Manuel U. Colón

Tamarac, FL • 305-***-**** • adjat3@r.postjobfree.com • www.linkedin.com/in/manny-colon-40640ba/ Senior-level Logistics & Planning Leader, Professional Sports Dynamic, multitalented leader with extensive experience managing logistics, planning, and financial initiatives for a Major League Baseball team. Powerful leadership, organizational, and relationship-building skills, highly transferable to multiple industries and roles. Passionate about delivering stellar customer service in a demanding, dynamic fast-paced environment. Adept at collaborating with senior management and internal/external cross-functional teams at all levels. Bilingual; fluent in English and Spanish. Additional strengths:

§ Senior-level logistics and planning leadership to drive strategic, tactical, and fiduciary aspects of all travel for MLB players, staff, and senior executives over 162-game season, managing a $7.8MM budget.

§ Powerful relationship-building and communication skills to forge partnerships, facilitate negotiations, and reduce costs while continuously multitasking to meet complex organizational and elite athlete needs.

§ Financial and business acumen to manage financial planning and reporting, budgets, forecasting, and HR matters related to new hires and salary increases; skilled at negotiating contracts to cut costs and increase profitability.

§ Project and program leadership and analytical insight to create process improvements, streamline operations, and identify initiatives to improve productivity, performance, and profitability.

§ Substantial coaching and mentoring capabilities to guide athletes in acclimating to life in the Major Leagues, build high-performing teams, help interns and staff achieve full potential, teach college-level classes, and lecture at numerous universities.

Professional Experience

DIRECTOR, TEAM OPERATIONS / TRAVEL, 9/2010 – 11/2020 Lead meticulous logistics, planning, and budgeting for all aspects of travel for MLB players, coaches, and executives for entire 162-game season across Spring Training, regular season, and post-season games in U.S. and abroad.

§ Champion fast-paced and ever-changing arrangements across complex team charter flight operations and logistics, air travel, hotel rooms, buses, rental cars, baggage transportation, equipment, field passes, special requests, game tickets, petty cash reconciliation, general ledger maintenance, accounts payable, and per diem for Spring Training, regular season, and post-season games.

§ Provide leadership in facilitating complex shutdown and reopening procedures resulting from COVID-19, establishing CDC-compliant protocols and pivoting to meet fluctuating staff and operational demands.

§ Deliver innovations to streamline operations by introducing travel communication app to enable constant contact with all traveling party members, providing notifications and updates to daily schedules.

§ Facilitate scheduling across Spring Training, regular season, and post-season games, collaborating with other MLB clubs and C-level operations executives in preparing and coordinating schedules.

§ Present in Spring Training orientation meeting with players and staff to discuss logistics of upcoming season.

§ Uphold stringent MLB compliance across Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), managing and distributing travel expense allowances and reimbursements, in addition to administering traveling secretary bank account. MANAGER, PLAYER DEVELOPMENT, International Operations, 11/2009 – 9/2010 ASSISTANT, PLAYER DEVELOPMENT, Baseball Operations, 1/2005 – 11/2009 Managed all departmental budgets and accounts, researching proposed budgets across personnel appointments, salary increases, equipment purchases, PDC reimbursements, and more, monitoring and approving expenditures and expense reports, and providing projections while collaborating with senior executives in Player Development.

§ Managed Player Development employee and minor league player contracts by reviewing minor league transactions, tracking new contracts, and processing and distributing bonus payments. Continued...

Miami Marlins, Miami, FL 2002 – 2020

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§ Collaborated with International Operations Department in facilitation of international contracts, visas, and compliance with MLB-sanctioned international rules.

§ Maintained integrity of minor league team rosters through analysis and application of roster limits, specific league age restrictions, and rule regulations, in addition to assisting scouting department with annual free-agent draft.

§ Oversaw affiliate Player Development Contracts per MLB rules, advising affiliates of reimbursement processes while reviewing, approving, and paying all PDC settlement statements.

§ Created and produced Minor League Manual in Spanish to communicate minor league policies and standards.

§ Managed diverse functions for Spring Training, Extended Spring Training, and Gulf Coast League, including directing all hospitality, travel, and hotel living arrangements while processing all per diem.

§ Served as interpreter and mediator for international players to support players and improve communication with minor league department.

§ Performed day-to-day business operations for Gulf Coast Marlins, learning procedures/guidelines and principles of evaluation for scouting as well as procedures/guidelines for signing Minor League Uniform Player Contracts, from front-office staff.

ASSISTANT, PLAYER RELATIONS, 8/2003 – 1/2005

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT AND SCOUTING INTERN, 2/2003 – 9/2003 MARKETING INTERN, 5/2002 – 2/2003

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

§ Taught Sport Management courses focused on: 1) organizational structure and philosophy of professional sports enterprises; 2) interconnected relationship between owners, managers, and players; 3) educational, economic, and social impact of professional sports franchises; and 4) management issues affecting professional sports operations. Guest lecturer on sports management at numerous colleges and universities, including St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, FL, Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN, and Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte, NC. SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR

§ Managed interns in producing sports coverage, writing weekly press releases and feature stories for media outlets.

§ Elevated communications with media, student body, faculty, and staff by producing STU sports media guides, publishing weekly in-house publication, and posting news, statistics, and other information on campus and online. Education & Credentials

Masters, Sports Administration, St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, FL Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, Tennessee Internship: Miami Marlins, New Jersey Cardinals

Certifications:

Certificate of Travel & Tourism, Boca Raton, FL

Memberships:

Board of Directors, Arte Publico Press, 2018 – Present Travel Advisory, MLB Marriott, 2017 & 2019

MLB Scout School, 2006

Johnson & Wales University, North Miami, FL

Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL

2007 – 2014

2007 – 2010

St. Thomas University (FL), Miami Gardens, FL 2001 – 2002