General Manager Vice President
Resume:
Confidential
AKIHIDE BESSHO
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA 90275
Tel: +1-310-***-**** / +1-310-***-**** email: *******@***.***
OBJECTIVE:
A challenging and responsible position within the Global industry in which I may contribute my multi-lingual ability and international background.
PROFESIONAL QUALITIES:
Very experienced trade coordinator who understands the needs and/or unexpected problems of international sales & marketing that must be resolved promptly in order to bring about total customer satisfactions.
Very professional and always trying to maintain a flexible wide-open, and creative attitude to setting and accomplishing goals and objectives.
Able to adapt to different cultures and communicate and establish relationships easily with many kinds of people of different countries.
EXPERIENCE:
PMI Foods (Parker-Migliorini International) Mar 2016 - CURRENT Salt Lake City (UT), USA
Export Logistics Specialist
From the stage of procuring/supplying perishable products from many USA/Canadian plants to the stage of exporting shipment cargoes worldwide for contracted customers, arrange the total customized shipments by pre- scheduling productions with the supplier plants/mills & moving the rails/trucks also on inventories level at the cold storages every day to establish the variable diverse FCL volume for export shipments. USA Domestic market shipments (including Hawaii) were arranged on a daily basis additionally. Kintetsu World Express USA Inc. Apr 2015 - Mar 2016 Rancho Dominguez Hills (CA), USA
Export Supervising Coordinator
Stationed at Itochu Chemicals America Inc/Ineos plant sight office to exclusively conduct the customized export operations. Supervise & Instruct the plant productions flow in order to load the ordered quantity into full container need to be expedited in shipping to variable foreign countries on a daily/weekly basis. Monthly average quantity of 400-600 FCL.
MEAT EXPORTERS CORPORATION/ EMPIRE TRANSPORT & FORWARDING INC. May 2005 - Oct 2014 Torrance (CA), USA
Senior Export Manager/ Operation Manager
Coordinating & forwarding exportation of various kind of USA, Canadian & Mexican meat products to Far East Asian region/E.U. countries. Trucking arrangements crossing border, Purchase contracts, L/C (or D/P) Negotiations w/ Bank, Booking/Freight Rate quote/Service Contracts arrangements, Collecting payments, etc.
B/L issuing, Customs filing, Collecting payments, supplying/procuring, source-loading/trans- loading (cold storage), USDA inspection/issuing health certificate for all kinds of meat products etc. on behalf of shippers/exporters. IKT CORPORATION, Los Angeles, New York, Imabari Apr 2003 - Mar 2005 Vice President US Marketing & Sales
Promoting Japanese terry woven products by marketing USA through nationwide sales activities, various exhibitions, collaboration, media (NY Times, Organic Style, LDB) and OEM branding. ASAHI SENSHOKU CO., LTD., Osaka Branch Mar 1999 - Mar 2003 Overseas Trading Export General Manager
Coordinating direct exportation of Japanese terry products to US customers (wholesale).
Arranged Purchase orders, production planning, expedite shipments, collect payments, etc. Confidential
SUBARU AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY, Tokyo Apr 1997 - Sep 1998 Assistant Sales
Dealing with promotion and selling of all models of Subaru vehicles and all the registration and paper work procedures including Deliveries for variable corporate clientele. MAP INTERNATIONAL LTD. COMPANY, Tokyo Apr 1996 - Mar 1997 Tour Operator
Made seats reservations and issue tickets of airline company.
Arranged customer's accommodations & local requirements such as railway tickets, renting cars, optional tours, etc. POWDER BYRNE SKI TRAVEL LTD COMPANY, Grindelwald/Zermatt (Switzerland) May 1995 - Mar 1996
Arranged and took charge of summer F.I.T.(individual tour) and/or group tours, such as JTB, Kintetsu, Wagon Lit, etc., coming from Japan aiming mainly go on hiking.
Guiding itineraries of the mountain of the Alps, explaining plants and flowers, assisting and translating
(English/French) for the tour leaders.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATION AGENCY, Cannes May 1993 - Aug 1993 / Mar 1994 - Nov 1994 Translator
Translated a variety of documents and publications from French to Japanese that included tourism brochures, corporate announcements and outlines, and short stories and novels. KUONI VOYAGES TRAVEL AGENCY, Nice Dec 1992 - Apr 1993 Tour Guide
Planned and confirmed travel arrangements and itineraries for Japanese tourists visiting the Cote D'Azur. Led tours throughout the southern coast explaining various points of culture, history and nature. FUJI TV, Paris Branch, Paris Sep 1990 - May 1992
Assisted visiting program and documentary news teams from Japan through interpretation and translation, scheduling appointments, obtaining filming permission from municipal governments, and all other support functions as necessary.
EDUCATION:
NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY, New York Sep 1993 - Mar 1994 Transferred from Ecole International Creation de Audiovisuelle Directing Film & Filmmaking
PRATT INSTITUTE, New York Sep 1989 - Jun 1990
Transferred from George Washington University
Art History & Urban Design
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington DC Dec 1988 - May 1989 General Art Courses Dean's List
GYOSEI INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, Tokyo Apr 1984 - Mar 1987 LANGUAGE & SKILLS:
French (Native), Japanese (Native)
English (Fluent: TOEIC 860, TOEFL 550, English Proficiency Level 2 - Jun 1982, 13 yrs old) INTEREST:
Skiing/Mountaineering, Tennis, Cinema (Filmmaking), Reading Mystery/Psychology, Travel/Driving, American History, Exploring authentic VINI-culture
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