William Furgala

Email: abpwfg@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** *** ******** **

City: Hamburg

State: NY

Zip: 14075

Country: USA

Phone: 678-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $90,000

Willing to Relocate

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William T. Furgala

310 Sturgess Run Sharpsburg, GA 30277

(H) 770-***-**** (C) 678-***-**** (e-mail) abpwfg@r.postjobfree.com

Forward-thinking, high-performing individual with 22+ years of successful leadership and management experiences in logistics, supply chain management, personnel management, facilities management, operations and strategic planning management, and program and policy analysis. Consistently developed strategies to improve logistic operations, human capital programs, financial operations and overall organizational effectiveness. Enterprising and resourceful in anticipating, determining, and resolving challenges. Proactively communicate with senior executives to convey operational needs through comprehensive analysis and reports that facilitate site-wide improvements and continuity amongst all participating parties. Possess Top Secret-Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.

Operations and Management Strengths:

-Project and Operations Management - Distribution Management

-Policy and Procedure Development - Inventory Control Processes

-Risk Management/Quality Control - Team Building and Retention Initiatives

-Process Management Improvements - Leadership and Training

ITT Exelis Systems Inc. (09/20/2010 - Present) Senior Logistics Planner, Directorate of Logistics (DOL), Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.

- Executed and coordinated the logistic transformation and reception of the Armor School, Ft Knox, Kentucky to become the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE), as directed by the Senate 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission to Ft Benning, Georgia.

- Provide analytical products to MCoE Commanding General on dining facility efficiency of operations resulting in cost savings of $1.3M to the Installation Management Command (IMCOM).

- Coordinated and executed 40 tenants` move for completed facility projects for a cost savings of $1M, a 65% savings from initial projected dollar costs for IMCOM.

- Developed and managed the plan of action and milestones that provides internal and external tasks required to execute the DOL Enterprise Transformation to Army Materiel Command prior to transition.

Third Army / US Army Central (USARCENT) (05/15/2007 - 07/31/2010) Chief of Operations and Chief, Supply & Services Branch, Arifjan, Kuwait and Fort McPherson, Georgia, United States.

- Provide direction to a 258 member team, implementing, synchronizing and integrating effective staff and logistics management strategies, policies and procedures in global setting.

- Supervise the gathering, review, and analysis of logistic operations critical to strategic planning by providing Humanitarian Aid to Pakistan with over 100,000 meals and 25 Humanitarian Assistance Tents. Oversaw a diverse team in managing reduction of supplies for Southwest Asia by 38% over 10 month period; 3.3 million items worth $413 million.

- Coordinated with over a dozen other Commands to regulate New Equipment Fielding, Operational Needs Statements, retrograde of material from Theater, redistribution of equipment between core teams, rebuild of Army Prepositioned Stocks, and oversight of Theater Provided Equipment by management of asset visibility of more than 4.4 million items and material readiness valued at $42 billion in Southwest Asia.

- Represented USARCENT`s 13 down trace units at several Departments of the Army G8 Army Enterprise and Equipment Reuse Conferences at the Pentagon that resulted in critical equipment shortages being filled from 68% to 93% equipment on-hand.

902d Military Intelligence Group (06/05/2004 - 05/14/2007) Group S4, Logistics Director, Fort Meade, Maryland

-Directed logistical operations and facility management plans in over 40 locations spread across the U.S, Pacific, Southwest Asia and Europe. Provide feedback of logistical operations to senior executives in support of armed forces, secrets and technologies.

- Managed the execution of an operational program budget in excess of $42 million and developed a plan that recovered $13 million in equipment following a $38 million facility fire displacing 335 personnel.

- Assembled and directed a team for the federal military construction (MILCON) of a $165 million, 380,000 square foot facility that required detailed Staff analysis of unit operational, information systems structure and logistical requirements.

- Developed and implemented systems, procedures, and training programs to correct deficiencies in supply programs, personnel training, and property accountability management.

24th Corps Support Group (04/15/2002 - 06/04/2004) Group S4, Logistics Director, Fort Stewart, Georgia, United States

- Principle advisor for logistics operations by providing the commander with assessments of the Groups logistics posture, finance, food service, maintenance and command supply discipline programs in support of over 2,500+ personnel spread across the U.S and Southwest Asia.

- Managed a budget of $7 million and oversight of expenditures. Able to recoup over $4.3 million for contingency operations spending through retrograde and turn-in of repair parts.

- Implemented an automated report and tracking system that resulted in the recovery of $1 million worth of equipment and reduced processing time by 150%.

- Saved $2.6 million in direct purchases by the re-distribution of 318 pieces of equipment to other units.

- Orchestrated the rebuild and reset of 250 pieces equipment from Operation Iraqi Freedom through various maintenance programs that resulted in equipment increasing from 85% to 94% operational readiness rate.

Company Commander / Logistician (1985-2002) various military installations across U.S. and abroad.

Planned and executed various strategic and tactical logistics operations. Developed plans for concept of support and operations to support units in various deployments and major training exercises. As a multifunctional logistician planned logistics support packages, identified and solved maintenance related issues between customer units and maintenance support elements as well as researched any critical repair parts problems.

- Initiated and established a service contract for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) and Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) equipment fleets throughout the Korean Theater and coordinated a Republic of Korea Army depot refurbishment program for US equipment. Initiatives improved the readiness of the equipment fleets to over 93%, provided cost savings of over half million dollar in travel funds and reduction in overhaul costs.

- Led 70 soldiers in support of Operation Desert Thunder in Kuwait by providing necessary mission execution and training.

- In recruiting command, converted a collective group of low performing recruiters that ranked in bottom 10 into a high performing team that later ranked in the top 10 amongst 52 recruiting companies across 13 states. Created a formal partnership with two community colleges that instituted the first ever partnership for US Army Recruiting Command. The partnership enabled my recruiting team to have unlimited on-campus access and reduced tuition opportunities.

- Accountable for maintaining $3 million worth of mission ready equipment with no losses.

- Reduced maintenance backlog by 60%; received recognition for achieving the highest readiness rate and managing the best Direct Support maintenance workload of any support battalion in the division.

- Planned and executed unit operations and logistical support to several North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) deployment exercises and managed over $1.5 million in Joint Chief of Staff funding in support of these exercises.

College Education

State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York Bachelor of Arts in Geography, minor in International Business

Erie Community College (North Campus) Williamsville, New York Associate of Applied Sciences in Electrical Engineering Technology

ITT Training Records

Project Management-Harvard, Manage Mentor 10 - 2012

Project Management Basics - 2012

Military Education

Command and General Staff College - 2005

Combined Arms and Services Staff School (CAS3) - 1998

Combined Logistics Officer Advance Course - 1995

Support Operations Course - 1995

Ordnance Officer Basic Course - 1990

Technical Proficiencies

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); FormFlow and PureEdge; Windows & UNIX platforms

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