Rodney Finlayson
Bushnell,FL
Summary
Summary Statement - Project design and management. I have been responsible for creating high level budgets, design, and final implementation. I am and have always been an extremely detail oriented person. My experience allows me to listen to the dreams, wishes, and hear the issues they don't want to repeat. Then start asking questions and develop comprehensive plan to give the client their finished project with everything from small parts storage to major warehouses with miles of conveyor, sortation systems, pallet wrappers, control logic, multi-level pick modules, shuttle systems, ASRS rack supported buildings vertical and horizontal carousels. Automated P & D stations, MDR conveyors and systems, space planning for equipment integration. Custom designed pick and sortation systems. Through my extensive career, I have been involved with Project Design from the ground breaking to the filling of the facilities. Project management and working as the owner agent has been a big piece of my success.
Overview
43
43
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
UPS
03.2025 - 12.2025
- Heavy onsite presence driving mutli-site installation and commissioning across geographically dispersed locations while delivering weekly executive updates.
- Partnered closely with operations teams, integrators and installation teams to deliver 7 brownfield projects for total project value of $85 Million.
Project Engineer
Amazon, Global Engineering Services
09.2024 - 11.2024
- Heavy onsite presence working with other engineers, helping with VQ, IOQ, QC, and TQ.
- Collaborated with vendors and co workers to help diagnose areas that they had issues with meeting the required specifications, that includ ed verification of testing methods, trouble shooting and educating.
- Drove projects to total quality and successful performance requirements and go live.
Project Manager
RAYMOND WEST
10.2022 - 06.2024
- IV Managing Parcel Delivery centers with multiple crossbelt sorters, crossovers, singulators, inclines crossovers, as well as Mech lite conveyors, the majority were in working facilities, coordinating with corporate, and local operations.
- Also interfaced with building contractors and other trades.
- Did this in 7 different faculties totaling 14 different sorters, relocating existing racking, conveyors.
Project Manager
MHS, Inc
09.2019 - 08.2022
- Managing Large Parcel conveyor projects with sorters, mezzanines, chutes, working facing the customer being the on site representative coordinating between customer in a working operation, with the GC, as well as coordinating
- Ther trades.
- Long term project over 2+ years, and over $160 million dollars in a single project, also managed other smaller (10 -15 million dollar) projects simultaneously.
Senior Project Manager
Kuecker Logistics Group
06.2018 - 08.2019
- Senior Project Manager for complicated material handling systems, including racking, pick modules, conveyors, sortation Systems
Project Manager
Steel King Industries
04.2015 - 09.2017
- Managed installation of ASRS Rack Supported Buildings.
- Building projects that the rack was in excess of 100 feet tall.
- Coordinated crane and conveyor installation and interface with other contractors, owners, and integrators.
- I have been the project manager and site manager controlling the final product and project.
National Account Sales/Project Manager
Elite Storage Solutions
04.2013 - 09.2014
- Developed business relationships with nationwide businesses focusing on the grocery distribution industry and cold storage warehousing.
- All types of racking, including Shuttles, ASRS systems, and develop business in the Pacific Northwest.
Industrial Storage Systems
04.1988 - 04.2013
- 1999, 2000 #1 Sales Volume Distributor
- Interlake Material Handling Most dollar volume sales
- Top 5 sales volume
- More)
- Owner start-up company
- Grew sales from $0 to over $33,000,000 dollars as a Material Handling (Interlake) Distributor/Integrator.
- We worked with the end users, Design build contractors, as well as integrators, working primarily with the grocery industry, cold storage warehousing, as well as general merchandise warehouses.
- Projects from 2000 square feet to 1.5 million square foot distribution centers and refrigerated warehouses.
- Designing installing VNA super flat warehouses, designing shuttle systems, multi-level Pick Modules, full case and split case.
- We would work with the customers taking the projects from the concept and their wish list of wants, through working with the architects for the structural design and final go live with the customer.
