GARY M LESLIE
Fargo ND *****
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Experience
*/**/**** ** */27/2016 Primoris Aevenia 3030 24th Ave S Moorhead, MN 56560
Resource and Fleet Manager
Responsible for and provide direct supervision, planning, organizing and leadership to the following Departments: the Fleet Services, Logistics, Resource Planning and Warehouse staff.
Formed partnerships with other Department Managers and Support Services to identify and assemble relevant data to support functional and organizational-wide workforce and equipment processes, analyze data, and monitor issues that may affect the production and profitability.
Identified metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of programs, report findings, and recommend and implement enhancements to the process.
Created, forecasted and Managed Department Budgets. Reduced actual spending by an average of 8% per year while increasing resource utilization and uptime. 1/23/06 to 9/21/2012 XCEL Energy 3515 - 3RD STREET N St Cloud MN 56302
Strategic Resource Planner
Provided strategic development program management for the Utility Group and Asset Management.
Provided the Utility Group and Asset Management with ongoing strategic leadership through consultative process development and long-range resource programs for the design, construction, and maintenance of gas and/or electric facilities.
Provided strategic program management of workflow process and resource outcomes though expert scheduling systems training and reporting partnerships with Utility Group and Asset Management leadership.
Provided scheduling, resource, work management, and program effectiveness data and development tools in consultative partnerships with the executive and middle management level of the Utility Group.
Forecasted and modeled workload and resource commitments to develop a tactical design and construction cycle.
Managed the long-range design and construction resource planning and development program for the Utility Group and Asset Management to support capital and O&M budgets and reliability commitments.
Provided program management of Utility Group and Asset Management capital project planning by facilitating the annual roll out of new project workbooks in each operating company area.
Provided project management leadership by facilitating Utility Group initial and ongoing capital project commitments at the Operations Manager level. Facilitated regular capital project meetings.
Managed resource commitment planning and reporting of capital project updates and statuses for all stakeholders.
Developed and implemented scheduling and work management processes to support capital and operating budgets.
Provided and facilitated workforce and succession planning in partnership with Utility Group and HR leadership.
Acted as O&M Capital Champion for NSPM COM Business Operations Department. Monitor and audit annual O&M spend by all departments with the Business Operations Group
Managed all resource commitment processes, communications, and programs involving mutual aid and escalated operation deployments of Xcel Energy employees and variable resource personnel.
Provided strategic program management, direction, and contract expertise, in support of resource deployment activities.
11/18/96 to 1/21/06 Liberty Paper, Inc. 13500 Liberty Ln, Becker, MN 55308
Maintenance Team Leader 3/31/00 to 1/20/06
Directly responsible for maintenance & repair supervision and weekly maintenance planning in a 110 non-union employee unit recycled linerboard paper mill. Directly supervise 16 multi-craft Mechanics, Millwrights, Pipe Fitters, Welder, Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians, and all related Contractors
Maintenance Planner / Relief Maintenance Supervisor 6/27/98 to 3/30/00
Experienced in planning maintenance outages and scheduling manpower requirements, development and implementation of preventive and predictive maintenance programs...lubrication, vibration analysis, & and non-destructive testing of equipment.
Journeyman Millwright/ Welder/ Pipefitter 11/18/96 to 6/27/97 1/4/91 to 11/18/96 North Central Construction, Inc. Fargo ND Project Manager (2.5 YR)
Construction and Maintenance of Commercial Processing Plants
Direct Supervision of up to 350 Millwrights, Iron Workers, and Pipe fitter/ Welders
Project Manager of Construction Projects of up to $350M Commercial Processing Plants. Project Supervisor (2.5 YR)
Journeyman Millwright/ Pipe fitter/ Welder (1 YR)
Education Mahnomen High School Mahnomen MN
Moorhead State University Moorhead MN
Majored in Accounting / Finance
Interests Hunting, Fishing, Family, Coaching Youth Sports. ADDITIONAL
TRAINING
SOFTWARE
Microsoft Outlook, Pass Port, Indus Field Service Suite, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Access,Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, AS/400, PI, Autocad LT 2000, Great Plains, Viewpoint V6, Field Service Suite, ViewPoint,
TECHNICAL
Beloit Paper Machine Maintenance, Beloit Paper Machine Roll Maintenance, NASH Pulp and Paper Pump Maintenance, Johnson Corp. Rotary Joint Maintenance, Thermo Black Clawson Stock Prep Equipment Maintenance., Creative Problem Solving (pre-ISO), MANAGEMENT SKILLS
St. Thomas University: Complete Project Management, Proactive Listening, New Work Habits For A Radically Changing World, The Basic Principles of A Corroborative Workplace, Managing and Preventing Offensive Behavior in The Workplace, Giving Recognition, Managing Your Priorities, Handling Emotions Under Pressure, Creative Problem Solving, Kaizen Lean Training