Patrick Byrnes
Warehouse, Transportation and Inventory Manager with 40 years of leadership experience
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Seeking a position with a stable, growing company in warehouse operations or front counter service. I have 40 years of leadership experience. I am looking to step down from management to work in a more operation-oriented role.
I bring a wealth of knowledge in planning, procedures, training and safety. I have set up new warehouses and built large teams. The people who have worked for me will always say I was hands on, safe and willing to do anything to get the job done properly and safely in a professional manner.
Experience
Warehouse, transportation and inventory manager - Ascend Staging and Design / Elevation Hauling
(2025-06 - 2026-06)
Small real estate staging company, Hired as the first full-time employee. Ascend was purchased by two people with the idea of creating a much larger operation.
- Created the warehouse picking system
- Created the warehouse inventory system
- Built from the ground up Elevation Hauling, this is a subsidiary of Ascend staging. As to deliver products to our customers, we had movers before, and they would damage product and customers' property
- Completed all DOT compliance and registration for Elevation Hauling
- Reduced cost of delivery by 50% by taking it in-house
- Documented all processes for anyone to be able to follow
- Learned the computer system called Stageforce on my own. I have now trained others in the operation of Stageforce
Warehouse and distribution manager - Clearwing Productions - Arvada, CO
(2022-07 - 2024-10)
Installer of audio/visual systems for theaters, auditoriums and churches.
- Opened the new warehouse
- Built all the local systems and procedures
- Built an inventory system to track the inventory. We were using Quick books and the inventory system in Quick books was not adequate for our products. Maintained cycle counts
- Learned shipping and receiving for Clearwing, everything was sent as kits. These kits were received by serial numbers, assemblies and sub-assemblies. These were very expensive and large kits, so everything was checked for damage and quality. These kits were sent out in the field, quite often a few hundred miles away so accuracy was mandatory
- Transportation, we had two trucks, one an F150 service truck and the other was a Kenworth non-CDL delivery truck. I was responsible for both trucks and used the delivery truck all over the state to deliver the products to the installation crews. I also returned old product for recycling
- Learned SAP program Q360 on my own as we transitioned to this much better system. Entered all data into the Q360 system and I was used to teach others the new system as the main instructors were very busy
- Shipping of products, LTL, FTL and package. We shipped directly to customers and between warehouses
Shipping Manager - Rasa Koffee - Boulder, CO
(2021-02 - 2022-04)
Shipping packages and boxes of high-end coffee substitute. I was recruited by a form manager at Charlottes web.
- Build the e-commerce and small bulk shipping procedures
- Streamlined the process to hit all metrics for the day, week and month
- Created an inventory system to keep track of products, bulk products were stored in eastern Aurora and our warehouse was in Boulder. I maintained cycle counts for both locations every week
- Delivered product from Aurora to Boulder
- Hired the team
E. Commerce shipping supervisor - Charlotte's Web - Louisville, CO 80027
(2019-11 - 2021-02)
- Built the E commerce shipping system from the ground up. We started with just a few people and grew to a crew of 40 that reported to me
- Increased our product shipped by 1000%. We could have got better than that, but we would run out of orders to ship every day at peak production
- Changed the entire way we picked and shipped product to increase our efficiency
- Lead the move to our new warehouse for the shipping team, I set up all the workstations and picking paths
Warehouse and Transportation manager - Altamira Foods - Denver, CO
(2014-12 - 2018-09)
Production Manager - Salvation Army Denver ARC - Denver, CO
(2013-09 - 2014-10)
Warehouse manager - Clean Energy Solutions
(2013-02 - 2013-05)
company closed
Production and Shipping Supervisor - Dish Network
(2011-05 - 2013-02)
left for better job
Manager of order filing - Sears Holding Distribution - Brighton, CO
(2006-03 - 2011-02)
laid off
Supervisor of Import/Export department for three major airlines, plus HAZ-MAT and cargo security - Swiss Port Cargo - Denver, CO
(2003-07 - 2006-03)
Left for better job
Lead Cargo Agent, in charge of import/export, security, safety, and HAZ-MAT shipping - United Airlines - Denver, CO
(1985-05 - 2003-07)
laid off, department sold
Education
business, engineering and computer science - University of Wyoming Laramie and Casper Campus
Certification - Cargo security and import/export regulation - US Customs and Border Protection
Certification - Air Transportation of HAZ-MAT - FAA/DOT