JOHN E. ROBINSON
Uniontown
Summary
Leadership Administration and Organizational Recruitment Specialist Knowledgeable Developer Team Player Intermodal Transportation Experience
Professional with extensive experience in international shipping and logistics coordination, specializing in the preparation of essential documentation such as Packing Lists, Customs Invoices, and HTS Summary Reports. Demonstrated ability to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while facilitating timely communication between various stakeholders, including transportation supervisors and trucking companies. Proficient in utilizing Microsoft Excel and Transportation Management Systems to enhance shipment visibility and streamline operations. Certified in IATA and DOT Ground Hazmat shipping methods, with a focus on LEAN methodologies to improve efficiency and reduce waste in logistical processes.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
Work History
Transportation & Storage Coordinator
Siemens Energy
Pittsburgh
02.2023 - 10.2025
- Primary coordinator of international shipments, creating Packing Lists, Customs Invoices, and HTS Summary Reports for International shipments shipping out of the (PSC) Pittsburgh Service Center, ensuring all documentation and information is relayed timely and accurately to the PSC Transportation Supervisor, as well as through the respective CRP coordinators, for smooth shipping documentation upload and movement, to include ensuring proper Incoterms as well as other required information is completed for documentation purposes. All were supported through Microsoft Excel spreadsheet applications and procedures, where I have a vast knowledge of these specific applications through Microsoft.
- Interface with various trucking companies to coordinate and request trucking assets for all international shipments from PSC, to include flatbed, single-drop trailers and other truck assets. Upload informational transportation requests into the Transportation Management System (TMS), ensuring each request accurate information is placed into the system, creating visibility and transparency for all movements, domestic and international.
- Assist with FedEx packaging shipping, providing accurate documentation and shipping labels to various sites for smooth transportation to each respective site of their tool order requests, whether the requests are domestic or international. Creating email documentation for the FedEx shipments for every site manager and requestor to have complete visibility of their FedEx shipment, ensuring intermodal transportation means are adhered to, creating best cost-effective transportation means.
- Assisted the CPTAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) coordinator with all CPTAT regulatory procedures and guidance, which enabled the Siemens Energy team to be compliant with all regulatory requirements for CPTAT compliance.
- Coordinated Export and Customs Controls (ECC) approval processes for international shipping through the Siemens Energy ECC Portal, along with providing insight guidance to the Team Lead for SAP-PD2 inputs for domestic and international shipments, along with being proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Certified in both IATA and DOT Ground Hazmat shipping methods, being certified since June 2023 to the present.
- Focused on the LEAN methodologies, ensuring customer values were adhered to and made paramount, while minimizing company’s waste of resources and enhancing our team’s efficiency in all logistical aspects and functions. Team management is paramount in all operations under my leadership, ensuring managing the team efficiently and cost effectively is at the utmost importance.
- Pittsburgh Service Center
Testing Clerk
Military Entrance Processing Station
Pittsburgh
03.2022 - 02.2023
- Conduct aptitude and qualification examinations for applicants of various Armed Services at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) and Military Entrance Test (MET), and aptitude examinations for students at high schools.
- Ensure strict accountability and security of all testing materials.
- Operate a variety of office automation equipment including personal computers, facsimile machines, scanners, digital copiers, and industrial shredders.
- Score enlistment and high school Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) tests using an Optical Mark Reader (OMR) scanner.
- Assist in the conduct of test material inventories.
- Pittsburgh, Pa
Driver’s License Examiner (DLE)
PENNDOT Driver’s License Center
Bridgeville
09.2019 - 03.2022
- Driver’s License examiner for PENNDOT, ensuring customers, testing for their driver’s license, adhere by the laws and standards of driving in the state of Pennsylvania.
- Provide information and customer service to Pennsylvania residents, as well as incoming residents, on the requirements for licensing for the state of Pennsylvania.
- Acting Supervisor for the Washington Office, in the absence of the current manager, while ensuring all office personnel are taken care of and customer service standards are met with courtesy and quality service.
- Bridgeville, Pa/Washington, Pa
Logistics Manager
Ford Business Machines
Dunbar
10.2018 - 09.2019
- Maintained accountability of every copier and printers inside the warehouse. Updated Excel Spreadsheets, with the latest disposition of each, and every machine.
- Provided on-site expertise on warehouse functions of every machine's location, within the scope of the warehouse operational procedures.
- Provided every Ford Business Machine customer with quality support of all toner shipments, throughout the tri-state area. Maintained accountability of all toner requests and documentation.
- Dunbar, Pennsylvania
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Claims Specialist
Social Security Administration
Uniontown
09.2010 - 07.2018
- Provided Social Security Administration program guidance to claimants wishing to make applications for Social Security Disability, Supplemental Security Income, and Disabled Adult Child benefits.
- Provided technical knowledge of all guidelines and policies on every aspect of Social Security Administration programs, including adjudication of SSI initial, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), Appeals Court, and Federal Court allowance claims.
- Uniontown, Pa Field Office
Transportation Noncommissioned Officer in Charge
United States Army
Fort Irwin
09.2008 - 05.2010
- Provided complete transportation visibility for an element of over 1,200 Soldiers, ensuring proper guidance, counseling, and general training and welfare is provided for Soldiers.
- Trained all Unit Movement Officers, within the Regiment, provided coordination, command and control, and guidance for all modes of transportation.
- Managed and maintained accountability for all freight management, motor operation’s coordination, and cargo documentation for the entire Regiment.
- Platoon Sergeant, supervising and accounting for over 45 Soldiers, training and leading the platoon in Soldier-oriented techniques and guiding them with their related education and personal welfare.
