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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for Transportation Management & Procurement, End to End Visibility, Live and Supply Chain Science product suites

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

•Conduct and lead business and technical design workshops around diverse customers’ complex global Supply Chain processes to create highly scalable, sustainable solutions following GT Nexus best practices•Understand and connect customers’ existing business processes and technology to craft the “to be” GT Nexus solution and develop a transition plan to create measurable business value•Be a leader on a team of technical and business analysts and engineers, foster a productive team environment, leverage diverse views to encourage innovation, and mentor team members to ensure their success and growth•Capture and share best practice knowledge among GT Nexus PSO community•Ensure customers’ business requirements are fully understood, documented, communicated and acted upon

Greater Chicago Area

Focused on driving strategic projects to the organization which improve optimization and efficiencies across multiple business units. Responsible to minimize delays and inefficiencies caused by inter-project dependencies; solution definition built through development of software enhancements and refined standard operating procedures.

Chicago, Il

Responsible for regional America's development initiatives in the information arena; this includes development of data warehouses, integration with ERP systems, accounting and CRM platforms; coordination between the various business units (product, compliance, IT etc.) to ensure that the America's region achieves major milestones of the road-map and dependencies of the all information based projects ensure timely deliveries.

Singapore

Ensure Country Compliance to Global and Regional Ocean SOP; lead and support deployment of a new Transportation Management System through: CMI (Change Management Initiative); definition of deployment targets and enforce achievement of stated targets; coordinate regional deployment/compliance for ocean related projects and manage compliance with general ocean standard operating procedures.

Duties: Spearhead new initiatives for the North American Ocean Product; the goal to achieve improved efficiencies in operating procedures, create greater customer satisfaction and provide “best-in-class” service.• Lead Advanced Manifest System (AMS) project to file shipment information with US Customs before loading cargo on the vessel; change management requirements were immense but have resulted in yearly savings of 2 Million;• Lead ocean product initiative to create process and sales initiative for new regulatory requirement (10+2); expected yearly gross revenue 2.5 Million.• Designed system process to aggregate large pool of shipment data; improving data quality and automating corrective action notices to operational staff throughout shipment life cycle.

Duties: Deploy directives from ocean product management regarding technical changes in tools and processes for the North American region. Projects reduced duplicate data entry and improved visibility of shipments to internal and external customers.• Completed multiple concurrent projects: FMC Tariff filing, Global Pricing Application, EDI Warehouse, EDI data transfer with vendors (Rates and Container Status Updates)• Coordinated project deployment and development with senior management of multiple regions (North America, Europe, Asia);• Conducted on-site training programs and maintained library of manuals and technical documents.

Job Title: Sales Manager (2003 – January 2006)Duties: Managed three sales executives in the US and provided executive presentations for global sales force. Developed and executed international training programs. On-site consultation to establish Standard operating procedures, developed integrated networks and incorporated Trade Tech applications in the sales process of clients’ sales force. Proactively satisfied customer’s needs through “just-in-time” software development: Advanced Manifest System (AMS), Cost Modeling, EDI infrastructure. • Coordinated executive level planning sessions with customers to develop standard operating procedures, marketing information and implementation of efficiency through software;• Designed “on the spot” unique solutions to specific customer needs;• Planned yearly budget (250 K) and sales targets (1.25 Million) for US domestic sales force;• Designed and implemented training regimen for global sales force;• Exceeded sales goals by 25% 8 out 12 quarters;• Sales group generated USD 1.6 million gross revenue

Duties: Supported procurement negotiations with 13 carriers for Pacific Eastbound ocean product: 45,000 FEU. Generated responses to large scale customer bid requests. Created pricing application on a Unix platform that tied sales, regulatory requirements and invoicing into an integrated workflow. Pricing modules included tools for multi-modal pricing: air, ocean, trucking and brokerage. Applications were still used 5 years after my departure by a user population exceeding 3,000 worldwide.• Established pricing policy and developed tools for global sales force of 1,000 associates to target, quote and forecast yearly customer activity;• Wrote quarterly financial statements for Pacific Eastbound ocean product, gross revenue USD120-million;• Created and deployed a new automatic notification system to alert customers of incoming shipments automatically, process in place 5 years after departure from Fritz;