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Grant H Zitting

St Helens, OR 97051

Home: (503) 366-4445

Cell: (503) 421-5030

grantzitting@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/grantzitting

 

 

 

Background Summary

Manager with strong leadership skills that are complemented with a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance-Team Player that can work autonomously-Experienced/knowledgeable in DOT, AAR, and OSHA regulations and safety principles-Expert in Excel, Word, and Access-Managed private fleet operations and common carrier operations-Persistent in getting the job done-Great follow up and follow through

 

Professional Experience

 

Boise Inc.     DAY SUPERVISOR-FINISHING/SHIPPING            2007 to 2009

 

• Provide a safe work environment, conduct safety and operations meetings with crews and ensure that all safety and operational policies are followed, and coaching and development of all personnel
• Managed a union workforce of over 40 union employees (AWPPW), 3 salaried employees, warehouse functions, three re-winders, oversight of the PMS computer system, and union grievances and issues
• Process improvement included core inventory reduction of 50%, aligned accounts and ordering procedures that saved $250,000 annually, inventory tracking improved 35%
• Modes of transportation: Rail, Intermodal, Stack Train, LTL, and TL
• Co-lead the Moving Out Team that improved on time delivery from 87% to 96% and found, planned, and executed a plan that saved the mill 1.2 million annually in transportation costs

 

 

Boise Inc.    TERMINAL MANAGER                    2003 to 2007    

• Provide a safe working environment by following DOT, OSHA, and company policies and started the VPP Star process, an OSHA sponsored program
• Managed 55 drivers including 6 union spotters (USW), 2 office personnel, and 3 mechanics which included hiring, training/orientation in DOT, OSHA, and company policies, coaching, disciplining, union negotiations and grievances, and firing/contract termination for Boise employees and contract workers
• Complete P&L and limited budget responsibilities which resulted in revenues that increased 455% from 2003 to 2006 and profits that increased 1361% for the same period
• Development responsibilities in sales and customer relations for the Louisiana and Texas region and used this position to help our biggest internal customer with a process improvement that saved them $100,000 annually

 

 

Andrus Transportation Services                        1992 to 2003

 

OPERATIONS MANAGER:

• Safety commitment included addressing issues with the organization, train and require adherence to OSHA and DOT regulations, and HazMat issues with drivers and customers
• Managed 4-6 Transportation/Fleet Managers who supervise 200+ drivers and long haul and short haul operations, 4-6 Customer Service Reps who continued to achieve 97% retention of their customers and provided on-going training to all personnel relating to customer retention, driver retention, and improving skill level
• Process improvements included developing routes based on pricing modules and driver home time and improving the Qual Comm and ICC software that increase our effectiveness

 

Special project – Import/Export:

• Process improvements included: revenues grew $40,000.00 with one less driver, average miles per driver by 3000 miles per month through improved scheduling, developed, implemented, and maintained procedures to ensure containers were delivered correctly which increased accuracy by 69.2%, 30% up to 99.2%, solved weight problems with the help of my boss by changing wheels on tractors, removed unnecessary equipment and adding sliding fifth wheels
• Increased driver moral, which decreased turnover through ongoing training, increased skill level and employee involvement in problem solving

Logistics Planning Manager:

• Developed lanes for outbound and inbound freight that ensured correct truck utilization and
• Developed and executed plan of action for bringing in new customers and correcting areas short of freight/equipment
• Coordinated Dispatch and Customer Service to ensure correct truck loading

Weekend Operations Manager:

• Dispatch responsibilities for 200 trucks and supervisor responsibilities for our weekend Customer Service Department, addressed and corrected fleet breakdowns, late deliveries and driver/customer problems

Fleet Manager:

• Responsible for a fleet of 35 to 40 trucks, dispatched our specialized fleet that required JIT deliveries, given increased responsibilities to help and train other dispatchers because of my advanced computer skills
  

Night Dispatcher and Driver:

• Increasing responsibilities since beginning as a trainee driver such as driver trainer then into night dispatch that did troubleshooting and correcting all dispatch/driver problems, truck breakdowns and finding alternatives to moving that freight, tracked trucks for on time delivery, and coordinated with the shop on repairs done on the road and/or contacting outside shops to repair the trucks

 

 

COMPETENCIES

Safety Awareness– Customer Focus-Initiative-Adaptability-Technical Knowledge-Judgment/Problem Solving-Teamwork/Collaboration- Individual Leadership/Influencing- Delegation of Authority/Responsibility-Coaching-Communication-Follow up-Information Monitoring-Planning & Organizing/Work Management-Change Management-Managerial Courage

 

EDUCATION

 

• BS Degree
  in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance, Southern Utah University.
• Attended numerous seminars on leadership and management including L&A training.

 

SKILLS

 

• Currently holds a valid Class A CDL license
  

Strong experience using Word Perfect 8.0, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Fleet Commander 3.0, Quattro Pro, Kinnexus 2.0, Various BCC LLC PMS proprietary programs, Excel VBA programming, Qual Comm, and AS400 platform with ICC software

Watch OUT……little one not happy

Determined to get FOOD

Wanting more food

Better yawning then crying

Sophia feeding Ava a bottle

Ya, they are cute

Two happy girls….finally

It has been a busy week.  As you can see the kids have been cute again.  Don’t understand why they continue to insist on doing that, but that’s ok, we’ll get through it somehow. 

