KANESHA D. STRADER
Baltimore,MD
Summary
10 Years of Exceptional interpersonal skills with keen ability to establish and support long-term lucrative relationships. Impacting positive organizational outcomes through, key decision-making under pressure, attention to detail, and conflict resolution. With a background in Construction Management, I am Confident in my ability to collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex, high stake problems under high pressure. Committed to continuous improvement and contributing to team success. Confident in ability to rapidly adapt to new settings and learn new tools and technology
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Superintendent
HITT Contracting
Falls Church, VA
04.2022 - Current
- Conducted quality control inspections and verified work against plans/specs, reducing rework by 15% and ensuring client satisfaction
- Supervised 5-10 subcontractor crews daily, created and managed Site Logistics Plan for 150-acre project valued at $10M+
- Coordinated daily site activities and tracked subcontractor schedules to ensure tasks were completed by milestone completion date, reducing project delays by 15%
Project Engineer
HITT Contracting
Falls Church, VA
03.2021 - 01.2022
- Tracked and managed subcontractors, inspectors, deliveries and clients on-site, to better align contract agreements and make every experience exceptional
- Managed the schedule updates and progress tracking using project management software, helping keep multi-million dollar projects on target for key milestones
- Monitored deliveries and inventory logs, to ensure critical materials were available to avoid lost time and additional cost
Assistant Project Manager
HITT Contracting
Falls Church, VA
12.2020 - 02.2021
- Coordinated subcontractors and site schedules on projects valued at $5M-$20M, achieving 95% on-time milestone completion
- Streamlined RFI’s, submittals and drawing reviews, cutting design-related delays by 25% and improving communication between stakeholders, client and overall team
- Spearheaded project closeout documentation and punch lists, ensuring 100% compliance with subcontractors and clients contract requirements
Construction Assistant
HITT Contracting
Falls Church, VA
12.2018 - 01.2019
- Prepared, organized and tracked RFI’s, submittals, and material tracking logs, improving accuracy and team communication
- Assisted in preparing and conducting project meetings and setting milestones to achieve improved coordination, timely-problem solving and overall project success
- Collaborate with the project superintendent and site operations team throughout the life of the project to ensure timely completion, and bridging architectural plans with field reality
Brand Strategist, Marketing & Sales Director
Oshuns Herbalganics, a Herbalganics Company
Baltimore, MD
11.2015 - Current
- Designed brand guidelines and standards to ensure consistency across all channels.
- Analyzed customer feedback and insights to create an actionable plan for the organization's growth.
- Conducted market research to identify consumer trends and preferences in herbal wellness.
Customer Service Representative
Whole Foods Market, an Amazon Company
Baltimore, MD
11.2017 - Current
- Cross-Trained and consistently improving customer satisfaction through expert resolution of conflict, issues, and concerns while working in fast paces environment to better optimize the customers experience.
- Encourage initiative, persuasiveness, intense customer focus and dependability to enhance performance efficiency
- Exhibit exceptional communicational skills to listen attentively, solve problems creatively to achieve win-win outcomes
Territory Manager-Mechanical Division
Greenlee Tools, a Textron Company
Baltimore, MD
01.2016 - 07.2016
- Enhanced sales presentations and promotion by 45% with resulting in marginal profit growth for Greenlee newly launch products to established and new customers in mechanical industry.
- Collected quantitative data search identify average of 40 leads per day via sales force, cold calling, and theoretical sales methods.
- Accelerated in the Mid-Atlantic area by developing a strong foundation for current and future relationships to thrive in new groundbreaking industry.
Territory Manager-Electrical Division
Greenlee Tools, a Textron Company
Baltimore, MD
10.2014 - 01.2016
- Managed over 100 accounts in District of Columbia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania that increased pipeline of opportunity within customer leads by 85% in 6 months.
- Accelerated sales by 45% with 4 month span resulting in substantial profit growth, due to steady growth of customer portfolio.
- Consistently coordinated monthly average of 20 sales and marketing events, promotions and presentations highlighting new product increasing sale revenue by 50% and of solely new account holders and 30% growth of long-term account holders.
Leadership Sales-Development Program
Textron Tools & Test, a Textron Company
Rockford, IL
06.2014 - 10.2014
- Utilized strategic selling methods to develop sales and product knowledge to identify average of 500 leads monthly and strength current customer base by upselling and enlisting long-term product care.
- Innovative selling process by practicing demonstrations of tools resulting in competitive difference by leading average of 12 weekly product presentations.
- Collected over 80 weekly RMA’s/RGA, drop-ships and go-today orders via salesforce.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Agricultural Business Management, Marketing, Organizational Leadership and Supervision
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana05.2014
Skills
- Cultural Competency
- Project management
- Problem-Solving
- Decision-making
- Resources management
- Specification and standards compliance
- Schedule management
- Detail Oriented
- Planning and Scheduling
- Decision Making
- Learning Agility
- Market analysis
- Contract negotiation
- Labor management
- Resource allocation
- Territory expansion
- Account management
- Cold calling
- Microsoft Office
- Procore
- Workday
- Project management software
- CRM Tool (Salesforce)
- Open Space
- Site logistics
- Quality control
- Customer relationship management
- Conflict resolution
- Time management
- Collaborative approach
- AutoCAD
- Field coordination
- Adaptability
Websites
Professional Development
- Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, 08/01/12, Present
- HITT DIVERSE LEADERS 2025, 03/01/25
Timeline
Assistant Superintendent
HITT Contracting
04.2022 - Current
Project Engineer
HITT Contracting
03.2021 - 01.2022
Assistant Project Manager
HITT Contracting
12.2020 - 02.2021
Construction Assistant
HITT Contracting
12.2018 - 01.2019
Customer Service Representative
Whole Foods Market, an Amazon Company
11.2017 - Current
Territory Manager-Mechanical Division
Greenlee Tools, a Textron Company
01.2016 - 07.2016
Brand Strategist, Marketing & Sales Director
Oshuns Herbalganics, a Herbalganics Company
11.2015 - Current
Territory Manager-Electrical Division
Greenlee Tools, a Textron Company
10.2014 - 01.2016
Leadership Sales-Development Program
Textron Tools & Test, a Textron Company
06.2014 - 10.2014
Bachelor of Science - Agricultural Business Management, Marketing, Organizational Leadership and Supervision
Purdue University