Jeremy Daniel
Virginia Beach
Summary
Observant Logistician with proven ability to coordinate and manage transportation of goods and materials. Skilled in inventory management, route optimization and supply chain management. Demonstrated success in developing strategies to reduce transportation costs and improve organizational efficiency.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Supervisory General Supply Specialist GS-11 Step 2
Defense Logistics Agency
12.2023 - Current
- Actively serves as a key point of contact for Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) at NNSY, liaising with Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon System Support (NAVSUP WSS) and private industries.
- Manages the daily operations of customer service, expeditors, and project managers, overseeing logistics for 15+ availabilities simultaneously.
- Supervises 38 civilian and contractor personnel within these departments.
- Ensures that 95% of all materials ordered are ready for issue (RFI) before the start of each availability, surpassing the standard for all availabilities prior to the official start date (A-0).
- Collaborates with other departments and customers to address material delays, ensuring requisitions are escalated to appropriate supply chains.
- Coordinates supply's involvement in planning for commercial procurement, late delivery consequences, additional procurement funds, cannibalization of other ships, or alternatives to ensure timely material receipt and delivery.
- Manages high priority and urgent material release orders for intensively managed items through Material Access Technology (MAT), OneTouch, EBS, FEDMALL, and WEBVLIPS.
- Supports recruitment and selection of highly qualified employees, making hiring decisions in compliance with all applicable regulations, including EEO regulations.
- Facilitates successful transition and retention of employees in the Federal Service by providing opportunities, training, and tools for effective performance beyond the probationary period.
- Developed a comprehensive training tool designed specifically for team members providing them with a valuable resource to effectively solve various work-related problems they encounter.
- Serve as the supervisor of the Culture Committee, which provides the unique opportunity to view the entire organization from a broad perspective which allows for the identification of key areas of concern for meaningful improvements.
- To facilitate this transformative change, developed and deployed a variety of tools to include focus groups which serve as a platform for gathering diverse insights and driving collective action toward change.
Equipment Specialist GS-09 Step 2
Defense Logistics Agency
09.2021 - 12.2023
- Enthusiastically absorbed all information and knowledge imparted by supervisors and colleagues alike.
- Reliable and dependable asset, efficiently managing and processing all documents daily while ensuring all necessary corrections are annotated and corrected prior to transferring to the appropriate procurement authority.
- Granted accesses to fill 1st line supervisors’ position in his absence, trusted to complete both duties within an 8-hour workday no matter the workload given.
- Ensure that equipment and material meet operational specifications and are available to provide required support for the overhaul and alteration of ships and submarines.
- Anticipates being a valuable team member in the planning and determination of current and future material and equipment needs.
- Adept at resolving issues relating to supply discrepancies, product quality discrepancies, incomplete or inexact material requisitions, and other issues affecting material shortages or production delays, and communicating such discrepancies to appropriate entities.
- Conducted physical inventories in order to verify batch’s with discrepant material were pulled out of circulation.
- Continually strive for and encourage others to look at process improvements reporting any improvements for authorization along the way.
- Certified and performs the duties and responsibilities of an Approving/Billing Official (A/BO) for credit card holders as well as a Certifying Officer (CO), following all rules and regulations to ensure the proper fulfillment of all duties to standard.
- Possesses expert level knowledge and understanding of standard and non-standard JML requirements, and the supply market as it relates to shipyard operations.
- Provide necessary guidance to Customer Service Technicians, Credit Card Purchasers, Contract Specialist and Engineers to ensure accurate procurement descriptions, and recommend modifications to substitute items offered.
- Analyzes contract specifications and examining pertinent equipment to determine if specifications are met.
- Conduct technical research by using various government systems and resources including but not limited to: One Touch Support.
Supply Technician GS-07 Step 1
Defense Logistics Agency
02.2021 - 09.2021
- As the Material Expeditor maintained responsibility for the tracking and Estimated Delivery Date (EDD) improvement of all Maintenance Training Ships and voyage repair requisitions at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
- Provided DLA customer support to the industrial customer for a wide range of issues involving both DLA and non-DLA managed items.
