David A. Ferguson

**** **** **** ****** **** Beach, CA 90805 Mobile 562-***-****

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Experience

FEDEX GROUND CORP., City of Industry, CA 5/2018-Present Sort Manager

Oversight of the whole preload operation that consists of an Area Manager, 10 Operation Managers, and one hundred sixty package handlers. Seeing that we are operating safely, productively, and working well with one another creating a fun enjoyable environment. Slowly turning around stations culture with more collaboration from other management, hub operations, and ISP’s. Accept valuable information from areas of opportunities, share with my team, and inform my SR. Manager what we can do to capitalize and become successful.

Develop my managers to reach their full capabilities to better their outcome with the company and have them to take over my position or another position that is further advancement.

Take what I have learned as a Safety Focus Operations Manager, instill my knowledge to my team, and proceed with the numerous possibilities of what one person may achieve or overcome.

Help educate with reports to determine what flaws we may have and what we should do for us to become successful. Assign each manager with their own particular tasks, with the end result of coming together as a team and fully accomplishing our goals that we have set to achieve.

Build a family oriented environment, making work enjoyable, and create a culture of positivity.

Collaborate with Hub to help one another so that we can both be successful with our operations. More communication among both operations management has benefitted one another and will keep continuing.

Relationship building with ISP’s to work with one another to help provide the best experience possible from operations, to service, to customer experience.

Insight from all aspects of the station (ex. Operations, ISP’s, Hub, and other management) continue to help with the development of our station. With room of opportunities, all help is needed and always welcomed.

FEDEX GROUND CORP., Santa Fe Springs, CA 7/2016-5/2018 Operations Manager

Managed package handlers and helped cover other areas for managers that weren’t present. Kept track of company production and informed each individual on where they stood and if they needed to improve. Built relationships with people so that they could have someone to ask questions if uncertain about a situation. Took on a new position that is very limited throughout the whole company and have made a difference for the short time that I’ve been in that role.

My role was to manage two van lines that consisted of 12 package handlers helping to better themselves by giving them knowledge of what the company standards and policies are.

Presented QDM to not just my package handlers but to other managers as well on how to process work more efficiently and become more productive while cutting down on TLH.

Independent learning and familiarizing myself with the company’s computer system.

Built great relationships not with just my employee’s but other manager’s within my station as we as other hubs or stations

Became the Safety Focus Operations Manager (SFOM). This position helped me to step back and look at the whole operation and not just my particular managed area. Safety has been more of a focus since I have been introduced into this new position as I give more understandings to our location of what truly being safe consists of.

Ability to self-manage in my new role, keeping my SR. Manager and ASR. Manager aware of the progress that has been made. Informing or introducing new methods that can help benefit our station.

DESERT HORIZON TRANSFER AND STORAGE, Pico Rivera, CA 5/2013-7/2016 Warehouse Supervisor

Checks to make sure inbound and outbound loads have all the correct paperwork and signatures.

Help to unload and load trucks in a timely manner. Make sure all skids are fully wrapped and packaged correctly and notating all damages on BOL’s. Conduct safety walks in all aisles and bays to make sure all safety rules are being adhered to. Communicate with drivers and customers on special loads that are coming in and leaving the warehouse. Communicate with other employees and management on new procedures to follow. Alert upper management with any problems that arise with drivers and shipments. Maintain a high level of integrity at all times

PACIFIC UTILITY PRODUCTS, Corona, CA 7/2009-5/2013 Shipping/Receiving Mgr

Assure products were properly packaged and shipped out according to our mandatory schedule. Checked for damaged and/or defective material when receiving. Maintained monthly inventory counts for all products in the entire building. Notify customers when their order is ready to be shipped or will called. Help other departments, (ex, fabrication, assembly, welding, and powder coating).

Created work bins for purchased parts for each job assignment to insure proper parts were not duplicated or re-ordered. Cut down time for assemblers looking for parts

Uploaded tracking information for customer service to supply to our customers when needed or asked for.

Call trucking companies for rate quotes to provide the best service at the lowest cost to ship products.

Organize and palletize products to cut down cost on shipping.

Deliver and pick up merchandise from customers or vendors.

WESCO DISTRIBUTION INC., Compton, CA 3/2008-7/2009 Order Puller

Looked over all sales orders making sure there were no duplicate orders. Checked in parts from our distributors, double checking that the order list matches up with what we received. Informed my supervisor and salesperson, shorted or missing any items from shipment. Pulled parts for each order printed, grabbing only what is asked for on the order form.

Separated reels of wire onto their own pallets and created a log sheet to maintain accurate counts of wire for inventory.

Loaded orders for our drivers according to the fastest route possible.

TABC, INC., Long Beach, CA 4/2007-11/2007 Spot Welder/Assembly

Worked on an assembly line and completed assigned welding requirements in a demanding fast pace atmosphere. Checked parts for any scratches or flaws before it shipped out. Met and exceeded our daily goals required by management.

FEDEX, Compton, CA 05/2004-4/2007 Quality Assurance

Inspected all open or damaged boxes assuring that all merchandise was fully intact and quantity matched packing slip. Called customers and shippers to verify any missing delivery information. Supervised a belt line consisting of 8 workers. Helped with loading and scanning packages to the assigned trucks.

Created loading charts for each truck to help loaders put packages in requested location by the driver.

Maintained a separate work space for packages being will called by customers.

Palletized unused or damaged merchandise to send out to our over-goods department.

Education

Lakewood High School Lakewood, CA 1998-2002

Long Beach City College 2002-2004

Skills

Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel and Outlook

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