Joseph Allen Pesce

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Port Charlotte, Fl 33948

acgccf@r.postjobfree.com

Personal Cell: 813-***-**** Home: 941-***-****

Objective: To obtain a position which will allow an opportunity to utilize my skills and knowledge

in Management, Driver development and Safety to promote a highly safe and efficient culture.

Professional Experience

Waste Management: Florida Training Center 5/06 to Present

Senior Instructor / Driver Manager Tampa, FL / Fort

Myers, Fl

• Assisted in designing and developing the Florida Training Center training curriculum, course objectives, daily and final

skill assessment for newly hired drivers and managers.

• 4 instructor, 1 administrator and 1 technician direct reports.

• Manages the day-to-day operations and provides daily support to managers in ensuring quality and budget

performance.

• Facilitate and/or oversee safety-related training that is required to remain in compliance with all applicable regulations.

• Effectively communicate and implement safety initiatives.

• Offer subject matter expertise in safety management and compliance.

• Provide assistance to supervisors and drivers regarding any questions or interpretations relating to safety concerns or

regulations.

• Conducted CDL training, skill assessments, and testing as a State of Florida CDL certifier at the Florida Training

Center.

• Investigate all incidents and follow up to ensure corrective action is taken.

H.T. Hackney 6/05–5/06

Driver Manager Tampa, FL

• Manages the day-to-day operations and provides daily support to managers in ensuring quality and budget

performance.

• 26 driver direct reports delivering food products throughout Florida.

• Monitors budget and operating metrics while diagnosing and improving processes, procedures, and performance.

• Executes necessary precautions to ensure safety and compliance with Company, OSHA, and other standards and

regulations.

• Ensures thorough root cause investigations for all injuries and incidents, following-up with consistent discipline and

retraining.

• Oversees personnel needs of the department including selecting, coaching, disciplining, and training employees and

evaluating employee performance. Provides input into termination, compensation, and promotion decisions.

• Formulates both short-term and long-term goals and action plans.

• Ensure customer satisfaction

C.T.L. Distribution (COMCAR Industries) 6/02-5/05

Driver Manager/Safety Instructor/Orientation Instructor/ Driver Trainer Mulberry, FL

• Manages the day-to-day operations and provides daily support to managers in ensuring quality and budget

performance.

• 75 driver direct reports and 6 technician indirect reports.

• Monitors budget and operating metrics while diagnosing and improving processes, procedures, and performance.

• Executes necessary precautions to ensure safety and compliance with Company, OSHA, and other standards and

regulations.

• Ensures thorough root cause investigations for all injuries and incidents, following-up with consistent discipline and

retraining.

• Oversees personnel needs of the department including selecting, coaching, disciplining, and training employees and

evaluating employee performance. Provides input into termination, compensation, and promotion decisions.

• Formulates both short-term and long-term goals and action plans.

• Ensure customer satisfaction

Webster College, 2/01–3/02

Admissions and Financial Aid Coordinator Tampa, FL

• Identify and establish contact with potential customers proactively through outbound phone calls

• Match services with customer needs by demonstrating knowledge of customers, pricing and competition; effectively

communicating pricing and service strategies; proactively engaging other business opportunities, referring internally as

appropriate

• Develop sales strategies to drive growth in assigned area

• Negotiate the agreement terms and close sales

• Propose customer solutions that are compliant with appropriate local, state and federal regulations

• Effectively manage prospects by maintaining contact with new and existing customers to advertise the product sales

and maintaining key information in the prospect database

• Ensure effective internal communication between inside and outside sales and across the company

• Assist to identify the opportunities for upcoming products, and for development and enhancement of existing products

• Monitor and report the potential collaborators and competitor activities and identify business opportunities

• Meet or exceed monthly/annual sales targets

• Effectively use sales productivity software tools (i.e. Prospect and Customer Database, Proposal Program, Pricing

Tools, etc.)

Pride Mobility 2/00–2/01

Warehouse & Driver Manager Tampa, FL

• Manages the day-to-day operations for warehousing and storage while providing daily support to managers in ensuring

quality and budget performance.

