1. Allyn Knight
1555 N. Bluff Street Morris, IL 60450
Tel: 815-942-0596 email: alknight90@gmail.com
A manager and supervisor with over 20 years experience in the fast paced environments of lean
manufacturing, high speed printing production, distribution, and transportation. Experienced in scheduling
work and manpower, providing leadership and direction, achieving production and quality goals, resolving
personnel issues, reporting payroll, OSHA compliance, maintenance, safety, security, and on-time and
accurate delivery.
Core Professional Strengths
Customer Service Problem Solving Employee Motivation
Team Building Training and Development Maintaining security
Accurate and Safety Schedule workflow
on time delivery Enforcing policy and procedures Production Management
Professional Experience
PSA LLC, Romeoville, IL 2004-2015
3rd
Shift Production Supervisor
 Provide leadership and direction for manufacturing, personalization printing, maintenance,
fulfillment, and quality departments.
 Responsible for safely achieving team production and quality targets.
 Hire, train, discipline, and terminate Regular and Temporary employees.
 Report payroll, maintain building and data security, produce daily reports to management
regarding shift production, safety, quality, and staffing.
Production Manager
 Produce daily production, and quality reports and scheduling future work with customers.
 Manage production and fulfillment staff of 100 employees through four direct report supervisors.
 Achieve daily production targets and job completion dates, control staffing of regular and
temporary employees including hiring, training, discipline, and termination.
 Maintain master production schedules and communicate schedule changes to customers and
management.
 Monitor direct labor payroll and overtime hours.

2. Pyramid Cabinet Co., Lockport, IL 2003-2004
Field Technician
 Build, repair, modify, and color match custom cabinetry in the shop and on-site in homes, offices,
and stores.
Uponor Ecoflex, Wilmington, IL 2000-2002
Customer Service/Warehouse Manager
 Manage startup and supervised North American distribution facility.
 Responsible for purchasing, order fulfillment, inventory control, invoicing, accounts receivable,
transportation, building and machine maintenance.
 Maintain 99% on time delivery and 99.6% correct fulfillment.
Jack Gray Transport Inc., Gary, IN and Irving, TX 1997-1999
Terminal Manager
 Managed daily operations of an OTR bulk materials trucking terminal.
 National sales of logistics and marine services.
Austeel Lemont Co. Inc., Lemont, IL 1994-1997
Purchasing and Accounts Payable Supervisor
 Purchase $2 million per month of raw materials, consumables, and parts for a steel mill.
 Supervise daily operation of Purchasing, Accounts Payable, and Stores departments.
 Maintain inventories of raw materials and parts.
 Negotiate multi-year contracts with on-site contractors and oversee their daily operations.
VideOcart, Inc., Chicago, IL 1990-1994
Distribution/Warehouse Manager
 Manage startup and supervised Distribution Warehouse.
 Facility management including pick and pack and kit making,
order fulfillment, inventory control, transportation nationwide delivering within a 3-hour window,
building security and machine maintenance.
 Maintained 100% on time delivery and 99% correct fulfillment.

3. Education
Joliet Junior College
Lewis University
Southern Illinois University