Manager Supply Chain
Resume:
James Haggarty
Berry, Ky, 41003
**********@*****.***
GOAL
Experienced production manager changing careers. Seeking a position to apply skills learned in time and quality sensitive production settings to a growing company. Knowledgeable about managing change, leading people and getting results. Successfully managed both capital and operating budgets. Personnel skills honed working with unions, management and vendors. A motivated and creative self-starter with a comprehensive ability to meet deadlines, work well under pressure, and communicate effectively. Tested under fire as a crisis manager and has successfully lead teams through extensive culture changes. Implementer of new technologies and work flows. Key skills
Effective communication
- Able to communicate in both verbally and orally – demonstrated by various presentations in seminar and lecture settings.
- Comfortable on the production floor, in a boardroom or in a classroom teaching new skills.
- Works effectively on all shifts, and comfortable with remote access having spent up 75% as a road warrior and on call to multiple sites.
- Represented company requirements to employees, vendors and unions.
- Confident communicator in stressful situations, both in crises and in conflicts.
- Works effectively
Creativity
- Skilled in generating ideas and implementing them to meet strategic goals having participated in senior management planning sessions.
- Passionate about Continuous Improvement, and discovering and resolving the root cause to problems.
- Enthusiastically seeks out best practices and standards, and trains and involves employees in implementation of techniques and new equipment. Commercial awareness
- Practices customer satisfaction. Quality must meet the customers’ standards.
- Budget sensitive while striving to meet KPIs – quality and time. In previous positions brought departmental budget in 25% under in the first year and never less than 7% in subsequent years.
- Stays current with technological trends by working with vendors, listening to the needs of employees and seeking out improvements.
IT & Technology
- Advanced use of MS Office, especially Outlook and Excel.
- Skilled moving data from proprietary software into common programs like Excel for analysis and comparisons.
- Competent user of payroll systems like Kronos, and proprietary systems for specific production functions.
- Respected for teaching and coaching others in new software techniques. 1
Education
Company sponsored training
Total Quality Management
Continuous Improvement
Ethics
Project Management
Densitometry
ICC profiles (Ink limits in printing)
Journalism (Reporting and Photography) – covered Papal Tour, royal tours, fashion and regular news assignments. Chapter president for National Press Photographers Association. Non-certification training
Work flow– savings by rearranging work flow. In one case $40000/year saving by moving a desk in a room.
Payroll (Kronos)
Scheduling
Progressive discipline
Analysing data to find root causes to determine savings in time and money. Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – September 1969– July 1971)
• Sociology – (Incomplete degree)
Employment History
Print Liaison, Gannett Company Inc., Enquirer Media
(December 2012 – December 2016)
Achievements and responsibilities:
Reported to the President of Enquirer Media and VP Finance on all production issues.
Team member in the creation of centralized, remote production centre.
Supervised the moving of other entities to the new production centre, standardizing work flow and procedures.
Scheduled all special publications and coordinated elements of the supply chain.
Created and implemented emergency plans during major mechanical failure at plant.
Bridged culture changes between remote host plant and Enquirer Media and other properties.
Created and implemented communication protocols between host plant and supply chain.
Analysed plant data and implemented new reports to Finance for accurate billing.
Used Finance reports to improve performance at the plant.
Worked with union personnel and managers at host plant to improve on-time delivery.
Employee of the Month for creating schedules, supervising and implementing procedures for new product.
Night Operations Manager, Gannett Company Inc., Enquirer Media
(March 2003-- December 2012)
Achievements and responsibilities:
Reported to the VP Production for Enquirer Media on all production issues.
Responsible for 15-person department with budget in excess of $1 million for consumables and payroll.
Directly responsible for progressive discipline within department as well as advising managers and supervisors within the division.
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Assisted VP Production and VP Human Resources in union negotiations.
In first year controlling budget reduced costs by 25%. Subsequently remained 7% under budget annually.
Improved on-time departure from the loading dock by 20%.
Improved quality by 22% and maintained standards as measured by corporate metrics.
Achieved annual certification for quality by national newspaper board.
Received award for Most Improved facility by corporate.
Received second award for one of Top Five Most Improved facilities by corporate.
Guided local employees through new and remote production hubs.
Speaker at Great Lakes Newspaper Conference on IT conflicts in production software.
Successfully bid on two state contracts bringing in commercial work to a non-commercial plant.
Trained new clients in best practices and procedures to reduce their costs and maintain plant efficiency.
Arranged file transfers for neighboring company when they had a massive shut down. Managed work flow through the crisis.
Production Director, Murphy McGinnis Media
(March 1999-- December 2002)
Production responsibility for four daily newspapers and multiple weekly publications.
Created file transmissions for remote printing.
Standardized production procedures.
Arranged for alternate production during major plant failure.
Tracked and reduced waste.
Hobbies and Interests
(Community service
Board member local animal shelter
Created a joint effort between JROTC and horse councils for use of a county owned woodland for horseback riding and JROTC training.
Trail Committee, Kentucky Horse Council
County representative, Kentucky Equine Education Project (Team member of the Year recognized by state legislature.)
Grant 85, F&AM, BackPack Program: raising money for weekend food for under privileged children in the county and delivering to local schools. Also served as Secretary bringing records into the state database.
4H Volunteer for Horse and Quiz Bowl.
Speaker at local high school to Spanish classes on the Spanish Influence on Cowboy Culture.
(Personal interests)
• 4H Volunteer for Horse and Quiz Bowl
• Horseback trail riding
• Horse training
• Orienteering
• Physical training
• Cooking
• Family and farm life (self reliance with equipment problems, weather, standard household problems)
References are available upon request.
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