Peter Gregory Email & Phone Number

Sumpter Township

Southgate, Michigan

Supplied Fuel needs for major businesses throughout the northeast part of the country.• Inventory managed over a 100 businesses, like FedEx Freight, Greyhound, UPS, Waste Management, Sysco Corporation, and United Natural Foods Inc.• Monitored daily fuel readings from remote locations. Ordered fuel as needed to prevent run outs, and not too soon as to prevent retains. • Placed customer orders from call-ins, and email request. Tracked orders “into the ground” to insure orders were delivered in a specific window of time. • Managed thousands of gallons of diesel and gasoline fuels daily. • Helped pilot the first FedEx Freight Inventory fuel management system for the company.

Plymouth, Mi.

The Carlyle Group purchased DuPont Performance Coatings whom I worked for under DuPont, for 4.3 Billion dollars.

Plymouth, Mi.

Customer Care RepresentativeSupport Distributors, and Body Shops throughout the USA, Canada, and Puerto Rico, for European paint division. Assist with product questions, technical data sheets, procedures to use the materials, and pricing. Provide total color support from basic paint formulas to complex formulas. Assist with tinting colors to help them match vehicles. Offer “field formulas” provided by Field Techs and formulas from other countries through worldwide software that gives us access to labs from all over the world.• Helped to develop and maintain database to store field formulas tied to vehicle paint codes. • New and innovative process allowed customer care representative to access these field formulas from within the call logging system used to track each customer and what they called in about. This system allowed us to track customer history, and help customer retrieve pertinent information of formulas used for repeat customer visits, or similar vehicles.• Analyzed each customer’s situation, and determine the best way to assist them.• Trained customers in how to use the software for paint formulas to maximize their efficiency for their workflow, and help them get better, cost effective results. • Received “Out on the Town” reward (cash bonus) for outstanding work shipping out color tools to over 400 customers. DuPont Safety TeamFacility Fire & Emergency Weather Safety Officer. Responsible for maintaining fire sprinkler system in building and extinguishers. Also responsible for providing fire safety and weather emergency training and drills to 30 employees attached to the facility. Also attached to Emergency Response Team which includes annual CPR & AED training.

Taylor, Mi

Manufacturer of Sealy, Steams & Foster beds. Sealy is the number one bedding company in the US.Purchaser/Material PlannerPurchased, tracked, verified, and managed inventory levels of raw material for the external portion of the beds. This included coverings, cloth handles, and cloth tape, labels and streamers, totaling over 700 SKU's. Responsible for weekly/ monthly reports to Plant Manager, and Corporate. Worked with Sales Reps. on forecasting of business and new product alignments.• Developed a receiving of goods process that saved the company thousands of dollars monthly in mis-shipments from vendors or trucking companies.• Streamlined specific trucking companies in place to guarantee dedicated lead times from vendors to plant.• Put in place agreements with said companies to meet special material handling needs, so materials would flow smoothly once entering the plant. This reduced labor cost on the plant end, and lead-time by one day in transit time.• Created Inventory tracking methods using spreadsheets for major components groups. By doing so, was able to reduce inventory safety stock levels, and reduced the amount of time needed for analysis before ordering materials by 50%.• Developed time critical processes to expedite materials from vendors faster while keeping cost down.Systems Manager for Personal ComputersMaintained all personal computers, both desktop & laptops, and their peripherals, including local networks, hardware, firmware, software, and upgrades. Ran back-ups for all PC's and kept anti-virus software files updated monthly.• Developed and implemented this position as Sealy began moving from the terminals I mainframe systems to PC's.• Established local helpdesk to work all user issues with hardware I software, and the local contact for corporate IT department working long range and local network or PC issues, saving the company the need for additional staff.

Livonia, Mi

Worldwide Computer Company, in manufacturing, distributions, and sales. (Later merged with Compaq Computer Corporation)Senior Logistics Associate 1995-1997Managed the receiving, inventory management, and distribution of new computer equipment both local and International, for a major project agreement between Digital, Goldstar International, and Chrysler Corporation.• Developed a customized inventory tracking system for Chrysler /Goldstar desktop project, that eliminated material loss, and reduced overhead expense by 15%.• Developed a warehouse placement and material flow process that reduced the material inbound and outbound process from over 14 days to 5 days or less.• Streamlined processes and increased quality control of orders, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and order volume by 50%.Logistics Associate 1988-1995Performed various complex duties involved with the receipt, storage, distribution, transportation, and shipment of both new and refurbished computer equipment. Worked with support areas to resolve/prevent material problems. Handled matters requiring a detailed knowledge of logistics practices and procedures.• Tapped into information systems of new products being introduced into the field, so spare parts could be put into place prior to equipment failure, resulting in reduced customer down time of new equipment DOA's by 100%.• Analyzed reports to reduce stock levels of spare parts not being used. Increased stock levels of high usage spare parts that reduced customer down time and inventory levels.

Painter Certification Annual Training; Colornet Software, Saleforce.Com; Ms Office 2010

• Painter Certification Training Annually – Both Solvent & Waterborne • ColorNet - Distributor or Body Shop Software • SalesForce.com.

Ms Office; Technical Consulting (A+ Certification); Project Management,

• Microsoft Office - Word & Excel intermediate levels, Access introduction level • Microsoft Windows knowledge • Technical Consulting (A+.

E4, Vessels And Shore Electronics School, Shipboard Electronics School, Secode Electronics Training

Activities and Societies: PhotographyAdditional Electronics courses, and on-hands training and experience through August 1986