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Education
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CHRISTINA COKER

Tinley Park,IL
CHRISTINA COKER

Summary

Versatile Operations Manager successful at taking on routine and complex business challenges with resourceful and creative approach. Recognized as driven, dedicated and hardworking leader with history of streamlining operations and increasing results. Forward-thinking team leader skilled at operating departments efficiently to meet goals. Successful background matching employees with roles for maximum performance. Proactive and hardworking individual focused on continuous operational improvement.

Overview

12
years of professional experience

Work History

ACI Logistix
Bloomingdale, IL

Operations Manager
04.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Established positive and effective communication among unit staff and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications and missed deadlines.
  • Leading teams of 100+ associates.
  • Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe or ineffective practices.
  • Set, enforced and optimized internal policies to maintain responsiveness to demands.
  • Devised processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels.
  • Planned and resourced personnel and logistics for operations component exercises resulting in highly trained personnel ready to act quickly in critical roles.
  • Reviewed shift reports to understand current numbers and trends.
  • Led warehouse improvement initiatives to advance operational efficiencies and increase revenue.
  • Advanced productivity KPIs by leading trainings on procedures and safety practices.
  • Tracked employee attendance and punctuality, addressing repeat problems quickly to prevent long-term habits.
  • Handled problematic customers and clients to assist lower-level employees and maintain excellent customer service.

United Parcel Service, UPS
Addison, IL

Training Supervisor
09.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Assessed new employee skills and strengths to provide customized training.
  • Updated employees with latest policies, procedures and compliance standards.
  • Collaborated with company leaders and department managers to determine training needs.
  • Evaluated success of training programs and recommended improvements to upper management to enhance effectiveness.
  • Selected or wrote appropriate curriculum for specific course topics.
  • Worked with central management to identify, plan, align and address training needs.
  • Monitored training reports within learning management system for respective roles to promote initial and annual training completion.
  • Provided recommendations for process improvements and discontinuation of ineffective or outdated methods.
  • Focusing and maintaining retention rate 75% and over.

Pitney Bowes Logistics
Carol Stream, IL

Operations Supervisor
07.2020 - 05.2021

Job overview

  • Responsible for timely processing of all department activity including productivity, accuracy, and day end reports.
  • Works with Site Manager to control costs within DC – labor, supplies and inventory shrinkage
  • Responsible for accurate employee records including daily time clock monitoring, discipline notification and attendance reports.
  • Manage workflow to ensure daily activities/demands are met as expected.
  • Manage, coach, train, and counsel team of 60+ employees.
  • Conduct daily shift start-up meetings discussing previous day’s performance, reviewing expected workload.
  • Ensuring safe work environment by observing and coaching employees; addressing potential safety hazards; maintaining clean work area; monitoring condition of all equipment and ordering repairs; and ensuring safety committee performs activities and audits.
  • Monitored supply chain and managed logistics functions for company.

United Parcel Service, UPS
Addison, IL

Health and Safety Supervisor
06.2013 - 07.2020

Job overview

  • Promoting safe work environment.
  • Ensuring regulatory and UPS policy compliance to prevent injuries and accidents and to reduce workers compensation and liability costs.
  • Maintaining positive contacts with professional, regulatory, and community organizations to provide safe work environment and to strengthen UPS’s standing in communities that are served.
  • Serves on cross-functional Health and Safety team to implement corporate, region, and district health and safety prevention activities and safety recognition programs to foster world class safety culture.
  • Assists in executing Region-wide Health and Safety Action Plan to maintain safe work environment.
  • Conducts Region -wide safety training and certifications.
  • Reviews daily health and safety data, and analyzes reports to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local and UPS health and safety regulations and determine non-compliance.
  • Conducts site visits and attends safety meetings to respond to internal customer requests and concerns.
  • Audits employees’ files and contacts employees to schedule required tests or exams.
  • Visits injury / accident scenes and follows UPS investigation guidelines to conduct thorough analyses of all factors leading to injury or accident and identify root causes.
  • Works with Health and Safety Manager to schedule ongoing meetings with organizational and regulatory representatives to foster positive working relationships and strengthen UPS’s safety standing within service communities.
  • Determines employees’ training needs to produce continuous development plans.
  • Enforced regulatory and company policy compliance to improve workplace and employee safety and readiness.
  • Motivated and trained employees to maximize team productivity.
  • Offered staff coaching on observed at-risk work habits to minimize accidents and increase workplace safety.
  • Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows.
  • Identified individual employee's unique work styles and adapted management methods.

