Operations Management Professional

Javier Mar

**** ******* ****, *** *******, TX ***55

(Cell) 210-***-**** – email: ***********@*****.***

Operations Management Professional

● Organizational / Leadership Development ● Process Improvements ● Business Development

A visionary, experienced and dynamic leader with passion for continuous improvement team, action and results oriented individual who builds and excels in a high-performance business environment. Innovative and quality driven professional with a “people first” philosophy and a proven track record of maximizing bottom-line gains. Demonstrated competencies include:

• Process Improvements • QA / QC • Training / Coaching

• Best Practices • Safety / Security • Meeting Planning

• Cross Cultural Teaming • Cost Reduction • Fluent in English/Spanish

Achievements

Leadership Development: Led cross-functional management team of 7 over 150 staff by coaching, mentoring, and facilitating meetings to increase sales by $12M and Net Cash Flow by $3.5M.

Team Leadership: Empowered department managers, section team leaders, and personnel to make decisions on product selection practice, reduced waste by 10%, contributing $250K to the bottom line.

Training and Development: Trained, coached, and developed team leaders to reduce accidents on the working areas and avoid lost work days by utilizing daily War Room Meeting to train on accident and prevention policies to improve safety, reduced Workers Compensations Insurance premiums of $50K a year.

Best Practices: Collected data, measured and monitored process to institutionalize best practices in selected activities, reduced labor cost by $30K.

Continuing Process Improvement: Increased production units with high quality yields by continuing process improvement training, coaching, and mentoring for team of 12. Reduced production cost by $40K in 6 months.

Safety: Improved overall facility safety practice through training program and on the job mentoring, decreased injures by 20%, with a high head count of 150 employees in 1 year.

Cross Cultural Team Building: Led cross-cultural team by understanding back grounds, motivations, and functional skills. Lessened cost of sales, production, and distribution by 15%, from a $1.6M budget equal to $240K

Total Quality Management: Improved product quality by training, coaching, mentoring, and facilitating meetings, increasing sales by 25%, reduced plant returns and claims by 15%, a positive impacting NCF by $500K.

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Professional Experience

Distribution Manager, Color Spot Nurseries Inc. San Antonio, TX. 2010 - 2011

Directed all operations of Distribution department, working with dispatcher, drivers and dock operations to comply with DOT rule and regulations (CSA), reducing the company exposure to liabilities and accidents, manage a $4.5M budget with 12% distribution cost as a percent of sales

General Manager, Color Spot Nurseries Inc. San Juan Capistrano, CA 2008 - 2010

Managed all functions of the facility, building the management team and working closely with team leaders to achieve the desire results. Grew the San Juan Capistrano Facility from $8M to $20 M

Distribution Manager, Color Spot Nurseries Inc. San Antonio, TX. 2006 - 2008

Managed all aspects of facility shipping, while ensuring the highest delivery quality at the lowest possible cost, reducing distribution cost by $238K in 2007.

Distribution Manager, Hines Nurseries, a Hines Horticulture, Inc. Company, Houston, TX. 2000 - 2006

Organized staging area dock operations, truck procurement, leases, and contracts. Managed departmental budget of $ 7.5M reducing distribution cost as a % of sales and improving productivity.

Employee / Business Development Manager, Color Spot Nurseries Inc. San Antonio, TX. 1999 - 2000

Collaborated with GM to improve processes and profits though the facility working with production, scheduling, and distribution managers to achieve the desire results of 25 % of NCF.

Socio-Technical Resource Manager, Sun Grow, Hines Horticulture, Inc., Terrell TX 1998 - 1999

Consulted with GM, teams, employees and customers to improve process, measuring and monitoring, problem solving, communications, and quality of work life, impacting NCF directly with $150K.

Socio-Technical Resource Manager, Iverson Perennials, Hines Horticulture, Inc., Trenton, SC 1997-1998

Promoted continuous technical and social improvements with operating units by working with managers and employees in a team environment, reducing labor costs and down time by 15% impacting NCF directly with $100K.

Quality Resource Team Member, Field and Dock Operations, Hines Nurseries, Hines Horticulture, Inc., Houston, TX. 1991 –1997

Served as a resource to the production managers and employees in continuously; Improving product quality and redesigning the Assembly Process. Reduced labor costs by 10% and improved productivity and efficiency, impacting NCF directly with $300K.

Education / Professional Development:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Horticulture Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

• Advance Speaking English Class, Rice University Houston Texas

• Meeting and People Skills, Vacaville, California

• Computer Class, Houston, Texas

• Hines University I & II, Santa Ana, California

• English as a Second Language, Houston, Texas

• Work Teams that Work, Durham North Carolina

• Advanced Facilitation Skills Building, Orange County California

• Dimension of Professional Selling, Laguna Beach California

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