• 2 driver and 4 warehouse direct reports.

• Executes necessary precautions to ensure safety and compliance with Company, OSHA, and other standards and

regulations.

• Ensures thorough root cause investigations for all injuries and incidents, following-up with consistent discipline and

retraining.

• Oversees personnel needs of the department including selecting, coaching, disciplining, and training employees and

evaluating employee performance. Provides input into termination, compensation, and promotion decisions. .

• Maintained inventory controls and insured products are in stock to coordinate with sales personnel and their customers.

• Initiated bar scan inventory systems and continually upgraded warehouse systems.

• Maintained fleet maintenance and inspections.

Graebel Movers of Tampa Bay 2/98–2/00

Facility Services Manager Tampa, FL

• Manages the day-to-day operations for warehousing and storage while providing daily support to managers in ensuring

quality and budget performance.

• 6 driver and 4 warehouse direct reports.

• Monitors budget and operating metrics while diagnosing and improving processes, procedures, and performance.

• Executes the capital budget, ensuring effective use of the budget through asset allocation; ensures appropriate spare

ratios and asset disposal.

• Executes necessary precautions to ensure safety and compliance with Company, OSHA, and other standards and

regulations.

• Ensures thorough root cause investigations for all injuries and incidents, following-up with consistent discipline and

retraining.

• Oversees personnel needs of the department including selecting, coaching, disciplining, and training employees and

evaluating employee performance. Provides input into termination, compensation, and promotion decisions.

• Formulates both short-term and long-term goals and action plans.

• Participates in regular P&L reviews to ensure that budgets are met; develops and implements programs for optimal

equipment utilization, equipment maintenance, and labor and material costs.

• Ensure customer satisfaction, improve efficiency, renew contracts and negotiate new contracts; establishes Graebel as a

good corporate citizen and valued resource.

• Ensures compliance with policy and procedures and continues to work toward and/or maintain Certification Standards.

• Works with functional groups to resolve employee relations and labor relations issues.

Sparkle Corporation 1/89–1/98

Facility Manager/Driver Tampa, FL

• Manages the day-to-day operations and provides daily support to managers in ensuring quality and budget performance

• 8 driver and 10 warehouse direct reports.

• Monitors budget and operating metrics while diagnosing and improving processes, procedures, and performance.

• Executes strategic capital budget, ensuring effective use of the budget through asset allocation. Formulating both short

term and long term goals.

• Executes necessary precautions to ensure safety and compliance with Company, OSHA, and other standards and

regulations.

• Ensures thorough root cause investigations for all injuries and incidents, following-up with consistent discipline and

retraining.

• Oversees personnel needs of the department including selecting, coaching, disciplining, and training employees and

evaluating employee performance. Provides input into termination, compensation, and promotion decisions.

• Participates in regular P&L reviews to ensure that budgets are met; develops and implements programs for optimal

equipment utilization, equipment maintenance, and labor and material costs.

• Interacts with local city, municipal, and county agencies to ensure customer satisfaction, improve efficiency, renew

contracts and negotiate new contracts; establishes Sparkle Corp. as a good corporate citizen and valued resource.

• Ensures compliance with procedures and continues to work toward and/or maintain Gold Certification Standards.

• Engages suppliers in problem solving and participates in supplier improvement processes by providing performance

feedback on supplier surveys.

• Minimizes the total number of suppliers used by working with Supplier Partners to eliminate/reduce the number of

one-time suppliers.

• Works with functional groups to resolve employee relations and labor relations issues.

Education

University of Louisville National Crime Prevention Institute

• Certificate Crime Prevention

University of Maryland

• Certificate Human Awareness

Professional Development

Development Dimensions International (DDI)

• Certified Facilitator for DDI’s Learning Systems

National Safety Council

• Safety Training Methods - recertification

• Safety Management Techniques

• Principles of Occupational Safety and Health - recertification

• Certificate of Principles of Safety - recertification

• Advanced Safety Certificate- recertification

Pinellas Technical Education Center

• Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Third Party Tester

American Safety and Health Institute

• First Aid / CPR instructor

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