Engineering Manager

CURT HEASLET

West Olive, MI 901-***-**** ***********@*****.***

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OPERATIONS & LOGISTICS LEADER

Driving Operations Excellence Optimizing Supply Chains Creating Innovative Strategies Operations and Logistics Leader with experience translating impactful strategic ideas into actionable and measurable results and cultivating innovative environments. Proficient at developing top performing teams and individuals. Drive real- time decision-making and positive P&L results in a broad range of industries including manufacturing, technology, transportation, distribution, supply chain, and packaging. Generated greater than $336 million in operations and labor savings and drove millions in EBITDA and earnings. Honorable service in the United States Marine Corps. CORE COMPETENCIES

● Operations & Continuous Improvement ● Top Performing Individuals & Team Leadership ● Value-Added Services

● Logistics / Supply Chain / Distribution ● Collaborative Cross-Functional Leadership ● Innovative Solutions

● Aligning Business with Strategic Goals ● Technology / Engineering / Data Science ● Strategic Partnerships PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Atlas Oil Company Detroit, MI 2019 – Present

A nationwide logistics and transportation provider, providing energy solution for oil fields, fleet refueling, marine, retail. Vice President Logistics

Led all maintenance, logistics, dispatch and driver activity for a privately held, over $1B, energy solutions company, delivering over 500 million gallons of fuel per year.

• Created and implemented Amazon contract during COVID, generation $1.5M in revenue.

• Developed and implemented a work measurement/ efficiency algorithm which reduced labor costs by 14%. YRCW Holland, MI 2017 – 2019

An asset-based trucking carrier providing less than truckload (LTL) services across 53 domestic US terminals, generating

$1.5 billion in annual revenue, and employing 19,000 staff. Vice President

Led the managing directors of data analysis / business intelligence, dispatch and scheduling, engineering, and drivers. Governed operations that included connecting terminal moves, optimizing the regional line-haul network, and creating a technology strategy for 53 facilities, 30 staff, and 1,550 drivers, totaling four million miles and 25 million pounds per week.

• $10+ million contribution to EBITDA achieved by increasing asset utilization to record setting levels through the development of an industry leading, real time, early notification system of available resource capacity prior to need.

• $3.2 million in earnings generated with an 8% cost reduction per transaction by pioneering a network reconfiguration of central operations facilities and orchestrating the roll out over six months.

• Improved data based decision-making and contributed to operational goal attainment by assembling a business intelligence team that merged data from multiple reports into a centralized dashboard with ten accessible elements.

• 14% decline in cost of inefficiencies realized through leveraging technology that integrated four disparate data sources into a centrally controlled, highly visible command center as well as by designing and implementing a network-level tracking system for all operational resources, enabling stable, real time decision making. XPO LOGISTICS Ann Arbor, MI 2016 – 2017

One of the ten largest global providers of transportation and logistics services with $17 billion in revenue and 100,000 employees providing freight brokerage, last mile, logistics, and contract logistics. Vice President, Engineering

Directed the LTL network and engineering organization for the business segment, operating 1.5 million miles weekly on negotiated transportation contracts, and six million miles on company assets and drivers. Managed scheduling, business intelligence, pricing, engineering, and terminal-to-terminal truck movements with 49 employees.

• $25 million in annual savings delivered and a 10% corporate level labor cost curtailment accomplished by leading the development and deployment of an effective activity-based costing system. Curt Heaslet 901-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Page 2

• $13 million in annual expense reductions recorded by optimizing the LTL trucking network through the use of modeling programs to boost load factors on 18,000 daily trailer frequencies.

• $7.7 million saved due to a contract rebid and a 4% decrease in costs attained by enabling price renegotiations through the creation of a performance dashboard with common metrics and continuous improvement for hundreds of contracted providers into a single scorecard.

FEDEX EXPRESS CORPORATION Memphis, TN 1998 – 2016 A package pickup and delivery carrier providing priority and deferred service to 220 countries through 660 aircraft and 85,000 motorized vehicles while producing $28 billion in annual revenue. Engineering Manager, Corporate

Oversaw a team of engineers and business strategists. Coordinated senior officer strategies into tactical elements and physical structures / projects that helped expand to 180,000 packages handled hourly and optimized Western US routes. Collaborative, Cross-Functional Leadership

• $1.7 billion USPS / government contract implemented by delivering world-class technical and strategic engineering solutions through the leadership of internal / external partner teams launching new product and service offerings.

• Enabled automated material handling and dashboard ROI reporting, increased line haul densities, and eliminated labor by designing and completing the automation of the Canada hub.

• Strengthened team abilities and boosted effectiveness by identifying deficiencies on the existing team, developing an advanced modelling and simulation curriculum for master's degree students to build knowledge and skills for large- scale models, recruiting two graduates, and mentoring the two hires into high-performing employees. Align Business with Strategic Goals / Objectives

• $254 million in net labor costs saved on increased volume as required for the "drive efficiency into the operation" strategic objective by driving the implementation of dynamic route restructuring, the first on the West Coast to refine parameters, and introducing the program to the US.

• $15 million slashed in yearly labor expenditures by installing a cellular based, real time tracking system including scoping, developing, and attaining ROI, as well as by implementing modeling and simulation capabilities for employee and equipment movement along with a routine to optimize workforce efficiency.

• $12.5 million in lowered operational costs and a $1.4 million per week drop in labor expenses noted by collaborating with IT, operations, and other departments at multiple locations, developing an operational plan encompassing writing technical specifications and reconfiguring the network to raise efficiencies.

• $10.5 million decline in annual workforce spend realized by enabling a $350 million expansion in planned capital improvements and reaching ROI in 66% of the anticipated recapture time through the astute coordination of all growth projects and the implementation of an infrastructure improvement program that re-engineered the system workflow. Served as a member of the US Marine Corps in the US, Iraq, Somalia, and Hong Kong, honorably discharged, and awarded the Combat Air, Combat Infantry, and Navy Commendation medals. EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Master of Arts in Business

Webster University

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

University of Memphis

LEAN Expert ASQ Certification

Computer Science - Certificate Harvard University - 2020 Dextrous Robotics, Inc., Technical Advisory Board Member Committee Member, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC Research Technology Coordinating Committee Publication: Evaluation of the Floaterm Concept at Marine Container Terminals via Simulation, Researchgate.net, 2015

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