Forklift Operator Business Management
Resume:
Thomas Owen Pass
Sales,Business Management
Roxboro, NC 27573
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Professional Summary
I have 35 + years in the wholesale, retail business. I am experienced in soliciting customers for the sale of their product at my family's third-generation tobacco warehouse. I managed/owned a lawn and garden business. I managed payroll, bank loans hiring and firing for the family business. I grew the family business Planters from the sale of 880,000 lbs of tobacco in 1982 to over 6,1000,000 lbs at the close in 2002.
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Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
President/Owner/Operator
Planters Warehouse of Roxboro-Roxboro, NC
July 1982 to Present
• I am third generation of a tobacco warehouse,fertilizer,lawn and garden
• i was responsible for gaining new customers for all of the businesses listed above
• I brokered sales of tobacco between farmers and tobacco compaines i built the tobacco business from 800,000 lbs in lbs in 1982 to 6,100,000 lbs at the close of the auction business in 2002 I built the lawn and garden business from scratch in 1985 till a separate business in 2002 and sold it to ACE Hardware for 1.2 million $
• I still rent the warehouse building
Material Handler Supervisor
JEB International-Danville, VA
August 2017 to December 2019
• Unload trucks with forklifts, squeezers and pallet jacks
• Help coordinate shipping and receiving with logistics
• Used scanners for inventory, shipping
• Used tugger carts and pallet jacks to deliver inventory to proper work cells
• Maintained warehouse inventory with computers and scanners to ensure product was in proper skews Inspector/Machine Operator
Gate City Staffing-Danville, VA
November 2015 to January 2016
Inspect tobacco at JTI
Remove damaged tobacco swept areas
Forklift Driver/Warehouse Worker
Ranstad Staffing Service-Timberlake, NC
February 2015 to June 2015
Operate forklift unload trucks
Reload trucks with finished product
Inspector General
Gate City Staffing-Danville, VA
February 2014 to May 2014
Inspect Leaf remove damage, Swept floor, inspect stems This was a seasonal job at the JTI Plant in Danville, VA Forklift Operator
Ranstad Staffing Service-Timberlake, NC
May 2013 to July 2013
• Unload trucks
• Drive Tugger carts to deliver parts on production floor
• Put parts in appropriate skews
• Temp. Job
Forklift Operator
US Flue Cured Tobacco Growers-Timberlake, NC
September 2012 to November 2012
seasonal forklift driver unload trucks,keep tobacco feed to production lines Sales Associate/ Driver
Advance Auto Parts-Roxboro, NC
February 2012 to November 2012
• Waited on customers
• Stocked shelves, unload trucks
• Deliver parts
Sales Representative
New Age Tobacco Company-Lumberton, NC
July 2008 to September 2010
• I was in charge of building new accounts and maintain old accounts
• I had a complete line of tobacco products from cigars to smokeless, and tobacco accessories
• I had a company vehicle in charge of Raleigh Durham and central NC market
• expense reports and call reports
• the company merged with another wholesaler
Sales Representative
Renegade Tobacco Company-Mocksville, NC
March 2008 to July 2008
• I was hired to open up new territories
• I was in charge of a van inventory, a shed P.O.S. material
• I kept daily call reports opened new accounts developed routs
• I was in charge of deposits my inventory
• I met sales exceptions
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Cherokee Tobacco Company-South Boston, VA
January 2003 to February 2008
• Developed a completer cigarette sales company
• The first thing I did was to hire the Vice President of Baileys Cigarette company
• Started from the ground up
• I bought vehicles, rented building set up bank accounts
• Started cold calling on new customers, from the biggest to the little mom & pops
• We then started with wholesalers
• I hired sales reps and then developed the areas with them
• We hired office staff
• Then our partner suggested for us to hire a company manager in charge of all accounting and office because we had grown so fast and big
• The company grew into five states
• I was offered a package in 2008 and became just salaried Education
Career Readiness Certificate in Applied mathematics, Locating Information, Reading for Information
Piedmont Community College-Roxboro, NC
October 2012 to February 2013
Associate in Certified Logistics Associate, Certified Logistics Technician Piedmont Community College-Roxboro, NC
October 2012 to February 2013
High school or equivalent in General
Person Senior High-Roxboro, NC
August 1979 to June 1982
Skills
• Freight Experience (10+ years)
• Shipping Receiving (10+ years)
• Sales Experience (10+ years)
• Commercial vehicle
• Pallet Jack (10+ years)
• Inventory Control (10+ years)
• Shipping (10+ years)
• Warehouse experience (10+ years)
• Computer literacy (10+ years)
• Picker Packer (10+ years)
• Customer service (10+ years)
• Microsoft Word (5 years)
• Packing (10+ years)
• Shipping (10+ years)
• Supervising experience (10+ years)
• Materials Handling (10+ years)
• Warehouse Associate (10+ years)
• General Labor (10+ years)
• Manufacturing (10+ years)
• Time management (10+ years)
• Courier (10+ years)
• Driving
• Warehouse Management (10+ years)
• Shipping Receiving (10+ years)
• Forklift (10+ years)
• Data entry (10+ years)
• Business Management (10+ years)
• Logistics (10+ years)
Awards
Eagle Scout (B. S. A. )
January 1978
• Double Bronze Palm
• Double Silver Palm
• Gold Palm
God And Country ( B. S. A. )
February 1977
Certifications and Licenses
Certified Forklift Operator
Groups
Roxboro Area Chamber of Commerce
January 1997 to January 1998
Board of Directors
Additional Information
References available upon request
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