Natanael Avila
Brownsville,TX
Summary
Results-driven transportation and operations leader with extensive experience in route optimization, employee training, transportation scheduling, and safety compliance. Proven track record of coordinating daily transportation activities while enhancing operational efficiency and fostering strong relationships with drivers, school personnel, parents, and community members. Dedicated to ensuring safe and reliable student transportation through strategic planning, effective communication, and strict adherence to district, state, and federal transportation standards. Eager to leverage leadership skills and transportation expertise as a Transportation Coordinator with Los Fresnos CISD.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages
Work History
Trasnportation Supervisor
Los Fresnos CISD
Los Fresnos, TX
08.2022 - Current
- Supervised daily transportation operations, ensuring compliance with safety regulations and district policies.
- Coordinated schedules and routes to optimize efficiency and reduce delays across the fleet.
- Developed training programs for new hires, fostering a culture of safety and operational excellence within the team.
- Develop and optimize transportation routes to improve efficiency, reduce travel time, and maximize fleet utilization.
- Analyze student transportation needs and adjust routes to accommodate enrollment changes, road conditions, and special programs.
- Coordinate route assignments and driver schedules to ensure on-time service and compliance with district policies.
- Utilize routing software, GPS systems, and operational data to improve route performance and service reliability.
- Monitor route effectiveness and implement continuous improvements to enhance safety and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with school administrators, parents, and drivers to resolve transportation concerns and maintain high service levels.
Dispatcher/ Driver
LFCISD Transportation
Los Fresnos, Texas
08.2019 - 08.2022
- Ensure that all students are been picked up and Dropped off safely on daily basis.
- Monitor all buses (routes) during the day.
- Answer all types of calls from parents, students, and district personnel, positively and respectfully.
- Cover routes from absent drivers at am and pm.
- Monitor efficiencies from extra programs during morning shuttles, midday, 6 pm, ASP, Etc.
- Created or modified any type of files (word, excel, PowerPoint, etc.) to track or follow any type of program.
- Update database from transportation files.
- Notified any concerns or suggestions from drivers or parents to supervisors.
- Any additional task required by supervisor.
- Generated Disciplinary / Incident Reports from routes in BusConduct(Software).
- Install camera systems in buses.
- Install Zonar Systems in buses.
- Makes sure all the camera systems are up to date and running during the school year.
- Preventive maintenance on all bus technology devices like cameras, DVRs, Zonar, displays, etc.
Fracc Driver/ Trainer
Pinnacle
Stanley, North Dakota
01.2017 - 07.2019
- Provide fuel services to Oil Industries.
- Performed fuel consumption and safety analysis for fuel.
- Trained new employees on how to provide fuel services and how to follow safety protocols.
- Delivered fuel to customers.
Field Supervisor
Balch Machine Company
Brownsville, Texas
05.2012 - 12.2016
- Manage and coordinate field workers in structural projects
- City projects and client projects
- Create and design Cad models of projects and send to production
- Generate sales for company
- Create budgets for project
- Follow customer expectations.
Electronic Technician
Deltronicos
Matamoros, Tamaulipas
02.2005 - 05.2012
- Participated in the readiness of the SDAR Program for Delphi Electronics
- Trained new technicians on the SDAR electronic analysis
- Created quality plans for all the new products or changes on the process
- Implemented the quality standards in the new process
- Respond/Review with our customers all the quality complaints
- Coordinated activities in the assembly lines with the quality inspectors; such as;
- Follow the first sample
- Created the new gold/dummies samples
- ESD control
- Tooling/Equipment calibration control.
- Used Statistical Methods to find a base cause of a quality complaint, using:
- Five Ways
- Dimensional Print Analysis
- FTQ Analysis
- Trigger Alarm systems
- Development of new strategies daily for shipments on time
- Have control for all the database of Import/Export
- Managed the inventory for all the car plan assembly parts
Education
Bachelor of Science - Applied Management
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ2028
Skills
- Bilingual
- Communication Skills
- Commitment to professional integrity
- Route planning
- Technical Competency
- Responsible
- Honest
- Versatile problem-solving
- Train the Trainer (School Bus)
- Zonar Systems
- REI and SEON DVR Tech
- Class B license holder
- Schematics Layout Interpretation
- Drawings Layout Interpretation
- Transportation management
Certification
Texas A&M Certification of Trained the Trainer.
Languages
Spanish
English
Timeline
Trasnportation Supervisor
Los Fresnos CISD
08.2022 - Current
Dispatcher/ Driver
LFCISD Transportation
08.2019 - 08.2022
Fracc Driver/ Trainer
Pinnacle
01.2017 - 07.2019
Field Supervisor
Balch Machine Company
05.2012 - 12.2016
Electronic Technician
Deltronicos
02.2005 - 05.2012
Bachelor of Science - Applied Management
Grand Canyon University
Leadership
- LFCISD- Supervisor / Dispatcher / Driver
- Pinnacle- Lead Driver & Trainer
- Balch Machine Company- Field Supervisor
- Deltronicos- Supervisor Skills