Brian Fortenberry
Meridian,MS
Summary
Organized and dependable professional with successful and extensive background in managing total operations large and small.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Detention Facility Administrator
Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department
06.2022 - Current
- Direct department functions, activities and supervision of personnel.
- Respond on 24-hour, 7-day basis to significant unusual occurrences.
- Monitor staff success and conducted physical inspections of facility to comply with policies and procedures.
- Review activities of operations departments to determine progress toward stated goals and objectives.
- Monitor and inspected staff processes to eliminate hazards posed for both offenders and staff while ensuring continuous compliance with regulations.
- Establish and maintained effective communication with staff and other organizations to promote high quality care, custody, and control of offenders.
- Develop and updated policies and procedures, maintaining compliance with federal and state guidelines.
- Investigate inmate grievances.
- Investigate personnel issues.
- Ensure compliance with facility life safety equipment.
- Ensure training program compliance with agency policies.
- Initial interview background investigation of employment candidate's.
Owner
Coastline Management, LLC
01.2017 - Current
- Manage day-to-day business operations.
- Consult with customers to assess needs and propose optimal solutions.
- Train and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
- Evaluate suppliers to maintain cost controls and improve operations.
- Establish foundational processes for business operations.
- Enhance operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts, and costs.
- Monitor market conditions to set accurate product pricing and take advantage of emerging trends.
- Train and developed team members to build human capital.
- Conduct target market research to discover customer needs and analyze competitor trends.
- Establish optimized and enforced business policies to maintain consistency across industry operations.
- Manage large budgets, collaborating with other departments to eliminate redundancies.
- Oversee business budget planning and administration, accounting functions, purchasing, and bi-weekly payroll to handle financial needs.
- Develop and implemented marketing strategies to generate new customers and increase sales and profit margins.
- Use knowledge of market trends to create value-added solutions resulting in significant increase in revenues.
- Introduce new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time.
- Prepare annual budgets with controls to prevent overages.
- Conduct audit inspections and independent checks to verify regulatory compliance.
- Perform statistical analyses to gather data for operational and forecast team needs.
- Assess damaged materials and notified maintenance personnel of needed repairs.
- Total operational oversight for 100 employee property management and accounting services company.
Deputy Sheriff
Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department
11.2001 - Current
- Investigate incidents and crimes, collect evidence, and record witness statements.
- Patrol designated areas in patrol vehicle.
- Organized criminal documents such as logs, records, reports, and agendas to streamline processing and improve traceability.
- Identified suspicious activity and conducted interviews with witnesses to build cases.
- Work with district attorney and county prosecutor for case presentation Grand Jury, Circuit Court, and Justice Court.
- Sex offender compliance deputy.
CEO
American Protection Services, Inc.
11.2000 - 03.2023
- Established foundational processes for business operations.
- Managed partnerships and strategic business relationships by negotiating contract terms and handling conflicts.
- Built productive relationships with industry partners and competitors to support strategic business objectives.
- Made large-scale financial decisions and supervised company spending to reduce material losses and maximize profits.
- Engaged positively with staff and leadership colleagues, soliciting and encouraging feedback and collaborative spirit.
- Directed market expansions to propel business forward, meet changing customer needs.
- Analyzed and tracked business metrics and made appropriate adjustments to meet supply and demand needs.
- Addressed employee and managerial concerns and implemented corrective actions to promote compliance.
- Reviewed individual department performance and worked with leadership to improve processes, procedures, and practices.
- Cultivated forward-thinking, inclusive and performance-driven company culture to lead industry innovations.
- Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
- Managed financial, operational and human resources to optimize business performance.
- Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, vendors and strategic partners.
- Collaborated with legal, accounting and other professional teams to review and maintain compliance with regulations.
- Monitored key business risks and established risk management procedures.
- Oversaw business-wide changes to modernize procedures and organization.
- Maintained P&L and shouldered corporate fiscal responsibility.
- Cultivated company-wide culture of innovation and collaboration.
- Founded performance- and merit-based evaluation system to assess staff performance.
- Directed technological improvements, reducing waste and business bottlenecks.
- Total operational oversight for 500 employee security corporation.
Education
High School Diploma -
Meridian High School
Meridian, MS05.1996
Skills
- Establish Policies and Procedures
- Risk Mitigation
- Ensure Compliance With Regulatory Agencies
- Budget Development and Compliance
- Emergency Readiness
- Human Resource Management
- Enhance Training Policies, Procedures, and Programs
- Total Operational Oversight Large and Small employee operations government/private sectors
- Review of Agency and Corporate Operations Government/Private Sectors With Recommendations For Process Improvement
- Implement New Processes for Industry Best Practices
Timeline
Assistant Detention Facility Administrator
Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department
06.2022 - Current
Owner
Coastline Management, LLC
01.2017 - Current
Deputy Sheriff
Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department
11.2001 - Current
CEO
American Protection Services, Inc.
11.2000 - 03.2023
High School Diploma -
Meridian High School
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