John Kinnamon
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Performance driven, success oriented, professional eager to bring to your firm the ability to significantly enhance organization, efficiency, and cost reductions that drive profits and increase shareholder value.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Proactive self-starter with a record of taking personal responsibility for the success of an organization.
Analytical thinker bringing the ability to identify and remove obstacles to desired results.
Effective communicator who successfully empowers team members to achieve corporate initiatives.
Skilled negotiator proficient at securing the best terms and prices available and avoiding potentially damaging business relationships. Successfully negotiated sale of business as a timely exit strategy.
Experienced in securing international procurement relationships to drive costs lower.
Proficient in budgeting, cost management, and cash flow.
Proficient with Excel and Word
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Divisional Manager-Dresswear New ICM El Campo Texas April 2007-October 2016
Complete responsibility for results of dress division. Duties include:
Marketing strategy for expanding account base
Direct sales of major accounts
Coordinate efforts of sales representatives on dresswear
Coordinate design and product development for target markets
Inventory Control
Provide analysis on potential acquisitions
Provide management assistance in other product divisions
Secure production sources and manage production
oIncludes travel to China and Mexico to monitor production
Complete responsibility for industrial workwear division. Duties include:
Coordinate efforts of sales representatives
Inventory control
Secure and manage US and international production
Manage procurement of raw material
President - Bryan Apparel Corp. Dallas Texas 1996-2007
Completely overhauled the company strategy and culture in all facets of marketing, manufacturing, and fulfillment, greatly reducing overhead expenses by shifting target customer focus, moving manufacturing abroad, and reducing inventory and personnel count. Overall responsibilities for all aspects of moderately priced, special occasion dress wear apparel company. Due to the strategy to minimize the number of employees in infrastructure, daily responsibilities included:
Develop and adjust overall marketing strategy to target customer base
Direct sales to all major accounts
Design and product development coordination
Budgeting and cash-flow modeling and management
Coordination of accounting with outside accounting firm
Communicate regularly with all credit sources
Procurement of all raw material
Secure and manage all sources of production
oThis included moving production in Mexico of 300 personnel to China
oNegotiated the sale of assets in Mexico to take advantage of cost advantages in China
oInternational travel to scout, secure, and monitor production (Mexico, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore)
Chief Operating Officer-Bryan Industries, Inc. Tulsa, Oklahoma 1980-1996
Began working while in High School as a dock worker and ended up as the chief operating officer under stressful conditions
Managed Purchasing Department
oOver 45,000 component parts
oDeveloped computer programs as aids
Managed Production Planning Department
o2,600 Apparel styles per year
Managed Inventory
Successful reorganization of a fully vertical manufacturing operation with eleven separate facilities to international production and restructure of entity in a changing industry to utilize outsourcing, drastically reducing overhead expenses
Education University of Oklahoma Graduated 1980
Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Management from the College of Business Administration.
Personal
Married with two adult sons
Golf and Racquetball enthusiast