· Recruit, train, develop, and deploy personnel with superior skills to achieve best in class performance.· Lead process and technology improvement efforts to drive best in class performance across supply chain.· Develop/propose business rules that optimize business value, reduce supply chain costs, and advance automation. Once business rules are agreed, monitor the execution and compliance with the new rules.· Develop/maintain organizational policy and procedures, in particular, as it relates to improving customer satisfaction.· Establish key metrics to support organizational goals and drive metrics to best in class performance.· Provide tactical, analytical and strategic support to the appropriate internal and external customers.· Responsible for integrating supply chain activities to optimize operations through internal support groups, including manufacturing, sales, business, customer service, logistics, credit, quality and others as necessary.· Proactively interface with customer contacts at all levels of organization.

Ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations related to transportation and distribution in LYB in the Americas. worldwide.· Train plant personnel on best practices in securement of transportation vehicles.· Evaluate, report and lead initiatives on a wide range of supply chain activities, including commercial, operating, and emergency response decisions· Interpret complex transportation regulations for the company, including design of shipping documents.· Development long range plans and budgets, performance commitment, goals and KPI’s in logistics compliance.· Interface with Supply Chain Management teams, Senior Management, Business teams, and a broad array of functional groups within Supply Chain, HSE, Manufacturing, Legal, and Commercial areas regarding transportation/distribution incident response and risk management.· Provide expertise to projects related to the handling systems of our hazardous products at plant, Customer, and LSP facilities.· Lead for classification of dangerous goods for LYB, including maintaining the Dangerous Goods module of SAP.· Represent LYB on various industry association committees such as DGAC, AAR, etc.· Lead the effort for transportation safety and logistics security for LYB, including hazmat coordinator networks at LYB manufacturing plants.· Monitor and manage emerging issues or changing logistics compliance regulations; provide issue analysis, response strategy and execution plans for the issues identified.· Leads the implementation for improvements to processes, management systems and procedures for Supply Chain that will support global compliance (BOLs, MSDSs, Technical Bulletins, etc.).· Mentors less senior members of Supply Chain department in logistics compliance and product handling.

• Ensuring constant processes and procedures are followed across the Polymers Inventory Planning organization. • Forecast and plan ahead to accommodate customer shipments utilizing appropriate inventory planning and optimum transportation modes. • Manage exchange agreements and third party inventories; including monthly reconciliations. • Identify and improve communication between business and sales management, customer service, operations, logistics, and customers; for the Polymers Inventory Planning organization as a whole. • Lead LYB efforts to monitor and achieve continuous improvement in Regional Distribution Center quality, service, and cost performance. • Facilitate efforts on problem resolution and root cause analysis of quality and service incidents, including Wrong Product Shipped, if needed. • Identify and implement programs which reduce cost, increase efficiency, and align procedures.

• Manage and effectively control all applicable logistic operations for Tank Trucks to create competitive advantage in cost and service. • Lead LYB efforts to monitor and achieve continuous improvement quality, service, and cost performance; measure non-optimal costs • Lead or participate in scheduled compliance and cause audits as applicable. • Identify and implement cost reduction programs as appropriate. • Lead or participate in scheduled Logistics Service Provider (LSP) audits as applicable. • Conduct quarterly reviews with applicable LSPs to review operational performance and metrics. • Support the overall relationships service providers. • Ensure LYB is adequately supplied with uninterrupted services at the most favorable competitive value and in all conditions. • Collaborate with Logistics Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Planning and Manufacturing in the qualification and assessment of suppliers of transportation services to ensure customer service levels are maintained. • Perform tasks within Quality Notifications ensuring acceptable root cause analysis corrective/preventative action, and timely closure. Record, trend, and communicate monthly performance metrics. • Understand foreign delivery movements to Canada and Mexico including inco-terms, transport documentation, and other necessary requirements to aid the smooth flow of products in the NAFTA region. • Maintain world class transportation knowledge by staying abreast of legislative and regulatory activities and of new developments in transportation through contacts with peers in various carrier and shipper organizations, including DOT and FMCSA.

Manages domestic and/or export railcar orders placed by CSR’S.Assign railcars to customer orders leaving our LPO facility and our holding yard in spring via SAP.Assign delivery numbers to orders, and manage the process from start to finish via SAP.Maintain Site metrics which keeps track of all Cars at our LPO facility and our SPG yard.Work closely with BDS to ensure all cars are billed properly, and in a timely manner.Handles all emergency Hopper truck orders directly off Lpo site.Demonstrate the ability to work well in a team environment. Models strong core competencies with internal and external customers.Participates as Team member on the SAP system improvements and Logistics special projects.TWIC card holder

•Manages domestic and/or export order fulfillment process•Assures accuracy and timeliness of all fulfillment master data in SAP and extended systems including E-commerce tools.•Act as the main point of contact with customers for all customer-related issues.•Maintains effective communication between sales, marketing, operations, and transportation to effectively provide answers to inquiries regarding price, product availability and transportation requirements, communicates shipping schedules and details to plant/storage location personnel and business management as needed.•Participates as team member on SAP system improvements and customer fulfillment special projects. I am the Month End Close Coordinator for Polymers in Houston, also The Idle Hopper Car Coordinator for polymers also.•Operates with a high degree of knowledge regarding customers, products, manufacturing, distribution systems, and industry trends.•Maintains intermediate to advanced knowledge of the Enterprise system support tools and assists customers/vendors in full utilization of system tools.•Models strong core competencies with internal and external customers.•Demonstrate the ability to work well in a team environment. •Month End Close Coordinator for the Polymers side of our business, act as a liaison between pricing, sales , and customer fulfillment to ensure prompt close at the end of each month.•Idle Hopper Car Coordinator for Polymers, I act as a Liaison between the rail companies and Customer Fulfillment to ensure proper return of our cars in a timely fashion. Utilizes reports from Exel and SAP to complete this process.

Maintain customers orders through web placed and physical orders, also scheduled rail cars deliveries of Raw material to our plant. i maintained an inventory of 1,000,000 lbs. of finished product in our warehouse. I also ordered packaging for the finished goods leaving Ingenia.

Maintained a staff of 35 people, made sure all front of the House operations ran smoothly.

I was an OS 2 (SW) for the Ops Dept. on the USS Constellation CV-64, also served 2 years in Strike Ops .