SARAH KERN

**** ***** *** *** *******. • Hutchinson, KS 67502 • 620-***-**** • ad3git@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Master of Business Administration graduate with over 10 years of supervisory experience. Including overseeing, managing, and directing construction projects from beginning to end. Reviewing and monitoring each project in-depth while ensuring scheduling of all the deliverables and budget planning and cost estimating. Tracking inventory regularly while preparing internal and external reports pertaining to job status. Planning to prevent problems and resolve any emerging ones as well as monitoring and guiding compliance with building and safety regulations. Always ensuring tools, materials and equipment and managing and mitigating risks while always ensuring quality construction standards. Interviewing and onboarding employees, performing time keeping and payroll operations, and leading investigations to provide pharmaceutical batch data. Strong background in Global Marketing, data analysis, and management. Key strengths include strong communication, troubleshooting, and database management experience.

2022 – Present Kern Contracting Inc. Hutchinson, Kansas

Project management Supervisor - Present

Coordinates each project by organizing the work schedule, cost, and budget: Plans all phases of the construction lifecycle from initiation to completion. Obtains all necessary regulations and permits. Orders necessary supplies, tools, and equipment.

Makes sure projects are aligned with agreed-upon plans. Manages a construction manager and oversees their work. Communicates with clients and delivers project progress reports. Develops and adheres to the budget, timeline, and quality control plan. Collaborates with architects, engineers, electricians, and other specialists.

Writes and submits testing and inspection logs, quality assurance reports, and punch lists. Ensures that all local, state, and national building codes and regulations and safety precautions are followed. Uses scheduling software to update schedules, track progress, and document project progression.

2018 – 2022 Pfizer Pharmaceutical McPherson, KS

Visual Inspection/Vials Supervisor 2021 - 2022

Manage line teams of 15-25 employees operating within 3 rooms handling different batches of medicine, guide employees from the interview to onboarding processes, work within the Kronos attendance system to perform timekeeping and payroll operations each shift, and monitor employee certifications to keep staff up to date with regulations

Perform investigations within the QTS system when issues arise by implementing problem-solving, running batches from start to finish, interviewing all involved parties, assessing each error, and close out each investigation by completing a data analysis report

Review and edit Standard Operating Procedures to ensure efficiency and compliance with all pertinent regulations and complete impact assessments to ensure that the activities focused on will effectively increase business standards

Operated alongside senior management to implement entirely new system for COVID-19 protocols, performing certified quality control within the IMEX quality system, and leading substantial project to dump experimental trays to create room for COVID-19 medicine batches

Awarded an Upjohn Award for transcending position duties and surpassing expectations

Manufacturing Quality Auditor 2018 – 2021

Audited each visual inspection, checked in all manufacturing lines, and retrieved samples from all packing lines to perform observations and light testing by inspecting a percentage of vials of medicine in each batch

Operated within the JDE pharmaceutical database to record batch size, perform data analysis, and maintain the database according to the Standard Operating Procedures

Produced data reports to provide management with a detailed understanding of batch information

Performed ‘On Hold’s’ for each pallet within a batch to ensure that investigations were performed as needed

Corrected batch records to ensure proper verifications were completed accurately

Awarded 5 Upjohn Awards for transcending position duties and surpassing expectations

2009 - 2018 Buhler and Hutchinson School Districts (USD 313/308) Various

Substitute Teacher

Assumed the role of lead educator by following curriculum and teaching K-12 students core subjects such as Science, Math, History, English, and Physical Education

Presented instructional lessons to encourage student participation and administered lesson plans based on student knowledge that complied with state requirements

Utilized Microsoft Office to immerse students in each lesson and communicated with parents, room teacher, and school administration to ensure smooth transitions

2008 - 2018 Mosaic Salon Hutchinson, KS

Co-Owner/Cosmetologist

Oversaw a team of 5-7 staff, performed money reconciliation and payroll operations, guided employees from the interview through onboarding processes, and focused on keeping the salon current with all practices and regulations from the Board of Cosmetology

Managed all marketing analytics and communication efforts by defining brand identity and utilizing social media to increase awareness and focus on company improvement

Maintains an up-to-date Cosmetology License from the Board of Cosmetology

EDUCATION

Walden University

Doctoral of Business Administration (2025)

Emporia State University

Master of Business Administration, Marketing (2022)

Central Christian College

Bachelor of Science, Business and Organizational Leadership (2020)

Hutchinson Community College

Associate of Arts (2009)

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