Blake Clifford

• Examine process for variation such as waste, quality, efficiency, effectiveness, productivity and analyze business problems, identifying root causes and developing robust solutions.
• Interpret client's operational, quality and financial data, engineering drawings, diagrams, value stream mapping and confers with client's operators, supervisors and managers, vendors, or other client staff to determine throughput, quality and reliability standards
• Change behaviors through daily side by side coaching for sustainable results through implementation of proven management operating system
• Develop and implement strategic project plans to meet business objectives and facilitate workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback

Managed enterprise-level and individual business integration projects:

• Distribution Center Start-Ups (Building, Regulatory, IT Hardware & Software, Process, Staffing, Operations)
• Distribution Center System Implementations and Conversions (legacy system to Blue Yonder)
• Process Analysis, Development, and Change
• Operational Analysis, Ops Excellence Initiatives, and Solutioning

Small business solutions provider, enhanced and grew business through education, development and implementation of training, operations, and quality programs.

• Provided consultative sales, quality control and management system analysis/evaluation, development, and implementation.
• Provided process analysis/evaluation, development, and implementation.
• Organizational leadership evaluation and development.

Regional 3PL with more than 1 million square feet of multi-client distribution centers specializing in automotive & food product.

• Led all transportation, warehousing, and distribution operations – Hartford, Connecticut; Dayton, Ohio; Elkhart, Indiana; and Saint Joseph, Michigan.

Global contract logistics company.

• Led two multi-client pharmaceutical / food grade facilities in Chicago market: 371,000 square foot Midwest regional DC and a 238,000 square foot Midwest regional DC.

Global supply chain management company.

• Led operations for three facilities: 560,000 square foot Midwest regional dry DC in Aurora, Illinois, operated for Kraft Foods; 144,000 square foot high-bay refrigerated regional DC in Dayton, Ohio operated for Hormel Foods; 230 door cross-dock facility for The Home Depot in Hillside, Illinois.

Mass merchandising retailer.

• Led 2nd shift operations at a 1.2 million square foot regional DC with 11 miles of conveyors, and 1,800 employees on site.