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John Justin Kennedy 5600 Gateswalk Lane Knoxville, TN 37924 justinkennedy77@comcast.net 865-330-0005(h) EDUCATION Bachelor’s degree in Economics, University of Tennessee, 2002 WORK EXPERIENCE 2005 – Present ImagePoint Inc. Knoxville, TN Senior Project Manager • Direct an internal/external cross-functional team of engineers, purchasers, manufacturing planners, and contractors, among others to provide brand imaging solutions for Fortune 500 corporate customers. This team provides turn key imaging solutions to exclusive corporate accounts such as McDonalds, Nissan, Infiniti, John Deere, Bridgestone/Firestone, and Ruby Tuesday. • Negotiate purchase order amounts with contractors and other vendors who execute the completion of on-site construction and installation activities. Also, negotiate purchase order amounts with vendors to supply fabrication services. • Responsible for controlling costs and sales to ensure budgeted profit forecasts are achieved or exceeded. Additionally managed company assets by tracking inventory and accounts receivable to ensure adequate cash flow. • Ensure proper permitting of projects through follow up with city and state officials as well as our contractors until project completion by handling both routine work issues and non-routine subcontractor issues. • Coordinate with internal and external engineering contacts to develop both mainline and custom products to meet customer’s branding needs. • Experienced in resolving field issues and problems that arise using, tools such as, installation drawings, elevation drawing, and site plans and communicating those fixes to subcontractors in the field. • Have a history of working in difficult regions where initially the customer was not satisfied with past performances. In each case was able to change the customer’s opinion of our program abilities. In turn this played a part in the retention of these accounts. 2001 – 2005 Sam’s Club Knoxville/Chattanooga, TN Business Manager • Upper level manager responsible for directly leading and developing 60 hourly associates in several of the company’s most profitable big box clubs. • Responsibilities included managing an annual sales budget of $100 million and a weekly payroll of $70,000, while controlling expenses, creating strategic sales plans, and embracing a leadership role by leading daily store meetings and supporting company philosophy. • When personally responsible for the club’s membership income, the six member team I supervised earned 17% of the 10 club regions overall membership income for FYE 2003. Using a business-to-business sales approach we averaged 50 new business signups per week, which consistently ranked in the top five out of 550 warehouse clubs. INVOLVEMENT • Experience working on new account startup teams. • Team leader in 5S lean cost savings initiatives. • Experience writing accounts receivable program improvements. • As fundraising director at Sam’s club was responsible for leading a team that satisfied a yearly fundraising goal. Also applied for and received a community disaster relief grant. SKILLS • Proficient with MS office, AS400, Goldmine, Adobe, Outlook, AutoCAD viewer. • Experience with MS Project. • Experience reading and utilizing blueprints, site plans, elevation drawings. • Experienced in financial budgeting, forecasting, and cost analysis using P&L and reconciliation reports. REFERENCES • Available upon request. Firestone_Photos.doc Infiniti_Photos.doc John_Deere_Photos.doc McDonald__s_Photos.doc Nissan_Photo.doc Ruby_Tuesday_Photos.doc