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Jenison, Michigan, United States

Prins Trucking & Services is a national trucking firm specializing in refrigerated freight.

Martin, Michigan, United States

Acquired by Daybreak Foods in July 2022.Leadership & Management: Report directly to the CEO & COO of the company to provide input on strategy, direction, and decisions. Exclusively responsible for the creation, development and implementation of new organic product lines including management of all P&L for new product. Responsible for portions of all 6 other product lines within the company. Realized product growth in all product lines.  Directly involved with the overall vision and strategy of the company through participation as a board member and employee. This includes making decisions on strategic growth via multi-million dollar capital expenditures, land purchases, acquisitions, and strategic accounts.  Managed 8 direct reports including multiple plant managers, a compliance manager, a logistic manager, and a maintenance manager. Indirectly managed approximately 75 employees under each of the 8 direct reports. Directly involved in conflict resolution, hiring, firing, and strategy. Led cross-functional teams on special projects like new customer rollouts, inventory software implementations and other related projects. Sales: Increased product lines from only conventional shell eggs to multiple product lines, which include Cage Free, Organic, Vegetarian Fed, Free Range and other types of eggs. Increased shell egg sales by 75%+, by dozens, over a 5 year period. This also includes balancing all six types of egg inventories on a weekly basis. Handled all shell egg sales for the company and successfully enhanced business relationships with a focus on buyer relationships and category management performance.  Increased private label sales and facings for retail accounts. Supplied millions of dozens of private label eggs to largest private label retail grocers. Increased annual revenue by customer $700k+ YOY in ‘21 and on pace to increase revenue an additional $1.1m+ through increased pricing to current customers YOY for ‘22.

 Aggressively recruited IT professionals for contract and direct hire positions through the implementation of company best practices and new, innovative ideas. Worked closely with technology focused candidates such as IT directors, enterprise software architects and web developers to identify the best career fit. Interfaced with hiring companies to understand hiring needs. This included recognition of the most important criteria in candidates for the company in an effort to provide them with the best employee. Moved candidates through the career change process, including counseling candidates on reject counter offers, transferring knowledge, and presenting a professional front.  Interacted with different levels of internal management to understand company needs. Successfully stepped into information technology industry without any prior experience and interacted with technical candidates and companies as well as producing more than $100k in gross profit annually in the first two years.

 Guided adult and non-traditional students through the college enrollment process for Cornerstone University. Communicated with students extensively via phone and personal meetings, handled financial aid inquires, and initiated marketing campaigns.  Worked closely with team members and attained annual company and personal goals. Entered into an environment without any prior experience or knowledge of adult education or working with adult students and effectively recruited and enrolled students.

Mba, Global Business

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science And Sociology