Manager Management

Vance Fennell

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Statement of Professional Philosophy: I understand the importance of people skills, leadership, and hard work. Our people are the number one asset to understand and motivate.

Experiential Qualifications: -Executive Management (5 yrs) -HR Management (5 yrs) -Strategic Planning (5 yrs) -Supply Chain (10 yrs) -Purchasing (10 yrs) -Safety (10 yrs) -Operations (10 yrs)

Employment Experience:

Niowave, Inc Lansing, MI 3/2011-6/2012

Business Manager

Key Results:

• Perform oversight, verification, and submission of monthly statements to bank

• Perform General Journal entries for job expensing and add jobs to accounting software

• Pull PO’s for purchasing activities

• Oversee all A/P, A/R, invoicing, and payroll

• Prepared and presented a full benefit presentation to all company employees

• Prepared Employee Handbook revision

• Collected data to add 401k plan

• Handle HR issues as they come up

• Head up Business Insurance/Workers Comp/Health Care renewals

• A wide variety of operational tasks including direct supervision of Ops Group

• Other duties as assigned by owner

Constructive Sheet Metal, Inc. Grand Rapids, MI 04/2004–12/2009 General Manager

Key Results:

• Defined organizational identity through Business Values and People Values

• Developed Strategic Operations Plan to achieve benchmarked goals

• Reorganized accounting practices and chart of accounts to provide needed data

• Completed all HR functions to develop and maintain key employees

• Completed monthly safety meetings to ensure the safety of our customers and employees

• Reduced company expenditures in business insurance and worker compensation

• Developed customer relations and vendor relations included all purchasing activities

• Performed all banking, legal, credit management, 401(k) trustee, cash flow management

• Developed marketing and advertising budgets to fit into company identity

• Achieved record year of $5.7 million in sales with 38 employees in 2007

Trane West Michigan Kentwood, MI 03/2003-03/2004 Procurement Leader

Key Results:

• Evaluated Revenue Streams in regard to Purchasing

Vance Fennell

• Flow Charted Centralized Procurement activities

• Authored and Implemented Centralized Procurement system

• 12 Million Dollar Purchasing activities

• Negotiated contracts with vendors

• Saved 6 figures in the one year

• Member of Safety Committee and performed safety audits

Constructive Sheet Metal, Inc. Grand Rapids, MI 05/1995-02/2003 Operations/Purchasing Manager

Key Results:

• Set up Purchasing including inventory system and requisition procedure

• Centralized all purchasing activities to JIT to reduce total costs of inventory level

• Performed all vendor negotiations to reduce total cost of purchasing activities

• Saved over $300,000 first year total purchasing dollars

• Created vendor accountability procedures for quality and performance

• Created Operations Team of key employees to accomplish operational goals

• Created profit minded atmosphere through continuous improvement

• Opened lines of communication through all levels of our organization

• Improved Cash Flow Management by utilizing communications and procedures

• Authored, trained, and implemented comprehensive Safety Program

• Reduced EMR from 1.16 to .73 in four years

• Reduced worker compensation costs and business liability costs

Bohn Aluminum South Haven, MI 1979-1992 Set-Up Machinist

Key Results:

• Furnace Room Laborer • Molding

• Rough Turn Machinist • Finish Machinist

• CNC Set-up Tech • SPC Trainer

• Served on Problem Solving Task Team which led to 6 figure set-up scrap reduction

Education:

• Davenport University Bachelor of Science Business Administration

Major: Business Management Graduated with High Honors 2000

• L. C. Mohr High School General Education Graduated Honor Roll

Honors and Leadership Activities:

Awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award by the Board of Directors of Davenport University on April 26, 2001. The award states, “Through his tenacious spirit, Vance represents the mission and ideals of the university and exemplifies our historic motto: ‘Make a living, make a life, and make a contribution.’”

Since 2006, guest speaker in Professional Ethics classes of Terri Tomaszek, Ph.D., at Davenport University.

Currently serve as a volunteer for over 15 years for the Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapids

Serve on the Steering Committee and Board of Directors of Festival of the Arts

Co-Chair of Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts 2012

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