Looking for Managerial Employment !

[lee 07]

Hello,

I am in the process of Relocating to the North Shore of the DR.
If anyone knows of a managerial job opening, please let me know.

Please note my resume below:

LEE LEVINSTEIN
Aventura Florida (954) 471-4998

EXPERIENCE:

SUPERSONIC SERVICES INC. Cooper City, FL, February 1995 – April 2007
Leading aerospace defense contractor for the U.S government Department of Defense

Director of Sales and Marketing / Senior Contracts Administrator
(January 2000 - April 2007):

•Served as prime liaison between all functions of company and customers including U.S. government D.O.D, foreign government’s militaries and commercial customers in the aerospace market worldwide. Developed, designed and supervised complex marketing campaigns to acquire new business, utilizing multiple marketing methods such as internet advertising, trade magazine campaigns, trade shows, national billboards and mass mail efforts. Traveled extensively to over fifty countries worldwide and generated long-term relationships with a multi cultural, multi national client base.

•Managed customer and supplier base utilizing strong negotiation skills, identifying customer needs, as well as identifying and selecting qualified suppliers. Implemented strategic supply agreements and exclusive distributor agreements with dozens of manufacturers nationwide and abroad. Utilized innovative strategic sourcing initiatives to locate new sources and build successful long-term relationships with industry leaders. Supervised the solicitation and compliance evaluation of vendor proposals to achieve optimum results in relation to quality, delivery performance and cost savings.

•Directed government contracts administration through evaluation, bidding and fulfillment in accordance with government regulations. Administered highly complex contracts through superior understanding of federal acquisition regulations and proper supply chain management and inventory control. Effectively prepared bids and priced all offers per created pricing formulas and cost evaluation of value added services, resulting in $28 million annual sales. Maintained compliance with contract requirements through extreme attention to detail and mirroring of purchase orders against sales orders. Obtained best quality, value for products and services through assured effective bidding, fulfillment compliance, schedule per priority rating, legal and performance criteria, export regulations, military packaging and transportation logistics.

•Developed and integrated software programs dedicated to automating and streamlining the U.S. government electronic bidding process in conjunction with company’s ERP. Created organizational systems, logic algorithms and strategies to manage and filter the influx of daily D.O.D contract downloads. Developed bidding programs to automate estimating and forecasting of U.S. government RFQ trends. Designed automated on-line pricing and vendor procurement methodology. Implemented automated competitor sales monitoring and real time buyer workflow management programs.

•Supervised a team of thirty employees including, sales manager, sales associates, buyers, purchasing manager, purchasing agents, administrative support staff, programmers, software project managers and network management specialists staff. Implemented recruitment procedures including employee selection, orientation, and training. Created employee evaluation programs consisting of company disciplinary measures, creative employee incentives and compensation strategies.

Purchasing Manager (February 1995 – January 2000):

•Established and maintained relationships with a multitude of vendors in numerous industries with a market span including the
aerospace, aviation, industrial, automotive, marine, electronics and communications industries. Effectively and efficiently
negotiated price, delivery and payment terms to achieve best corporate practices and cost savings. Recommended most economical
buys using vehicles such as blanket orders and annual demand quantities. Reviewed and authorized all purchase orders assuring
accuracy and completeness. Supervised purchasing agents and administrative staff. Developed all purchasing department written
policies and procedures to facilitate training, ensure regulatory certification and consistent personnel processing.

SURF STYLE INC., Dania, FL, November 1991 – February 1995:
Mass producer of sportswear products
Sales and Marketing Director

•Created and executed marketing plans to ensure company success in building awareness and facilitating brand exposure. Established and maintained relationships with key customers by implementing sales objectives and forecasting and developing annual sales quotas, projecting expected sales, volume and profit for existing and new products. Orchestrated all advertising efforts including magazine ads, catalog design, mass mailing and trade show coordination.


EDUCATION:

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, Owners/President Management (OPM) Program, October 2002, Boston, MA
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Business Administration,
December 1997, Davie, FL
ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES (IDF), Commander, Army Intelligence,
August 1991, Israel
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PURCHASING MANAGEMENT, Member
AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, Certificate in Advance Supervision

SKILLS: Int’l Real Estate Project Management, Resort Management, Professional Photography

COMPUTER SKILLS: All Macintosh/Windows applications; Pentagon 2000 ERP; FEDLOG; Haystack; ILS; EDI,
LANGUAGES: Fluent in English and Hebrew, conversational Spanish.

[Chris]

Oh Boy .. Lee Levinstein, I don't think we have a job for you in the DR. And if there is one for you in the DR, I doubt if they will pay you what you perhaps require.

[lee 07]

Chris,

I know. I understand, But cost of living is also not comparable with the U.S
I've spent the last 3 years on the north shore on and off. Very familiar with the way things are.

I am expecting a salary in accordance with the local market. No worries.

Thanks for the quick response.

Lee

[Chris]

Then you have to dumb down your resume in accordance with the local market? No?

Yes, I think. So, what can you do? This resume will not warrant an additional glance in the local market. Can you make it simple?

Like for starters, keep this piece
'SKILLS: Int’l Real Estate Project Management, Resort Management, Professional Photography'

and loose this piece
'COMPUTER SKILLS: All Macintosh/Windows applications; Pentagon 2000 ERP; FEDLOG; Haystack; ILS; EDI,'

or replace it with Computer Literate?
Because you really do not know all Mac and Windows applications, ERP has been replaced by a whole slew of other terminology and EDI is not a word in the DR ...