- Interlake ended up using me as a consultant for distributors that needed design and sales guidance
Material Handling Division Manager
Kowallis & Richards, Inc.
07.1982 - 04.1988
- Started an industrial supply distributor in Material handling Industry, selling shelving, Pallet racking, conveyors and Lockers.
- The last 3 years was top sales person in the entire company selling material handling equipment as well as tools and fasteners.
- Primary industries were the Mining industry warehouses, automotive dealerships, as well as food processing companies.
Education
Mining Engineering
University of Idaho, College of Mines
Moscow, IDQuantitative business management
Boise State University
Boise, IdahoSkills
- ASRS
- Multi-level pick modules
- Standard pallet racking
- VNA racking
- Shuttle systems
- ASRS rack supported buildings
- Vertical carousels
- Horizontal carousels
- Automated P & D stations
- MDR conveyors and systems
- Full case and split case
- Shoe sorters
Raw Date Parsing Notes
- Where the resume provided only a month and year, dates were converted to the first day of that month (MM/01/YY).
- Where the resume provided a year only, dates were not converted to a specific MM/DD/YY day unless a month/day was explicitly present.
Projects Addendum
Clearfield UT Aeronautical inside building Cantilever ASRS system, Clearfield, UT, Lethbridge AB, Canada ASRS rack supported building (food processing facility) - expansion, Lethbridge, AB, 05/01/15, 11/30/15, Resume text: started in May, completed end of November 2015, Rancho Cucamonga CA ASRS rack supported building, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 10/01/15, 12/01/16, Resume text: involvement started October 2015, completed December 2016, Aberdeen MD ASRS rack supported building and expansion, Aberdeen, MD, 04/01/15, 07/01/15, 04/01/16, 12/01/16, Resume text: expansion involvement started 4/2016 completed December 2016, Resume text also mentions original project started late 2014., Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Seffner, FL, Orlando, FL, Pompano Beach, FL, Miami, FL, Miami, FL, Naples, FL, Lakeview, WA, Aberdeen, MD, Winston Salem, NC, Spartanburg, SC, Pensacola, FL, Provo, UT, Tualatin, OR, Rocklin, CA, Cordova, CA, Aurora, IL, Resume text: completed in total of 20 weeks in 2017, New Jersey, NJ, Resume text: 2 New fulfillment centers New Jersey, Kansas City, KS, 11/15/18, 07/23/19, Resume text: physical installation started 11/15/2018 completed commissioning on 7/23/2019, Ponca City, OK, Resume text: Happened 1999, Meridian, ID, Resume text: Happened 2001, NV/UT/ID, 01/01/84, 12/31/01, Resume text: projects happened from 1984-2001, Phoenix, AZ, 01/01/93, 12/31/93, Resume text: project physically started 1993, completed fall of 1993, Fort Worth, TX, Portland, OR, 01/01/88, Resume text: original project 1988; expansions in 1993, 1995, 2004, Brea, CA, 01/01/88, Resume text: original work 1988; expansion work 1994, 2001, 2006, 2008, Tulsa, OK, 01/01/99, Resume text: Original project in 1999, Lancaster, PA, 01/01/99, Resume text: Original project in 1999, expansion and modifications 2007 & 2009
Timeline
Project Manager
UPS
03.2025 - 12.2025
Project Engineer
Amazon, Global Engineering Services
09.2024 - 11.2024
Project Manager
RAYMOND WEST
10.2022 - 06.2024
Project Manager
MHS, Inc
09.2019 - 08.2022
Senior Project Manager
Kuecker Logistics Group
06.2018 - 08.2019
Project Manager
Steel King Industries
04.2015 - 09.2017
National Account Sales/Project Manager
Elite Storage Solutions
04.2013 - 09.2014
Industrial Storage Systems
04.1988 - 04.2013
Material Handling Division Manager
Kowallis & Richards, Inc.
07.1982 - 04.1988
Quantitative business management
Boise State University
Mining Engineering
University of Idaho, College of Mines