I met with an outplacement specialist and he gave me alot of good pointers on my resume.  This is a copy of it but the formatting didn’t come across just right.  I am working on that now.  There is another portion that I will be changing too.  Always a living, breathing document. 

VOTE – Please go to my resume page and go to the bottom.  There I have a poll.  I am interested in what your opinion about it is.  A “I don’t like it” is as usefull as a “love it” so please vote your mind.

What!!! Snow Again!!! Cut that OUT!!!

OH NO!!! SNOW!! NOoooooooooo

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Hey baby…here’s a baby.

Ava being a cutie

Roman’s best freiend leaves for School…very sad

This morning we woke up to snow on the ground.  Now I know this is not technically a crime but it should be.  When we moved here we were told about how mild it is and that we would hardly every see any snow.  This year we already have record amounts of snow and it just doesn’t want to give up. 

 

The job search isn’t going all that great.  With the economy in the condition it is in, there is a lot of business that is simply not hiring right now but will be as soon as the economy turns around.

 

The kids were being kind of cute and we caught it on a video. 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturdays Blast

Jaxson has become a giant among children

Sophia and Roman have become Giants

Bella and Ava – two sweet girls

The Zoo animals look’n kool

Wife is not amused

City Center Trip

City Center roof tops (on overpass)

Passing the Rose Garden – headed over the bridge

Entering City Center

Street view City Center

View of a side street

City Center Business

More street view – City Center

Old portion of city center

City Center apparments

City Center Appartments and park

Looking up the side of apparments – City Center

Apparmtents – City Center

Albers Milling Company – Historic site

We had a blast on Saturday.  We went down to Portland and drove around the City Center for a while.  We didn’t even scratch the surface so there will be more to look at. 

 

Not much is happening on the job front.  I am working with an outplacement service that Boise is paying for but they just help you get ready for and do a search.  There are some issues we need to work through.

Pretty much going crazy…..and it ain’t pretty

River Veiw from Columbia City

River View from Columbia City

River View From Columbia City

Temple Sign

Temple Wording

Temple Visit

Temple Visit

Temple Visit

I thought that being off work with money still coming in for a few weeks would be pretty easy.  I could relax and spend some time with the family and friends as we did a job search….WRONG!!  This has been torture.  I have to find a job and do it in soon.  We’ll get something but worry about the family, making sure they have everything they need is getting to me.

As a kinda diversion, I took a few pictures and made a few trips.  I hadn’t seen the River from Columbia City so I went down there and it is a great view.  I am goind to take a few more rides down that way.  I was able to go to the temple, which I think is going to be a weekly thing for the time being.  I also attened an orientation yesterday for a outplacement firm that Boise is paying for.  There are some issues to work through there before it becomes a good deal.

My brother Kelly only has a few more months in Iraq, along with Scott.  It will be good to know that they are back home safe.

Exciting times!!

Route to Longview from our house

Location of my interview today….

Boise stacks are now silent…..

Today I had my first kinda interview.  It was more of a presentation than an interview.  There are alot of insurance companies around that want people to go to work for them.  They are serching the resumes on line and calling people to see if they will come in for an interview.  It isn’t the worst deal in the world but it isn’t the best either.  We’ll keep looking for now.  For fun googled the place were I went so I have the street map and the route.

When I went and worked out tonight I took a picture of what you can see over the trees at Boise.  FARA (were I work out) is on Boise property.  Were there is normally steam and smoke there is nothing.  It will take some getting used to.

New Roads

Downtown Salem, OR’s Convention Center

Downtown Salem, OR – Convention Center sign.

Downtown Salem, OR – This old building is one of the tallest and near the Convention Center.

Roman trying out the driving thing and saying cheese for his license.

Farmland north of Salem, OR with Mt Hood in the background

Farmland north of Salem, OR – West side of I 5

Farmland north of Salem, OR with Mt Hood in the background.

Mt St Helens at sunset.

Mt Hood at sunset.

Elder Mathew and Elder Hurst come by this evening to say hi. We haven’t seen much of them lately.

The weather here has been crazy.  As you know we received some record snow.  Then right after that we received allot of rain in a short period of time to create flooding.   Now we are getting sunshine and wind.  Wind is not out of the norm, just combined with sunshine, it shouldn’t be happening. 

Today we decided to try out a new area.  Holly and the kids have never been south of Wilsonville, OR.  We went down to Salem and drove around a little.  We went downtown and stopped by WinCo to take care of the kids for a few minutes.  Ava was in need of some eat’n.  Roman tried his hand at trying to drive.  Then we tried to find the Capital Building.  We did find the area but we needed to get headed home.  Holly was starting to hurt.  We did get some neat video and pictures.

Windy

Temple view headed south on I 5

Roman tries to drive the car

Kinda view of the Temple headed north on I 5 – Kruse Way is the exit for the temple

First Day

New Beginnings.....

New beginnings......

