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Tarei Oden

Houston,USA

Summary

Seeking full-time employment as a warehouse lead, forklift operator - reach, order selector, and material handler with a good company allowing growth & advancement opportunities. I believe my past work experience has allowed me to develop several professional skills.

Successful warehouse lead offering strong background in leadership and mentoring several employees in exceptionally large distribution warehouse settings. Talented in promoting safety, accuracy and company rules when monitoring employee performance and training new employees. Accomplished in performing regular inventory counts and maintaining records with high level of accuracy.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Ground Operations warehouse Lead

Veho
Houston, Tx
02.2026 - Current
  • Labor management
  • Quality Control
  • Dock receiving
  • Training and stowing
  • Forklift operation

Warehouse Lead

Lennox
Houston
02.2025 - 01.2026
  • Led daily warehouse operations to ensure efficient workflow and productivity.
  • Trained new staff on safety protocols and operational procedures.
  • Coordinated inventory management to maintain stock accuracy and availability.

Using SAP (EWM)

RF Scanners

Loading and unloading customers vehicles using various Forklifts

Reach Truck, Sit down Electric forklift and Pacer.

Receiving associate, Reach truck operator

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, INC
Houston, TX
09.2024 - 12.2024
  • As a receiving associate, forklift operator, I performed the physical movement of products using various forklifts sit-down/stand-up and RF handheld computer equipment for a growing logistics company.
  • Including packing, put-away, verifying product numbers/quantities, loading & unloading inside/outside trailers and containers.

Outbound Warehouse Lead, Forklift operator reach truck, Cherry picker

DB Schenker
Houston, TX
04.2023 - 09.2024
  • As a warehouse lead, I was primarily responsible for overseeing a team of warehouse workers, ensuring efficient daily operations by coordinating tasks, managing inventory, maintaining safety standards, and acting as a liaison between the warehouse manager and staff.
  • This includes tasks like assigning work, training new employees, resolving issues, and monitoring productivity within designated warehouse area.
  • Cross training positions: Auditor, Order picker, Supervisor role.

Freezer/Refrigerator Order selector

Sysco - Food Distributor & Restaurant Supplies
Houston, TX
09.2021 - 03.2023
  • As a order selector I was responsible for accurately picking and assembling customer food service orders from stock within a Sysco Distribution Center, using an electric pallet jack or forklift, ensuring proper product selection, quantity, and palletizing to prepare orders for delivery to restaurants and other food service businesses.

Order Builder, Material Handler, Inventory Associate

Silver Eagle Distributors Houston, LLC
Houston, TX
05.2020 - 08.2021
  • As a order builder and inventory associate, I was responsible for using an electric pallet jack, single wide and double wide forklift, and warehouse management system - "voice collecting system" to build loads; hand stacking mixed pallets of product, replenishing flow rack locations from bulk stock, while completing daily cycle counts.

Freezer Order Selector

McLane Houston
Houston, TX
05.2019 - 05.2020
  • I was responsible for selecting and moving products through a distribution center, filling and loading orders for deliveries; pulling items from storage slots, reading or scanning labels to identify product description, quantities and location, labeling pallets for shipment.

Refrigerator/Produce Order Selector, Forklift - Reach operator

HEB Grocery Company - Distribution Center
Houston, TX
07.2015 - 03.2019
  • As a order selector and forklift operator, I was responsible for operating forklift and other power equipment in order to pick and drop orders, replenishing active pick locations (FIFO) order to ensure that pick tickets/o r assignments were filled, picking customer orders from inventory stock, counting cases to validate accurate quantity, labeling all cases and pallets to be shipped to customers/stores.
  • Cross Training Position: Loader, Trainer.

Material Handler, Forklift Operator sit-down

RNDC
Houston, TX
11.2013 - 07.2015
  • As a material handler and forklift operator, I was responsible for picking, packing and loading customer orders for next day delivery as well as other necessary warehouse functions such as replenishment, general housekeeping and inventory control.

Materials Data Clerk, Forklift Operator - Cherry picker

CSAT Solutions
Houston, TX
07.2012 - 10.2013
  • I was responsible for moving customer materials as needed systematically, creating various daily reports to include; material receipts, reports etc.
  • Conducting warehouse inventory tracking using (WMS), Monitoring emails for transfer request and creating orders to ship to customer sites, completing physical movement of materials, as needed.

Researching Associate

CAR Research
Houston, TX
03.2010 - 07.2012
  • As a researching associate, I was responsible for making outbound calls conducting research survey's to car dealership customers, in a call-center environment.

Education

H.S. DIPLOMA -

HIRAM JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL
SACRAMENTO, CA
08.2003 - 05.2007

Skills

  • Warehouse
  • Forklift: Sit-down
  • Forklift: Reach truck
  • Forklift: Cherry picker
  • Electric pallet jack
  • Picking/packing
  • Order selector
  • Data entry
  • Call Center
  • RF Scanner
  • Manufacturing
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Timeline

Ground Operations warehouse Lead

Veho
02.2026 - Current

Warehouse Lead

Lennox
02.2025 - 01.2026

Receiving associate, Reach truck operator

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, INC
09.2024 - 12.2024

Outbound Warehouse Lead, Forklift operator reach truck, Cherry picker

DB Schenker
04.2023 - 09.2024

Freezer/Refrigerator Order selector

Sysco - Food Distributor & Restaurant Supplies
09.2021 - 03.2023

Order Builder, Material Handler, Inventory Associate

Silver Eagle Distributors Houston, LLC
05.2020 - 08.2021

Freezer Order Selector

McLane Houston
05.2019 - 05.2020

Refrigerator/Produce Order Selector, Forklift - Reach operator

HEB Grocery Company - Distribution Center
07.2015 - 03.2019

Material Handler, Forklift Operator sit-down

RNDC
11.2013 - 07.2015

Materials Data Clerk, Forklift Operator - Cherry picker

CSAT Solutions
07.2012 - 10.2013

Researching Associate

CAR Research
03.2010 - 07.2012

H.S. DIPLOMA -

HIRAM JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL
08.2003 - 05.2007
Tarei Oden