General Manager Co-Op
Resume:
Contact Information:
Neil D Filson
**********@*****.***
Unit 17 468
Woodbine Blvd. SW.
Calgary, AB.
T2W 5H7
Life’s Activities
Sports involvement included playing, officiating and coaching in track and field, all levels of ball playing, from baseball to slow pitch, winter sports including hockey and curling, etc.
Served on several boards with the Church and community groups in capacities as a member, through treasurer and chairman
including Delegate for United Grain Growers and Federated Co-operatives Ltd.
Skill assets
Operated various manual tools, heavy farm equipment and machines, forklifts and automotive equipment. Computers and office equipment primarily self taught, able to find and solve problems with 55 plus years of experience.
Professional Experience in brief:
Manager
Glenbain Co-operative Association Ltd.
Glenbain Saskatchewan
1975-04 01 1977-01-10
Manager
Manager Cadillac Co-operative Association Ltd.
Cadillac Saskatchewan
1975-01-10 1977-05-15
General Manager
Sales Rep for Great West Life (seven months)
Regina Saskatchewan
1977-05-15 1978-01-15
Manager- Arcola Co-operative Association Ltd.
Arcola Saskatchewan
1978-01-10 1980-02-15
Mixed Farm Operator, manager, owner.
1980-02-20 2001-04-01
Woodrow Saskatchewan
Part owner operator
Laborer, TrailTech Inc.
2001-01-07 2003-04-12
Gravelbourg Saskatchewan
Picking and Racking components for welders
Purchaser TrailTech Inc.
2003-04-12 2006-12-05
Gravelbourg Saskatchewan
Purchasing (all materials from the hitch to the bumper to high tech components)
General Manager, Mazenod Co-operative Association Ltd.
2007-02-01 2012-10-05
Mazenod Saskatchewan
General Manager
Detailed Home Remodelling Inc.
Sales, assembler, installer, and finisher, cabinets.
2012-11-12 2014-02-12
Calgary Alberta
Sales etc.
First Student Canada
2014-03-15 2018-06-29
Calgary Alberta
School Bus and Charter Operator, Driver
Retired and looking for a casual parttime job.
Professional Long Version
1975 Was the beginning of my first marriage and start of a career with the Co-operative system in Glenbain Saskatchewan as the lone employee and manager of Glenbain Co-op, a bulk petroleum and TBA store in, Glenbain.
I came to understand the numbers and how to read them to help in directing the retail to better profits and lower costs helping me propel upward to Cadillac Co-op in the spring of 1977. A bulk petroleum outlet on Highway #4 South of Swift Current Sask. There were two mechanics bays TBA farm hardware and lumber. Lumber had nearly half a turn when I arrived there and 2 and a half when I moved on, according to FCL. Both A/R and A/P were a mess, but I managed to turn them around before I left.
I then moved onto selling Life and Disability Insurance with Great West Life. Three months into that I was top salesperson for the month. Then sales began dropping off and travel too expensive.
I went back to the Co-op system with Arcola Co-op as petroleum and service manager in the summer of 1979 through to February 1980 when I was offered the family farm operation.
Mixed farming covers almost every possible learning and experience opportunity. Up at dawn and to bed at dusk, where timing and motivation are key elements to successful operations. Even then if the margins are not there, you won’t continue to survive with constant losses.
Twenty years later with a bleak outlook and out of sustainable income for the farming operation, I was compelled to work off farm and found a job in the manufacturing industry with Trailtech Inc. a division of Custom Build Ag Industries. It soon became apparent the farm had to be rented out. That done, I went from farmer to labourer, to purchaser in two years, purchasing everything from paperclips to high tech components, spending around $500,000.00 monthly to service that fast-paced environment. I left them December 2006 after my wife passed.
In January 2007, I was hired by the Board of Directors at Mazenod Sask. to manage the bulk petroleum Co-operative. As like all small rural Co-ops, it delved in farm related items excluding farm chemicals and lumber. It was the first retail I had run into that worked at having a zero-operating savings. Their desire was to grow from patronage dividends pay outs from FCL.
The last year I was there I managed to generate a one percent operating savings through various means. One was by reducing the standby costs, generally considered undoable. Marking down old stocks of oil to generate a little cash flow and a penny or two increase in regular inventory pricing. Doing that along with operating savings allowed the purchase of a second-hand tandem fuel delivery truck the following year.
In the fall 2012, I was offered a position with my eldest brother, owner of Detailed Home Remodeling, a company that would change your living space into a more friendly, modern and practical domain.
Duties included quotes, on cabinets for kitchen, bathrooms and any other project requested, assembly, delivery, and finishing. It was a new learning experience and one that gave me pride in the finished product. Unfortunately, my brother’s health problems brought that to and end.
March 2013, after seeing an add on TV, I started driving school buses with routes in Calgary as well as out of city, for students and charters with a 72-passenger bus, the longest conventional bus available.
I retired in 2018, at that time with sufficient funds to carry my wife and I to our days end until April of this year. I was scammed out of most of my savings and all my pride.
I am looking for a casual, part time job to fill in the needs, fifteen to twenty hours a week.
The only references I can offer are from my neighbours close by as I have not been long enough here to meet and associate with others, and the friends from years before may not recall. I Believe I am in an awkward age.
Respect fully.
Neil Filson
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