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Pittsburg, California, United States

Hired to establish and manage company's Supply Chain consisting of manufacturing planning, scheduling & control, purchasing, inventory and material management, shipping and receiving, and driver and fleet management. Key duties and accomplishments included Supply to Demand Forecasting, Strategic Sourcing, Right Sizing Material Inventory, Standardizing Plate Sizes, Establishment of Vendor and VMI programs to lower costs and improve services, digitization of operations and implementation of KPIs and performance tracking. • Streamlined & consolidated operations, improving efficiencies and reducing operating costs 28%• Improved inventory accuracy over 20% while reversing rapidly increasing inventory and materials• Developed and implemented Lean Supply Chain initiatives and metrics

Responsible for overseeing and managing the integration of Supply Chain functions of three large, merged companies which included but not limited to capital assets, facilities and leases, inventories, purchasing, fleet and maintenance, and manufacturing operations. Key duties included Supply to Demand Forecasting & Inventory and Asset Rebalancing and Production Scheduling to insure On-Time Fulfillment company-wide, establishment of key Strategic Supplier partnerships, and Fleet Management of company's 500+ vehicle.

Tapped by CEO to establish and manage company's Supply Chain and assist its integration of acquired businesses' operations and inventory. Supply Chain responsibilities included but not limited to strategic sourcing, purchasing and inventory management, warehousing and distribution, driver and fleet management, capital asset acquisitions, facilities and leases, and manufacturing production management of its Quik-Shor/Westar Mfg business.

Hired to reorganize operations to create a high-performance culture by developing, implementing and managing of Key Performance Metrics and company bonus plans in order to drive profitable growth. • Delivered annual average Revenue Growth >20% while simultaneously growing EBITDA >44%• Improved safety performance leading to record consecutive accident-free months & 35% cost reduction• Successfully defeated unionization efforts while significantly improving worker productivity in all areas• Assisted CFO and IT to develop integrated BI dashboards, bonuses & KPI metrics and digitize operations

San Francisco Bay Area

Successfully reversed four years of financial losses for TruTeam's largest insulation business while growing sales 68% and exceeding net operating profit targets by 50% and moving Coast's ranking from 104th place to 25th on TruTeam's President's Club Scorecard. Implemented OLAP program and digitation of field operatoins to accurately and timely track actual Time, Material and Labor to projections for over 500 diverse jobs per month.

Napa

Managed turn around of two 3PL businesses responsible for the entire wine distribution of Kendall Jackson and Treasury Wine Estate, and Vinlux Fine Wine Transportation, a joint venture between Kendall Jackson and Biagi Brothers, that provided warehousing and next day delivery within California for over 400 boutique wineries and wine brokers. Total operations under management consisted of 5 distribution centers with over 1.5 million in refrigerated warehouse space handling more than 25 million cases of wine per year.

Northern California & Nevada Area

Orchestrated turn around of $55 million 3PL food service distribution business delivering to over 300 stores nightly in northern California and Nevada leading to special recognition by the company as its Best Distribution Center within the company in terms of profitability and customer satisfaction.

Northern California And Nevada Region

Successfully completed a two year assignment to consolidate two regional distribution operations while managing a 33 branch region's distribution logistics, supply chain operations, $26 million purchasing budget, 45,000 SKU inventory, 300+ vehicle fleet, centralized routing and repair centers for a 24/7 healthcare service provider, while reducing DIOH from 97 days to 47 days and COGS by 20%, delivering over $10 million in savings, raising Press-Gainey Patient scores from 83 to 97 and improving region's ranking among company's 16 regions from 15th to 2nd place and successfully passing its first JCAHO audit, which it had previously failed.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led turn around of company's worst performing uniform rental business by driving profitable new and organic sales while improving safety, production quality, customer satisfaction and retention resulting in being recognized with company's most improved and best of best awards among 64 businesses.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Managed turn around of a large route based, uniform rental business by driving new and organic sales, improving safety and quality production, customer satisfaction and retention resulting in business ranking improving from 104th place among 105 markets to 27th nationally while also being recognized by one of the company's largest customer, Ford Motor Company with their prestigious Ford Quality-1 award given annually by Ford to its top supplier.