Jerry L. Reeves

P.O. Box 553
Altamont, KS 67330
620.784.5580
-or-
1275 Kendrick Rd. NE
Atlanta, GA 30319
678.794.8302
Jayreeves88@hotmail.com
Jayreeves88@yahoo.com

OBJECTIVE

Intelligent, energetic, organized professional, seeks challenging and rewarding career in the corporate aviation or corporate travel industry.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

CIRCULATION DIRECTOR – Parsons Sun, Inc., 220 S. 18th, Parsons, KS 67357, 620.421.2000
July 2006 – Present
• Directed the efforts to market and deliver a daily newspaper and other niche products into a multi-county distribution area.
• Responsible for directing all aspects of the circulation department, including planning, budgeting, recruiting, training, and motivating a staff of approximately 70 individuals.
• Directed customer service responses to complaints and compliments.
• Directly responsible for halting an 8.8% revenue decline and returning circulation to profitability.
• Assigned expenses to cost centers and general ledgers
• Approved all invoice and payroll actions.
• Created processes to monitor material usage and replenishment actions.

CORPORATE JET SCHEDULER/DISPATCHER – Professional Pilots Service/Corporate Plane Services, P.O. Box 3089, Suwanee, GA 30024, 404.202.4030
June 2001 – May 2006
• Responsible for care and security of client assets, equipment, and personnel.
• Assisted in executing $17 million annual budget, budget forecasting, P&L responsibility for business model. Coordinated $30 million capitol expense budget for equipment/facility improvements.
• Reduced cost-per-equipment expenses by over 5 percent through aggressive negotiations with long-term vendors for fuel, equipment, and facilities. Created vendor partnerships resulting in larger overall savings without sacrificing quality of service.
• Arrange movement and placement of up to five individual jet aircraft for client use.
• Prepared the movement and placement of ground transportation for individual client and crew use, in addition to arranging crew accommodation.
• Negotiated over $400K in annual executive travel requirements from outside vendors.
• Supervised all facility maintenance and upkeep for 15,000 square feet hangar.
• Worked directly with international flight management companies in arranging client and crew documentation, hotels, rental cars, limousines, and sight seeing junkets when necessary.
• Supervised and approved all administrative support expenses.
• Flawlessly coordinated approximately 65 individual purchase cards with over $7 million in purchase power.
• Assisted in reducing administrative processing times by over 50 percent thus streamlining all financial reporting tools to provide “real time” snap shots to financial managers.
• Accountable for building a reputation for “total customer satisfaction.”

OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR – World Travel BTI, 3159 Royal Dr. Suite 330, Alpharetta, GA 30022, 770-750-5510
January 2000 – June 2001
• Full service corporate travel call center floor supervisor with a direct report of 10-12 call center travel coordinators providing support for a corporate client with a $90+ million annual travel budget.
• Responsible for orientation and training of new/prospective travel coordinators and supervising and coaching of existing travel coordinators.
• Implemented new training courses for recruits’ thus speeding profitability.

OPERATIONAL LEAD AGENT – American Express Travel Related Services, Emergency Travel Center, 2901 Wilcrest Blvd, Suite 400, Houston, TX 77042, 713.260.4774
June 1998 – December 1999
• Responsible for motivating and challenging 8-10 corporate travel agents in a high volume, 24-hour call center environment.
• Accountable for employee retention, training and development.
• CRS/GDS experienced proficiency in SABRE, Apollo, and Worldspan.

TRAVEL AGENT – Advantage Travel, Inc., 10500 N.W. Freeway, Suite 165, Houston, TX 77040, 713.683.0065
September 1996 – May 1998
• Responsible for business and leisure travel sales in “store front” commercial travel agency.


EDUCATION

1979-1980 Labette Community College, Parsons, KS General Studies
1980-1981 Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS Business Studies
1995-1996 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Business Studies

OTHER EXPERIENCES

Membership in ASTA (1996-2001); Certified A.R.C. specialist certificate (1999); American Express Travel Agent Award (1998); Air Security International Safety Certification (2003); National Business Aircraft Association Safety Award (2005); Recipient - American Press Institute “Wildcard” award (2006).


REFERENCES

Available upon request.