- Also, responsible for evaluating and negotiating timely deliveries in support of customers work schedules.
- Ensure tailored customer support was provided, which maintained customer RDD/EDD needs and responded to customer inquiries to ensure timely support.
- Responsible for reviewing unfilled order status daily and taking appropriate action to escalate fulfillment actions that do not meet customer requirements.
- Contacted customer, supply organizations, ICP, transportation units, and others to obtain material status information.
- Responsible for Receiving and processing MILSTRIP status updates and advising the Industrial Customer on adverse status.
- Tracked and provided status of actions and/or the availability of lateral support and cross agency sources of supply to avoid or alleviate work stoppages.
- Followed up on unfulfilled orders and processes or cancellations, when necessary, as well as provided order status information to customers and took action to ensure timely mission support.
- When needed looked for lateral support and located cross-agency sources of supply to ensure assets were available for procurement.
- Served as a point of contact for requisitions/requisition alerts.
- Developed a thorough knowledge of Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and Navy systems including Enterprise Business Systems (EBS), MAT, OTS, and Fedmall.
- Utilized a variety of logistics databases including MAT, EBS, WEBVLIPS, and service systems as required to input and modify order requirements.
- Responsible for the tracking of high priority/critical path/work stoppage materials, seeking alternative solutions including other sources of supply, cross deck, paybacks, loans, etc.
- Developed a working relationship with work packaging, productions shops, work controls and tool shop to ensure adequate material needs were supported for projects.
- Performed causative research to identify problematic material to move it forward in the supply line.
- Performed various administrative functions, such as filing, answering phones, and daily material tracking logs.
- Familiar with office equipment such as copiers, printers and fax machines stocked and changed toner cartridges for these items.
- Developed an understanding of shipyard organizational relationships, Project management structure, and Material Procurement processes.
Warehouse Specialist (Contractor)
Defense Logistics Agency (Prolog, Inc.)
03.2018 - 02.2021
- As a warehouse specialist, accurately processed received material.
- Inspected material for quantity, NSN, damages, shortages, overages, and initiated material to be reordered due to vendor or manufacturer errors.
- Experienced with technical procedures, materials and equipment required for shipyard maintenance, repairs and overhaul of complex nuclear Navy vessels.
- Tasked with arranging and stocking shelves according to customer's needs to prepare outgoing material.
- Oversaw and organized the retrieval of materials from other areas in a timely and accurate manner to accommodate the customer's specifications in order to package and ship to the designated shipping locations.
- To ensure proper prioritization of shipment reception and departure planned and coordinated workloads with personnel by communicating professionally both orally and in writing.
- Worked directly with customers continually meeting their needs on hazardous customer pick-up material.
- Assisted in preventing production delays, scheduling conflicts, and the lack of sufficient material and instructions to include working in a proficient and timely manner to ensure the customer received their material, calling the customer to retrieve or fix any issues with their material and keeping a strict daily log of all out-going, incoming, and stored hazardous materials.
- Ensured proper certifications, testing, and classification of all hazardous material.
- Executed appropriate research to ensure that physical inventories matched written records.
- Worked independently on end use receipts to ensure customers material fulfillment requests were completed with oldest materials first to keep wastes to a minimum within shipyard operations.
- Possess the knowledge required to navigate MAT (material access technology) and MRQT (Material Request).
- Familiar with reading and interpreting technical drawings, processing instructions, specifications, and technical manuals.
- Overall warehousing experience includes storage, tracking, and issuance of hazardous material as well as kitting, and material routing and delivery.
Mission Preparation Coordinator / Defense Courier (Trainer)
United States Army
08.2016 - 03.2018
- As a Mission Preparation Coordinator and Defense Courier trainer, responsible for all courier mission preparations to include organizing all transportation (tractor trailers, vans, flights) and living quarters.
- As well as performing daily wall to wall inventories.
- Customer point of contact calls and emails to ensure proper delivery and acceptance of highly sensitive materials.
