Manager

To whom it may concern:

First and foremost I would like to thank you for taking the time review my resume and giving me the opportunity to compete for a position within your company. At this time I would like to give a brief overview of me as a person. Based solely on my birth certificate, I am by all means a so-called

“millennial.” After that, the comparisons end as I have the mentality of a baby-boomer. I am not afraid of hard work; I am afraid of failure. I welcome this fear of failure as challenge because I believe anything in life worth having is worth working for and earning on merit nothing is given to you. I have experienced owning my own business at a young age and I know in order to be successful, you must be willing to work harder than anyone else. I have been raised to treat other’s property as my own and to return it in better condition than what I found it in. This is who I am; this is my drive, and this is the work-ethic I will bring with me to your company.

Thank you for your time and considerations. I hope to get the chance to meet with you soon. Very Truly Yours,

Jeffrey T. Given

Jeffrey Given

11221 Arlington Avenue Riverside, CA 92505

Home: 951-***-**** Cell: 951-***-**** Email: ****@**********************.*** Professional Summary Fast thinking, results driven logistics manager with experience in transportation, warehousing, and leadership. Highly detail-oriented with a strong desire to achieve and maintain perfection in order to continually grow the company. Skills

● Skilled multi-tasker ● Ability to communicate in writing

● Proactive ● Honest

● Strong desire to excel ● Problem solver

● Strong command in less than load logistics ● Motivator

● Team Leader ● Computer Literate

● Able to lead by example ● OSHA Certified

● Ability to thrive in fast paced environment ● Forklift Certified

● Raised to treat your company as my own ● CPR Certified

● Ability to communicate verbally ● Proficient in Quick Books Work History 06/2006 to Current Produce Market Transport, Inc: Owner, President, CEO, CFO 960 6th Street #101A-187 Norco, CA 92860

Created a culture among employees and drivers priding ourselves in consistently providing earlier- error free deliveries than any of our competitors with LTL loads. Our motto, If it’s early, it’s on time. If it’s not on time, it’s late.

Consistently monitored all trucks; loading, in transit, and delivering. Available on call 24/7.

Loaded, cross-docked, shipped, and delivered LTL product from growing regions, shipping ports, and international border crossings in Texas, Arizona, and California going to the San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Phoenix areas.

Responsible for maintaining relationships with a customer base of over 20 different companies and their sales staff.

Responsible for maintaining relationships with 50 different drivers or transportation companies. Determined rates to charge customers and rates to pay company drivers or owner operators. Supervised and trained office and dock personnel to ensure quick, efficient, and accurate work. Anticipated and scheduled available trucks at least one day in advance preferably two.

Hustled to find last minute freight and/or trucks to cover any extra trucks booked or fill any partially filled trucks.

Consolidated all customer orders in our office and determined what trucks would pick up what product and in what areas.

Communicated with loading sheds, cold storages, shippers, warehouses, and customers to ensure all orders were entered as ordered by our customers. Notified our customers of any discrepancies.

Built LTL orders on paper prior to trucks arriving at our dock and routed trucks accordingly for quick, efficient, and early deliveries.

Created all proof of deliveries and pallet labels to put on each order. Developed strategies to load LTL trucks to go in order to prevent drivers from coming to our dock to maintain our track record of early deliveries. Oversaw the receiving of product, pulling of orders, building of orders, cross docking product, and loading orders onto new trucks.

Ran profit and loss statements to ensure current budgets and goals were consistently being met. Responsible for all invoicing, accounts receivable, and accounts payable. Responsible for all banking and reconciliations.

Gave quarterly reviews and assessments to employees. Developed a bonus system for employees with a maximum payout when the quickest, most accurate work was done.

Developed a driver bonus for recruitment of new drivers to the company. Met with customers, customer's customers, growers, and shippers in order to understand their needs and better anticipate ways to provide them with the best possible service. Studied hours of service laws and approaching mandatory electronic log book laws in order to successfully implement a plan to legally load and deliver while maintaining our early delivery standards.

Scheduled all maintenance on forklifts and pallet jacks. Operate forklift and pallet jacks.

01/2002 to 05/2006 General Produce Company: Quality Control Supervisor, Receiver, Inventory 1330 North B. Street, Sacramento, CA 95811 Responsible for getting product unloaded and checking quality against USDA standards.

Responsible for rejecting product and calling USDA inspectors for Federal inspections in order ensure my rejections had legal merit.

Maintained a 100% success rate in accurately calling for rejections. Responsible for receiving product into the system, getting it stored in the appropriate coolers, on the appropriate racks, and in the correct rotation.

Communicated between a dysfunctional buying and sales staff as an unbiased 3rd party. Developed a daily in-house quality control program for inventory already in stock to catch any quality issues before product was shipped to customers. Reconfigured racking systems for ease of pulling our less than case orders. Pull and stage orders at the end of my shift for swing-shift to ship out. 06/1999 to 08/2001 Oppenheimer Group: Quality Control Supervisor, Expeditor–San Pedro, CA and San Diego, CA

In charge of ensuring the proper product was loaded on the proper trucks while the ships were in port being offloaded.

Coordinated with longshoremen to ensure an expedited, efficient operation. Checked trucks in for loading.

Checked trucks out, assigned bills of lading, and coded trailer seals. Between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm responsible for the inspection of offloaded product for quality defects. Between 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm worked with USDA inspectors pulling random (assigned) lots of product to be inspected for insects or disease.

Education 08/2001 to 12/2005 Government California State University Sacramento: Bachelor of the Arts

6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 96816

Accomplishments Grew Produce Market Transport, Inc. from 2 employees to 6 employees. Expanded Produce Market Transport’s LTL operations into Texas. Oversaw the growth of Produce Market Transport, Inc. from just over $600,000 gross sales as a company to nearly $2,000,000 despite the great recession. Maintained early deliveries on LTL loads 90% of the time. In the event of a late delivery, called customers at 2:00 am to notify of late deliveries and kept hourly updates until product was delivered.

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