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Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Lead North American Operations for Cargill Transportation & Logistics. Accountable for freight management, shipment execution, and freight audit & payment across multiple modes including truck, rail and container freight. Responsible for operations strategy and freight spend across SAP and legacy business units. Ensure operations are in compliance with Cargill policies and applicable regulations.

Leverkusen, Nrw, De

Direct chemical Logistics Operations at Bayer MaterialScience LLC. Directly responsible for BMS logistics professionals and 3PL partners in the areas of Transportation, Warehousing and International Logistics. Ensure safe, efficient, compliant and timely shipment of customer and stock transport orders via air, TL, LTL, intermodal, bulk truck and rail service providers through BMS’ distributed inventory network. Responsible for centralized direction of outsourced warehouses, bulk terminals and transloaders. Accountable for cost center and logistics service provider spend while ensuring operational and recordkeeping compliance with Bayer policies and government regulations.

Leverkusen, Nrw, De

Established new department to build sophisticated end-to-end Supply Chain analysis tools and techniques. Coached and mentored direct employees, resource employees and consultants on enterprise supply chain improvement projects. Directed efforts using Lean Six Sigma methodologies to reduce NAFTA working capital and achieved targeted working capital to sales ratio reductions while maintaining ability to meet customer expectations. Sustained operations with reduced inventories from 2010 to present. Developed wholistic approach to working capital management applied throughout BMS LLC businesses.

Leverkusen, Nrw, De

Led Logistics & Warehousing Optimization effort to re-design the BMS outbound supply chain. Accountable to executive leadership to lead teams of resource employees and external consultants to achieve administrative cost reduction and variabilize activity costs while improving ability to grow business. Implemented 3PL service model and achieved annual cost reduction goals while improving outbound service metrics. Enabled further cost reductions in following years through further activity transfer to 3PL model.

Leverkusen, Nrw, De

Ran multiple concurrent enterprise-wide process improvement projects with resource management responsibility for up to 25 employees and consultants to achieve transformational supply chain improvement. Led Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project teams, improved customer satisfaction and reduced BMS Supply Chain costs. Responsible for delivering results directly to executive Bayer MaterialScience North American Leadership Team (NALT).

Leverkusen, Nrw, De

Directed Material Handling, Shipping and Transportation Operations for Bayer’s three NAFTA Polyurethanes plants. Led three managers and 104 Bayer employees responsible for shipping polyurethanes products to NAFTA, Asian and European markets.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Implemented and managed the ISO 9002 Quality and Safety management system in four facilities and on over twenty oceangoing tugboats. Audited over fifty operations and processes and initiated a practical corrective action system to handle follow up. Facilitated in-depth third party audits from ABS and successfully achieved certification.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Planned and led load and discharge operations of intermodal equipment on over twenty-six ships to ensure compliance with delivery schedules, stability requirements, regulatory mandates and customer needs. Improved schedule integrity from 70% to 96% through precision planning and operations sequencing. Increased revenue stream through two additional annual vessel sailings.

M.B.A., Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Marine Transportation

Mathematics And Economics