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Michael Wray

South Milwaukee, WI, USA

MICHAEL WRAY
South Milwaukee, WI | (262) 939-6362 | mwray23@hotmail.com

Professional Summary

Results-driven professional with 22+ years of diverse experience in relationship building, performance optimization, and operational support. Background spans general labor, security, distribution and logistics, production, and inventory control. Combines military discipline, hands-on experience, and a strong work ethic to consistently contribute to team success and organizational goals.

• Leadership

o Long track record of guiding and training team members to perform a multitude of operational duties from military operations, warehouse logistics, and pet-food plant production to great success. This training ranged from D365 systems usage, mobile ERP systems usage, proper documentation creation and control, and standard operating procedures.
o Mentored and elevated exceptional team members as subject matter experts while providing guidance toward career developmental goals, leading to them achieving success via being accepted into the company run career developmental programs and or achieving promotions.
o Planned, coordinated, and executed multiple successful physical inventories, utilizing multi-department team members, finishing days early, and beating write-off projections by an average of $125,000.

• Teamwork Mentality

o Supporting production management teams by conducting Microsoft D365 systems training, improving ERP usage across the company, mitigating errors while giving production team managers the tools needed to conduct better investigations into yield discrepancies.
o Assisted multiple departments in improving overall processes while writing a number of policies, SOPs and work instructions (both for my department and others), establish a system of document control, and improve the available training to new hires.
Skills

• Military Leadership
• Production & Warehouse Supervision
• D365 Finance & Operations
• Diverse ArcGIS
• Multiple ERP Systems
• Attention to Detail
• Python (Basic)
• Powered Industrial Equipment Operation (12 Years)

Education

University of Wisconsin – Parkside
2024| Bachelor of Arts, Major in Geography, Minor in Geographic Information Systems
• Logistical network analysis experience, utilized within different environments to improve delivery efficiency for both buyers and sellers.
• Study focus was on urban planning and urbanization which allowed me to study and identify the different challenges faced by people of different backgrounds and how they affect their behavioral patterns.
• Four years of ArcGIS Pro/ ArcMap usage with limited ArcGIS Online experience.
• Advanced Microsoft 365 knowledge.

Experience

Foreman/ Yard Inventory Control Associate 10/2024 – 01/2026 Bliffert Lumber and Hardware| Milwaukee, WI
• Spearheaded initiatives towards proper inventory mapping, labeling, and storage. Substantially increasing the amount of usable space.
• Built up other yard associates as subject matter experts and helped initiate programs designed to help hinder product loss in the yard.
• Cultivated culture shifts away from individualistic mentalities and towards a ‘One team, One goal’ team identity. Improving labor skills overlap.

Inventory Control Supervisor 05/2023 – 07/2024 Stella and Chewy’s Production Campus| Oak Creek, WI
• Implemented multiple training initiatives, focused on both broadening my team’s role as subject matter experts and shoring up the production team’s skill sets with D365 mobile app usage, proper material storage, and identifying and correcting yield discrepancies.
• Spearheaded process changes to stock discrepancy investigations and write-off thresholds that led to a drop in inventory write-offs by $100,000 month to month and resulted in three successful EOY Physical Inventories, all with results far below the threshold for acceptable losses.
• Worked, in lock step, with the Quality Assurance team to establish and formalize an official documentation repository for the company, ensuring all production and safety departments, handling official documents are being created, maintained, and filed in a uniform way.

Emerging Leader/Office Maintenance Personnel / Team Member 12/2014 – 05/2023
Meijer Distribution Center | Pleasant Prairie, WI
• Spent over a year in Meijer’s Emerging Leader program, where I supervised operations on multiple shifts with multiple different teams, developed my leadership skills, and elevated the overall team’s performance.
• Utilizing inventory control reports, assisted in maintaining a “just in time” inventory in a fully automated Witron warehouse.

Operations Specialist – Non-Commissioned Officer 01/2003 – 01/2007
United States Navy | Yokosuka, Japan
• Non-Commissioned Officer that led as watch shift supervisor in the Combat Information Center.
• Versatile team player that worked with Sonar Technicians as an assistant ASWE (Anti-Subsurface Warfare Evaluator) along with holding collateral duties as Divisional Damage Control Officer, medical emergency first responder, security team member and NGFS target plotter.

Michael Wray

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