Garret Alford

Email: abqocw@r.postjobfree.com

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

City: Gainesville

State: FL

Zip: 32601

Country: USA

Phone: 352-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $40,000

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1017 NE 15th Place Gainesville, FL 32601 Phone 352-***-**** E-mail abqocw@r.postjobfree.com

Garret Alford

Objective To use my experience, leadership, creativity and critical problem solving skills to better my workplace and self.

Experience

2008-2012 Invivo Diagnostic Imaging/Philips Gainesville, FL

Supervisor 1, Distribution

After 3years training and experience with SAP ERP software as Logistic Supervisor overseeing 15 employees for Shipping, Receiving and the Stockroom at GO2 (Gainesvilles secondary Operations building) I was sent September of 2011 to GO1 (the primary Operations building) to define, unify and implement best practices for both Gainesville Operations Facilities, as well as Supervise Receiving and the Stockroom.

I drove the use of scanning Logistical Landscape Control Cycle cards by the Production floor for material replenishment and only allowed hand written Material Requisitions for expensing to Engineering. This included setting up a 2-bin Kanban replenishment system and defining the levels to meet weekly demand, based on the current ROFO. I also made it clear that transfers must reflect their actual movement. All materials being delivered must be pulled from the FIFO generated transfer location and if not, needed to be transferred from where it was actually pulled to where the confirmed system generated Transfer Order stated. Following this process insured proper counts in each Storage Location, removed the duplication of effort being done and straightened out materials being mistakenly transferred when they should have been expensed (as in the case of materials for Engineering or bulk materials to Production).

I also eliminated the confusion being caused by materials that had the same number for both tuned and un-tuned material. This caused tuned and un-tuned material to become mixed in the same Storage Bin as well as leave tuned material unnecessarily stuck in Inspection. I wrote Work Instructions for turning off the Inspection flag on work orders, removing material from Inspection and how to direct materials to be delivered into the bin of use in the desired Production cell. I worked with the Production Supervisors to train their staff in this process and convinced them to deliver all work orders done in contributing subassembly cells to the assigned bins at the point of use in each Production cell. This solved the mixture on tuned and un-tuned material, cut delivery time and the total number of transactions required.

Refinements I introduced while working with Engineering and NPIs included; defining the approximate size of the new material in advance of receipt, whether it was an individual material or a subassembly and at what operational step it was used. This allowed Storage Bins to be pre-assigned, so that when they were expensed into Inventory from Engineering the materials would default to where there was room and the best location to store from a point of use perspective. We also defined the bulk materials from the beginning, instead of deciding months later after the product was in Production. These improvements provided a far more seamless Production cell set up, saved man-hours and allowed deadlines to be met.

I drove the transition from standard racking to high-density storage cabinets, including setting up the new Storage Locations and updating the Material Master and Logistical Landscape.

I was responsible for all upper level transactions, including Scrapping and issuing of materials to and from Engineering. All this and more while performing my daily Supervisory duties.

2005-2008 Sabine, Inc. I Alachua, FL

Material Manager

Member of the Management Team responsible for Long Term Inventory and Enterprise Resource Planning facilitating smooth interaction between purchasing, shipping, production and sales.

Responsible for purchasing all PCBs, Case Metal and shop supplies as well as Warehouse and Receiving Manager.

Resident Maynard and Platinum expert. Responsible for new Item Keys, Location and BOM manipulation.

Head Year-end Inventory. Assign all teams and tasks as well as correlating data, correcting errors and External Auditor verification.

19962005 Sabine, Inc Alachua, FL

Warehouse and Receiving Manager

Revamped location system, devising locations for all areas of warehouse as well as designing and racking the non-climate controlled warehouse. This increased available storage, allowed all items to be easily located and increased productivity.

Confirm and receive all material. Mark and barcode parts. Create RMAs and return all incorrect parts. Of the thousands of parts received over my tenure I only miss-marked 2 parts with none placed in products, I check my work.

Extensive music business experience. I have been called the best product tester at Sabine by the company owner, in one instance a new product was being introduced and had already been approved for release by marketing and engineering, but in my testing I found that the light scheme was reversed and was rewarded with a weeks pay.

One of the first proponents of combining Sabines FBX technology with a Graphic Equalizer. This eventually became a flagship product called the Graphi-Q.

I was originally hired as a Warehouse Worker, having no expertise in the electronic industry, but because of my aptitude, leadership abilities and organizational skills made it possible for the current Warehouse Manager to move to Purchasing.

1987-1996 Orange Blossom Co-op Warehouse Gainesville, FL

Truck Diver/Warehouse Worker - General Manager

General Manager of Natural Foods Co-operative Warehouse. Directed 15+ employees, responsible to Bank, Board of Directors and Co-op membership.

Performed all aspects of business from Monthly Bank Statements to quarterly catalog production. Including writing articles, conceptualizing the front-page theme, and picture and providing Delivery Schedules. I loaded unloaded trucks, hosted and organized the yearly membership meeting at Oleno State Park providing food, entertainment, workshops, guest speakers and fellowship.

Warehouse Manager, Trucking Manager/Driver, Forklift Operator and Cheese Picker. Trained or was trained in positions at Accounting, Payroll, Purchasing, Salesman and Receptionist.

Class B CDL and expert Forklift Operator.

Education

19731975 Santa Fe Community College Gainesville, FL

A. A. Other Personal Objectives

1972-1973 Essex Community College Baltimore, MD

1970-1972 Kubasaki High School Naha, Okinawa

Interests

I have been a Professional Musician for over 40 years. I have a Pro-Tools recording home studio, which is a computer based immensely versatile and complicated proprietary program and the Music Industry standard. I am continually working on writing and recording new songs to add to my library of material for submission for various usages in the music industry. I am a member of Taxi, which provides updated music listing opportunities on a bi-weekly basis.

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