- 11TH Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Irwin, CA
United States Army Recruiter/Human Resource Specialist
United States Army Recruiting Command
Uniontown
07.2005 - 08.2008
- Provided individual guidance on the Army’s various training programs for enlistment. I interviewed personnel and ensured all were enlisted under the guidelines of the Army Recruiting Command; ensuring integrity was always adhered to.
- Conducted background investigative checks on all individuals applying for positions within the Army. Ensured all personnel were without criminal backgrounds that would prohibit enlistment into the Army.
- Completed documented contacts with several individuals and organizations, ensuring networking and lead generations were established and maintained throughout my recruiting career. This enabled me to earn the coveted Gold Badge in the United States Recruiting Command for recruiting excellence.
- Uniontown, PA
Documentation Noncommissioned Officer
Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command
Cape Canaveral
07.2003 - 06.2005
- Assisted the Contract Officer Representative for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Military Prepositional Ship (MPS) Fleet. Maintained accountability of all actions requested from the USMC for the Stevedore contract that supports the USMC MPS.
- Documentation Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) for Cape Canaveral’s 954TH Transportation Company, which oversees the import and export of goods from Cape Canaveral to the Andros Islands, located in the Bahamas. Also assisted with the CPTAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) beginning stages for MSDDC during the Haiti missions going out for Operation Secure Tomorrow, a mission to which I was tagged as Port Non-Commissioned Officer in charge for the mission of deployment and redeployment of assets from the multi-forces coordinated effort to secure the Haitian countryside and port operations during the Haitian uprisings.
- Cape Canaveral, FL
Transportation Noncommissioned Officer
United States Army
Okinawa
07.2000 - 05.2003
- Provided all Department of Defense and military components with the proper guidance and procedures for travel entitlements and cargo manifesting.
- Customer support counselor for the Personal Property Office, providing inbound and outbound counseling for all Department of the Army personnel and their families.
- Maintained 100% accountability of all cargo as the Arrival/Departure Airfield Control Group Noncommissioned Officer in charge during Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines.
- Shipped over 190 short tons of cargo in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
- Trained as a Unit Urinalysis Coordinator, for the 10th Area Support Group, providing expertise in urinalysis testing and ensuring all standards of urinalysis sample collections were adhered to, and properly handled, throughout the sample taking process.
- 10TH Area Support Group, Okinawa, Japan
Transportation Movement Coordinator/Supervisor
United States Army
07.1990 - 07.2000
- Provide complete transportation visibility for an element of 3 Infantry Divisions, including 1st and 24th Infantry Divisions, as well as three overseas to The Republic of South Korea and The State of Kuwait.
- Trained all Unit Movement Officers, within the United States Army, and provided coordination, command and control, and guidance for all modes of transportation, with priority mode being rail operations.
- Managed and maintained accountability for all freight management, motor operation’s coordination, and cargo documentation for multiple exercises, and deployments, to include Operation Restore Hope, Operation Desert Fox, and Operation Desert Thunder, utilizing intermodal transportation means, including rail, air, and oceanic port transportation.
- First Line Detachment Non-Commissioned Officer in charge, of the 266th Transportation detachment, located in Fort Riley, Kansas. Operations Supervisor for over 35 rail operations, as well as over 25 air operations in support of various contingencies, including Operation Restore Hope.
- Maintained accountability of over $10,000,000 worth of operational-ready equipment, as well as supervised over 550 Soldiers, in their health and welfare, training, and professional growth and development.
- Various Installations and Countries
Education
33 semester credit - General Studies
Barton County Community College
Junction City, KansasDiploma - Academic Studies
Uniontown Area High School
Uniontown, PennsylvaniaSkills
- International shipping
- Customs documentation
- Packing lists
- HTS summary reports
- Transportation management
- Freight coordination
- Microsoft Excel
- TMS utilization
- IATA certification
- DOT Hazmat shipping
- LEAN methodologies
- Export and customs controls
- Client communication
- Regulatory compliance
- Cost-effective transportation
- Shipment visibility
- Team management
- Intermodal logistics
- Document management
- Inventory control
- Process improvement
- Data analysis
- Scheduling and calendar management
- Strategic planning
- Presenting ideas and plans
- Project Support
- Report writing
- Information collection
- Staff management
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Team collaboration
- Point of contact
- Time management
- Schedule management
- Data entry
- Event planning
- Best practices implementation
- Data retrieval systems
- Multitasking and organization
- Risk management
- Conflict resolution
- Verbal and written communication
- Team oversight
- Administrative leadership
- Database management
- Scheduling expertise
- Meeting coordination
- Decision-making
- Clear communication
- Consulting
- Workflow management
- Deadline management
- Document control
- Negotiation
- Resource allocation
- Relationship building
Personal Cell
724-322-9484
Timeline
Transportation & Storage Coordinator
Siemens Energy
02.2023 - 10.2025
Testing Clerk
Military Entrance Processing Station
03.2022 - 02.2023
Driver’s License Examiner (DLE)
PENNDOT Driver’s License Center
09.2019 - 03.2022
Logistics Manager
Ford Business Machines
10.2018 - 09.2019
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Claims Specialist
Social Security Administration
09.2010 - 07.2018
Transportation Noncommissioned Officer in Charge
United States Army
09.2008 - 05.2010
United States Army Recruiter/Human Resource Specialist
United States Army Recruiting Command
07.2005 - 08.2008
Documentation Noncommissioned Officer
Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command
07.2003 - 06.2005
Transportation Noncommissioned Officer
United States Army
07.2000 - 05.2003
Transportation Movement Coordinator/Supervisor
United States Army
07.1990 - 07.2000
33 semester credit - General Studies
Barton County Community College
Diploma - Academic Studies
Uniontown Area High School