Adam Colon

Experience

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  US Army

  Jun 2005 - Mar 2013

  SGT

  • Supervised a team of 6 soldiers.• Provided leadership to junior soldiers by developing and reviewing enlisted career evaluations. The evaluations consisted of in person coaching and written reviews.• Designed MS Excel spreadsheets in order to track equipment status and location throughout the area of responsibility. • Conducted reports using MS PowerPoint to senior level Officer and Enlisted personnel three times a week.

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  American Marketing Association

  Mar 2011 - Dec 2012

  Professional and Collegiate Coordinator

  • Utilized social networking (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln) as a viral advertisement tool. Logged social networking data to measure advertisement results. Effectively used bit.ly to monitor links effectiveness and measured outcome. • Created reports on new business projects, contacts, and competitors activities. • Interact closely with members to ensure satisfaction of membership and to engage any problems that arise. • Undertook the re-launch of a member category by overseeing over the process from the inception, controlling mailings to target market, ensuring departments supported all new courses of action were accomplished, and tracked member activity. Show less

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  J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

  Jan 2013 - now

  • Oversee rail operations for several customers both shippers and receivers. • Responsible for duties of monitoring rail shipments, tracking shipments, and communicating to the customer if any issues arise. • Implemented new systems to manage rail yard movements to ensure all containers were prioritized based on customers’ needs and in the most cost efficient manner. • Maintain a KPI (key performance indicators) for the customer to analyze weekly performance. • Identify opportunities by analyzing data to make improvements in our business in order to increase efficiency & decrease cost. • Conduct daily meetings with the customer to report on time service, identify any problems and provide solutions. • Provided leadership to newer managers by training and involving them on different aspects of the business in order to develop their careers. Show less • Supervise a fleet of over 40 drivers, 37 trucks and equipment by efficiently scheduling employees in order to keep cost at a minimum. • Manage intermodal movements to ensure rail containers are prioritized based on customer needs, and in a cost efficient manner. • Measure performance on a weekly timeline by monitoring driver pay, maintenance cost and all aspects of the business to find areas of improvement in profitability. • Resolve issues between the customer, vendors and drivers that arise on a daily basis. Show less

  • Director Of Operations

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Regional Operations Manager

    Aug 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Regional Safety Manager

    Nov 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Area Risk Manager

    Mar 2016 - Nov 2017

  • Account Manager

    Feb 2014 - Mar 2016

  • Operations Supervisor

    Jan 2013 - Feb 2014