Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

- Proven ability to analyze business processes to improve efficiencies, increase revenues and decrease costs;
- Results-oriented individual who performs well under pressure to achieve excellence at the highest levels;
- Ability to spearhead projects with high-level supervisory skills and a proven capacity to consistently deliver high-quality work; and
- Demonstrated leadership and problem solving skills.

Work History

• Trimac Transportation
• Customer Service & Pricing Analyst
• July 2009 to Present

• - Assist senior management in developing the organization’s business plan and analyzing budget variances;
  - Create management reports for cost control and profit analysis;
  - Examine new business opportunities making recommendations to management;
  - Prepare customer presentations including the analysis of multi-million dollar projects and written proposals;
  - Analyze customer and financial data to assess business units and prepared recommendations for improvement.

  Accomplishments:
  - Developed pricing for over $100 million in new or renewed business within the past year;
  - Developed spreadsheet for generating customer tariffs that reduced response time by more than 50%.

• Trimac Transportation
• Business Analyst
• September 2006 to June 2009

• - Ensured continuous database integrity and investigate problems caused by data and configuration issues for Aspen Retail for over 100,000 annual transactions;
  - Performed problem tracing and root cause analysis on various issues;
  - Analyzed all business units to ensure optimum staffing and equipment needed to ;
  - Developed key performance measurement tools for senior management;
  - Prepared customer reports and coordinate supply disruptions; and
  - Developed, tested and implemented new Inventory Management Systems.

  Accomplishments:
  - Decreased dispatch errors due to software/database issues by 86% due to developing and applying new processes;
  - Developed and oversaw the implementation plan of third party data into the database.

• Trimac Transportation
• Load Planner
• June 2003 to August 2006

• - Managed all international and inter-regional freight representing $30 million in annual revenue;
  - Coordinated business units throughout North America to ensure customer satisfaction and government and safety regulations are observed;
  - Collaborated with sales department to verify customer proposals reflect current market conditions while increasing profitability and customer approval ratings;
  - Analyzed current traffic patterns in order to increase revenues and decrease costs.

  Accomplishments:
  - Surpassed critical success factors by increasing the quality of earnings;
  - Successfully analyzed labour negotiations to help mitigate company costs by 36%.

Education

• Brock University
• Bachelor of Arts, Popular Culture
• 2000 - 2002

• Relevant Courses - Mass Media, Communication Research, Communication Theory, Film Studies, Television Studies, Popular Music.

• Brock University
• Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing
• 1996 - 2001

• Relevant Courses - Marketing Management, Advertising, Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Research, Marketing Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy.