Stephen Lacroix Email & Phone Number

Des Plaines, Illinois

Wheeling, Il

Pleasant Prairie, Wi

Fleet Manager: Feb. 2015 – Nov. 2015 Managed the maintenance and replacement of assets such as tractors, trailers and forklifts with a $3 million annual budget. Traveled to nationwide locations, meeting with vendors and staff to keep our assets running safely and in compliance with OSHA and DOT regulations.Traffic & Driver Manager: Sept. 2005 – Jan. 2015 Coordinated transportation needs by facilitating company drivers with our own fleet as well as contracting out to other carriers to move company freight. Finding the best options for warehousing, dropped trailers, and live loading and meeting delivery requirements. Responsibilities included: Negotiated rates & capacity with national and regional TL, LTL and Intermodal carriers, managed carrier base to protect service, being part of Lean/Kaizan teams & events, quoted rates for our sales force, coordinated all shipments, and reconciliation for freight payments

Kenosha, Wi

Maintained an extremely tight supply of truck couplers for new truck distribution for 17 manufacturing points across North America. Promoted to managing the complete reverse logistics process of recovering the truck couplers from dealers utilizing an in-house union fleet, several outside contractors, 3rd party logistics carriers and directly with truckload and LTL carriers to recover and distribute saddles and coupling supplies.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked for the Central Routing Department in the Renal Division. Planned routes for 16 drivers in four warehouses in the U.S. to deliver kidney dialysis supplies to home patients. Used cost analyses to decide shipping off-scheduled orders using LTL carriers, Federal Express and United Parcel Service. Maintained master routes, scheduled vacations, monitored hours & service through Manugistics and JD Edwards (AS/400) along with MS Access and Excel.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Learned about and worked with LTL shipments and the National Motor Freight Classification system, claims and other transportation regulations. I helped customers keep their transportation department within the confines of the law and keep costs down. I gained a further knowledge of warehousing, distribution, air freight, and other special projects.

Bs - Geography, Geography

Activities and Societies: Lambda Kappa music fraternity (elected 1st vice President) Delta Upsilon (co-chaired Philanthropy team) Cellist.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Geography