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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Working to optimize and mitigate risk to the Clarios supply chain while overseeing and partnering with our multiple facilities nationally and worldwide.

Newburgh, In

Manages multiple production centers, improving operations by identifying gaps in standard processes and utilizing lean manufacturing principles. Delivers effective logistical planning and aluminum production schedule coordination while managing communication and oversight processes between internal and external production centers. Redesigns communication and planning processes for outside vendor production centers, aligning commercial, production, and material departments. Enhanced output between 2 production centers through revised production planning, expanded production horizon, and ‘like’ material consolidation, yielding a 28% increase.

United States

Provides executive insight into transportation operations, logistics, and capacity design, including expert knowledge of vendor relations, infrastructure, expansion, pricing strategies, and service design. Identifies and defines transportation and logistical requirements, providing clients with the most efficient distribution system, and assisting with fulfillment of marketing and distribution functions.

Evansville, Indiana

Directed regional operations, including five cross-country divisions, 45 direct reports, and more than 450 front-line employees. Achieved a 12% improvement in safety performance through focused safety activities, employee engagement, and leader training as well as an expense reduction of 13% through resource demands analysis. Led transportation, manpower, and fleet operations, including safety and service expectations while executing exemplary fiscal responsibility over a multi-million-dollar budget. Achieved an 8% regional performance improvement year-over-year through targeted goal setting, leader development, and KPI oversight and accountability.

Evansville, Indiana

Led multiple departments including nationwide dispatch operations, safety departments, operating reports and measures while assuring compliance of DOT, customer, and internal governing policies. Developed and implemented performance improvement solutions including oversight of the Montana. Division, enhancing performance of the Overall Transportation Plan from 66% to 94% in three months.Reduced high risk events by 6% in the first year by creating and implementing a Critical Decision. Process to identify, educate, and hold employees accountable to highest risk events. Launched a training and accountability program focused on automation, value stream mapping, and dispatcher development, improving service responses and order fulfillment time by 4%.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managed multiple projects consecutively across the BNSF system, including operational improvement, capacity constraint analytics, and leadership training while providing sustainable solution architecture across platforms by using Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, and Lean Principles. Created service plans to minimize work events between eight locations, reducing resources and improving delivery velocity by 9%.Led a team of 8 and oversaw the system-wide implementation and education of the visual based switching tool, YardViz, across the system for commodities and processing facilities with 100% completion in 13 months. Designed and instituted a groundbreaking capacity analysis process for five to ten-year planning horizons, for a 360-degree comprehensive view of business demand, land considerations, and customer growth.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Led territory dispatch operations for the 2nd highest coal-traffic corridor, directing 8 managers and 40+ dispatchers across 13 subdivisions while focusing on safety standards and forecasting volume constraints to manage passenger and priority freights. Consolidated two critical customer train service schedules to minimize traffic delay and optimize capacity, reducing delays by 8% while opening capacity 12% per day across corridor. Planned and executed a multi-million-dollar capital plan while maximizing output and creating a crew management tool to optimize van-to-crew logistics, improving relief crew utilization and costs by 6%.

Alliance, Ne

Managed 2 of the largest coal classification yards on the BNSF network and developed a culture of production safety and risk reduction at Alliance location, achieving a 38% decline in HFI’s and 380 days injury-free, while delivering a four-year injury-free record at the Guernsey Terminal. Collaborated with mechanical, locomotive, and dispatch teams to improve intermediate terminal performance by 30% in 10 months while redesigning the coal network operating and communication process to recapture over a $2M in lost coal revenue year-over-year by maximizing coal loadings.

Memphis, Tn

Moline, Il

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

Durham, Nc

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Marketing

Activities and Societies: SIgma Phi Epsilon, Resident Students Association President, Intramural Sports, Student Government Association.