Project Manager Supply Chain

J O H N M. L IC H T (L IG H T)

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Beaver Dam, Kentucky 42320

270-***-**** or e-mail: mad r r te ******@*****.***

O BJECT I V E

P roviding successful professional leadership and management contributions, as part of a growth-

focused business team.

BACKGROUN D EXPER I E NCES

Western Bluegrass Terminal L LC, M adisonville, Kentucky, P resident September 2007 -

P resent

C reated a new regional international trans-load freight t ransportation and distribution freight

complex. T he complex provides new and expand markets opportunities for western Kentucky

businesses, and its PPP - Private Public Partners.

• Successfully completed a $9 Million – 11 Mile Steel Pipe movement for Texas Gas.

• Ashland Chemical Home Shop Terminal. Providing t ransload and cleaning terminal services

for its tank cars and plastic pellet covered hopper car f leets.

• Consolidate t ruck loads of logs onto Georgia Pacific log f lat cars.

• Completed $225,000 upgrade and modernized projects on 3 mile rail freight terminal

i nfrastructures.

• Expanded terminal services to included international services to both Canada and Mexico.

• Established new steel pipe distribution complex, completing a Texas Gas 11 mile $9 Million

steel pipe project.

• Established working relationships with Kentucky’s World Trade Association, Department of

Commerce, Commodity Trade Groups, Gulf Coast Port Authorities, to prompt increase

i nternational trade and commerce.

Respondek Rail road Corporation, Newburgh, I ndiana, D irector, Business Development June

2004 – September 2007

Developing new, as well as expanding, railroad & business projects including creating new short-line

r ailroads, establishing new interplant switching operations, marketing (rolling stock & track

maintenance operations), and implementing safety programs meeting client requirements. D uties

a lso include working closely with public, industrial development and elected leaders to restore

community rail operations. Some current projects included:

• Completing a $500,000 project to built a “welded rail” t rain.

• Representing the firm on railroad matters with Indiana and Kentucky state governments, as a

part of lobbyist organizations.

• Soliciting and biding on federal, state and community related railroad projects.

• Working with Martin Marietta Aggregates to expand both its market niche and area.

• Representing fi rm at annual short line railroad conferences with CSXT, Norfolk Southern, and

Canadian National.

• Created and implemented industrial - economical development projects with local, community,

regional and state agencies.

U.S. Depa rtment of Labor, Job Corp Center, Morganfield, Kentucky, Material Handling

Vocational Instructor September 2002 – June 2004

Provided supply chain management industrial vocational and education t raining for Job Corp

students. Instructor duties included career counseling, guidance, preparation, and educational

t raining. Certified OSHA Powered Industrial Truck - Fork Lift & Material Handling Industrial

T rainer. Provided t raining for both staff and students. Student t raining included Roadway and

ACBL - American Commercial Barge Lines programs. Consolidated inventories from four separate

warehouses into one centralized campus distribution center. M aterial Handling Training included

f rozen - chilled distribution center - warehouse environment operations.

T he Port Group, Indianapolis, Indiana, Project Manager (Real Estate Development

F irm) January 2001 – Septemger 2002

Developing financial packages and market research for the funding “supply chain management

assets” projects such as r iver-ports, distribution centers, t rans-load facilities, railroad expansions,

warehouses, t rucking facilities, industrial parks etc.

K ingsley Group I nc . San Francisco, California, Industrial Computer Trainer and Consultant

January 1999 – January 2001

Providing railroad operating software t raining to Norfolk Southern Railway's (Fortune 500 - ISO

9000 Certified) superintendents, t rainmasters, clerks, and yardmasters. Assignment includes

t raining, as well as implementing, a new NT computer software (TYES-Thoroughbred Yard

E nterprise System) in "real life - real time" operating environments at some of the world's busiest

r ailroad terminals (Chicago, Altoona, Kansas City, St. Louis, Philadelphia & Decatur). Duties also

i nclude providing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) liaison - t raining with Tier One automotive

f i rms Ford, BMW, Chrysler, Toyota and Mitsubishi.

L i te I ndustries I nc., P resident, Managing three separate business divisions consisting of

( a) Lite I ndustries Rail road Equipment Ma rketing D ivision (L I TX), (b) J M L Logistics

Consulting Division, and (c) Blue Light Rail road Equipment Mobile Maintenance

D ivision . August 1988– January 1999

• Projects included providing freight car components for the Department of Interior's tank cars

assigned to t ransport rocket fuel for NASA's Space Shuttles.

• Completed in-depth privatization study Charlestown Army Ammunition Manufacturing Plant,

Charlestown, Indiana's t ransportation facilities

• Purchased, leased and re-marketed locomotives and freight cars.

• Prepared and recorded required ownership & lease documentations with Surface

T ransportation Board, Federal Railroad Administration, and Association of American

Railroads.

