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Gary Gudmundson

KATY,TX

Summary

  • Senior global customs specialist with over 20+ years developing, implementing and monitoring trade compliance programs.
  • Subject matter expert on import/export compliance and global logistics operations.
  • Proven leader with change management, critical thinking, and problem solving skills with experience in business risk management processes and gap analysis.
  • Team player, working effectively both autonomously and collaboratively to achieve superior compliance results.
  • Certified Export Specialist (CES), Certified Customs Specialist. (CCS) and Licensed Customs Broker candidate, having passed May 2024 exam with an 87.5%, and application submitted to CBP.
  • Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
  • Experienced in SAP ERP system and design, implementation and maintenance of Global Trade Management software.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Global Import Compliance Analyst

Chevron USA Inc
02.2012 - Current
  • Senior Global Import Compliance Analyst providing global customs compliance support for multiple business units both regional and global: (Americas, South America, and the Middle East).
  • Management compliance with preferential (free trade agreements) and non-preferential origin and duty drawback programs.
  • Develop and implement cross-functional training program on import/ export requirements. (Incoterms, import compliance, and imports SOP topics as well as special topics like HS classification, free trade agreements, duty drawback, antidumping and countervaling duties, steel license, and Section 232 (steel additional duty), and Section 301(special duty- China).
  • Assist the business with conducting internal business risk assessments for international trade. Follow-up with compliance mitigation plans to close gaps.
  • Resolve problems due to incomplete/inaccurate customs documentation and/or other border crossing issues.
  • Provide guidance on customs valuation, HS classification, marking of imported goods, drawback and refunds, review of import restrictions and requirements, review of antidumping and countervailing scope, recordkeeping.
  • Oversee import/ export recordkeeping practices to ensure compliance with regulations
  • Mentor import/ export compliance personnel on trade compliance topics and share learnings.
  • Manage compliance projects with minimal and oversight. Provide management with periodic updates.
  • Provide additional support for customs broker and freight forwarder monitoring, perform customs post-entry transactional audits, development and implementation of the customs compliance program.
  • Participate in pre-and post acquisition reviews to ensure ongoing trade compliance, business risk assessments, and gap closures for new business units.
  • SAP ERP system: Procurement and Sales modules expertise
  • Assess potential of automation to simplify and streamline to improve current import/ export business processes.
  • Global trade management software implementation for chemicals business unit; key compliance leader for global free trade agreement software design and implementation, assisted with test scripts and solutions implementation.
  • Monitor customs regulations to align business process to comply with changing requirements.
  • Key compliance leader on freight forwarder and customs broker selection, RFP, KPIs, and onboarding. Participate in quarterly customs broker oversight calls to discuss activities and improvement plans.
  • Participate in customs broker contract review to ensure they contain the company mandated compliance clauses.

Import and Export Coordinator

INEOS USA Inc
04.2006 - 02.2012
  • Manage international trade compliance for intermediate chemical manufacturer's polymers division.
  • Performed economic analyses for deals: Monitored global logistics cost-to-serve models for packaging, drayage, ocean or air carriage, and freight forwarding costs within commercial and operational constraints to meet budget and channel strategy.
  • Monitor export and import shipments within the region for compliance.
  • Led post-entry audits of customs broker paperwork (US and Canada).
  • Key compliance leader in freight forwarder and customs broker management.
  • Set up and managed large pieces of new export/import business. Participate as compliance team member on new product & market launch, ensuring that all Trade Compliance requirements are met.
  • SAP ERP system: Procurement and Sales expertise
  • Manage major imports and exports of chemical raw materials: high density polyethylene, low density polyethylene, and polypropylene.
  • Sales account management for import specialiity accounts: manage import sales to a major pharmacy company importing LDPE for single-use pharmacutical delivery, and a major medical manufacturer importing medical grade plastics for blood bag production. Managed sales quotation and delivery of up to 100 containers per import.

