Experience

SEQUOIA BEVERAGE COMPANY, A LIMITED PARTNERSHIP DBA BUENO BEVERAGE

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Responsible for managing the warehouse and facilities for a wholesale beer distributorship with annual sales of over $100 million. Duties include: Daily inventory management of over 900 SKU's.* Responsible for maintaining inventory levels sufficient for sales on a weekly basis. Preparation of a weekly forecast based on prior year sales and trending analysis. Responsible for the daily management of receiving and loading of over 1,500 orders. Responsible for managing our relationships with external vendors that perform work for Bueno Beverage Company, which includes all facilities maintenance vendors. Directly responsible for managing the facility to operate in compliance with OSHA and DOT standards. Coordinate with CFO to maintain monthly budget compliance in relation to overall facilities expense, vehicle maintenance expense, and personnel expenses. Direct management of 4 supervisors and indirectly 30 warehouse and maintenance staff. Accomplishments The primary facilitator of Bueno Beverage Company's warehouse expansion. This $2.5 million project required that I work closely with the architect, engineer, and construction team. I designed the workflow chart to create trip reductions in our warehouse that would increase our loading efficiency by 40% and implemented workflow into the design of the expansion with the help of the architects and our onsite construction superintendent. Researched and analyzed the efficiencies of an articulating layer picker to increase efficiencies for loading bulk stop customers that led to the purchase of that machine. The layer picker has allowed us to increase the cases picked per hour by over 100 cases per employee. Show less



Sequoia Beverage Company

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Night Loading Supervisor

  • Jun 2004 - Jul 2007

  Responsible for managing a team of loaders during the evening shift.Diagrammed truck loads to maximize space and cases per truck.Supervised night crew of 6 loaders.Operated forklift to transfer pallets in the warehouse as well as load trucks for the night shift.

• Merchandiser/Relief Sales

  • Jan 2001 - Jun 2004

  Merchandised and prepared displays for sales route.Created custom product displays at various customer accounts.Responsible for customer relations, including placement of posters and media.Rotated product on shelves for freshness purposes.Create sales orders for customers on a relief basis.

• Driver

  • Mar 1997 - Jan 2001

  Delivered beverage products to customers.Delivery of product using a tractor/trailer that required a class A license.Collected cash and checks. Responsible for balancing funds collected with invoices on a daily basis.Responsible for customer relations, including placement of posters and media.Rotated product on shelves for freshness purposes.