Francine Gagne
acarh9@r.postjobfree.com
Summary
Years of award winning experience in motivating and inspiring employees to success while providing
excellent customer service. Continuously promoted for seeking out new responsibilities and skilled
in planning, organizing and directing various projects while keeping details in focus. Always willing
to “go the extra mile” to provide the support, assistance and training necessary to the team. Proven
success in leadership, team and relationship building, conducting research, oral and written
communication, fiscal management and problem solving. Always looking for the “better” way to get
things done.
Professional Experience
Operations Manager Transmark Cartage Services, Kent, WA 2/2013- 8/2013
Summarily promoted to the manager position from Supervisor at the completion of probationary period
Quickly learned and mastered the freight forwarding business, quickly adapted to new culture of private business
environment
Analyzed employee work schedules and changed them to provide better labor efficiency
Improved employee morale, listened and implemented suggested changes
Operations Supervisor/various Intercity Transit, Olympia, WA 2/1994-1/2013
Promoted Operations Supervisor over other senior employees
Researched and identified over 1 million dollars in cost savings strategies
Planned, organized and conducted the successful introduction and implementation of electronic fare boxes to a
unionized operator workforce. Developed and conducted the necessary continuing training.
Researched and gathered information concerning Agency training. Presented the executive summary of that
information to the Agency’s Senior Management Team resulting in the adoption of the recommendation of the research
and hiring of a new Training Coordinator
Instrumental in coordinating the Operations, Human Resources, Planning and Maintenance departments in conducting
successful service changes
Selected as a WSDOT Wall of Fame recipient multiple times (employee of the year)
Developed an ACCESS based program to streamline the operator scheduling process. Decreased scheduling time by
50%, and improved accuracy
Identified and solved an existing communication issue between the Operations and Human Resources departments.
Improved the process to minimize the delay of communication
Investigated and contributed to the introduction of a transitional work program for injured operators
Initiated better communication between the Operations and Accounting Departments which streamlined operator
payroll processing
Received training in FMLA, L+I, ACCESS, EXCEL, WORD, policy and procedure writing, employee
discipline/investigations, drug and alcohol reasonable suspicion, accident investigation, improving employee morale
Master of Business Administration Saint Martin’s College Lacey, WA
Bachelor of Science United States Military Academy West Point, NY