Adrian Grenier

Experience

• 

  US Army

  Jan 1992 - Jul 2001

  Transportion/Logistics Officer

  Designed and executed comprehensive air and sea movement program for personnel, vehicles, and containers while responding to constant changes in vessel and aircraft availability to ensure timely delivery and customer satisfaction. Operations included moving 2,000 personnel and 1,000 vehicles/containers at a time between the U.S./Europe/Asia. As operations manager, managed 30 personnel providing stevedoring and maintenance for vehicles, containers, and equipment while planning and managing inland routing. Coordinated with host nation port managers, police, and customs officials. Managed fleet of 21 trucks, 40 trailers, and 40 personnel in daily delivery of cargo to customers throughout the Pacific Northwest. Show less

• 

  MAERSK

  Jul 2001 - Mar 2007

  Managed team of 10 analysts delivering supply chain management programs and NVOCC/freight forwarding station operations with an annual revenue of $13M. Completed value stream mapping (VSM) and process improvement for newly acquired NVOCC business unit. Developed internal A/P controls, proactive processes to reduce storage/demurrage, and processes for proper sales/operations handoff. Recognized by corporate VP for superior bill of lading/invoicing process and selected to travel and consult with other regions on these operational processes. Show less

  • National Implementation Manager, Supply Chain

    Oct 2004 - Mar 2007

  • Operations Manager, Supply Chain and NVO Operations

    Jul 2001 - Oct 2004
• 

  APM Terminals

  Mar 2007 - Dec 2012

  Senior Engineer/General Manager

  Used Lean Six Sigma (LSS) tools to manage and design projects to increase terminal efficiency, safety, and meet customer key performance indicators at the largest (484 acre) US container terminal. Led/mentored/facilitated operations staff and team of Green Belts to improve processes in a capital intensive and high labor cost environment. LSS tools included focused kaizen events, process mapping, 5S events, and business strategy facilitation supported by Visio, Minitab, MS Project, and Business Objects reporting. Interacted with key customer and internal stakeholders to document and maintain these savings. Managed strategic project pipeline and reported savings and project progress to SVP level; responsible to deliver an annual $10M savings budget. Show less

• 

  MAERSK

  Dec 2012 - now

  Designed supply chain solutions for complex global customers using customer facing discovery sessions, RFPs, SOW documents. Configured solutions to meet specified and implied customer needs for multi-year planning horizons using a variety of quantitative and qualitative tools. Researched cost to serve to ensure profitability while identifying implementation and execution risks/mitigating/critical success factors. Worked with customers, commercial staff, implementation, IT, operations, partner overseas offices, and HR managers in packaging solution and profitability for global C-level approval, and proper handoff during win. Supported, developed, and continuously improved the global tools and process using lean six sigma principles. Show less Project managed implementations for government contracts and project cargo programs for multi-modal cargo moving in developed to austere environments. Acted as critical link between sales and operations in creating project plans and creating all project infrastructure (vendors, headcount, systems, invoicing, reporting). Wrote/implemented SOPs with cross-functional operational staff in multiple countries. Facilitated/managed meetings at operations, senior leader, and client facing levels. Projects involved multi-million dollar sea and air programs with associated trucking and customs clearance into the middle east and Latin America. Cargo/customers ranged from nation-building infrastructure to oil/gas to military and food aid life support. Continuous Improvement (CI) efforts focused on invoicing timeliness, proper internal process handover, reason coding exceptions that drive process refinement. Show less

  • Head of Business Process Engineering, Lead Logistics

    Nov 2022 - now

  • Senior Solutions Engineer, Lead Logistics

    Jan 2017 - Nov 2022

  • Director, Implementation - Government Services/Project Cargo

    Dec 2012 - Jan 2017