- Responsible for the training of new couriers in proper procedures and handling of all TS/SCI materials and the necessary logistical needs of the different classifications of materials.
- Personally trained 12 new couriers prior to departure of courier station.
- Managed the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection (ATFP) and Emergency Management (EM) programs successfully training all personnel on the scope of each program.
- This responsibility came with reviewing all terror threats in the local areas of travel prior to tasking couriers to deliver material in the location.
- Briefed each courier prior to departure to ensure understanding of all possible threats and liaisons to contact in case of emergency.
- Solely responsible for leading quarterly debriefs for all personnel who traveled outside of the United States while couriering material.
Senior Operations / Training Manager
United States Army
01.2014 - 08.2016
- In the capacity of Senior Operations and Training Manager, strategic planning and execution were carried out to provide logistical support for 178 training events and 12 air load operations.
- Physical fitness testing was organized at the unit level to guarantee the optimal mission readiness of all personnel.
- A total of 57 individuals were effectively trained on logistical movement standard operating procedures (SOP) and the handling of hazardous material loads and drops.
- Logistics support plans were put into action to oversee the advanced shipment of hazardous goods and mobility equipment to designated areas in the U.S. and overseas.
- Compliance with training standards was rigorously monitored to achieve a 90% deployment readiness rate within the unit.
- The responsibility of managing administrative document processing and record-keeping for 155 unit personnel was diligently upheld.
- Additionally, 58 senior advisor performance assessments were processed, along with numerous personnel actions and awards, following a thorough review for accuracy and completeness.
- Oversight of single personnel and geographical bachelor housing assignments was also part of the role, in addition to handling incoming and outgoing personnel paperwork.
Team Leader / Senior Operator Trainer
United States Army
01.2009 - 01.2014
- As a Team Leader, planned and lead 22 Combat Logistical Patrols (CLP) in support of operation Enduring Freedom.
- Responsible for the unit’s Drivers Training program, through mentorship and leadership expertly trained more than 40 personnel on various heavy wheeled vehicle logistical operation in support of mission goals keeping the unit at a 90% readiness status on personnel for convoy operations.
- Successfully implemented the company’s key control program eliminating the possible loss and/or theft of U.S. Government property.
- Graduated 2nd in class of 220 students from the Fort Campbell Leadership Academy.
- Trained and mentored new personnel on war time operations from the Field Manual’s perspectives, as well as from personal perspectives, to ensure all members of the team were mentally and physically prepared for anything that may occur while deployed.
Education
High School Diploma -
Chillicothe High School
Chillicothe, OH05.2004
BA - Cybersecurity
Regent University
Virginia Beach, VASkills
- Cost reduction
- Stock control
- Demand forecasting
- Transportation management
- Materials handling
- Warehouse operations
- Warehouse management
- Logistics management
- Project management
- Inventory and supply logistics
Relevant Coursework Licenses Certifications
- Clearance-TS/SCI: CI Poly (inactive)
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- One-on-One Professional Supervisory Coaching
- Records Management
- Supervisory Risk Management
- Lean Six Sigma (Yellow Belt)
- Applied Human Resource Management
- Emotional Intelligence Supervisory Training
Timeline
Supervisory General Supply Specialist GS-11 Step 2
Defense Logistics Agency
12.2023 - Current
Equipment Specialist GS-09 Step 2
Defense Logistics Agency
09.2021 - 12.2023
Supply Technician GS-07 Step 1
Defense Logistics Agency
02.2021 - 09.2021
Warehouse Specialist (Contractor)
Defense Logistics Agency (Prolog, Inc.)
03.2018 - 02.2021
Mission Preparation Coordinator / Defense Courier (Trainer)
United States Army
08.2016 - 03.2018
Senior Operations / Training Manager
United States Army
01.2014 - 08.2016
Team Leader / Senior Operator Trainer
United States Army
01.2009 - 01.2014
BA - Cybersecurity
Regent University
High School Diploma -
Chillicothe High School
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