1. Christopher S. Stenum
cstenum@gmail.com 10346 W. Dartmouth Avenue
Lakewood, CO 80227
720.749.0072
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Dedicated professional committed to excellence and quality in work performed. Highly motivated to
achieve organization goals. Resourceful team member with excellent organizational, planning,
analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to build and maintain professional working relationships
with customers, vendors, colleagues and management. Demonstrated high level of mechanical aptitude.
Areas of expertise include:
• Shipping & Receiving
• Customer Service
• Vendor Management
• Staff Supervision
• Personnel Training
• Quality Control
• Operations
Procedures
• Inventory Control
• Safety Regulations
Proficient with PCs, MS operating systems, ERP systems and applications including Word, Excel,
Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook; able to effectively navigate the Internet and manage e-mail
functions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CPI Card Group, Littleton, CO 2011 to Present
Shipping Manager - Promoted to management to ensure corporate goals are achieved in the shipping
division, leading to profitable company growth.
• Achieve company goals measured weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually. Ensure
shipping strategies align with strategic company initiatives for profitability.
• Ensure proper inventory, production control scheduling, shipping/receiving logistics and
quality procedures are in place.
• Optimize shipping division workflow and processes while minimizing unnecessary costs
and maintaining quality standards.
• Ensure all shipping division functions are performed within budget guidelines.
• Collaborate with director of operations, sales team, customer service, production
scheduling and production floor to promote and leverage company technologies, systems,
products and services.
• Hire, train, review and manage performance of shipping personnel.
• Coordinate available resources, assign and delegate tasks for 4 team members. Establish
performance goals; perform consistent, ongoing reviews of upcoming workloads and
ensure the on-time delivery of products.
• Provide leadership by effective talent management: promoting team concepts, coaching,
mentoring, training and developing individual team members.

2. • Drive a culture of accountability and results through effective performance management.
• Ensure team members conduct themselves in a manner consistent with company vision and
values, code of ethics, policies, and other standards of conduct.
• Provide weekly Toolbox Talks on safety topics; ensure all safety procedures are followed.
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CPI Card Group/Premier Card Solutions, Roseville,MN 2009 to 2011
Shipping Coordinator - Promoted to ensure all customer shipments and other outbound/inbound
business wasprocessed and prepared in accordance with company and customer requirements.
• Managed all aspects of customer shipments including generation of shipping output documents,
coordination of logistics or scheduling domestic/international freight forwarders.
• Communicated status of shipments to internal and external customers; validated customer orders,
matched physical shipments, and coordinated corrective actions with applicable departments.
• Requisitioned, received, and stored shipping materials and supplies to maintain inventories;
negotiated low rates; and reviewed methods for prepaid shipments to ensure best possible freight
rates.
• Managed warehouse finished goods inventory levels by working directly with customers to release
materials at pre-determined intervals in an effort to manage space constraints.
• Physically prepared shipments and loaded trucks; established efficient work flows for detailed
shipping projects that did not follow standard processes; assisted with deliveries and pickups.
• Verified quality/quantity of products when receiving and shipping; unloaded, received, distributed
or stored materials; completed detailed shipping documents by hand or electronically.
• Communicated work priorities to all employees on all shifts; ensured secure card process control
requirements and maintained 100% card chain of custody and inventory accuracy.
• Investigated to determine root cause of process failures and helped to develop corrective actions;
assisted in the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
UV Color/Premier Card Solutions, Roseville,MN 2006 to 2009
Inventory Auditor/Vault Custodian - Complete accountability of secure material moving through the
internal supply chain in accordance with vendorcertification requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring 100% chain of custody for secure materials from time of receipt, through
the manufacturing process,until final shipment.
• Organized and maintained order of secured card product and storage inventories in the vault;
coordinated and verified all secured card product leaving or returning from the vault.
• Utilized an internal ERP system and supplemental documentation to reconcile all internal material
movements and material destruction; coordinated waste disposal and remake processes.
• Conducted regular cycle counts and investigated inventory discrepancies in order to reconcile
variances to perpetual inventory; ensured that Operators had sufficient cards for production.

3. • Supported the Operations Group by utilizing job schedules to provide correct quantities and types
of materials for manufacturing and accurately completing all inventory transactions.
• Coordinated with vendors to order remakes and ensured timely return of remakes to satisfy shipping
schedules; coordinated shipping/receiving of secured cards including dock check-in and card
counting.
• Managed bulk secure destruction projects at offsite incineration plant with oversight of employees
responsible for assisting with the projects.
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Gerten’s Greenhouse and Nursery, Inver Grove Heights, MN 2001 to 2006
Assistant Nursery Manager & Horticultural Specialist - Primary customer resource for horticultural
practices and information.
• Provided expertise in landscape design and maintenance, fertilizer, and herbicide chemical
applications for pest and disease control.
• Supervised, trained, and provided work direction for over 10 customer service employees, nursery
operations and nursery lot maintenance.
EDUCATION
Dunwoody College ofTechnology, Minneapolis,MN
• Electrical Construction and Maintenance, 2007 to 2009
• Electrical construction experience includes electronic and motor diagnosis and repair,
Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) installation/setup and programming, residential and
commercial electrical installation, troubleshooting, and repair.
Iowa State University, Ames,IA
Horticulture, 1998 to 2002