AKI STANT
Gilbert,AZ
Summary
Results-driven operations leader with 20+ years of progressive experience in law enforcement, legal services, and large-scale team management. Proven track record of transforming underperforming operations, achieving compliance excellence, and recovering millions in assets. Known for unwavering commitment to organizational integrity and innovative leadership.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Supervisor
Costco Wholesale
10.2019 - Current
- Manage seventy-five personnel daily operations of the department, ensuring smooth workflow and timely completion of tasks.
- Duties include productivity audits, loss prevention audits, recurring production incentive program oversight, tracking over one thousand different SKUs in three departments to ensure availability, quality, proper pricing and proper rotation, collaborating with corporate buyers to adjust quantities and pricing to reduce spoils and boost sales, improving the sustainability footprint by coordinating spoils donations to qualified Animal Rescue organizations.
Executive Director
Never Again Foundation
09.2012 - 03.2019
- Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
- Managed provision of legal services to victim-clients of domestic-violence homicide in criminal prosecutions and related civil proceedings.
- Duties included management of appearances, legal writings and oral argument in criminal and civil proceedings on behalf of victim clients, investigation of parties’ assets to ensure provision of Slayer Statute protections and remedies, coordination of fund raising and reporting efforts and requirements to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal grant reporting statutes.
Police Sergeant
Maricopa Police Department
03.2007 - 06.2010
- Managed ten sworn and non-sworn personnel in day-to-day provision of professional police services.
- First Sergeant hired to assist in building a new municipal police department. Duties included coordinating the acquisition of department firearms, ammunition, communications and records management systems, communications tower, repeaters, consoles, in-car communications systems, laptops and related software products, coordinating department training for forty personnel, related compliance inspections, activity logs, vehicle service requests, and other equipment management duties as assigned.
Education
Juris Doctor - undefined
09.2013
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
05.2007
Skills
- Complex Problem-solving
- Strategic planning
- Analytical thinking
- Policy enforcement
- Risk management
- Team building
- Project management
- Policy and procedure development
Websites
Languages
Chinese (Mandarin)
Elementary
Portuguese
Limited Working
Spanish
Professional Working
Accomplishments
- Blocked-driveway complaint in early 2000, resulted in an FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force focused on illicit terrorism funding. The investigation resulted in the seizure of millions of dollars of suspected illicit money.
- DUI investigation resulted in a court of appeals decision holding that Stant acted properly and provided the “substantial and competent” evidence required to support the arrest, and suspension of the driver's privilege. Potter v. Arizona Department of Transportation.
- Conducted daily policy and procedure briefings and increased the number of squad training hours by more than 300%.
- Reduced incidence of officer injury, officer-related vehicle collisions, discipline for officer misconduct on duty, or significant property loss by more than 400%.
- Oversaw the recovery of over $1.2 million in litigation related assets and fees - it was the first time in the firm’s history that it wasn’t completely reliant on grant funding for operational costs.
- Conducted private investigation that led to the conviction for 1st Degree Premeditated Murder of homicide suspect and natural life sentence - State v. Lashawn Johnson.
Timeline
Supervisor
Costco Wholesale
10.2019 - Current
Executive Director
Never Again Foundation
09.2012 - 03.2019
Police Sergeant
Maricopa Police Department
03.2007 - 06.2010