Export Coordinator

Teleflex Medical
02.2003 - 04.2006
  • Manage export accounts for medical instrument and disposables manufacturer. Trilingual CSR Americas. (English, Spanish, Portuguese).
  • Monitor export shipments within the Americas region for compliance via air and ocean.
  • Work with domestic carriers and freight forwarders, to arrange air and ocean shipments to Latin America as well as intra-company shipments to Europe and Asia. And to resolve issues with international logistics.
  • Expertise with ocean drop shipments directly from Europe or Asia to clients in South America.
  • Medical products industry experience
  • Review export documentation for compliance with regulations, completeness and accuracy
  • Export of medical disposable products and medical equipment (anesthesia, urology, and surgical products and instruments)

Air Export (import) Agent

Bax Global
07.2002 - 02.2003
  • Responsible for ensuring legal compliance and providing export administration and control within government rules and regulations, including appropriate licensing for shipments.
  • Reviewed contracts for required clauses and identify omissions.
  • Ensure proper routing of freight to air export gateways (typically US Southeast such as Atlanta, Nashville, and Miami).
  • Provided customer support at the desk level to all internal and external customers, vendors, suppliers, agents and government agencies to ensure coordination and logistics of shipment.
  • Selected carrier to be used for shipment and prepare documents for carrier.
  • Prepare spot price quotations for branch air export departments upon request.
  • Route and book air export traffic.
  • Prepare and rate house air waybills and master air waybills.
  • Ensure cargo is correctly documented and labeled.
  • Ensure dangerous goods is correctly identified and routed to specialists for reviews and proper labeling.

Administrative Manager, Imports

Nueva Imagen De Mexico. SA De CV
01.2000 - 09.2001
  • Manage import operations for a small dental and medical equipment sole proprietorship.
  • Review import documentation according to US and Mexican export/import regulations.
  • Review HS Classification for imported dental and medical equipment.
  • Review Mexican import declarations for completeness and accuracy.
  • Assist with country registrations under NOMs (Normas Oficiales Mexicanas) of electronic equipment.
  • Imports of dental and medical loupes, intraoral cameras, digital dental radiography systems, panoramic digital radiography, dental chairs and furniture, flat screen monitors, computer systems and support arms, dental office management software suite and disposable dental products.

Education

MBA - Finance

University of Houston, Clear Lake, Houston
08.2011
  • Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
  • FMA National Honor Society
  • 3.8 GPA
  • Finance, Economics, Statistics, Treasury Management, Commercial Banking, Global Business, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Economics of Energy, Teamwork and Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Operations Management, Economics - Special Topics, International Finance, Strategic Management.

Bachelor of Arts - Spanish & World Business

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville
08.2000
  • International Business concentration
  • Courses: Logistics & Transportation, Global Business, Accounting, Economics, Business Law.
  • Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies coursework.
  • Internship: US Department of Commerce - Export Assistance Center Knoxville, TN
  • Study Abroad: Monterrey, Mexico, International Marketing (2 semesters) (Courses: Logistics, Quality, Global Business, Mexican Culture, Marketing Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research).


Skills

  • In depth knowledge of trade compliance topics (customs valuation, country of origin, HTS classifications, free trade agreements, duty drawback, Incoterms, export controls and trade sanctions etc)
  • Customs regulations for other government agencies (EPA, FDA, USDA, etc)
  • Customs broker selection and onboarding, monitoring and oversight
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to influence business partners across functions and in various regions
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and PowerBI
  • Exceptional cross-functional collaboration skills and ability to influence others through subject import/export matter expertise
  • Expertise in automation in global trade management , databases, SAP ERP, and the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) functionality
  • Experience with C-TPAT global supply chain security requirements, Importer Self Assessment testing, Importer Security Filing, and forced labor requirements

Timeline

Global Import Compliance Analyst - Chevron USA Inc
02.2012 - Current
Import and Export Coordinator - INEOS USA Inc
04.2006 - 02.2012
Export Coordinator - Teleflex Medical
02.2003 - 04.2006
Air Export (import) Agent - Bax Global
07.2002 - 02.2003
Administrative Manager, Imports - Nueva Imagen De Mexico. SA De CV
01.2000 - 09.2001
University of Houston, Clear Lake - MBA, Finance
University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Bachelor of Arts, Spanish & World Business

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