EDWARD JAMES GUNDERSON

214-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Director / Operations Manager and retired Military Veteran with a Secret Security Clearance and over 13 years of dedicated and proven experience in the United States Army. Accomplished top – rated leadership results while directing and managing logistics, supply chain, transportation, and distribution operations throughout the United States and during global operations in Haiti and Afghanistan. Managed risk upon multiple lines to protect property and equipment valued over $263M while meeting the expectations of senior management. Verifiable record of accomplishment of driving organizational performance through strategic alignment and execution of key process indicators increasing productivity and provide bottom- line cost improvements. Career is supported by Bachelors of Business Administration in Operations and Supply Chain Logistics.

Leadership Program Management Import / Export Operations

Operations Management

Global Supply Chain

Management

Multi-Modal Transportation

Operations

Supply Chain Management

Budgeting / Financial Analysis

Forecasting

Scheduling

ERP systems

Customer Service Expert

Quality Control/Analysis

Contract Procurement

Microsoft Office Suite

SAP

MiniTap

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) current student

Expected Graduation Date December 10, 2016

Current GPA 3.4

Classes in Operations Supply Chain Management

o Logistics

o Production, Planning, Scheduling

o Operations and Supply Chain Management

o Toyota Production System and Problem Solving Analysis o Quality Control/ Quality Analysis

United States Army, Various Locations 2001 – 2014 (retired Captain April 27, 2014) Battalion Operations Officer / Senior Operations Manager

Managed a 22 Soldier operations section planning, coordinating, and executing deployment for over five company size elements (350 Soldiers) resulting in the successful completion of 50 major missions of over $62M worth of US Government equipment pushed onward throughout the Afghanistan Area of Operation with less than 5% of equipment damaged, lost, stolen

Served as the 1186th Battalion Operations Officer and Senior Operations Manager in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan

Port Management Team Commander / Program Manager

Served as Joint Task Force Port Opening (JTF-PO) Commander / General Manager for “Operation Unified Response”; directed logistics and supply chain efforts in support of 2010 Haiti earthquake relief. Deployed over 7,000 pieces of US Military cargo and redeployed 9000+ pieces totaling $122M of total U.S. asset movement by land and sea

Imported 1,300 pieces of U.S. Army cargo in austere environment during “New Horizons 2011” of Port au Prince, Haiti with no damage totaling $50M of engineering equipment on / off - loaded and shipped onward to Forward Operating Base Gonaives with 100% accuracy and on time delivery EDWARD JAMES GUNDERSON, Pg. 2

Officer in Charge of Retrograde, Redeployment, and Offload - 35 US Army helicopters successfully offloaded from roll on/ roll off vessel coming from Port of Rota, Spain with zero damage to $263M worth of equipment

479 pieces of unit cargo and containers successfully offloaded and loaded onto line haul conveyance to Fort Drum, New York sustaining no damage and on time delivery totaling over 100K metric tons being relocated

Commander of 10 soldier detachment managing planning, deployment, administration, and execution of Deployment and Distribution Support Team. Charged with performance of team in stuffing, cross docking, loading, data documentation, and in-transit visibility of unit and customer equipment

Served as 841st Port Management Team / Deployment Distribution Team Commander and Program Manager in Charleston, South Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida; directed logistics and supply chain functions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom

Managed performance of Port Management Teams in vessel loading / offloading, import / export and traffic management or freight forwarding of customer and unit equipment using multi-modal operations

Directed team in operating on 7 different ports along Eastern Seaboard including Port of Philadelphia, Port of Norfolk, Port of Wilmington, Port of Savannah, and Port of Baltimore

Officer in Charge Joint Logistics Over the Shore “Operation African Lion 2011”; retrograded 676 pieces of U.S. Marine equipment to 17 locations across the U.S. totaling $100M delivered with 100% location accuracy, on time arrival to final destinations, and no damage sustained to unit cargo

Imported, exported, secured, inventoried and managed distribution of over $15M of Class I (food / water) supplies throughout Haiti during earthquake response

Directed and managed over 300 Haitian contractors rebuilding of shipping seaport working with Haitian Port Authority Director to bring the Seaport of Port au Prince back to 100% mission capabilities saving over $1B of agricultural and economic goods

Managed 12 units totaling 214 service members (46 additional US government contractors) from all U.S. branches of service for execution of ocean / sea import and export operations ADDITIONAL MILITARY / WORK EXPERIENCE

General Manager / Head Instructor, Starr’s Tae Kwon Do Plus, Marietta, GA Assistant General Manager / Operations Manager / Instructor, Bowen’s Tae Kwon Do Plus, Woodstock, GA Detachment Commander / Executive Officer / Project Manager, U.S. Army, Houston TX and Afghanistan Warrior Transition Battalion Soldier Council OIC Fort Sam Houston, TX Senior Trainer / Instructor, Omega Training Group, El Paso, TX EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelors of Business Adminstration in Operations Supply Chain Management Univ. Texas, El Paso (December 2016) GPA 3.4 Associate of Science in General Studies, Georgia Military College, Milledgeville, Georgia, 3.1 GPA US Army Familiarized Lean Six Sigma

U.S. Army Hazardous Materials Course

Unit Movement Officer (UMO)

AWARDS

Joint Forces Service Medal

Army Commendation Medal (3)

Army Achievement Medal

Afghanistan Campaign Medal for "Operation Enduring Freedom" x 3 Bronze campaign stars Armed Forces Service Medal for service in “Operation Unified Response” Port au Prince, Haiti Overseas Service Medal (4)

Combat Action Badge

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