Carl Ray Swanson

Cedar Hill Tx ***** 469-***-**** acfqxu@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Dependable and efficient warehouse, professional with extensive experience and operating heavy

equipment in shipping and receiving. Excels at leading teams, and resolving conflicts, and

consistently achieving production standards. Enjoy challenges especially involving time-

sensitive orders and projects. Highly motivated, energetic, and demonstrates an excellent

attitude.

SKILLS

FedEx, UPS and DHL shipping systems, equipment certified (Turret truck, order picker, reach

truck, sit-down, electrical pallet jack). VDP Trained (Voice Directed Picking), LXE/RF Units,

IMDS/WMS (Inventory mainframe database systems). INTELEX (Incident Reporting System),

Six Sigma 5 S.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

McGraw-Hill Companies, Desoto Tx

Team Lead- Shipping & Receiving Department 1997-2013

Duties included: managing various workloads as well as personnel, ensuring adherence to

customer value added shipping requests, monitoring interdepartmental shipments, as well as

providing cross level assistance as needed.

Instrumental in a system with developing and implementing a training program that ensures a

consistent training experience followed up on training and reporting and increasing an

employees production and reducing labor cost to management.

Key Team Lead for departmental stretching projects due to recognized exceptional job

performance. Ensure that the projects were completed accurately and met critical timeline

restraints.

Instrumental in helping the Desoto Shipping department achieve record setting volumes during

the 3rd quarter of 2010 by rotating personnel to critical areas and overseeing the high

priorities orders to ensure shipments met customers demands of on time shipments.

Facilitated department meetings.

Acted as a Swing Shift/ 2nd shift supervisor/ Team Leader.

Mentoring and training New (including Seasonal) associates.

Tracking and reporting standard performance targets to upper management.

Processing outbound shipments and updating shipping reports.

Preparing daily workload for staff and coordinated daily allocation of work to support up to 30

regular and seasonal associates.

Motivates my team to achieve high standards and targets.

Supported employees relations issues and provides solutions.

Verified all daily cycle counting and made adjustments in the system as necessary.

Interpret data and understand assigned workloads in relationship to resources available and direct

short-term actions to accomplish requirement.

Received several outstanding awards.

United States Army

Logistics Operations Technician 1980-1992

Duties included: Proving Air Defense Artillery for Front-Line Soldiers in Combat.

Train Soldiers for Combat

Maintain Hands-On Skills.

Inventory Food Rations, supplies and equipment.

Perform maintenance inspection on all equipment.

Processed and managed all necessary paperwork.

Received Several Awards and 2 Honorable Discharges.

EDUCATION

High School Diploma Lincoln High School Dallas Tx

US ARMY Logistics School Fort Bliss Tx

Primary Leadership Developing School Fort Bliss Tx

DEVELOPMENT/CERTIFICATES

Forklift Certification Trainer

OSHA 10 Safety Certification

HR Related Courses & Online Training and Development

Management courses for developing and training team leads.

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