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Memphis, Tennessee, United States

▪︎ Own direct accountability for maintaining rail oversight for the Valliant OK high-volume manufacturing facility, responsible for managing a private rail fleet of over 1,700 cars

Duluth, Georgia, United States

▪︎ Led logistics aspect for continuity and recovery services across North America, managing rapid response/mobile operations, power/fuel logistics, satellite communications, and technology initiatives.▪︎ Delivered 24x7x365 emergency response and planned outage support, consistently maintaining high-quality standards and operational efficiency.▪︎ Managed accountability for 3 distribution centers with more than $10M in inventory, overseeing 800 SKUs and controlling over $5M in operating expenses, resulting in optimized inventory management and cost savings.

Elko, Nevada

▪︎ Directed 24x7x365 operations managing over 120,000 annual inbound truck shipments and 6,000+ annual railcar movements, aligning with results-centric corporate goals, and consistently achieving significant operational efficiency through strategic oversight and meticulous management of high-volume logistics.▪︎ Perfected a Dry Bulk RFP with an annual spend of $50M, achieving $5.5M in savings, negotiated a new railcar lease for an additional $301K in annual savings, and reduced costs by 16% through transforming export logistics from bulk vessel to bulk in container, significantly enhancing cost-effectiveness.▪︎ Saved $15.7M over 5-years by negotiating cost-effective inbound coal transportation agreements, and reduced costs by 41% through a program that shifted dimensional material transport from truck to rail and achieved $1M in annual savings through the negotiation of reduced rail rates for private cars.▪︎ Generated $2.9M in annual savings by redesigning a multi-modal import model, incorporating back-haul on private railcars engaged in export moves, identified and corrected a supplier's improper UPS account use, achieving $85K in savings, and leveraged the Competitive Access Order by STB to create cost-effective railroad options.▪︎ led design/implementation of private intermodal fleet moving concentrate from Colorado. Upgraded/replicated to move 200,000 tons of concentrate from Montana to Nevada for processing, commissioned in Q2 2022.▪︎ designed a modal shift from truck to rail for 100,000 annual tons of Canadian Sulphur, utilizing a private car fleet to generate $3.4M in savings, and drove the expansion of silo/tank telemetry and consumption forecasting/analysis, increasing installations from 130 to a forecasted 200.

Jackson, Michigan

Provides direction for the safe and effective total cost logistics component to the North American Special Steel unit.

Boise, Idaho/Federal Way, Washington

Charlotte, North Carolina/Boise, Idaho

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Ba Hons, Geography

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