Destiny Brady

Motivated and dependable business professional seeking an adjunct instructor position at an accredited college or university.

I have 14 years of hands-on experience in the below mentioned skills that makes me a diverse candidate for any adjunct instructor position available.

• Inventory and Materials Management 
• Production Planning
• Budgeting and Cost Control
• Data Analysis and Reporting
• Staff Training and Education
• Process Improvement
• Performance Management
• Workflow Coordination
• Transportation coordination
• Problem Solving

Professional Experience

Kloeckner Metals Tulsa, Oklahoma 2024-Present 

Kloeckner Metals Corporation is a subsidiary of Klöckner & Co, one of the leading producer-independent distributors of steel and metal products and one of the top steel service companies in the European and American markets. Largest producer-independent distributor of steel and metal products and one of the leading steel service center companies in the European and American markets combine. Kloeckner is a pioneer in the digital transformation of the steel industry and looks to be a full-line service center to its customers while fully digitalizing the supply and service chain.

Account Manager The Account Manager is the primary point of contact for all matters related to assigned accounts. This role involves developing strong relationships with customers, engaging with key business executives and stakeholders, and identifying new business opportunities within existing accounts.

• Order Processing: Ensure timely and accurate processing of orders according to customer requirements
• Client Relationships: Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with clients.
• Trusted Advisor: Develop a trusted advisor relationship with key accounts, customer stakeholders, and executive sponsors
• Contract Negotiation: Negotiate contracts and close agreements to maximize profitability
• Business Development: Identify and develop new business opportunities with existing customers and areas for improvement to meet sales quotas
• Sales Collaboration: Work with the sales team to identify and grow opportunities within the territory
• Market Knowledge: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of plant workload, stock levels, market trends, contract processes, and delivery schedules to provide accurate information to customers
• Product Knowledge: Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the end-user applications of assigned metal products to optimize sales potential
• Inventory Coordination: Coordinate with management to ensure optimal lead times and inventory levels, and identify aged/obsolete inventory with suggested dispositions
• Reporting: Prepare monthly reports on account status and communicate the progress of initiatives to internal and external stakeholders
• Policy Adherence: Ensure compliance with corporate mill claim policies and advise management of challenging customer requests, escalating issues as needed
• Vendor Coordination: Schedule appointments with vendors and operational staff to minimize production time for material inspections and ensure successful resolution of claims
• Quality Control: Provide data and insights to improve quality control
• Additional Duties: Perform other related duties as assigned

Coilplus Texas San Antonio, Texas 2015-2024 

Coilplus Inc. manufactures and sells steel products for large and small OEMs, and custom fabricators. It engages in the processing, slitting, blanking, and sheeting of flat rolled steel. The company serves automotive, appliance, HVAC, office furniture, construction, electrical, and hardware sectors.

Supply Chain Manager The supply chain manager develops and maintains various supply chain plans and strategies by coordinating and overseeing manufacturing operations in order to forecast orders and meet the customer demands efficiently.

Supply Chain

Manager is responsible for management of complex cross functional projects to successful and timely decision points supporting world class supply chain operations efficiency and capacity utilization. Clear and consistent communication with suppliers, vendors, and shipping contacts throughout the procurement lifecycle is essential.

Proactive engagement in communication with customers, vendors, and transportation to identify potential issues, resolutions, and opportunities. Critical proven activities include anticipation of cross functional business requirements, development of strategy for production execution and full accountable for targeted business deliverables.

• Plans and implements activities related to the timely, cost-effective procurement, inventory

control, planning and quality control of production materials.

• Promotes the development and implantation of warehouse, distribution, and logistics solutions

for the customer.

• Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures, and material control systems to

reduce costs, streamline procedures, and implement solutions.

• Establish and adjust work procedures to meet warehouse demands, production schedules,

established workflows and OSHA safety guidelines.

• Ensures the availability of materials in the supply chain, as scheduled, and the maintenance of

inventory at minimum acceptable levels.

• Provide quality customer service to customer accounts
• Reviews inventory levels on a consistent and regular basis to ensure proper steel and manages

requirements for acceptable inventory levels.

• Recommend and monitor steel purchases and enter orders to the appropriate purchasing or

management personnel.

• Generate daily, weekly and monthly reports to provide stakeholders with actionable data and

insights regarding current stock levels by category and location

• Work with internal and external vendors to ensure compliance with inventory policies.
• Improve warehouse operations for three outside processors through the use of lean enterprise

practices and share warehouse data to improve productivity, quality and customer service standards

• Direct or coordinate production, processing and distribution from multiple outside processors
• Review processing schedules or production orders to make decisions concerning inventory
• requirements, line time, and work procedures;
• Monitor and ensure budgetary limitations for processing material are enforced
• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems
• Create and coordinate inventory control programs with an emphasis on budgetary limitations
• Oversee the implementation of new business processes
• Troubleshooting and improving new processes
• Conducts risk assessments on supply trends, demand factors and at-risk product mitigation.
• Reduce product obsolescence through inventory reviews and re-balancing efforts.
• Implement methods and procedures for scheduling of raw materials from suppliers to support

manufacturing in achieving customer demand and minimizing costs impacts to Coilplus.

