Seasoned Inventory/Warehouse Manager

Walter W Sievers

**** ***** *****, **. *****, MO 63114

636-***-**** (Cell) ********@*******.***

Objective: To join a new or established company bringing a goal-oriented inventory management professional with more than 25 years of progressive and stable experience in mid-level inventory management positions. I offer backgrounds and qualifications in personnel, operations, budgeting, purchasing, fleet, materials management, team leadership, security, problem resolution, professional development and training, vendor relations, reporting and forecasting. I understand the EEOC regulations governing personnel issues. I ensure that subordinates will remain in continual compliance with all health, safety, company policies, directives and specifications, including these of OSHA and the compliance of Sarbane’s Oxley rules and regulations.

Experience: 04/2011 – 09/2011 Lowes Hardware Inc. Alton, ILDepartment Manager Night Manager in charge of restocking retail Store location. Train and Develop employee skills and knowledge of Lowe’s policy and procedure. Manage the preparation of plan-o-gram details for store displays.

4/2008 – 5/2010 Telecrafter LLC Bridgeton/Overland, MO Project Manager Start up Operation Manager for CATV Audit, Sales, Installation and Service Contractor for local Telecommunications MSO : Charter Communications. (50 field employees at peak season). Routed and assigned up to 300 appointments per day. Schedule duties of field supervisors and quality control staff. Monitor field and office staff including dispatch, cash management, warehousing and daily work order close out and completion percentages. Audited and verified all customer sales additions for payroll purposes. Hire and Train field employees Telecrafter and NCTI Installation Policy and Procedure, Charter sales guidelines and as well as OSHA safety for the installer/lineman.

7/2002 - 4/2008 Charter Communications Town & Country, MO Inventory/Operations Manager II Managed and directed 18 warehouse locations in Central Region KMA including an Accounts Payable staff. Responsible for all reviews and approvals of daily, weekly or monthly scheduled counts in Peoplesoft Inventory Module as well as all Accounts Payable batches in the Peoplesoft A/P Module. Managed 40 full time warehouse and 6 accounts payable employees in Central Region. Scheduled and tracked all warehouse audit activity to Charter Supply Chain policy as well to SARBOX rules. Completed yearly personnel reviews and merit raise recommendations. Trained all warehouse and accounts payable employees on a software change from Epics to Peoplesoft related Inventory and A/P Modules. Capital and Expense budget preparation as well as monthly, quarterly and yearly reviews. Material forecasting for capital budgeted projects including CPE, I/T, Headend, Construction and Installation by scheduling and meeting with key team members to review marketing projections and b.o.m’s. Finalized forecasts with VP’s of Engineering and Technical Operations. Labor Contract negotiation and preparation for Construction and Installation Labor bids for Central Region.1/1998 - 6/2002 AT&T Broadband St. Louis, MO Warehouse - Purchasing Manager Managed and directed 9 warehouse locations (20 employees) in St. Louis Metro Area. Responsible for all warehouse activities in Oracle Inventory Module. Created and scheduled required quarterly audits of system warehouses. Responsible for all forecasting and purchasing in Oracle Purchasing Module for all capital projects including I/T, Headend, Construction and Installation, including contract labor. Assisted with capital budget preparation as well as monthly, quarterly and yearly capital reviews. Completed yearly personnel reviews and merit raise recommendations.

8/1985 - 1/1998 TCI Cablevision St. Peters, MO Warehouse Manager Responsible for 2 locations in Metro St. Louis Area (7 employees). Created excel inventory management tracking system used in each location. Responsible for all material requisition data entry and approval vs. approved capital budget upon review with management.Responsible for all material issuance/return, repair authorization for both locations.

Education: 1980-1984 Ritenour High School St. John, MO Graduated 5/30/84 3.0 GPA w/ Diploma Participated in Cooperative Education Program w/ Continental Cablevision 1983-84 (Junior & Senior years)

Technologies: Crystal Reports, Microsoft Office Suite, PeopleSoft Inventory and Accounts Payable Modules, Oracle and JD Edwards Inventory and Purchasing Modules, Forklift Certified, ICOM’s, CSG and CableData billing systems. NCTI Certified Installer.