Mr

Sean Sargeant

**** ****** *

Brooklyn, NY *****

917-***-**** e-mail ************@*******.***

OBJECTIVE: Desire a position in a firm that will utilize my current professional skills.

PROFILE: Over ten years of productive and progressive experience within the mass communications and publications industry as customer service and logistics manager, highly dedicated with strong interpersonal and communication skills. Skillful in time management and able to handle multiple projects

EXPERIENCE: FORBES New York, New York

2/03-04/09 Manager of Logistics

• Oversee the Logistics division of the distribution department: Domestic and Int’l.

• Forecast budgets for the distribution of all Forbes’ publications. i.e. Forbes, its supplements ForbesLife and Forbes Life Executive Woman as well as Forbes Asia.

• Monthly financials; Accrue Postage and Freight cost; Analyze and approve freight invoices

• Researched and conducted meetings with freight forwarders to obtain ideal rates for the distribution of Forbes Magazines.

• Attend several logistics conferences to negotiate rates and to leverage our departments buying power for freight.

• Monthly meetings with 3 department heads (Circ. Production and IT), to determine if each departments distribution needs are being met and what can be done to improve this.

• Periodically visits our printing plant to implement changes with freight forwarders.

• Periodically request RFP’s from several freight forwarders and postal distributors; Domestic and international.

• Approve distribution rate quotes for several advertising campaigns.

FORBES New York, New York

6/98-2/03 Distribution Coordinator

• Reviewed, re-routed and consolidated Standing Orders and special request shipments.

• Maintained departmental files such as Wholesaler Galleys, ASCII files, Print Orders and special request documents.

• Processed, updated and reviewed all subscription reports.

• Processed bi-weekly delivery status and cost reports obtained from the Printers and Freight Forwarders.

• Provided rate quotes for shipping issues for domestic and international destinations.

• Checked, coded and processed all departmental invoices.

• Created comparison spreadsheets for current and future cost for distribution.

• Generated monthly accounting reports for cost incurred for postage/freight of Forbes, ASAP, FYI and Forbes Global.

6/94-11/97 GENESIS HOMES Brooklyn, New York

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EDUCATION: OXNARD HIGH SCHOOL Oxnard, California

Diploma

CONTINOUS AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

CAREER & EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT Brooklyn, New York

10/97- 4/98 Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access - Certificate

2/93-3/94 DATA INSTITUTE BUSINESS SCHOOL Waterbury, CT

Major: Computerized Accounting - Diploma

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