1. Vincent C. Copeland
400 West Peachtree Street #3216 | Atlanta, GA 30308
Email: Vincent.C.Copeland@gmail.com | Cellular: 404.472.7152 | Home: 404.445.8758
Professional Goals Post Graduate School
As a dedicated business manager and logistics analyst and my 14 + years delivering outstanding results, I strive to be
an industry leader. My professional experience cannot be matched, and with my relationship based interpersonal
skills, I add value to all that I engage in. I am searching to work for an Enterprise that will acknowledge my
experience and recognize the success I will deliver. As I engage in a new role that will raise the bar for me, I strive to
be able to give back to my community via efforts that the organization I work for has a passion for based on their
values.
SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Delivering a culmination of high achievements in not only vast industries and environmental experiences; I am a
driven leader whose core focus is on strategy development, market analysis, and logistics solutions, while always
delivering for the client and associate.
· Project Management: Flawlessly executed the reorganization West Region for the newly merged Delta.
While directing this project my team seamlessly transitioned resulting in increased client delight, bookings and
associate readiness. This deliverable lead to a 39% improvement in passenger bookings over the previous year,
a new profitable strategy for the newly combined larger region while delighting teammates from both airlines
· Financial Analyst: Lead a residential credit team to secure a financial solution for a $120 million dollar
development and fortifying the financial institution as the preferred lender for potential buyers, while leading a
team to create a system to maintain, deepen and grow client relationships.
· Strategic Marketing: Extended a new tactic for enhance market share for Latin America by suggesting a
greater focus on local third party agencies, as this lead to increased profitability over ecommerce reservations.
· Business Analysis: Directed a team to produce an annual business plan by combining goals of varying
divisions into a simplified presentation that could be presented to senior management; while still having the
raw data and complex arrangements to build upon.
· Forecasting Analysis: Forecasted flight query models within various market strategies and potential subsidies
that either requested for service or I engaged for a new entity to do business with our Enterprise.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
· Morehouse College: Executive Council
· Morehouse College: Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education
· Local business market mentor.
· Big Brother Reach out Program; 2015 Board Membership nomination
· 5,000 + hours of community service.
· 2014 BCD Travel Mentor for new hires
· Hosea Feed the Hungry Annual Volunteer
· The Bonner Scholars Program
· System Expert in:
Microsoft Office ◦ Oracle ◦ SAP ◦ QuickBooks ◦ Windows XP ◦ SQL ◦ Sabre Flight Manager
2. PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
BCD Travel Atlanta, GA
Global Supplier Relations Analyst August 2014-Present
· Immediately engaged in role performance and top criteria performance necessitates
· Proactively manage a group of mentees, yet with a short period of time with the company, my
previous endeavors have allowed leverage for my expertise in this role
· Actively engage with prospect clients and referral sources to grow the Enterprise Network
· Influence teammates to create, analyze, and distribute superb global and regional financial
reports including annual budgets to forecast for the ease of examination of senior
leadership
· Negotiate and secure contracts with suppliers by analyzing additional prospective revenue
streams and administrating global partner relationships.
· Sole responsibility for analyzing critical areas of income administration and expenditure
diminution related to Global Distribution Systems.
· Consistently engage to create fruitful relationships with clients and teammates to keep a high
retention rate
· Ease my way through implementation, as I am strongly versed on all necessary resources.
DAVIS BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION Atlanta, GA
Officer; Senior Business Analyst January 2013- July 2014
· Ranked in the top 5% of developing, growing and maintaining new business relationships in the Southeast
Region, increasing company profitability by 19% year over year
· Created tactical plans to generate 360 degree business opportunities to ensure a result in completely whole
revenue generation, those ultimately lead to generational business relationships, that will deliver an increased
bottom line of over 34%.
· Strategically prospected, networked, and researched future opportunities, while forecasting project budgets and
pro forma income statements to deliver profitable prospects to senior leaders
· Maintained agreements between the clients, contractors and project and program teams to manage the
requirements through the project lifecycle
· Analyzed intergenerational and migration trends among business conditions to indentify opportunity for my
team to improve opportunities within all client bases.
DELTA AIRLINES Atlanta, GA
Network Specialist | Senior Network Planner |
Aircraft Weight Manager November 2004- October 2012
· Key leader of the Domestic and Latin American Network Planning Team
· Primary focus was to lead Cross-functional teams, supervise projects, and execute business analysis and
tracking industry data to support the Director, the overall marketing and management of the airline
routes and markets.
· Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the route
planning team through which market and business strategy were developed
· Collaborated with finance to ensure that annual budget goals were exceeded through research and continued
3. examinations of our financial position throughout the year
· Analyzed and explored historical demand to provide forecast for new routes and changes to existing markets
and managed passenger revenue data through Sabre Flight Manager.
· Developed cost analysis to determine route profitability and any pending introduction of carriers into market
and what threat it would present to Delta’s network.
· Leveraged our financial analysis to choose what synergy savings could be produced through the
combining of the two fleets and station closures of the two merged airlines.
· Developed a forecasting analysis to determine the viability to keep Salt Lake City as a hub and the
impact that Southwest would have in entering the market.
· Successfully engaged in multiple initiatives, while simultaneously including the development and
forecasting of the planned merger with Northwest Airlines.
· Proactively communicated and collaborated with external and internal customers to analyze information
needs and engaging functional requirements for the planning department.
· Lead implementation for the new operational changes to reduce manpower needed to decreased labor
hourly cost.
· Developed parameters to allow for better rotation times during peak hours and wrote the technical
specifications for accurate guidelines that were distributed company-wide.
Wachovia Bank, N.A. Atlanta, GA
Junior Financial Advisor March 2003-September 2004
· Generated financial analysis in support of new products for existing customers which increased new credit
accounts by over 200 annually within my group’s portfolio.
· Assisted in securing financing for a major residential construction project at a cost of $120 million dollars
· Created cost analysis to minimize budget and credit impact on private investors and help transitional
customers make responsible investment decisions.
The Coca-Cola Company Atlanta, GA
Quality Management Control Advisor April 2002-December 2002
· Worked to promote quality achievement in the carbonated and non-carbonated beverage sector.
· Participated with bottlers coordinating company wide distribution channels and successful product launched
including coke zero.
· Responded to any problems that might occur during the manufacturing and transport of inventory to retail
locations, while ensuring corporate client satisfaction
EDUCATION
Georgia State University Atlanta, GA
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
MBA | International Business December 2014
Morehouse College Atlanta, GA
Bachelor of Arts | Business Administration
Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) December 2006