Sonny Christo
Brea,CA
Summary
Warehouse and production leader with a background in shipping logistics, inventory control, and cross-department operations. Leads daily scheduling, team assignments, documentation, and compliance while supporting receiving, packing, and inventory counts. Known for clear communication with management and consistent support for safe, organized warehouse workflows.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Production Lead
WOOJIN IS AMERICA
Santa Fe Springs, CA
04.2021 - Current
- Led morning meetings, providing updates and statuses to the production department.
- Oversaw a team of seven workers, fostering collaboration and productivity.
- Trained and managed workers across all warehouse departments, including shipping, receiving, inventory, production, and admin.
- Manage the shipping department both International and domestic.
- Managed the packing and shipping process for all new items for new projects.
- Have held meetings with our trucking companies to negotiate shipping fees and charges.
- Record and report all daily activities and status to Production management team.
- Support and manage workers from our sister company from South Korea that visit for special projects and training workshops.
- Handle and purchase all supplies and tools needed in the warehouse.
- Have managed our yearly inventory counts.
- Was sent to South Korea for Production and leadership training.
- Was sent out on the field to one of our projects to establish and train the team on company procedures and processes.
- Implemented and organized our documents to follow ISO processes and procedures.
- Strong communication with upper management providing a day-to-day status updates.
- Print, manage and hand out travelers to the team.
- Relocated the entire warehouse and designed the layout for the production floor.
Warehouse Lead
Alta Foodcraft
Orange, CA
04.2016 - 01.2020
- Hired to manage inventory and truck drivers for a service company.
- Oversaw multiple large service accounts, ensuring fresh items were purchased daily and delivered on schedule.
- Coordinated inventory purchasing by meeting and calling reps from multiple locations, researching new items, and securing favorable purchasing rates for clients.
- Managed all our shipping and receiving for customers that who were too far or too small to have a regular delivery driver.
- Performed daily cycle counts and update logs and submit orders and perform quarterly inventory counts.
- Trained several workers on the forklift for driving and managed the maintenance.
- Communicated with management and Admins to provide the most up to date information regarding inventory Back orders from our vendors, customer complaints, driver complaints, day to day issues, customers requests and or order changes.
Driver/Delivery
Dels Pharmacy
Ontario, CA
04.2016 - 01.2018
- Packaging and delivering medication to our client throughout CA.
- Improved delivery routes, saving company $3,500 monthly within first few months.
- Identified and resolved field operation issues, enhancing service reliability.
- Built professional relationships with clients, ensuring needs were met effectively.
Manager / Driving Instructor $25.00 an hour
Tomco Driving and Traffic School
Hesperia, CA
06.2011 - 04.2016
- Implemented a new training course to train our students in a more productive way which gave our students a 90% chance or higher of being a safe driver and passing the DMV test.
- Every year being a manager was able to improve sales by 10%, by delivering great customer service and having a high student passing rate.
- I constantly surpassed sales quotas, dealt with customers face to face or by phone/ emails and occasionally went to events such as school fairs, holiday events.
- Resolved customer issues and reduced complaints to zero by end of first year.
- Identified and implemented cost-saving ideas for classroom training and on-road driving.
- Updated electronic files and issued computers to drivers, enhancing record-keeping for students.
- Updated files and records to ensure accuracy and organization.
Night Shift Manager
Quartermaster
Cerritos, CA
02.2005 - 07.2008
- Promoted to Night Shift Manager position 40% cutting loss of products down to 0% and putting shipping department accuracy at a 100%. Hired and trained new members with new procedures and processes, managed a team of 8 people that I personally trained and helped move up into lead positions.
- Managed Shipping department, restructured processes for pulling, packing, and shipping; integrated double-check confirmation process, eliminating shipping inaccuracies.
- Promoted to team lead in receiving department, overseeing 2 trained team members.
- Transitioned to receiving department, received large containers daily, organized stock bin locations for order pullers, compared shipments to purchase orders, matched items, and logged information in company's ERP system, documenting inaccuracies and missing quantities.
- Initiated employment by unloading trucks and containers by hand. unloading trucks and containers by hand, and breaking down cardboard.
Education
No Degree -
Long Beach City College
Long Beach07-2004
Skills
- Production planning
- Logistics coordination
- Shipping management
- Inventory management
- Warehouse management
- Inventory control
- ERP reporting
- ISO documentation
- ISO compliance
- Process optimization
- Operations coordination
- Safety management
- Team leadership
- Logistics
Awards
Throughout my time working I have received many awards for completing quotas and or assignments, I've also received bonuses for great attendance and completing certain amounts of years with a company.
Timeline
Production Lead
WOOJIN IS AMERICA
04.2021 - Current
Warehouse Lead
Alta Foodcraft
04.2016 - 01.2020
Driver/Delivery
Dels Pharmacy
04.2016 - 01.2018
Manager / Driving Instructor $25.00 an hour
Tomco Driving and Traffic School
06.2011 - 04.2016
Night Shift Manager
Quartermaster
02.2005 - 07.2008
No Degree -
Long Beach City College