[CFA123]

Originally Posted by Chris

... ERP has been replaced by a whole slew of other terminology and EDI is not a word in the DR ...

Spot on with many of your comments, but ERP, MRP, JIT, etc are still buzzwords in apparel and probably other industries, even if those talking about them have only a general understanding of exactly what they are or how to begin implementing them.

Many larger businesses shipping products for the U.S. markets are very familiar with EDI, too - 810, 850, 820, 865, 856's, and other edi documents... not to mention a slew of barcoding methods to ease receipt and point of sale in the marketplace. VMI in particular relies a lot on sharing EDI data back and forth to maintain inventory controls and make accurate projections for future needs.

There's some pretty sophisticated stuff going on inside some of these factory walls.

That said... not sure there's any industry on the north coast that would be looking for these skills.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by CFA123

There's some pretty sophisticated stuff going on inside some of these factory walls.

I have no doubt .. we implemented a few and trained a few consultant groups, and that is why I can say with certainty that these are not words in the DR Usually real visioning toward implementation is from outside the country and the internal employees know which buttons to push, but certainly very few understand the broader environment, the integration factors or the standards.

The two ERP systems most frequently implemented in the DR, is Navision and Great Plains, now both Microsoft Dynamics products with new names. There is one company that uses SAP and this has been bent sideways to the extend that I despair - I don't quite know how they actually get numbers out of there and I understand clearly that if I buy their products in the supermercado, what is inside, may not be what is advertised on the packaging.

I know of one company that took literally years to implement Navision and the main problem was competence of implementors and consultants - they usually know their systems and can do vanilla implementations, but there is no project management and consultant quality skill-set - and, as far as I could determine, no call for this skill set as hard business visioning and bringing it through to reality is almost a foreign concept. I found that this is different in other Latin American countries in this specific IT industry.

In the DR, this expertise comes from outside the country. Language like project scope and implementation methodology is used in a manner that it is visible that people do not really grasp the meaning, but have simply learnt to use the words - practical application from conceptual level to reality is hard to come by. Hard technical project management skills are unknown and I despaired frequently whenever the idea of creative business development and problem solving came up, specifically on the financial side. We have one customer in the food industry who has their inventory valuation method so screwed, that I cannot get it unscrewed. They just flipped the button between lifo and fifo a few times as their accountants could not agree. These folks now want to export perishables with 'use by' dates. Oy Vey!

Originally Posted by CFA123

That said... not sure there's any industry on the north coast that would be looking for these skills.

OK, I'll settle in order to have a peaceful life .. These are not words on the North Coast.

One of the best business opportunities in the IT field is to create a small business ERP system that covers all accounting functions through to point of sale, is multi-language and multi-currency, suitable to business in the Latin American countries, at a reasonable price. We own 50% of a suitable one that is very popular in the open source community but work is needed to make the initial installation trouble free. Currently one needs a geek to install this thing and my mind is on other things at the moment - I'm not into this kind of developmental focus.

Good luck to the OP in seeking Managerial Employment.

[lee 07]

CFA 123,

Do you possibly need a project manager to complete and launch your ERP solution?

Lee

[lee 07]

CFA 123,

Do you need a project manager to complete and launch your ERP solution?

Originally Posted by Chris

I have no doubt .. we implemented a few and trained a few consultant groups, and that is why I can say with certainty that these are not words in the DR Usually real visioning toward implementation is from outside the country and the internal employees know which buttons to push, but certainly very few understand the broader environment, the integration factors or the standards.

The two ERP systems most frequently implemented in the DR, is Navision and Great Plains, now both Microsoft Dynamics products with new names. There is one company that uses SAP and this has been bent sideways to the extend that I despair - I don't quite know how they actually get numbers out of there and I understand clearly that if I buy their products in the supermercado, what is inside, may not be what is advertised on the packaging.

I know of one company that took literally years to implement Navision and the main problem was competence of implementors and consultants - they usually know their systems and can do vanilla implementations, but there is no project management and consultant quality skill-set - and, as far as I could determine, no call for this skill set as hard business visioning and bringing it through to reality is almost a foreign concept. I found that this is different in other Latin American countries in this specific IT industry.

In the DR, this expertise comes from outside the country. Language like project scope and implementation methodology is used in a manner that it is visible that people do not really grasp the meaning, but have simply learnt to use the words - practical application from conceptual level to reality is hard to come by. Hard technical project management skills are unknown and I despaired frequently whenever the idea of creative business development and problem solving came up, specifically on the financial side. We have one customer in the food industry who has their inventory valuation method so screwed, that I cannot get it unscrewed. They just flipped the button between lifo and fifo a few times as their accountants could not agree. These folks now want to export perishables with 'use by' dates. Oy Vey!



OK, I'll settle in order to have a peaceful life .. These are not words on the North Coast.

One of the best business opportunities in the IT field is to create a small business ERP system that covers all accounting functions through to point of sale, is multi-language and multi-currency, suitable to business in the Latin American countries, at a reasonable price. We own 50% of a suitable one that is very popular in the open source community but work is needed to make the initial installation trouble free. Currently one needs a geek to install this thing and my mind is on other things at the moment - I'm not into this kind of developmental focus.

Good luck to the OP in seeking Managerial Employment.

[CFA123]

Lee,
Sorry for not replying sooner, just revisited the thread.
I'm happily semi-retired... no major systems in my future.
If I hear of anything, I'll send a private msg.