This document summarizes the qualifications and experience of Darron L. Sargent, Jr. for roles involving inventory management, logistics, supply chain planning, and business analysis. It outlines his expertise in areas such as strategic planning, process improvement, requirements analysis, and project management. His experience includes over 15 years of consulting and analyst roles implementing supply chain and inventory management systems for companies across various industries.

1. Inventory Management, Cost Control, Logistics, Distribution, Transportation, Supply Planning
Darron L. Sargent, Jr.
• 6334 Milo Drive • Austell, GA 30168 • 404-895-2551 • dlssargent@gmail.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Business management professional with expertise in business development, strategic planning, customer relationship
management, project management, requirements analysis, and scope management. Seasoned professional with proven
execution skills and knowledge in transportation, vendor relationship management, process implementation, vendor selection,
implementation testing, and inventory management. Self motivated with exceptional time management skills, strong
interpersonal skills, and the ability to motivate others.
Proficient in the practice of business analysis
 Developed and managed healthy relationships with new and existing clients
 Cultivated negotiation skills through the project sales cycle, scope management, sourcing agreements, vendor
relationship management, and compliance monitoring
 Gathered, defined, and documented business requirements for process and technology implementations
 Served as a liaison between internal and external project stakeholders. Created and distributed status reports to
stakeholders
 Conducted regular business reviews with clients to monitor clients’ satisfaction with projects, to identify risks and
opportunities, to create action plans going forward, and to report progress and project milestones
 Facilitated interviewing sessions, conducted data analysis, researched best practices, collected benchmark data for
current and future state assessments for clients in a variety of industries
 Developed reporting and analytical techniques to measure and assess the risk and opportunities of projects
 Implemented process and technology improvements in a variety of industries
 Tested newly created applications for functionality and accuracy
 Conducted functional and system testing for software implementations
 Trained clients and end-users on newly created processes and applications
COMPUTER SKILLS
Database: SQL, Visual Basic
Oracle: Transportation Management System
i2 Technologies:
Strategist (Supply Chain)
Transportation Management System (TMS)
Manhattan Associates:
Inventory Planning Module
Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Transportation Planning Module (TPM)
Mathematical: Lindo, Minitab
Microsoft Suite: Access, Excel, Project, Visio
Quality Assurance: Test Director
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Six Sigma Green Belt - Southern Polytechnic State University, Certified April 2009
Six Sigma Black Belt - Southern Polytechnic State University, Certified December 2009 (Anticipated)
TRAINING
Leadership Boot Camp, Negotiations, Production and Inventory Management, Project Management, Toastmasters, Unified
Modeling Language Training, SAP and Oracle Overview Training, Process Mapping

2. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
November 2005 – December 2008
CSC, Atlanta, GA
Consultant
Client List: BASF, DuPont, PetSmart, Hamilton Sundstrand, Home Depot, Siemens, Sonneborn, SouthCo, TIAA-CREF
 Conducted multiple business assessments in the manufacturing, chemical, financial, and transportation sectors
focusing on continuous process improvement opportunities
o Conducted functional interviews and presented findings of assessments and interviews to management
o Established business and system requirements, then led a vendor selection process for the appropriate
application
o Performed inventory right sizing, transportation, and procurement analysis
o Identified areas of improvement along with outlining the strategic timeline for the execution of future state
and best practice processes that aligned the organizations’ strategic goals with their daily operations.
o Created and defined new key performance indicators to create more procedural stage gates and tangible
operational measurements.
 Created an offline decision support, linear optimization tool using Visual Basic in Excel for Sonneborn’s
hydrocarbon production process that enabled business operation decisions to be made more effectively. The tool is
predicted to save the organization between $1 and $2 million dollars per year.
 Implemented new sales and operations and demand planning processes.
 Performed functional and system testing at Home Depot for the implementation of Manhattan Associates
Warehouse Management System (WMS). Executed scripts and tested the WMS to investigate issues. The project
consolidated information for over 50 distribution centers that allowed the organization to run more effectively.
 Managed the issues of a Manhattan Associates Warehouse Management System (WMS) implementation go-live at
PetSmart.
 Planned and designed training while also managing the project plan for Hamilton Sundstrand’s implementation of
RFID hardware equipment.
June 2003 – November 2005
HOME DEPOT, Atlanta, GA
Logistics Analyst
 Worked on a cross-functional team to install scan guns in the receiving area at all Home Depot stores nationwide.
 Led the vendor compliance initiative for the logistics department by establishing relationships and tracking vendor’s
operational progress. Increased truckload and small package vendor compliance by 40% and 46% respectively.
 Designed a process to capture and analyze the capacity constraints of carriers for 37 distribution centers to
facilitate the negotiations with carriers. The savings opportunities were estimated at $3 million dollars.
 Identified and researched bid lanes that needed a primary carrier. Discovered an estimated savings of $1 million
dollars.
 Optimized facility-store assignments for distribution centers that saved $2 million dollars.
 Identified potential savings of a $500,000 dollars and a 30% reduction of miles traveled in one Home Depot store
market for the centralized fulfillment delivery network using i2’s Strategist.
 Led, managed, and outlined the project timeline for the pickup, transit, and delivery of reset displays for store resets
that were valued at over $5 million dollars. Introduced pool distributions to the resets that decreased the amount of
shrink and damaged product.
 Designed and implemented automated Access applications that decreased run time from multiple hours to 1 hour by
applying Visual Basic to simplify weekly and monthly reports. Worked with i2’s TMS to understand the outputs of
the transportation loading planning process for my reporting purposes.
 Initiated individual training sessions with 5 associates to enable them to understand the system, the data, and the
operations of Home Depot’s truckload system.
INTEL CORPORATION, Rio Rancho, NM Summer 2002
ISNG Product Planner, Intel Scholar/Intern
 Designed and piloted a production predictor that saved 20 hours per week for production planners.
 Researched current procedure then developed and presented ROI for report automation that saved 2 hours per week
per planner.
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, Atlanta, GA Summer 1999 & Winter 2000
Feeder and Package IE, Intern
 Worked as an intern creating databases, performing time studies, and doing analysis that created process efficiencies
along with time and monetary savings.
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