Rick Whistler

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Executive Summary

Practical experience, common sense and a spirit of entrepreneurial leadership coupled with the belief that Continuous Improvement can be a basic element of human motivation, is what I will bring to your team to drive results.

Senior leadership of operating teams in distribution, logistics, manufacturing and continuous improvement. Managing start-ups, rapidly evolving and stable organizations in diverse industries has honed my ability to think out of the box and to bring practical and tested improvement concepts into practice for large facilities and multi-site networks. In each of these, success was delivered by innovation, cost reduction, and improved service working directly with customers, sales and business partners.

Management training at Procter & Gamble was the foundation for my ability to deliver both compelling customer value and best-in-class results. I will bring a positive, people focused leadership style that is shaped by a strong set of values and complemented with strategic and creative thinking expertise. Results are driven via trust, credibility and cross functional collaboration. A personal end goal is to always develop self-sustaining, high performing teams. This has been instrumental to moving operating teams toward continuous improvement philosophy using both Lean and TQM concepts. It is also the basis for weaving the intent of continuous improvement philosophy into everyday processes without appearing to be the program of the month.

Skillsets

Operations Management / TQM / Lean / Six Sigma / Organizational Design

Strategic & Tactical Planning / P&L / Customer Relations/ Sales

Supply Chain / Logistics / Warehousing / Food Safety to SQF3

Inventory Management / ISO / GMP's

Professional Experience

SK Food Group Reno, NV Food Manufacturing 2013 -Present

Director of Logistics & Warehousing

Responsible for N.A. distribution operations and support teams supplying production operations.

Assisted team with design, planning and start-up of new plant in Ohio. Responsibility also included restructuring transportation, customer service process and use of 3PL’s to control distribution costs. Worked with plant leadership team to define and implement supply chain improvements and Sales team with planning and deployment of customer initiatives. Designed and implemented a central logistics planning team. Co-led plant safety re-design team to turn around unacceptable results.

TTI, Inc. Fort Worth, TX International Electronics Distributor for 60 manufacturers

Director of Operations & Continuous Improvement 2007 – 2012 .

Coordination and leadership of the N.A distribution network providing order fulfillment to both domestic and global customers. Responsible for both daily operations and continuous improvement projects involving operational, customer’s needs and supplier opportunities Accountable for $287 million in inventory, 400K active sku’s, operations budget and planning to support sales approaching $1 billion. Provided over-sight for “special services” customer support teams, customer initiatives, 3rd party out-sourcing. .

Led Operations-CI project teams evaluating ROI and prioritizing productivity, capital and WMS improvement projects resulting in increased capacity, improved results and reduced cost.

Streamlined operations, implemented CI methodologies of all major metrics during 4 record growth years and 1 severe downturn year. Reduced cost three consecutive years.

Directed design and implementation of $2 million DC automation while sustaining 130% of planned daily business volume at site.

Implemented foundation of a High Performance Work System at new DC.

Sol- ler Manufacturing Watsontown, PA Metal Fabrication & Finishing

Vice President / Plant Manager 1997- 2006

Areas of responsibility: Plant Operations, Sales, Supply Chain and Finance. Led continuous improvement projects working directly with customers to create and implement value added processes.

Established and maintained strategic alliances with customers and implemented JIT delivery processes resulting in Supplier of the Year awards from largest customers.

Planned and implemented diversified product offerings and operational capabilities supporting significant growth exceeding 20% annually.

Orchestrated expansion into fabrication, assembly and management of customer inventory.

Automated finishing processes in electro-plating and powder coatings.

Candle Corp. of America Chicago, IL / Advanced Metal Coatings Watsontown, PA

Operations Consultant Operational and general business consultation 1995 1997

Directed start-up and expansion of small manufacturing company (AMC) including implementation of financial and process controls. Completed first business plan.

Established production planning, inventory control and multi-year planning.

Re-designed and implemented new order management process. (CCA)

Assisted with daily planning/operating processes while defeating a unionization effort.

American Home Foods Milton, PA Food manufacturer

Director of Distribution 1994 – 1995

Leadership of national distribution, including daily operations of an 800,000 square-foot facility, optimization of company truck fleet and third party transportation budget to support $1B in sales.

Led CI investigations evaluating and prioritizing productivity, WMS and transportation.

Assisted negotiation of a six year labor agreement to replace existing 3 year contract.

Devised plans to reduce staffing of both management and hourly staff by reorganizing DC separate from production plant. Subsequent owner implemented the plan.

Procter & Gamble Co. Long Beach & Sacramento, CA International Food / CPG Manufacturer

Logistics Manager 1983 - 1994

Sector liaison manager for a regional network of five DC sites and site liaison for West Coast RDC. Managed regional and national DRP issues; working supply chain management involving customers, manufacturing plants and third party logistics network. Accountable for cost, service and customer support. Led and implemented national logistics projects.

Implemented inter-modal shipping resulting in notable savings of $1M in freight costs from eastern plants.

Co-lead well-planned strategies for the successful startup of 5 regional distribution centers.

Worked directly with Sam’s Club’s to devise direct multi-stop store deliveries.

Supervisor, Production / Inventory Planning, Food Packaging and Food Warehouse Management

Management of food packaging and food distribution teams serving thirteen western states. Planned and led replenishment of two plants and three contract DC’s.

Managed design team for high-performance work system design and implementation to convert a traditional union packaging department into higher performance organization.

Improved production performance and reduced cost, in food packaging in-spite of plant closure notice.

Trained Facilitator in TQM methodology and high performance work systems.

United States Marine Corps - Honorable Discharge

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration National University San Diego, CA

Lean / Six Sigma Black Belt Villanova University

Total Quality Management (TQM) Facilitator: Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company

Prior affiliations:

Project Advisor and Executive Board member for Ben Franklin Technology Partners, PA

Board member of MBDN a manufacturer based business development consortium - Williamsport, PA. Board member / President - Chamber of Commerce in Milton, PA.

Board member of Lifeline Ministries Women’s Shelter – San Francisco, CA

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