• Execute demand flow verification processes, engage in short- and long-term planning and

conduct inventory analyses for warehouse utilization and manufacturing coordination

• Enters and maintains processing orders for outside processors. Target inventory levels are met

as goal.

• Develop and maintain transportation system that ensures business needs are met.
• Communicate continuously with transportation, either internal or external trucking vendors to

schedule deliveries as required by customer releases. Constant evaluation and tracking of material is done daily.

• Investigate and negotiate logistics and transportation arrangements with contracted providers
• Identify obsolescence drivers and effectively communicate solutions to third-party logistics

providers

• Ensures compliance procedures are followed by contracted service providers and that standard

policies related to safety, quality, and process improvements are always priority

• Analyzes sales history and quantifies key demand drivers
• Reviews product sales history and utilizes business intelligence data to develop item / vendor

forecasts.

• Supports new product launches to ensure proper forecasting, including new item tracking and

communication.

• In conjunction with recalculating the demand forecast, attends regularly scheduled meetings

with management to review item demand and forecast as well as to identify and raise potential issues.

• Manage, review, and implement system analysis on customer’s Kanban system
• Reviews and approves replenishment orders daily.
• Ensures priority replenishment orders are handled appropriately.
• Escalates vendor issues to management as appropriate.
• Develops and reviews vendor fill-rate and on-time performance metrics on a frequent and

regular schedule.

• Quality analysis of inventory weekly
• Gather and notify quality departments internally and at vendors of any customer rejections or

quality issues that require attention. Assist in collection of defective samples for claim to suppliers.

• Assist in gathering any information required to resolve any other customer related issues and

communicate with the proper personnel to request support in resolution

United States Steel Lone Star, Texas 2011-2015

United States Steel is a worldwide manufacturer of steel for various sources. Lone Star Tubular Operation is a manufacturer and distributor of high quality, electric-resistance welded (ERW) tubular products for the oil and gas industry… a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, a Fortune 500 Company

Business planner i

Promoted to Business Planner to directly supervise the production of four steel processing departments and their union employees. As one of three planners, I collaborated and created monthly projections and schedules based on corporate order intake. Some job functions include: logistics coordination B2B, utilization of multiple Oracle functions, along with inventory reduction and use of secondary materials. Position duties include:

• Effectively organizes processing materials according to monthly projection 
• Provides confidential documentation and reports daily on plant processes to upper-level management
• Develop recordkeeping procedures to provide efficiency and reduce loss time
• Inventory management of manufacturing material
• Logistics coordinator of manufacturing material 
• Distribute schedules and required information in a fast paced, frequently changing environment
• Regularly operates under deadlines to ensure productivity
• Research and develop tools to minimize coil inventory and maximize manufacturing output
• Works with department and plant managers to respond to all customer issues, scheduling concerns, and quality issues
• Schedules and manages production orders for the production of the material through operating facilities from order entry through shipment
• Manages the processing of customer orders;
• Works with internal shipping department to coordinate the movement of material to the outside processors;
• Receives and responds to Commercial inquiries; Provides order status;
• Manages and controls finished goods inventory;
• Communicates shipment status of orders with Commercial;
• Performs commercial duties for entering coupling stock orders for all Tubular plants; and
• Database Maintenance
• Performs other duties as required.
• Supervise union employees

management associate – BUSINESS PLANNING

Recruited from college as a Management Associate within tubular products manufacturing and engaged in several projects to optimize efficiencies and improve inventory management. Facilitated daily in process reports overviewing order status from 20+ processes.

• Participated in order management at the optimal capacity
• Provides customer service by providing real-time production information to its various internal customers
• Participates in the development of business plans, short-range plans and weekly plans to manage inventories and operating constraints to maximize throughput and optimize production and profitability
• Works with the Business Planning groups at other U. S. Steel plants, as necessary, to develop interworks, transportation and production plans
• Works with the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) group as necessary to help roll out elements of the new Oracle e-Business Suite Order Entry and Inventory system

Additional Leadership Positions within USS:

1. Community Affairs Committee Head at Lone Star, Texas Plant 1 of 3 Committee Heads

• Demonstrate community support through volunteering and support of network approved organizations and provided external networking and leadership development opportunities
• Organize and execute multiple volunteer events:
• Readings at schools for children ages 5-10
• Motivational and informative presentations to local students
  1. Assisted in recruiting events for high school students
  2. Serves as liaison from US Steel to the community at public awareness and charitable events
• Job Fair/Career recruiting
• Prepare candidates with information on how to apply for USS jobs 
• Prepare overview of benefits of joining the USS team 
• Conducted follow-up calls to potential recruits 
• Help provide scholarships to high school students from USS

Master of Business ADMINISTRATION GPA 3.75 Completed in December 2012

Texas A&M University - Texarkana Texarkana, Texas

Bachelor of Business ADMINISTRATION GPA 3.65 Completed in May 2011

Texas A&M University - Texarkana Texarkana, Texas

Associate of Applied Science in ACCOUNTING GPA 3.47 Completed in December 2010

Northeast Texas Community College Mt. Pleasant, Texas