in Mexico. Primary on site manager for all train related derailments/accidents. Managed the Kansas City Southern Railroad’s locomotive emissions testing and compliance program achieving 100% Tier II-IV Environmental Compliance (first in the industry). Manager of Administration - Conducted daily management and oversight of the engineering material inventories across 3,500 miles U.S. Had additional duty of managerial oversight of the KCS Rail Welding Facility to include weld scheduling, car scheduling, safety, technical inspection of rail tolerances, facility maintenance, and personnel. Accomplishments are as follows: 1. Conducted over 3,500 miles of field inventories that resulted in over $1 million in misplaced second hand material recovered and placed back into inventory. 2. Set up a track welding facility and refined work procedures, that resulted in the welding of 360,000 linear feet of track with zero accidents. This was a total of 8 trains which has saved the railroad $1.2 million in freight costs from the usual vendor for welded rail. Personally responsible for over 690,000 linear feet of rail & other than track inventory valued at 200 million dollars.3. Part of managerial team that locked in a standard of inventory accuracy rate at 99% in all assigned centralized distribution activities (CDAs) within the KCS’s operational area.

Van Buren, Arkansas

Daily management of a 40 truck fleet segment. Assigned loads, managed transportation schedules, handled day to day problems associated with trucking personnel. Frequently interfaced with customers about shipment times, deliveries and system wide logistic delays.

Global

Retired Master Sergeant 63Z5025-year Career - Served and excelled in numerous managerial and leadership capacities to include First Sergeant, Battalion Operations Sergeant and Senior Maintenance/Logistics Manager. Spent 90% of a 25 year career in a forward support capacity performing maintenance on tactical equipment, fielding and modernization. • Supervised, directed, and controlled the work of over 200 assigned soldiers and 300 Department of the Army Civilians/Contractors at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin CA. Managed three different Brigade vehicle equipment packages use for the training of over 11 Army rotational units annually. Part of a heavy maintenance organization responsible for reducing the (NTC) maintenance backlog and achieving a 97% overall readiness rate during the course of three years. Coach, taught, and mentored rotational leaders on the Army’s maintenance management concept.• Senior level maintenance advisor and facilitator to the U.S. Army Logistics Command deployed to the Middle East. Instrumental in developing maintenance procedures, while directly coordinating and supervising one of the biggest combat movements into Iraq. • Developed short and long range plans, and schedules to implement logistics and maintenance policies, higher organizational goals, objectives and deadlines. Provided subordinate unit leadership with guidance on policy and objectives. • Adept at coordinating with representatives of other agencies concerning matters of work accomplishment, priorities, methods and procedures. Became the senior enlisted trainer and operations manager for a Battalion size element due to results oriented work ethic. • Skilled at doing more with less. Executed daily operational requirements with minimal resources and personnel. Never failed a mission or requirement.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Reverse Logistics

Bachelor'S Degree, Transportation/Logistics, 3.807

Bachelor's Degree in Transportation/Logistics

Associate'S Degree, Vehicle Maintenance And Repair Technologies, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum LaudeManagement/Business Degrees

Associate'S Degree, Management, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude