Roland L Cantrell
Dalton,Ga
Summary
To obtain a leadership position with a successful company where personal and professional growth can be achieved with team environment.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
EVP Sales
Toccoa Mats
2022.06 - Current
- Manage outside reps’ groups
- Product Development −mats
- Added new sales in Rugs
- L/O & Area rugs
COO
OneSource Sample
2020.09 - Current
- All sample mfg
- “cutting, sample lines
- Distribution
- Print shop
- Sales team
- CSR team
- Lean mfg
- Traveled to all major markets and broadloom carpet markets
President
NPc South
2012.03 - 2019.06
- Full P &L
- Inventory
- Logistics / Imports
- Purchasing
- Customer relations− Traveled to all major markets, Germany, New York, and Vegas
- Safety
- Quality
- Service
- 3 Plant Mangers in Dalton area
- 1 Plant manager in Santa Fe Springs California 300+ employees
- Reported to owner of company
- Started up a tufting division from 0 sales to 4.3m 1st year
- Installed a new Whs management system without service interruption
- Reduced labor by 7.6%
- Increased service level
- Reduced turnover rate
- Created a family style work environment but still holding a professional level company wide
- Reduced safety incident rate by 2.4%
Quality Control Manager Bath Division
Mohawk Home
Dalton, GA
2007.04 - 2012.03
- Manage all quality activities for Mohawk Bath business to include 14 employees
- Monitor product testing and address any non−conformance issues
- Interface with design and development teams to ensure compatible thru manufacturing
- Reports to VP of mfg
- Reduced defective rate by 80.3%
- Reduced customers claim by 88% by implementing traceability, best practices, and new procedures
- Obtained formal six sigma green belt training
- Built customer relationships to address quality advances or problems at Kohl’s, Walmart, JCPenney, Costco
Mohawk Packing / Shipping Manager
Mohawk Home
Dalton, GA
2005.04 - 2003.07
- 2 supervisors
- 100 employees
- Reported to VP of mfg
- Improved shipping efficiency by 25%
- Reduced claims by 30% by implementing best practices
Project Manager
Mohawk Samples division, soft surfaces, hard surfaces
Chatsworth, GA
2003.07 - 2002.03
- Managed sample activities for residential carpet and hard surface
- Worked with marketing & mfg
- On sample market needs
- Managed all market set−up activities to include 7 markets per year
- Reported to VP of Sample Division
- Lean mfg
- Company wide, tasked to reduce labor by 10% Mohawk wide
- Improved sample productivity (cutting, binding, labeling)
- Reduced labor by 10.6% as assigned by leadership
- How create a new sample whs management system to streamline info from orders to the mfg
- Floor
Skills
- Operations management
- Corporate communications
- Innovation management
- Internal communications
- Growth planning
- Executive-level support
- Operations oversight
- Operational leadership
- Policy development
- International business
- Organizational development
- Strategic planning
- Performance improvement
- Operational management
Timeline
EVP Sales
Toccoa Mats
2022.06 - Current
COO
OneSource Sample
2020.09 - Current
President
NPc South
2012.03 - 2019.06
Quality Control Manager Bath Division
Mohawk Home
2007.04 - 2012.03
Mohawk Packing / Shipping Manager
Mohawk Home
2005.04 - 2003.07
Project Manager
Mohawk Samples division, soft surfaces, hard surfaces
2003.07 - 2002.03