Thomas G. Schilling
Gold Canyon, AZ 85118
Phone: 480-***-****
Cell: 480-***-****
Email: ********@*****.***
An accomplished Transportation Executive with over 20 years experience in
the transportation and logistics sectors. Expertise includes strategic
planning, operations, start-ups, service engineering, supplier management
and negotiations, goal attainment, and organizational creation and
reorganization. Successful track record includes providing leadership in
project management, cost reduction, budget control, training, development,
and KPI planning and attainment.
Professional Experience
Ready Auto Transport - Mesa, AZ 2012
Director of Operations
Responsible for transportation brokerage operations throughout the United
States.
. Helped grow carrier base to over 4,000 carriers.
. Developed Standard Operation Procedures for Dispatch, Follow-up,
Carrier Compliance and Claims Departments.
. Performed analytics on Lane Performance, Carrier Rates and Customer
Pricing.
ADESA Inc. - Carmel, IN 2008 -
2012
Director of Transportation
Serving in the Director of Transportation role with responsibility for
integrated transportation of approximately 2 million vehicles to and from
wholesale auctions each year.
. Improved department P&L results from a multi-million dollar loss to a
profit.
. Increased annual outbound revenues by 350%.
. Implemented Transportation Metrics.
. Negotiate and maintain over 550 transportation and logistics contracts
while monitoring an additional 2,600 ad hoc vendors.
. Eliminate internal losses by doubling driver productivity, right-
sizing in-house fleet, and using cost models to reduce carrier cost.
. Implement a TMS and Optimization Program.
BAX Global Inc. - Phoenix, AZ
2000 - 2008
Director, Transportation - Cartage Services
Serving in the Director of Transportation role with responsibility for
purchasing and managing over $150MM annually in ground transportation, in
the U.S. and Canada.
. Reduced operating expense by $22MM annually for the last five years by
evaluating and reducing the number of routes by 26% while improving
driver productivity by 51%.
. Negotiate and maintain over 300 transportation, labor, and logistics
contracts. Monitor an additional 900 non-exclusive and ad hoc vendors.
. Developed and negotiated with cartage vendors incentive-based contracts
that rewarded vendors for productivity gains while lowering the company's
unit costs.
. Created a set of cost models that allowed us to determine within 1% the
cost of business in each market.
. Developed a vendor support program allowing carriers to meet the market
cost model assumptions for insurance, vehicle, lease, fuel, and
maintenance costs by providing resources and national purchasing
agreements for purchasing and financing.
. Decreased expenses by $1.5MM for "special handling freight by evaluating
the service and developing and implemented a change from a national
broker system to a local-based network of carriers which greatly reduced
middleman costs.
FedEx Ground/ RPS - Various Locations 1985 -
2000
Manager of Engineering, R&D Team for FedEx Home Delivery - Pittsburgh, PA
(1998 - 1999)
Manager of Operations Engineering - Pittsburgh, PA (1996 - 1998)
Manager of Operations Planning, Engineering & Training - Toronto, ON (1992
- 1996)
Regional Operations Engineering Manager - Toledo, OH (1988 - 1992)
Special Assignment Manager - Pittsburgh, PA (1988)
Hub Manager - Greensboro, NC (1987 - 1988)
Regional Operations Support Manager - Chicago, IL (1985 - 1987)
Education
B.A. in Business Administration
Hanover College - Hanover, IN
Professional Development
"KEYS TO SUCCESS" (LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION)
L.E.A.D. & L.E.A.D. II - LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT II
(LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION)
Total Quality Management & ISO 9001
Targeted Selection (Development Dimensions International)
P.M.P. - Performance Appraisal (W.M.I. Corporation)
Interaction Management Facilitator Training (received instructor
certification)
P.S.S. - Professional Selling Skills
Change Leadership Training
Myers Briggs Personality Testing & Traits
MOST (Window based Work Measurement)
Knowledge of 12 Transportation Management Systems
Certified in MS Project Management - Either led or served on 18 major
project teams that contributed $1.50MM to $43.0MM to the company's bottom
line
Skilled in MS Office software packages: EXCEL, Word, Power Point,
Outlook, MS Project Management, as well as experience with AS-400,
Oracle, and AutoCAD