Rod Rivera Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Franklin Park, IL, US

Roles:- development, servicing, and growth of clients nationwide. - nurture existing relationships and generate leads to establish connections with high-value stakeholders and influencers. - develop strategies for increasing sales from current accounts while also expanding the client base.- Strategize with clients and internal teams on how to be successful.

• Pioneered the inception and launch of a successful marketing agency, conceptualizing a robust business model and guiding it towards profitability. Orchestrated comprehensive business operations, overseeing a team of 8.
• Enhanced practice credibility and value through the introduction of innovative solutions, methodologies, and cutting-edge intellectual capital, leading to expanded client engagements.
• Collaborated closely with creative teams to deliver outstanding user experiences across diverse platforms, effectively transforming intricate concepts into compelling marketing content that drove increased conversion.
• Proficiently managed business operations by adeptly conveying client requirements to the team, setting precise project budgets, ambitious KPIs, and executing strategic production planning and scheduling. This led to a.
• Achieved a remarkable 373% YoY increase in sales from an existing customer in 2019. This was accomplished through improvements in content and digital asset management, alongside streamlined production processes that.
• Spearheaded a 33% YoY surge in website design and development sales in 2019 by providing leadership and mentorship to the team. Focused efforts on enhancing UI/UX web design and enforcing rigorous quality control.

Franklin Park, IL, US

• Top-performing, detail-oriented manager consistently sought out to reengineer troubled projects. Managed multiple customer metal fabrication projects end-to-end from estimating, project planning, engineering, sampling.
• Proven track record of meeting deadlines and exceeded project deliverables, delivering cost savings, and revenue generation for over 200 product launches into fabrication resulting in high customer and employee.
• Collaborated with Engineering to implement and train Project Managers in utilizing CAD viewing software to assist in estimating as well as troubleshoot any technical problems.
• Implemented streamline project management system of communication that the company is still using currently.

Franklin Park, IL, US

• Furnished guidance to improve operations, decrease cycle time, and streamline work processes to provide quality and seamless customer service in product distribution. Planned and supervised shipments inbound and.
• Implemented 5S Principals to the department workstations, department space and office space which lead to a consistently clean and organized department.
• Researched and acquired new ocean/land carriers and effectively negotiating contracts which resulted in cost savings of over $50k per year.
• Slashed searching waste by 75% by creating staging areas and standards for product flow for products received and products being shipped.

Muscatine, Iowa, US

• Proactively applied Lean Manufacturing problem-solving principals to define areas in need of improvements in the process workflow. Develop project plans to build work cells and defined job standards within the work.
• Led 50+ Kaizen event teams of 4 to 8 members to investigate process improvement opportunities resulting in improved workflow and manufacturing cost savings.
• Planned, designed and defined manufacturing processes in a production environment ensuring consistent quality and cost efficiency requirements are met.
• Chosen to lead a team to maximize process efficiency plant-wide by analyzing the overall production plant layout, equipment layout, workflow, assembly methods and workforce utilization.