Mark E. Henson

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Wildwood, Florida ***85

abl3ug@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Twenty four years experience and accomplishments in material purchasing,

asset utilization, buying warehousing, logistics and inventory/materials

control, progressing rapidly to management in metal extrusions, assembly,

chemical, recreational vehicle manufacturing, commercial air conditioning

and beverage manufacturing. Knows strong working knowledge of current

manufacturing processes including MRP, AS400 Mac Pac(v.10.0), and SAP

Software. Managed staffs up to 15 people. Has formulated, planned and

administered budgets. Is considered by managers, peers and suppliers to be

organized, goal-directed and a good communicator and leader.

Work History

2010-January Kingsbury Academy, Teacher

Ocala, Florida

Full time Middle Grades Math Teacher

Taught 6th, 7th and 8th Grades Math Classes along with one 8th Grade Social

Studies Class.

2008-January 2010 Substitute Teacher

Coweta County Schools

Newnan, Georgia

Substitute Teach for all of Coweta County Schools, mainly taught at

Northgate High,

East Coweta High and Newnan High Schools. Primary subjects taught were

Mathematics.

2006-November 2008 Sales Manager

Mid Georgia Garage Doors

Newnan, Georgia

Facilitated sales in the Commercial, Industrial and Residential markets in

Georgia and Alabama for Commercial Overhead Doors and Residential Garage

Doors. Developed the sales prices for these products sold in these three

markets. Specified new commercial construction applications for proper

installation of Commercial Overhead Doors. Also, qualified new residential

construction for proper installation of Residential Garage Doors.

Maintained existing customer relations and collections of existing

customers. Managed to bring new customers to Mid Georgia Garage Doors with

higher profit margins.

2005-October 2006 Senior Buyer

Acco Brands

Atlanta, Georgia

Purchased all components for daily production of Corrugation Products sold

to the Office Supply Retail markets. The goal of this job was to get this

production location from a negative financial operating condition to a

profitable financial operating facility. This was accomplished by utilizing

excess raw materials that were on hand in production. Generating cost

reduction on high dollar procurement items that could be used in the month

purchased. Items that contributed to the financial turn around were new

pallet contracts, label supplier cost reductions based on higher production

runs. Acco Brands in Atlanta, Georgia achieved a positive financial status

and was sold to a competitor Fellowes in October 2006. The Atlanta

manufacturing operations was then relocated to a Fellowes facility outside

of Chicago, Illinois.

2005 January-December

Coweta County School System

Substitute Teacher

Substitute teacher for the Coweta County Schools.

2003-January 2005 Production Planner and Senior Buyer

Ropak Packaging Corp.

LaGrange, Georgia

Schedule Daily Production and purchase all raw materials for Daily

Operations of Plastic Packaging Worked with the Maintenance Dept Manager to

schedule mold changes to maximize daily production and minimize mold

changes and machine down time. Finished products consisted of Blow Mold,

HDPE and Poly Propylene. While at Ropak, worked with plant manager to

reduce finished goods inventory below target of ten thousand man-hours.

Furthermore, working with shipping and production to increase the plant

sales and overall output of production hours to become the number two plant

out of 6 Ropak Packaging plants overall from being the least performer.

Lastly, managed raw materials inventory to not have any production down

time to outages.

2000-Feb. 2003 Senior Buyer, Coors Brewing Company

Elkton, Virginia

Purchased replacement parts for keg line, can lines, and bottle lines for

Shenandoah plant. Negotiated contracts and procured commodities required

supporting the manufacturing plant. Worked with the Integrated Supply Team

on cost reduction initiatives and asset care program. Documented $75,000 in

cost savings in fiscal year 2001. Documented savings for 2002 was

$1,250,632. $956,407 was generated from new recycling program. The balance

of savings was on packaging components that were switched to new suppliers.

1999-2000 Senior Buyer, McQuay International

Verona, Virginia

Managed 6 different commodities for two business units. Managed to reduce

inventory from $24 million to $13 million dollars. Assisted Materials

Department to cut lead times on certain commodities to assist the Marketing

Department to sell finished units to customers that demanded shorter

production lead times. The efforts by all departments resulted in McQuay

International to improve from $26 million dollar loss to 1.1 million dollar

profit for fiscal year 2000.

1998-1999 Senior Buyer, Thomas & Betts Corporation

Southaven, Mississippi

Negotiated commodity contracts for copper, aluminum and steel. Resource raw

material, packaging and MRO services to cut cost according to corporate

cost cutting strategy. Worked with 5 planners to cut raw material inventory

from $14 million dollars to $9 million dollars. Was able to negotiate major

vendor payables from 30 days to 60 days.

1988-1998 Material Control Specialist,

Yamaha Motor Mfg. Company

Newnan, Georgia

Responsible for purchasing golf car, watercraft and ATV (All-Terrain

Vehicle) production parts. Parts consisted of aluminum die-castings,

stampings, machined parts, forgings, transaxles, plastic parts, seats and

stainless steel impellers. Managed Engineering revisions from drawing

release to supplier implementation on production parts. Resolved invoice

discrepancy pricing issues for my assigned suppliers. Accomplishments

included a supplier consolidation assignment resulting in a 4% procurement

cost savings. Administered localization program reducing imports from 70%

to 30%, which lowered vehicle cost and improved delivery schedules.

Improved Japanese team concept groups, i.e. "Just-in-Time" production

techniques, and continuous production improvement (Kaizen System).

1984-1988 Purchasing Agent/Operations Assistant, Lyndal Chemical

Dalton, Georgia

Purchased raw material for chemical manufacturing for two site plants.

Maintained sales inventory of finished goods for warehouses in Canada and

three locations in the United States. Reported to the Controller of this

diversified chemical manufacturer supplying the carpet, textile, fiberglass

and automotive tire industry. Accomplishments included a 7% reduction in

procurement cost by consolidating suppliers and major commodity contracts

to pass on savings to the Sales Department to allow an increase in overall

company sales volumes totaling $15 million dollars.

1983-1984 Assistant Materials Manager, Alenco (Division of Redman Ind.)

Peachtree City, Georgia

Purchased aluminum extrusions and production components for the assembly of

windows and sliding glass doors for commercial and residential sales for

three assembly plants.

1983. Stock Clerk

Winn Dixie Stores

Newnan, Georgia

Stock Clerk

Worked in all departments of hometown grocery store during high school and

college to pay my own way through college.

Affiliations

Gideon's International

President of Coweta County East Camp

Education

2007-2008 Masters of Education in Technology

Lesley University, Cambridge Massachusetts

1978-1982 Bachelor of Business Administration-Finance

West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia

1977- 1978 Gordon Junior College

Barnesville, Georgia

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