CHRISTOPHER NADAL
El Monte,USA
Summary
Film Rental & Asset Manager offering 20 years' experience in film lighting & grip equipment. Skilled administrator with creative eye for program details and keen focus on streamlining procedures for cost-effective operations. Seeking leadership position with emerging company in need of innovative professional.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
Work History
VP Rental Operations
MBS Equipment Company
Sylmar, CA
09.2018 - Current
- Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, vendors, regulators, and community leaders to promote collaboration and long-term success.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Increased company growth through collaboration with sales and marketing departments.
- Consolidated vendors and renegotiated contracts to optimize costs.
- Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, vendors and strategic partners.
Rental / Assets Manager
Paskal Lighting
Pacoima, California
06.1996 - 09.2018
- Coordinate Rental & Rental rates with vendor studios.
- Supervised 16+ staff, including offering feedback and enforcing deadlines for Commercial & feature shoots.
- Coordinated equipment needs for Television & Major Features such as "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", "Life Of Pie" & "Central Intelligence"
- Established operational objectives and work plans for several remote & local facilities
- Created standard operating procedures company-wide
- Coordinated work between multiple company locations.
- Coordinate the shipping of assets between all facilities to increase company equipment utilization.
Production Supply Manager
NKL Clothing
Vernon, California
06.1994 - 06.1996
- Orders supplies for clothing manufacturing
- Distributed supplies and clothing cuts to sewing manufacturing
- Created digital patterns for mass production
- Oversaw quality control for all final garments
- Scheduled shipment of final garments to clothing vendors such as Clothestime, Fashion 21
- Managed a 16 person cutting and quality control factory
Warehouse Manager
Hollywood Lamp & Shade
Vernon, California
06.1989 - 06.1994
- Liaised between customers and manufacturing to design new product.
- Trained staff of 10 direct labor employees to perform assembly and manufacture of product.
- Implemented strategic shipping policies to achieve long and short-term sales targets.
- Maximized sales by shipping on time and accurately.
- Responsible for achieving production requirements.
- Oversaw the production process and managed the production schedule.
- Reviewed processing schedules and production orders concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work Procedures and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
Education
High School Diploma -
Abraham Lincoln High School
Los Angeles, CaliforniaSkills
- Rental Management
- Project coordination
- Team leadership
- Proactive mindset
- Hard working and self-motivated
- Organized
- Fast learner
- Data management familiarity
- Hiring and recruitment knowledge
- Process improvements
- Forklift operation
- Inventory management
Additional Information
- I joined Paskal Lighting in 1996 and have been employed with the company for 20+ years. During my tenure, I have held the position of Warehouse Manager for several years, then was promoted to Rental Agent, and eventually Rental / Asset Manager.
- I have worked as Rental Agent on many of PRG Paskal's local and out-of-state large scale feature film projects such as "Van Helsing" and "GI Joe" (Los Angeles), "Apocalypto" (Veracruz Mexico), "Life of Pie" (Taichung, Taipei), and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" (New Orleans).
- I currently continue to serve as Rental Agent coordinating major feature film projects while overseeing the work of all rental agents for all Paskal divisions. Reviewing cost and profit margins on all rentals.
- I have played an integral role in establishing Paskal's current and intermittent remote locations. I helped design as well as oversaw the floor plan and work flow of the warehouses. I also established the implementation of rental procedures, warehouse department operation, as well as controlling the assets and overseeing inventory and cost control for all divisions
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
VP Rental Operations
MBS Equipment Company
09.2018 - Current
Rental / Assets Manager
Paskal Lighting
06.1996 - 09.2018
Production Supply Manager
NKL Clothing
06.1994 - 06.1996
Warehouse Manager
Hollywood Lamp & Shade
06.1989 - 06.1994
High School Diploma -
Abraham Lincoln High School