Objective Experienced and knowledgeable management professional seeks

visible position with stable, diversified service,

manufacturing or distribution company.

Experience outside sales / account manager

06/2008 - 09/2010 Cox Industries, Inc. Orangeburg, South

Carolina

Report to Industrial Sales Manager. Generated and captured

sales of treated wood products in the Gulf Coast Region by

taking orders of existing customers and securing prospective

clients by telephone, office and job-site meetings. Provided

detailed information on company products (utility poles,

piling, residential and marine treated lumber) and other

programs and services. Customers included electric utilities,

building supplies and contractors.

lumber / plywood wholesaler

06/2007 - 06/2008 All-Star Forest Jackson, Mississippi

Products, Inc.

Brokered industrial lumber and plywood. Obtained new

customers and suppliers for manufacturing wholesaler of

industrial lumber and panel products. Developed new suppliers

and customers for engineered wood products.

Purchasing Manager / Materials Manager

8/2004 - 06/2007 Capella Engineered Vicksburg,

Wood, LLC / Mississippi

Armstrong World

Industries

Report directly to plant manager. Manage day to day

purchasing and material requirements of engineered hardwood

flooring manufacturing facility in a continuous improvement,

lean-manufacturing environment. Responsible for cost

effective procurement of raw materials and operating supplies

while maintaining budget / business plan objectives.

Additional responsibilities include negotiating purchasing

agreements, providing input to new product development, and

establishing vendor/supplier relationships. Developed methods

to monitor and improve unit costs, improve efficiency of

warehouse and shipping, decrease lead time from raw material

procurement to finished product. Also provide secondary role

as plant-level IT support.

Lumber Yard Manager

05/2004 - 08/2004 Armstrong World Nashville, Tennessee

Industries

Reported directly to Plant Manager. Managed lumber yard and

drying systems for hardwood flooring manufacturer consuming

50MMbf/year in a lean-manufacturing / continuous improvement

environment. Responsible for inspection, storage, and drying

of purchased lumber. Additional responsibilities included

sourcing lumber yard materials, managing maintenance of lumber

yard, dry kilns, lumber handling equipment, and fork lifts.

Subordinates included 7 salaried personnel and 30 hourly

employees. Scheduled lumber inspection and dry kiln

production in a lean-manufacturing, continuous improvement

environment. Evaluated cost benefit and return on investment

of automated lumber handling equipment and proposed machinery

additions. Prepared corporate capital appropriation requests

for various improvements. Developed and initiated

preventative maintenance plans for lumber handling equipment.

Plant Manager (interim)

3/2003 - 7/2003 Roy O. Martin Lumber Co. Alexandria, LA

Reported directly to general manager of lumber / OSB

operations. Managed hardwood sawmill, planer mill, dry kilns,

lumber and log yard facilities for 50MMbf/year, 2-shift

hardwood lumber manufacturing facility. Responsible for the

day to day operations of this facility including P&L

performance, production scheduling and forecasting.

Subordinates included 13 salaried personnel and 175+ hourly

employees. Additional responsibilities included business plan

development and performance, hardwood lumber purchasing

program and implementation and management of Dupont safety

awareness program for all line supervisors. Developed

standard operating procedure to yield additional quarter-sawn

#1 COM & BTR lumber from resaw and gang saw from grade 1 red

oak logs. Developed pro-forma showing sales of green #2 & #3A

COM lumber would increase mill profitability. Developed

standard operating procedure to yield additional volume of #2

& #3A COM lumber from heart center cants at gang saw.

Implementation of green, flooring grade cut-plan significantly

increased cash flow.

Plant Manager

6/1997 - 3/2003 Memphis Hardwood Flooring Bruce,

Co. Mississippi

Reported dually to President / owner of company and VP/CFO.

Managed sawmill, planer mill, dry kilns, lumber and log yard

facilities for a 30MMbf/year hardwood lumber manufacturing

facility. Responsible for the day to day operations of this

facility including the supervision of 100 member hourly

workforce, in addition to 8 salaried positions. Directed

$1,000,000+ sawmill construction and renovation project

including set-up of computer optimized machinery,

material-flow channels, and finished product sorting.

