Supply Chain Customer Service

Darrell Vander Bloomen

*** ***** ********* ******, *********, Illinois 60060

847-***-**** (Res.) *847-***-**** (Cell) * *****@***.***

An ambitious and optimistic senior Business Executive with proven

abilities in Strategic planning, managing projects, improving the

efficiency of operations that increase productivity and reduce

operational costs. I am able to identify areas of strength/weakness

and implement company policies, standards and changes in operations

that optimize productivity and improve the bottom line.

Areas of Expertise

*Strategic Business Planning *Cross Border and

Financial Transactions

*Multi-site Global Operations *Customer,

Vendor/Supplier & OEM relations

*International Sourcing & Supply Chain Management *Major Capital

Planning and Management

*Complete P&L responsibility *Costing,

Margin/Profit Improvement & ROI

*Acquisitions/Integration & Divestitures *Operations

Re-design and Process Design

Master of Business Administration* Business Administration* Keller

Graduate School, Vernon Hills, IL.

Bachelor of Science* Business Administration* Roosevelt University,

Chicago, IL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AGCO Corporation, Batavia, IL

$8.4 billion Company's vision is to provide high tech solutions for

professional farmers feeding the World.

Director of Supply Chain Global Manufacturing

Directly responsible to create a new vision for the North American

Parts Operations in an agricultural environment that exceeded the

customer expectations and increased sales by 18% year over year. Hold

full P/L responsibility for the global supply chain including 10

distribution operations, regional purchasing and procurement groups

that consistently reduced budgets and drove down cost of sales.

Manage continuous improvement, serve as a catalyst for profitable and

orderly change, and oversee capital projects valued up to $6 million.

. Executed a strategic distribution revitalization initiative,

including lean strategies, and reduced OSHA recordable to record

lows across the entire network, reducing workers compensation

costs by 70%.

. Upgraded personnel and processes incorporating TPS ideation and

lean practices. Reduced direct-labor spending by 36% in

warehouse operations, resulting in $2.4 million savings. Direct

reports include the operations manager, warehouse managers and

purchasing managers.

Intermatic, Incorporated, Spring Grove, IL

$500 million Company focuses on manufacturing products for both retail

and industrial sales channels. Organization has six manufacturing

facilities in the US, Asia, Mexico, and Germany.

Director of Supply Chain Global Manufacturing

As part of a new management team and charged with turning around the

poorly performing global scheduling department operating in the highly

competitive retail environment, resulting in performance rewards from

Home Depot and Lowes.

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Managed continuous improvement, serve as a catalyst for profitable and

orderly change, also oversee capital projects valued up to $13

million, within budget and on schedule. Report to President/CEO.

. Executed a distribution system change, including paperless

strategies, which played a key role in growing sales revenue in

CY2003 from $380 million (with $20 million EBITDA) to nearly

$500 million (with $40 million EBITDA) by the end of CY2004.

. Replaced inefficient managers with dynamic leadership accustomed

to supervising indigenous labor, streamlined work processes,

introduced new production-line technology and co-launched a

Continuous Improvement (TPS type) initiative which solidified US

manufacturing in Spring Grove with a three year cumulative

saving of $18 million.

. Expanded the regional operations in Florida, California and El

Paso to enhance border crossing services, engaged C-TPAT and

create increased customer service in the Industrial channels.

. Championed recent NAC (North American Consolidation) I&II

initiatives which expand our Juarez, Mexico manufacturing

operations with a build-to-suit solution. Concurrently, became

co-lead of the project to shut down the costly US operations and

move or out-source every department.

Tecumseh Products Company Inc. Grafton, WI.

$50 million aftermarket parts support organization used to augment OEM

manufacturing of air cooled engines and standard transmissions.

Organization had four manufacturing facilities located domestically.

Director of Distribution and Service Distribution

Manufacturing

Directed all production operations and supply chain initiatives for

this $50 million consumer goods and small engine division vertically

integrated manufacturing and a unique network of 9 distribution

centers across the United States. Supply Chain responsibilities

included Logistics, Distribution and Procurement of raw materials,

parts, equipment and services.

. Automated purchasing and recruited capable leadership to upgrade

the supply chain, decreasing over-all cost of ownership by 40%

and reversing declining profits to a positive 20% EBITDA the

first year.

. Initiated a statistical process control initiative as part of a

new educational program that reduced off-spec field failures and

created better reporting of systemic performance issues.

Baer Supply Company, Vernon Hills, IL

Distributor to the woodworking industry, a major marketer of laminate,

wood based products and a multitude of hardware related products.

Director of Operations Distribution

Recruited by the COO to lead distributive, operational and inside

sales initiatives for this domestic hardware distributor to achieve

world class benchmarks and reduce operating costs by 30%. Translated

long term strategic objectives into short term tactical plans and

managed 18 distribution facilities along with five customer service

phone centers in eight states.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Management Association, APICS, Chicago Council of Operational

Executives (CCOE)

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