Andrew Preston

At Sharehouse, I started out as a Barback on just the weekends to make extra money while working at JAS forwarding during the week. After a year, I chose to leave JAS and work at Sharehouse full time. I was eventually promoted to a server and later on, a bartender.

• Served high customer volumes during special events, nights, and weekends.
• Managed cash handling duties responsibly, ensuring accurate accounting at the end of each shift.
• Efficiently opened or closed the bar according to established procedures, ensuring preparedness for each shift.
• Contributed to a positive work environment through effective teamwork and communication with colleagues.
• Maintained a clean and organized workspace, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.

When working at JAS Forwarding, my main priority is to make sure shipments, orders and documents are shipped or placed at the right time. Some orders are created for me with provided documents and some I create from scratch while having to call or email the origin to get the documents such as the Master/House Bill of lading, commercials invoices, packing lists, etc. Once that is done, it is my job to communicate with carriers and the origin (via call or email) to make sure the cargo and documents get to where they need to go on time.

Expeditors is a third party logistics site that holds other companies product. My job as a Distribution Agent is to schedule containers to be picked up from the Charleston Port with different trucking companies. Once the product has arrived and is put in location in the warehouse by our team, I document the weights and dims of the product into our system database (EDMS). Whenever the customer is ready for their product to ship to the destination, I am notified and given the proper paperwork such as BOLs, Labels, COAs and others depending on where the product is going. It is my responsibility to print pick lists for the warehouse and to schedule a pickup with the carrier given to pick up the product. Once product is picked up, I close out the order and scan all documents. Sometimes if the warehouse is short staffed, I will go out there and help with the little things such as getting weights and dims and helping locate product along with marking them down on moves sheet. Most days I'm at my desk communicating and emailing customers but there will be days where I will be in the warehouse helping and working.

When working at Sunland Logistics, I worked on the domestic side of the company. Sunland partners with Ingevity so they're the ones sending me the orders to get ready and processed. Once those are ready, I will schedule the product to be picked up through a flatbed, trailer or container depending on product and customer. At Sunland, we dealt with all types of products, hazardous or non-hazardous. Once product has left the building and paperwork is signed, I report everything through our company and to Ingevity.

My job in the Ingevity Traffic office is to check in and out truck drivers so they can get out as soon as possible. Whether they are delivering product or getting loaded with product from the plant, it is my job take make they get the right paperwork that they need. I use the documents Shipping Capacity and CHS Outbound for outbound loads by marking down the drivers weights and times they arrive and left the plant. I also use documents Traffic Raw Materials, Lease Tank Wagon to mark down delivery trucks with the information of the time they showed, Carrier, Product, PO number and the tank number. I also use the Lease tank wagon sheet to make paperwork for tanks to go to the wash that need clean. When it comes to paperwork, I use SAP to batch shipments for upcoming days and make paperwork for those days to make sure I am prepared for when those truck drivers show up.

I fill orders for companies based on their purchase order and load them onto the truck for distribution. I handle heavy boxes filled with wine bottles, beer cans and kegs. When working there, I worked with machinery like pallet jacks, saran wrap machine and some forklifting.

I started this job to just work in the month of December 2016 for Christmas break and also worked the summer of 2017 (May - August). Then worked from January 2018 to July 2018. Which qualifies at a year of manufacturing/warehouse.