• Established new railroad reporting marks and ownership registration using the Association of

A merican Railroad's UMLER (Universal Machine Language Equipment Register) system.

• Performed rolling stock inspections and evaluations.

• Leased (and provided industrial operating t raining) refrigerator and tank cars to Fort Carson,

Colorado' Dessert Warfare School.

Derby Tank Car I nc. E kron, Kentucky, National Marketing Manager. January 1985 –August 1988

• Established, developed & managed marketing department including sales, advertising, sales,

forecasting, budgeting, contract negotiations, bidding, marketing, pubic-relations, customer

service, and government contracting.

• Marketing efforts generated sufficient income to finance a $500,000 plant modernization,

• rehabilitation & expansion project.

• Established new "long-te rm unit coal t rain maintenance" market by obtaining

contracts

• with Big Rivers Electric Utility.

• Created new "long-term" business maintenance contracts for box cars assigned to General

E lectric Louisville Appliance Parks' "pool service" with several Class I Railroads including

U nion Pacific, Burlington Northern Canadian National & Conrail.

• Expanded market niches by establishing "mobile maintenance division" servicing freight cars

a t job-site on military bases, chemical plants, paper mills, public utilities, steel mills and etc.

• Increased client base by participating in the experimental installation of a ”state-of- the- art"

electric impedance heating coils into pitch and tar commodities tank cars.

• I mplemented computerized management systems including marketing, client database,

i nventory control, project management, accounts payable, accounts receivable & personnel

management functions

OT H ER EXPER I E NCES

Foodmakers I nc. (Ralston Pur ina subsidiary), Houston, TX Dist ribution Center

Operations & Truck Fleet Manager. Implementing new “point of purchase” (supply chain

management) inventory control computer system. Warehouse operations included frozen,

chilled & standard facilities.

Texas I nst ruments I nc. Digital Equipment Division, Houston, Texas, National

T ransportation and Freight

Payable Manager

R ichmond Tank Car Manufacturing Company, Houston, Texas, Quality Control

Customer Service

I nspector – Representative.

• Monitored AAR Repair Billing with rail f leet owners.

• Preformed Quality Control Inspections on workmanship, welds, and labor.

• Ensured freight car lining and coatings applications were correctly applied.

I nstitute for Urban T ransportation, I ndiana University, Bloomington, Indiana,

Assistant Transportation Researcher

Conrail, Louisville, Kentucky, Journeyman Freight Car Repairman

Navy and Naval Reserve, Yeoman Second Class Petty Officer, Second & Sixth Fleet

A dmiral's Staff.

M ili tary Sealift Command; Naval Control of Shipping & Naval Personnel Readiness

Command.

E D UCAT IO N AND SPEC IAL TRA I N I NG

I ndiana University, Bachelor of Science, School of Business, Bloomington, Indiana,

T ransportation Major with Marketing & Administration M inors

University of Tennessee Railroad Track & Roadbed Course, Chattanooga, Tennessee

• Association of American Railroads UM LER (Universal Machine Language

Equipment Railcars (Locomotives, In ter-modal Container & Trailer) Register

Computer Course, Washington DC

• Norfolk Southern Railway's TYES-Thoroughbred Yard Enterprise School, (railroad

operating computer system) School, Atlanta, Georgia

• Federal Express Hazardous Material School, Memphis, Tennessee

• Import-Export Procedures & Documentation, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

• I vy Tech State College M icrosoft Office Suite and Project Management I & I I,

I ndianapolis, Ind.

• Freight Transportation Market Pricing, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

W isconsin

• University of Wisconsin Transportation Marketing Management, Madison,

W isconsin

• Navy “Mili tary Sealift Command” School, Navy Supply Center, Oakland, California

• Naval Inst ructor School, Naval Training Center, Great Lake, I llinois

• Navy Yeoman A School (Mili tary Personnel Management & Administration ), San

D iego, Ca.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Association of American Rail roads (L I TX) P rivate Freight Car Owner,

Washington DC

• Kentucky Railroad Association, F rankfort, Kentucky

• I ndiana Railroad Group Association, I ndianapolis, Indiana

• I ndiana University School of Business Alumni Association, Bloomington,

I ndiana

• American Society of T ransportation and Logistics

• Railway Supply I nstitute, Chicago, I l linois

• I nstitute for Supply Management (formerly National Association of

P urchasing M anagers), E vansville Chapter Board of Directors, Evansville,

I ndiana

• WERC - Warehouse Educational Research Council, Indianapolis, Indiana

• T r i-State T ransportation Association, Evansville, Indiana

• Port Of Evansville Propeller Association, Evansville, Indiana

• Delta Nu Alpha T ransportation F raternity, Bowling Green, Kentucky

Active in Economic & I ndustrial Development projects

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