VICTORIA FALKENHEIM
GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
MANAGER
Highly focused, motivated, and results oriented individual whose success comes from knowledge, practical & educational background, personal drive and passion for people and success. Highly experienced and believe in providing exceptional customer service for everyone I come in contact with. Established success in negotiation and conflict resolution while consistently growing prosperous customer relationships. Proven ability to exceed goals in a fast-paced work environment while managing multiple tasks with excellent time management and problem solving skills. My ultimate goal is to provide value to the organization I am a part of.
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020 PRESCHOOL TEACHER
Noah's Ark Preschool, Henderson, Tn •
Develop educational activities and
curriculum to stimulate the children
• Train new teachers
• Establish policies and procedures for
inside and outside the classroom •
Become familiar with emergency
procedures and protocol
• Clean and sterilize equipment and toys
daily
• Provide weekly schedules for children
and parents
• Supervise children at all times
• Create arts and crafts for children
• Comfort children in times of need
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career objective
experience
Henderson, TN 38340
Jan 1997
GENERAL STUDIES
Missouri Southern State University
Jan 1995
GENERAL STUDIES
Harding University
Jan 1995
SCHOOL IN GENERAL STUDIES
Seneca High School
education
• Discuss development with parents •
Participate in fundraising for the school
• Promote literacy and early education.
Jan 2007 - Jan 2008 OFFICE MANAGER/LOGISTICS SPECIALIST Pur-O-Now, Bentonville, AR
Jan 2003 - Jan 2007
• Used my expertise in order to help a
brand new start up company build
relationships with new customers and
carriers in order to offer tailored
services that would meet their needs •
This include organizing LTL, Truckload,
and Rail services, while managing all
aspects of these services • Successful in
helping to manage the warehousing
services and special projects division
which included storage, order
fulfillment, unloading/loading of
containers or trailers, organizing dray
from the ports, pick and pack, reworks,
and EDI
• Successful in offering the excellent
customer service of a small, intimate
company while providing services and
benefits of a large company.
REVERSE LOGISTICS
COORDINATOR/PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
FACILITATOR
ETA/NYK Logistics Americas, Inc,
Bentonville, AR • Managed the
outbound movement,
tracking, tracing and booking of freight
from our company warehouses back to the
vendors while making a profit • Successful
in assisting the Branch Manager in the
process of sending, tracking, and receiving
yearly bids to current carrier base •
Successful backup for the OS&D Manager
in covering all aspects of this department,
working with both customers and carriers
to maintain both an efficient and cost
effective way to handle claim issues •
Successfully help other departments within
my branch to book loads, track and trace
movement of freight, set up new customer
and carrier accounts while maintaining my
own customer accounts • Helped to
increase Intermodal division by 75%+
Jan 2001 - Jan 2003
• Travel on occasion to not only our
branch, but other NYK facilities as a
facilitator, teaching our process
improvement program.
LOGISTICS MANAGER
Buske Lines, Inc, Granite City, IL •
Managed rate negotiations while helping
department to book freight with
customers and selling freight to carriers
while making a profit; maintaining
successful relationships with both • Daily
building, tracking and tracing of loads with
accurate and immediate notification and
follow-up of problems to customers and
carriers
• Dispatching of drivers
• Inside and outside sales, setting up new
customers and carriers for Buske
employee's use • Monitoring monthly
revenue, loads booked, and the
addition of new brokerage employees •
Page 3 of 4 - Created company training
manual for other Buske inc
• Offices
• Provided company with 24 hour on-call
availability
• Meeting and exceeding all goals set by
upper management.
skills
• Customer Experience Management • Logistics, Operations & Project Management
• Financial & Rate Negotiations Management • Team Building, Training & Change Management
• Drive and Instruct Process Improvement • Drive Cost Savings & Profitability
• Reverse Logistics Expert • Strategic Planning, Problem Solving & Data Analysis
• Sales and Rate Negotiations Management •
• Billing, Accounts Payables/Receivables Management SOP Creation and Inventory Control Management
additional information
Honors-Awards 2002 MVP Award 2006 Monthly MVP Award 2006 Impact Award Victoria Falkenheim Global Logistics, Customer Service, and Customer Accounts Manager Henderson, Tennessee, United States 2002 MVP Award - Publicly awarded. Award included company wide recognition, monetary bonus and a company plaque. 2006 Monthly MVP Award - Included branch-wide recognition, monetary bonus, and extra vacation time. 2006 Impact Award - Awarded 1 0f 5 awards for company's process improvement program with company wide recognition, monetary bonus, company jacket, and company plaque. awards