The Eating Well
Hillside, IL

Chef/Vendor
04.2019 - 01.2020

Job overview

  • Responsible for prepping food and supplies to drive out to various markets.
  • Setting up kitchen at various locations.
  • Greeting and educating all customers on benefits of health foods.
  • Responsible for taking orders, expediting, and cooking and while maintain environment up to sanitation code.
  • Handled and stored food to eliminate illness and prevent cross-contamination.
  • Monitored line processes to maintain consistency in quality, quantity and presentation.
  • Maintained well-organized mise en place to keep work consistent.
  • Oversaw grill, stove and oven and cleaned equipment after every shift.
  • Inventoried food, ingredient and supply stock to prepare and plan vendor orders.

Blue Plate
Chicago, IL

Chef
03.2018 - 11.2018

Job overview

  • Discussing requirements with clients, creating menus, preparing food, coordinating other staff, storing food properly, and respecting safety standards.
  • Handled and stored food to eliminate illness and prevent cross-contamination.
  • Monitored line processes to maintain consistency in quality, quantity and presentation.
  • Prepared meals from scratch using authentic, popular recipes to generate repeat business.
  • Responded to dietary concerns and food allergies, creating dishes to meet customer needs and palates.
  • Collaborated with staff members to create meals for large banquets serving between 250-1500.
  • Developed and cooked memorable dishes that brought new customers into establishment.

Tony's Finer Foods
Melrose Park, IL

Deli Clerk
09.2016 - 11.2017

Job overview

  • Greeted customers at counter providing responsive, exceptional service to deli counter customers by answering questions, making recommendations, providing samples, and responding to requests.
  • Recommending, slicing, weighing, packaging, and pricing meats and cheeses.
  • Preparing special orders and party trays.
  • Cleaned and sanitized dishes and utensils, consistently keeping adequate supplies on hand for expected customer loads.
  • Restocked supplies and prepared additional ingredients during downtime for expected busy periods.
  • Promoted new or high-value food items by creating attractive displays in cases and other customer-facing areas

Teavana
Oakbrook Terrace, IL

Assistant Manager
09.2015 - 07.2016

Job overview

  • Greet and assist all customers and understand customer’s needs.
  • Offered hands-on assistance to customers, assessing needs and maintaining current knowledge of consumer preferences.
  • Product sales, barista, money handling/cashier, and maintain clean and organized store.
  • Monitored cash intake and deposit records, increasing accuracy and reducing discrepancies.
  • Completed regular inventory counts to verify stock levels, address discrepancies and forecast future needs.
  • Helped with planning schedules and delegating assignments to meet coverage and service demands.
  • Recognized staff for contributions to company success to foster engagement and increase productivity.

Target
Hillside, IL

Logistics Team Member
09.2013 - 12.2014

Job overview

  • Deliver exceptional guest experience by engaging guest and prioritizing guest's needs over task.
  • Back stocking items in and pulling items from backroom accurately while preventing product damage to control expenses.
  • Picking items for guest orders meeting service levels.
  • Maintaining backroom organization and location accuracy and following equipment guidelines while having welcoming and helpful attitude toward guests and other team members
  • Collaborated with shipping department staff to facilitate smooth materials returns to correct vendors.
  • Reviewed order data to verify transactions and shipping dates.
  • Maintained damaged goods records, backorder logs and applicable regulatory reporting.

