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| Desired Industry: Manufacturing |
SpiderID: 2811 |
| Desired Job Location: nashville, Tennessee |
Date Posted: 6/9/2005 |
| Type of Position: Part-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: 06-15-2005 |
| Desired Wage: 50,000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Management (Manager, Director) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, More Than 75% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Other |
Willing to Relocate: Yes |
Objective:
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Extremely dedicated and detail-oriented management professional with extremely diverse experience in a wide variety of industries. Exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with an aptitude for rapidly absorbing new information. Proven track record of negotiating with international clients to reduce company costs and increase profitability. Proactive problem solver, skilled at applying value added metrics to real world problems. Innovative leader who is adaptable, responsible and trustworthy and achieves excellent results.
Experience:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
JOHN-RICHARD – Greenwood, Mississippi October 1999 - April 2005
Product Line Manager
Earned fast track promotion from Assistant Product Line Manager to manage production for a manufacturer and importer of high end home furnishing such as lighting, wall art, upholstered and accent furniture and botanicals. Responsibilities included purchasing items as needed to maintain inventory control and managing daily preparation, production, packing and shipping to ensure continuous operations. Provided exceptional customer support to establish and maintain good relationships with customers and promoted open communication with sales department to develop excellent relationships with sales representatives.
Utilized extensive knowledge of furniture manufacturing and sales forecasting to establish a partnership with a factory in Vietnam, personally negotiating and scheduling more than $1 million in total orders.
Developed process to determine actual cost of new products and provided break-even information to marketing.
Ensured new products were priced, photographed, labeled, packed and shipped on-time for bi-yearly shows.
Opened communication between departments to reduce costs and ensure proper inventory control of fabrics and other materials.
Increased sales as Product Line Manager for the Botanical division from $380,000 in October 2004 to over $600,000 in April 2005 by increasing accuracy of shipments to improve credibility of department, introducing new and innovative designs and creating and maintaining the lowest return rate in the company at 0.03%.
CHANTICO PUBLISHING – Dallas, Texas April 1992 - May 1996
Production Room Supervisor
Brought on to manage set-up and logistics of quarterly meetings including the recording, transcription and editing of meeting proceedings. Actively involved in the planning of meetings including locating and reserving conference rooms, confirming reservations for members and verifying attendance at meetings. Supervised recording and transcription of meetings, copy and technical editing of publications and shipment to printers to ensure materials were distributed to members on-time.
Managed Production Room consisting of eight employees, developing and implementing a workflow schedule to ensure publications were sent to all meeting members within 30 days of the meeting, completing all copying and transcription of material on-time as opposed to 90 days behind schedule as existed upon initial hiring.
Prepared, recorded and transcribed meetings for major clients such as Motorola, IBM and AT&T.
HIBERNIA NATIONAL BANK – Houston and Dallas, Texas May 1989 - December 1992
Branch Operations Coordinator
Selected to supervise operations at 14 branches for the largest bank in Louisiana. Ensured uniformity of policies and procedures at all branches by providing training in new products and procedures including customer service issues.
Proactively managed staff of 75 personnel at all branches, training personnel to successfully create a cohesive and effective workforce from an extremely diverse group of individuals.
Developed and implemented a fraud training manual which was utilized throughout the company.
Education:
associate's degree -business
Skills:
microsoft word, excel - corel word perfect - quatro
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