Responsible for scheduling maintenance, purchasing MRO

supplies and maintaining OSHA compliance. Initiated,

developed and maintained raw material quality control database

to identify, address and record quality control problems which

led to a reduction in defective incoming raw material and

improved incoming raw material specification target.

Initiated plant-wide safety awareness and compliance program,

which resulted in a significant decrease in both minor and

lost-time accidents. Initiated, developed and maintained

production reporting information system to allow detailed

analysis of raw-material consumption, production efficiency,

and historical analysis of production data. Initiated,

developed, and maintained inventory control information

system, which identified and facilitated the processing and

shipment of aged inventory. Negotiated labor contracts with

union and corporate officers in addition to resolving labor

disputes and grievances.

mis programmer / analysy, MIS Project Leader

1/1995 - 6/1997 Champion International Jacksonville,

Corp. Florida

Reported dually to Corporate Director of Forest Products

Information Systems and VP of Sales and Marketing. Developed

and maintained real-time vendor-managed inventory reporting

application for forest products sales and marketing

headquarters to facilitate inventory control and distribution

of SYP plywood for vendor managed inventory locations.

Installed, supported, and maintained local area and wide area

network equipment. Supported and maintained PC workstations

and applications for marketing and production locations.

Procured PCs, network hardware and software, and other related

information systems equipment. Directed local and wide area

network installations at four manufacturing facilities and

provided technical support. Deployed and maintained real-time

data acquisition applications at various production locations

(SYP dimension lumber and plywood). Performed workstation PC

and local area network installations. Maintained local area

networks, file servers, and network printers. Developed and

maintained production, inventory, maintenance and quality

control database applications for plant managers, maintenance

engineers, production supervisors, and plant controllers.

Provided technical support for hardware and software at four

manufacturing facilities.

Inventory Specialist

1/1994 - 12/1994 Gross & Janes Co. St. Louis,

Missouri

Developed and maintained production, inventory and shipment

databases for untreated railroad ties and bridge timbers.

Prepared domestic and export rail shipment documentation.

Prepared shipment, production, inventory and quality control

compliance reports.

Education MBA

05/2007 Mississippi College Clinton, MS

Business Administration. As team leader, led group to First

Place in the Advanced Strategic Marketing Competition.

Successfully completed 24 semester hours of instructor led,

classroom instruction with a 3.93 cumulative GPA / 3.72

Overall GPA including 7 graduate hours transferred from

Mississippi State University.

Master's Degree

5/1994 Mississippi State Starkville, MS

University

Wood Science and Technology / Forest Products and Furniture

Manufacturing with an emphasis in statistical analysis,

logistics, and business administration. "Transportation Cost

Savings attributed to the Shipment of Wood Chips via the

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway". Graduate minor in Agricultural

Economics. 3.3 GPA

Bachelor's Degree

5/1992 Mississippi State Starkville, MS

University

Wood Science and Technology / Forest Products and Furniture

Manufacturing with an emphasis in production management and

marketing. Selected as Department of Forest Products

outstanding under-graduate student. 3.2 GPA.

Skills Extensive experience with computer optimized/controlled

manufacturing equipment related to wood products industry

(trimmers, edgers, headrigs, resaws, gang saws, etc.). Formal

training with various computer hardware and software including

TCP/IP networking, routers and switches, Wonderware, Visual

Basic, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Proficient user of all Microsoft Office applications.

On the job training and working knowledge of JD Edwards,

Epicor, and SAP.

Attended personal development, management, OSHA compliance and

Dupont safety seminars.

Led and participated in numerous root-cause, continuous

improvement and Kaizen sessions.

Active participation in Hoshin and similar planning

techniques.

SPIB and NHLA lumber grading short courses.

Organizatio Mississippi State Forest Products Lab Advisory Committee

ns

Xi Sigma Pi forest resources honorary

Rotary Club International 1999-2003

Ducks Unlimited and National Wild Turkey Federation Sponsor

1998-2003

Kappa Alpha Order - Mississippi State 1987, Rush Chairman 1989

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