A career built on turning complexity into clarity.
My path into supply chain wasn't planned. After college, a professor connected me to a warehouse foreman role at Kraft Heinz in Livonia, Michigan. I had no interest in warehousing and no background in logistics. But from day one, I found that I could see systems others couldn't: the friction between teams, the processes nobody documented, the people whose talent was being wasted.
Within 3 years, I was tapped to join the 6-person founding team for Kraft's 1-million-square-foot multi-business-unit facility in Norcross, Georgia. 4 business units under one roof. SOPs built from scratch. That startup experience became the template for everything I've done since: understand the business, understand the people, then build something that endures.
"The function had zero documented contracts, no carrier governance, no performance metrics, and no stable leadership. I was brought in to revive it."
On inheriting the Constellation Brands transportation team
At Coca-Cola, I inherited a team that had experienced an abrupt leadership transition and was struggling to attract talent due to negative external perceptions of the culture at the site. I drove a 15% improvement in employee engagement. Over my 20+ year tenure, I drove more than $12M in cumulative logistics savings through strategic carrier rate negotiations, targeted optimization projects, and network design initiatives that reduced cost while improving service performance. I became the global subject matter expert for warehouse standards across 4 continents. When I left, 2 people were hired to replace me.
At Constellation Brands, I revived a transportation team that existed in name only. I built the team, the culture, the processes, and the governance from the ground up. I put 75% of carrier spend under contract where zero had been documented before. I delivered over $50M in savings across 3 years while achieving 85% engagement across the full function and 94% in the warehouse operation, the highest in the company.