Leendert W. Leydes
Milwaukee,USA
Summary
Skilled professional in analytics, production, and management, recognized for enhancing workplace efficiency through effective task management and communication.
Experienced in a specialized laboratory environment, executing diverse methodologies and analysis. Demonstrated leadership by guiding teams to surpass performance and sales records, showcasing drive and commitment to excellence. Career goals include further leveraging skills and grow into a new permanent role.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Bakery Dept Manager/Bread Baker
C&S Wholesale
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
08.2025 - Current
- Leading the bakery team, which includes stocking/merchandising, training, purchasing/ordering, inventory control, administrative work, scheduling, controlling and documenting shrink, control purchase journals and ownership.
- Produce daily production numbers, bake, production and personal training and guidance
- Instructing and delegating the bakery team
- Effectively translating goals of store leadership
- Production in a fast-paced environment includes all bakery department practices in a set time frame, often by myself.
- Prepping department for opening, setting up cases, breaking down department for close
- Proven excellent customer service, work efficiency and productivity
- Broke several records and successfully won several competitions at this store location under my management
- Keeping logs and sanitary regulations according to strict OSHA/Health department regulations
- Signage/promotional/sales changes
- Run regulary inventories, orders, purchasing journals and sales reports.
Bakery Dept Manager/ Bakery Lead
Kroger
Milwaukee, USA
01.2018 - 03.2021
- Leading the bakery team, which includes duties and tasks like stocking/merchandising, training, purchasing/ordering, inventory control, administrative work, scheduling, controlling and documenting shrink
- Cap scans/ daily production numbers, baking, production and personal training and guidance
- Instructing and delegating the bakery team
- Effectively translating goals of store leadership
- Production in a fast-paced environment includes baking, cake decorating, packaging, frying, proofing, glazing, labeling, operating ovens and slicers, handhelds, proofer, compactors, bailers
- Prepping department for opening, setting up cases, breaking down department for close
- Proven excellent customer service, work efficiency and productivity
- Broke several records and successfully won several competitions at this store location under my management
- Keeping logs and sanitary regulations according to strict OSHA/Health department regulations
- Signage/promotional/sales changes
- Being flexible working varied shifts/hours and attend and assist where needed
Frozen buyer, Dairy buyer/manager, Grocery Team member, Bakery Team member, Bakery Supervisor
Whole Foods Market Inc.
Milwaukee, USA
08.2006 - 06.2017
- Helped drive the store to become one of the biggest comping Whole Foods locations in the country as a member of the original opening team
- Worked as a Frozen buyer, Dairy buyer/ Manager, which included duties and tasks like stocking, purchasing/ordering, inventory control, holding close contact with vendors and suppliers, administrative work, controlling shrink and departments budgets
- Worked as bakery team member and a bakery supervisor in which I educated and delegated the bakery team
- Effectively translated goals of store leadership
- Production in a fast-paced environment also included baking, benching, cake decorating, packaging, scaling, labeling, operating ovens, mixers and pallet jacks
- Proven excellent customer service, work efficiency and productivity
- Keeping logs and sanitary regulations according to strict organic and OSHA/Health department regulations
- Being flexible working varied shifts/hours and attend and assist where needed
Specialist metal analysis/prep/lab technician
Alcontrol Laboratories BV
Hoogvliet, The Netherlands
11.1998 - 05.2006
- Worked in various departments, advanced to Specialist Lab Technician
- Receiving samples from client, archiving samples in system, assigning work/tracking numbers and analytical codes in lab software (LIMS)
- Prepping samples/distributing samples to departments
- Soil and water destruction process with Lab Microwave technique
- Maintaining safe work environment (chemicals storage/usage)
- Adhere to the internationally recognized quality control system norm ISO 17025
- Operating several analytical instruments, including metal analysis on water/soil with an ICP/AES Spectrophotometer, making element concentrations for creating calibration lines
- Particle determination in various soils
- Calibrating instruments and pipette's, data entry of analytical results in client accessible software and reporting questions/concerns back to the client
Education
Some College (No Degree) - College
KMBO
The Netherlands01-1992
L.T.S 'De Vaan' -
The Netherlands01.1989
Skills
- Adaptable learner
- Driven and motivated
- Coaching and guiding
- Analytics
- Management
- Efficient production operations
- Quality control
- Multilingual
- Time management/ Sense of urgency
- Experienced in fast paced environments
Accomplishments
- Helped several departments and companies succeed in record-breaking sales and output.
- Authored and self-published four books between 2012 – 2022.
- Created and executed presentations/lectures and exhibits for the Milwaukee community.
- Contributed research to museums and archives internationally.
- Lectured and taught classes, which includes history and music lessons for several years.
Timeline
Bakery Dept Manager/Bread Baker
C&S Wholesale
08.2025 - Current
Bakery Dept Manager/ Bakery Lead
Kroger
01.2018 - 03.2021
Frozen buyer, Dairy buyer/manager, Grocery Team member, Bakery Team member, Bakery Supervisor
Whole Foods Market Inc.
08.2006 - 06.2017
Specialist metal analysis/prep/lab technician
Alcontrol Laboratories BV
11.1998 - 05.2006
Some College (No Degree) - College
KMBO