Rick Emling

• Provide executive leadership, management oversite, and strategic direction for multi location business unit consisting of 375 school buses and 450 employees.
• Developed and executed new business opportunities resulting in 6.2 million in new business in eight months

• Responsible for all aspects of running the Transportation Department, including day to day operations, budgeting, fiscal responsibility, strategic planning for operations transporting 8,000 students and maintaining 150 school buses and 170 district service vehicles.
• Established standard procedures that reduced Maintenance expense by 25%, and payroll expense by $165k first year.

• Provide executive leadership, management oversite, and strategic direction for multi state area that included up to 11 locations, 1,000 school buses that generated $35 million in yearly revenue.
• Worked closely with School District Administration and Board members to find, develop efficiencies in order to reduce district cost without sacrificing safety of customer service.

* Responsible of the day to day operations of 500 buses in 4 separate locations in te Chicago and Detroit areas.

• Provided thoughtful guidance to personnel in navigating and resolving snags in productivity.
• Delivered business strategy and developed systems and procedures to improve operational quality and team efficiency.
• Maximized operational excellence mentoring personnel on management principles, industry practices and company procedures
• Developed effective business plans to align strategic decisions with long-term objectives
• Implemented operational strategies and effectively built customer and employee loyalty

• .Responsible for all aspects of 115 bus location in Northbrook, ILL
• Increased profitability year over year
• Established customer relationships resulting in long term contracts