Project Manager Sales

Mark Shields

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Snellville, GA 404-***-****

Successful, professional, and dedicated individual who has distinguished himself in the areas of inventory analysis, logistics/MRP, purchasing, project management and field support, electrical engineering, customer service, and supervising employees.

Instrumental in assisting and supporting Business Manager in implementing business strategies both domestically and internationally, that has resulted in annual revenue increase from an average of 4.9 Million up to 8 Million or a 63% increase in revenue.

Developed vendor releases and blanket orders for global distribution. This effort resulted in reducing inventories in multiple global warehouses. Maintained a very impressive 3.5% annual turn of inventory valued at 1.5 million in the US location and 2.5% turns of 1 million value in European location.

Reduced inventory in excess of $300,000 within three months of hire by identifying excess and slow moving inventory.

Formulated reporting procedures to provide historical usages in order to create ocean container shipments versus air freight, thus reducing inventory, increasing turns and saving thousands in freight cost at two previous places of employment.

Negotiated storage of the top 20% of high moving components for make, hold, and release at vendor facilities.

Created inventory system of stored components accounting for components for use on existing and future work orders, increasing job profitability and reducing job costs.

Professional Accomplishments

Materials Manager GL&V Inc., Lawrenceville, GA 1999 to present

Global Inventory Manager/Job order planning, Purchasing, Logistics

Maintain / review inventory levels and order points for level for pulp related components, including cleaner and filter products.

Perform MRP and order action requirement, Accountable for over 1500+ stock articles and over 600 non stock articles

Communicate with inside sales affiliates (including New Hampshire, Sweden, Canada, England and France), for order processing strategies.

Review sales orders for daily shipping.

Accountable for the process of cleaner capital equipment sales orders in excess of 2 million dollars.

Analyzed, compressed, and processed Bills-of-Material, drawings. and specifications from engineering.

Release job orders for purchasing, production, consolidation and assembly.

Strategic logistics planning for transportation to various global locations.

Delegated as Syteline and Encompix software data base “Super User” upon implementation and was recruited to assist and train others in various departments.

Assigned as warehouse manager

Generated cycle count procedures

Became proficient with Platinum, Syteline, and Encompix software systems. Supervised two employees.

During my employment with GL&V, I quickly became the individual identified by executives and colleague as the associate that was relied upon to manage special purchasing and logistics tasks that increased exposure and required detailed managing

Mark Shields

Spare Parts Supervisor Sidel, Inc., Norcross, GA ` 1995 to 1999

Inventory, Purchasing, Logistics, Customer sales and relations

Controller of $9 million spare parts inventory for a plastic blow molding machine manufacturer with annual sales of over $18 million.

Oversee all warehouse shipping/receiving, inventory levels, inside sales and purchasing operations both domestically and internationally.

Negotiate purchasing contracts and follow up with reports of progress.

Visit customer purchasing departments to maintain quality relationships and open communications

Increased sales by 10% by recommending spare part packages to customers based on machine population. .

Responsible for the research of vendors to maintain cost effectiveness and quality products.

Supervised eleven employees.

Efficient in TIMS software.

United Controls International Stone Mountain, GA 1989 to 1995

Project Engineer/Manager - Duties involved as Project Engineer included but were not limited to, reviewing customer specifications and generating a Bills-of- Material, review and approve drawings, generate and implement plans and procedures, and provide information vital to company functions for project completion. As Project Manager, responsible for communicating with the customer to maintain updated information. Inform production personnel of procedures and requirements for each project and track production. Other duties performed as Project Manager include procurement, parts dedication, Seismic and Environmental Evaluations of electronic and industrial items for nuclear and commercial grade usage. This task involves complete breakdown of components, analysis of materials, dimensional tolerances, wear effects and operational characteristics of various materials under adverse conditions. Other positions held at United Controls included Materials Coordinator and Lead Wireman.

United States Navy 1981 to 1989

Satellite Communications Technician - Received many distinguished honors and awards during an eight year tour of service duty.

Senior Petty Officer while in training at various duty stations. Supervised and accounted for junior personnel. Accounted for an inventory of classified materials and electronic property worth $5 million and played a key role in maintaining 99.9% satellite communications reliability at remote site in Western Australia.

College Credit accumulated while completing training related to these and other areas:

Satellite Communications Electronic Countermeasures

AN/FSC-78/79 Antenna Maintenance Solid State and Digital Theory

Electricity and Electronics Various Transceiver Maintenance

Electronics Theory/Radar Theory

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