Enlisted to promote the TW Service Brand as a national supplier of distribution services throughout the United States.• Built unique marketing plan and strategy that connected the company to major grocery retailers. • Supported the expansion of TW Services across the United States by on-boarding new clients and industries to the company portfolio. • Elevated brand standard by identifying competitors and evaluating their strategies and positioning and devised counter strategies.• Facilitated discussions that identified the benefits of a partnership with 3rd party logistics.• Aligned with Operations team to identify cost savings and support new initiatives.• Facilitate quarterly business reviews with Operations Team. • Provided post-operational support that enabled operational and client improvements.

Recruited to streamline business processes in three distribution centers for the largest fruit & produce distributor in the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market with annual sales over $220m.• Oversee 140,000 square feet of storage distribution centers that employed 200 union workers.• Responsible for logistics, food safety, sanitation and transportation of produce foods that supported over 500 independent retail stores, restaurants and produce merchants.• Established weekly reports to monitor productivity gains for the operations P/L.• Instituted improved efficiency and handling standards which led to re-slotting of the entire produce building.• Developed inventory protocols and introduced a FIFO warehouse system.

Accountable for 85,000 square feet of produce foods warehouse that employs 180 associates; including 1 store located at the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market.• Responsible for over 2,000 SKU’s that served 24 military commissaries within the Western United States, with sales in excess of $80m annually.• Responsibilities include procurement, transportation, traffic, warehouse, facility maintenance, sanitation and reverse logistics.• Implemented Warehouse, Procurement and Logistics modules of Produce Pro and customized interfaces to streamline day-to-day business activities.• Oversaw financial and daily performance of facilities; including developing annual capital expenditure budgets.• Identified training gaps and implemented management development programs geared towards meeting future needs of the company.

Responsible for a 485,000 square foot dry grocery distribution center located in Vacaville, CA. that employed 250 union associates.• Responsible for the financial and daily performance of all departments; including accounting, warehouse, sanitation, transportation, fleet maintenance and procurement. • Assist Regional VP and departmental managers on quarterly budgeting process for best Distribution Cost Allocation (DCA) cost to retail.• Implemented weekly departmental performance meetings to review, identify and mitigate immediate deficiencies.• Developed weekly union labor meetings to control and improve working relationships between senior management and associates.• Identified slotting and replenishment inadequacies and implemented site wide improvements that reduced manpower inefficiencies.• Partnered with union representatives and developed communication and tracking systems within the transportation department that improved downtime and enhanced on-time delivery to 99.8%.

Responsible for a 650,000 square foot facility. Responsible for Transportation, Maintenance, Sanitation, produce, refrigerated grocery, meat and frozen food distribution center located in San Leandro, CA.• As a result of the acquisition of Super Valu by Albertson’s, I was recruited from ACME Pennsylvania to prepare the distribution center for decommissioning while continuing to service 100 stores with a 99.5% on-time service level, without increasing the cost of normal business expectations to retail.• Responsible for building and maintaining company morale during a challenging and volatile transition.• Accountable for relocating management and union personnel to equivalent employment positions within the immediate geographic region.• Responsible for selling and/or auctioning off all internal racking, rolling stock, fleet and office equipment.

Directed and controlled ACME division Warehouse, Transportation, Maintenance and Sanitation. Responsible for the efficient and economical utilization of facilities manpower and equipment for storage and distribution of product. • Responsible for 1.4m square foot full-line automated (Rapistan System) Distribution Center with sales in excess of $1.9b annually and an operating budget of $40m.• Oversaw 30,000 SKU’s that serviced 160 food/drug combination stores and 80 stand-alone stores located in the Eastern United States.• Responsible for reaching pre-determined profit goals which were accomplished by maintaining precise projection numbers and holding teams accountable.• Identified training gaps and implemented development programs geared towards meeting future needs of the company for 115 managers and 1,200 associates.• Facilitated operations under two different labor unions; while creating unique working relationships that improved overall productivity to 99.5% of on-time deliveries.• Developed sales tracking system based on historical movement and retail projections that provided daily monitoring to ensure no negative impact to retail operations.

Held other Director of Operations positions in Florida, Oklahoma and California.