Robert Van Buren Email and Phone Number

Coordinating the flow of necessary information to multiple internal departments, and external agencies to ensure the accurate, and timely delivery of products and materials. Expertise in reviewing commercial invoices, other shipping documents, and shipping manifests to ensure compliance with local customs and international regulations. Key role in communicating delays, QC issues, and various problems to upper management and customers.• Track record of resolving bottlenecks to streamline operations. Most notably increasing the 3 main KPI’s for Customer’s Distribution Center (for container logistics) by 10% each. • Commended by CEO and Inventory Planner for the ability to communicate with international suppliers thoroughly and accurately, avoiding delays.• Handle the documentation for 1400 TEU FCL’s to multiple port locations throughout the continental USA, and to Canada.Handle the documentation for occasional airfreight 1-2 shipments per year. Depending on inventory and demand.

• Commended for friendly telephone demeanor. Responsible for all return calls from voice mailbox.• Strong multi-tasking, troubleshooting skills, and strong team work ethic. • Data-entry skills developed through processing customer purchase orders, tracking/updating shipments. Additional skills developed through email correspondence with the sales team, internal departments, and third party shipping companies. • In charge of distributing daily reports to the entire office as well as the sales team on the east coast; regarding inventory levels and projections.

•Organizing maintenance for multiple commercial rental properties and developed a sense of predicting issues before they become serious problems.•Managing open lines of communication between tenants, as well as different businesses (electricians, painters, plumbers etc.).•Worked to prepare rentals for new tenants as well as maintain current rentals..

•Asked by golf professional to train and mentor new employees•Commended by supervisor for providing great customer service•Easily handles multiple tasks in a demanding, customer-focused environment to demanding clientele•Fast paced environment, quick decision making, problem solving

•Designed weekly and daily schedules for various sports camps•Managed camp counselors and lead daily meetings to communicate goals for counselors and for the campers•Led weekly meetings with concerned parents of campers to communicate goals and expectations for the camps and answer questions •Maintained a friendly environment for campers and counselors

• Created and edit flyers/posters and thank you letters which were customized for readers from many geographic locations.• Created monthly Facebook layouts for 12 different regional and corporate pages for Skyhawks Sports and their affiliate SuperTots Sports Academy (average one post per day).• Created content in text and visual form for Social Media platforms, most frequently Facebook.

Created a summer Lacrosse camp with two other collegiate lacrosse players. This included marketing the camp, through email, social media, and flyers. Designed two successful week- long sessions. This included a budget and cost analysis for employee wages and apparel included in the camp fee