Altavillas
Hillside, IL

Chef
05.2012 - 12.2013

Job overview

  • Ensure that kitchen operates in timely way that meets quality standards.
  • Fill in for Executive Chef in planning and directing food preparation when necessary.
  • Resourcefully solve any issues that arise and seize control of any problematic situation.
  • Order supplies to stock inventory appropriately.
  • Comply with and enforce sanitation regulations and safety standards.
  • Maintain positive and professional approach with coworkers and customers
  • Handled and stored food to eliminate illness and prevent cross-contamination.
  • Developed kitchen staff through training, disciplinary action and performance reviews.
  • Initiated training for new team members on culinary techniques to improve productivity and increase kitchen workflows.

Petco
North Riverside, IL

Front End Manager
10.2011 - 06.2013

Job overview

  • Facilitating unloading and stocking of merchandise according to operational guidelines and OSE standards.
  • Maintained strong customer relations and effective customer service standards.
  • Supervised and guided new employees and responded quickly to questions to improve understanding of job responsibilities.
  • Oversaw cashier operations, bookkeeping and security.
  • Coached employees through day-to-day work and complex problems.
  • Evaluated employee performance and made recommendations for improvements.
  • Prioritizing merchandise moving to sales floor and areas to be stocked, including POG and end cap sets
  • Performing routine housekeeping tasks to maintain stores appearance and meet OSE standards.
  • Ensuring highest productivity levels are achieved for receiving, processing and stocking.
  • Training and developing partners on proper receiving, processing and stocking procedures, WMR and food rotation practices according to Petco standards.
  • Ensuring RTV and Hazardous Waste processed are managed per Petco policy.
  • Strategically scheduled 10-20 team members to maintain optimal staffing at all times.

Marcus Theatres
Addison, IL

Vendor
10.2011 - 01.2012

Job overview

  • Completing transactions by greeting each guest, identifying guest's request, completing loyalty transactions, and thanking guest.
  • Ensuring security of all box office cash and tickets.
  • Meeting sales expectations through loyalty card sales, suggestive selling, upselling, and sampling.
  • Greeting guests, assembling food orders, operating point-of-sale terminals and making accurate change.
  • Performing daily concession maintenance duties, including daily stocking.
  • Answered questions and assisted customers with item selection and location.
  • Making certain guest service is friendly, helpful, and fast
  • Controlling access to theatre by greeting, directing guests, and tearing tickets
  • Enforcing ratings to keep underage guests from accessing auditoriums with adult content
  • Monitoring auditoriums for picture/sound quality, temperature, lighting, and guest behavior
  • Assisting with crowd control and seating of guests in auditoriums.
  • Increased sales by 2% through membership awards.

Education

Triton College
River Grove, IL

Associate of Science from Hospitality And Restaurant Management
05.2020

University Overview

  • 3.9 GPA

Proviso Mathematics And Science Academy
River Forest, IL

High School Diploma
05.2011

University Overview

GPA: 3.8

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Decision Making
  • Time Management
  • Self-motivation
  • Teamwork
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Multitasking
  • Management Training
  • Focus and Follow-Through
  • Hiring and Onboarding
  • Safe Work Methods
  • Materials Planning and Logistics
  • Task Delegation

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Training Supervisor

United Parcel Service, UPS
09.2021 - Current

Operations Manager

ACI Logistix
04.2021 - Current

Operations Supervisor

Pitney Bowes Logistics
07.2020 - 05.2021

Chef/Vendor

The Eating Well
04.2019 - 01.2020

Chef

Blue Plate
03.2018 - 11.2018

Deli Clerk

Tony's Finer Foods
09.2016 - 11.2017

Assistant Manager

Teavana
09.2015 - 07.2016

Logistics Team Member

Target
09.2013 - 12.2014

Health and Safety Supervisor

United Parcel Service, UPS
06.2013 - 07.2020

Chef

Altavillas
05.2012 - 12.2013

Front End Manager

Petco
10.2011 - 06.2013

Vendor

Marcus Theatres
10.2011 - 01.2012

Triton College

Associate of Science from Hospitality And Restaurant Management

Proviso Mathematics And Science Academy

High School Diploma
CHRISTINA COKER