I did some photo shop tonight and took the background off a picture of Ava.  She is cutie along with all of her brothers and sisters.

 

Today is the day that a new chapter begins in life.  There a many possibilities as to what can happen such as a new position, new home, schooling, or anything else that may come along.  Even though these situations are normally accompanied by a ton of fear and anguish I am surprisingly calm.  There is concern and sure I realize what can happen if we don’t get a new job in the short term (less than six months).  But what do we get at this point?  I get to spend time with my family, get to know them a little from the time that I neglected them while working, or thought myself too tired to do anything after work.  I get do this and get paid while doing it.  It is an absolute thrill to me that the children are reacting and acting allot better while I have been around.  Not saying they don’t with Mommy just that they don’t with me.  Today is the first day that Roman has run up to me and yelled daddy and gave me a big hug.  These new beginnings are kind of cool and I plan on enjoying it as much as possible.

 

This has also shown us allot of who our friends are.  Our family of course is great.  They have rallied around us and have been a great support.  Amazingly, as I typed that I thought of those who are really are not “family” but who have acted in such a way that while I was typing that I was thinking of them also.  Then there are those who I work with.  They have been great and supportive all the way.  Dan and Jeff are two of the three people who interviewed me when I hired on at Boise.  Jeff has since moved on to Gordon Trucking and Dan is the General Manager of trucking operations for Boise.  They have both been calling me with jobs they have found and even the process I needed to apply for them.  Then at the very end, this afternoon I was getting a purchase requisition together for Wallula and when I sent the information out to the group the shipping superintendent called me not realizing that today was my last day.  We talked and he was very supportive and we have had only limited contact as peers.  At this point I don’t have any worries, just allot of gratitude for the great family, friends, and associates in our lives.   Whether we want them to or not, things always work themselves out if we only work on them.

One more day to go

There is one more day to go.  This time tomorrow I will be on somewhat of a vacation and enjoying some extra time with my family.

Black and White of a lamp

Holly asked me how to make the camera take black and white pictures with the camera.  I didn’t know so I started to play with it and figured it out.  Well, I figured it out and took this picture.  I guess after you get used to color it doesn’t take much to peak your interest with the black and whites.

Now are you ready to discuss e=mc^2?

Holly took this picture earlier today.  It was so cute I could hardly resist (ok so I didn’t even try but I did have to make it sound good).  So if anybody asks, this is Holly’s and I am giveing her 100% credit.  When I am off work, I will try to get more pictures of the whole family.  I must admit though, the wife will need to be a little more cooperative.  She about whooped on me tonight when I tried to take her picture.  She keep saying something about “bed” and “going to” and “something about hurting”.  Can’t quit figure that one out.

I guess I will one day.

Kids being cute.

Can I sleep now? I ate most of my bottle!!

Ok, after I look cute with Sophia can I go to sleep?

It is nice to start to get closer to the kids again.  Sophia and Ava were being cute in the office tonight.

Two more days are left at Boise.  It will be nice to have this finally done were we have stopped moving forward.   I would prefer being over taxed then to realize that no matter what you do, all progress has stopped.

It is scary to think though that in two days, I won’t have a way to take care of my family.  I gues if worse comes to worse, I will end up back on the road but I hope that doesn’t happen.  I do have a lead a two on other jobs so it is looking up.

Blast from the Past – Hurricane Rita

Headed to Hackberry with – Tanker and turned over tank in background

This is some of the good erosion – some of the highway was almost all gone

If it wasn’t washed out it was covered with other stuff

This is were I used to get shrimp for fishing in the Gulf

All of the power lines had to be rebuilt

Mobile turned on it’s side

Mobile home has a tree through it

Mobile homes don’t fair too well in a hurricane

Boats carried everywhere

Airboats were some of the best transportation after the storm

One surviving shirmp boat but a little off course

This store was completely distroyed

Arriving at our destination in Hackberry, LA

Austin Tx deputies came in to help

Mike Hebert (pronounced a-bear) was one of the organizers we talked to

Unloading the trailer

Some of the product didn’t ride very well

864 tee shirts that were donated by Boise and Office Max (back when Boise was BCC)

The most valuable commodity was water

Continuing to unload

And unloading

It was a tight turn around then headed home

I was going through my disks and came across this one.  It was the trip that Dick Myers, the Communications Manager at the DeRidder, LA mill, and I took down to Hackberry, LA about 4 weeks after the storm.  It was the first load of privately donated items that reached this area.  It was thrilling to be able to drive the truck down there then back out.  Right after the first picture was taken, we had to stop at the bottom of the inter-coastal waterway bridge at a road block.  We had to state our business which was radioed over the staging area where we were headed.

The water from the Gulf was all the way past the bridge that we were stopped at.  That is over 15 miles inland.  One of the officers told us that two sharks had been found in the area after the water went down.  If you want to see more pictures let me know.  This is only 22.  I think there is another 10 or so pictures.

It is sad to think that my time with Boise is coming to an end.  It has been a very good experience and one that I am not ready to be finished with.

On a better note, the little Ava is doing alot better.  Mother is also feeling alot better.  We really appreciate everyones love and support.