Fred black Resume

Fred Black Resume [email protected]

Fred Black Provo, UT 84604 [email protected] | (435) 494-2273

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

VP Operations - VP Supply Chain - President Nutraceuticals Company - Chief Operating Officer

Team Management, including: hiring, coaching, developing, retention, terminating & evaluating Direct Reports and their respective Teams – Succession Planning - Meeting regulatory requirements – Strategic Leadership and goals – Working with Cross Functional Teams - Inventory Management - Logistics - Purchasing, Procurement - Manufacturing - QA - R&D – Regulatory – Warehousing/Shipping -Reducing COG's - Building Strong High Functioning Teams - Mentoring Strong Leaders - Lean Principles & Practices

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

VP Operations, Blackwood Provo, UT 2014 - Present

Finding and Capturing Operational Cost Savings and Implementing Lean Change

• Achieved Complete Operations Setup and Ongoing Functions For Startup Company

• Improved Technology Used For Nano Sizing Product

• Saved Costs of Manufacturing and Order Fulfillment

• Delivered A Fully Functional Customer Service Experience using toll free calls and online chats

President, Private Label Nutraceuticals & Planet Fulfillment

Atlanta, GA 2014 - 2014

Provided Nutraceuticals and Skin Care products to customer/companies who sold online or on Amazon with their own company specific labels. We provided warehousing, logistics and order fulfillment services to these same customers/companies through our own 3PL.

• Improved Order turn around times from four weeks down to 48 hours.

• Reduced Overhead by over 50%

• Introduced Lean thinking by value streaming and immediately cutting out duplicate touches and unnecessary data input by installing API's between Sales Force and ERP systems

• Reduced Inventory and waste by better planning of future demands and outsourcing value

added services for extra large orders

VP Operations, Blackwood Provo, UT 2013 - 2014

Fred Black Resume [email protected]

Finding and Capturing Operational Cost Savings and Implementing Lean Change • Saved $100,000 on duties, VAT and Logistics for every shipment going into the EU

• Added Specialized in-house knowledge of Import and Export key points for my client's employees.

• Reduced EU B2C Small Parcel costs by 3 Euros per package netting a monthly savings of US $10,500 for one of my clients.

• Improved Customer service from 91% up to +99%

VP Operations and COO, Agel Enterprises Lehi, UT 2009 - 2013

Manufactured, Marketed and Sold Nutritional Supplements Suspended in Gel and Very High End Skin Care Products in over 60 countries.

• Reduced COG's across the board by an average of 30%, Saving $ Millions in ongoing Product Costs.

• Delivered and Maintained a new highly collaborative and unified Team, by tearing down the silos that existed between R&D, QA, Regulatory and Operations Teams.

• Saved $500,000 by reducing inventory and phasing out poor performing products.

• Achieved $ Millions in new sales by mining existing data and showing the President and Board how past product introductions had cannibalized sales and proposed and put into action a new product introduction plan that incrementally increased sales.

Managing Director Global Supply Chain, Morinda, Inc. (Tahitian

Noni International) Provo, UT 1997 - 2009

Harvested, Processed, Manufactured, Marketed and Sold Tahitian Noni Products worldwide

• Achieved Successful implementation of four regional centers that serviced our entire global supply chain significantly shortening the time to plan and position product to be where it needed to be, thus reducing backorders significantly and cutting costs

• Maximized Entire Supply Chain responsibly growing the support structure from initially just supporting the USA to cost effectively setting up and managing over 60 markets

• Delivered new income source by significantly reducing logistics costs and maintaining a profit margin on the costs passed onto our customers. This accounted for almost $4 million in pure profit annually.

• Decreased Operations costs by a full percentage point relative to sales.

EDUCATION

Studied, Supply Chain and Logistics, Glendale University, 2002 Business Management, Westminster College of SLC