Seaver Named Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
McAdams Named as Acting VP Capital Area Operations
USPS announced two key officer appointments this week to fill critical roles with the organization.
Postmaster General and CEO Megan J. Brennan appointed Kristin Seaver as Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, effective April 9. In this role Kristin will lead the Postal Service’s efforts to drive innovation across enterprise analytics, business insights, mail intelligence, engineering systems, information security and infrastructure, and payment technology.
Kristin brings extensive experience to her new position. Since 2013 she has served as Vice President, Area Operations, for the Capital Metro Area, overseeing all mail processing, distribution, customer service, and administrative functions. Kristin has strengthened operational performance throughout the Area, which has approximately 15.9 million customers and more than 60,000 employees and 2,700 Post Offices. Based on the Capital Metro Area’s performance in 2015, Kristin received the Postmaster General Award.
Previously Kristin served as Area Manager, Operations Support, in both the Northeast and Eastern Areas. Her other past assignments include Manager, In-Plant Support, for both the Northeast and Eastern Areas; Senior Plant Manager in Manchester, New Hampshire; and Manager, Brockton, Massachusetts, Processing and Distribution Center. Kristin began her career in 1991 in the Albany District, where she served as an lndustrial Engineer and Manager, Remote Encoding Operations.
Kristin is a Lean Six Sigma trained and certified green belt. She is also a trained black belt, currently working to complete her certification. Kristin earned a bachelor’s of science degree in industrial engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The second announcement was Kevin L. McAdams will be detailed as Vice President, Area Operations, Capital Metro Area according to an announcement by COO and EVP David E. Williams.
Kevin brings a wealth of field knowledge and experience. Since September 2015, Kevin has held the Manager, Operations Support, Capital Metro Area position. In this role, Kevin was responsible for guiding efficient day-to-day processing, transportation, delivery and customer service operations in a dense geographic area including more than 16 million customers.
Prior to his current role, Kevin served as the District Manager of Mid-Carolina District, Northern Virginia District, Central Pennsylvania District and Baltimore District. As the executive Postmaster of Philadelphia, Kevin began building his strong foundation and proven performance in delivery operations and customer satisfaction.
A 38-year postal veteran, Kevin began his career as a Letter Sorting Machine clerk in Van Nuys, CA. Kevin attended California State University, Northridge, studied business management at the University of Phoenix, is a graduate of the Postal Service’s Advanced Leadership Program, and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
source: USPS
McAdams brings “a wealth of knowledge” to a corrupt federal agency losing $Billions of dollars on a regular basis-how nice! could this guy work for a real company like Boeing…..the answer is no way! Postal VP…..ROFLMFAO!
PO is a non profit organization, so it appears to me that they need to throw some more $ away because we are making too much right now. Pay people like this $200k and you can drain a surplus of $ real quick. Meanwhile in our office they are giving us OT like candy. Yep this business isnt quite as broke as the unions and management make it out to be.
notice both dolts have no experience in a Fortune 500 Company in the private sector. what we really need instead of two more inbred dummies is the 2017 Postal Deregulation Act. Jimmy Carters 1978 Airline and Telecommunications Deregulation Act made those industries better by passing them off to the private sector. the US Postal Circus needs the same treatment………losing over 90 Billion since 2009 is no way to go through life. why do postal mismanagers get bonus money when they are losing Billions? easy to understand when you know they are running a criminal enterprise………..RICO and Congress need to do their job! all this goes on right in front of the Postal OIG and Postal Inspection Service………its all a big scam to line their pockets and rip off the American public.
So amusing (NOT) that clerk jobs are abolished or not reposted when someone bids off or retires..but we can never have enough of these $200,000+ bonus paper pushing, report writing, Excel staring do nothing’s with their cadre of lower level but still six figure managers with THEIR supervisors under them running around producing reports and spreadsheets that never make one iota of difference except to their bank accounts.
The guy is in it for his high three-three years of doing this nothing position and he’ll add a bunch to his already inflated pension.
And what’s with this “Lean Six Sigma’ crap? All these jerks have this and these two are “Green Belts.” Sounds like a job-abolishing thing.
Lean Mail Processing and getting Lean Sigma Six certified is the most important thing a manager can accomplish, I am so proud of my Lean Sigma Six award!
I wish I could get the same writers to compose my resume. To read this, you’d think everybody in postal management is God in postal form. I couldn’t help but notice that the woman Kristin Seaver was in charge of mail intelligence. What?
I joke around with my buddies at our office that I have secretly been in postal intelligence, and get the usual response of “so you just want to fuck off all day long like they do?” It’s always funny.
It’s more featherbedding and creating titles and positions for the “gang” at the top. Maybe we don’t understand being low life pond scum carriers who can barely find our ways around our routes every day, you say? Please. Allow me to enlighten you.
Millions of people out there have degrees and are insanely smart. Many are stupid as a box full of tumbleweeds. There are idiots who didn’t go to college, and again, insanely smart people who didn’t or couldn’t finish because they simply couldn’t afford to, and many who did finish are in horrible debt. Some work for the USPS because it pays better and has much better benefits than the careers they thought they’d be in offer. I couldn’t finish because of money, not grades, and I know I get far better pay than a lot of people with BA’s or higher.
To get to the point, managers, you must understand there are thousands of us craft people who would be excellent managers, and do a lot better job than you. It’s not a question of ability – it’s a question of choice. Myself, I have a disabled wife, and to get into higher levels could mean a lot of relocation, which I do not want to do for her health reasons. I rose pretty high in the union, but like you, the upper reaches of it are filled by a good old boy system where non-relatives or anybody outside the bubble are not wanted if they can’t deliver a lot of votes when it comes to elections.
We see the results of management actions every day. Late arriving mail. Parcels misdirected all over the country – I’m waiting on a package shipped from Kentucky and routed to New Jersey, the opposite direction of my state. Good work. MSP scanners that can barely get within a block of the sampling address and freeze up cold while you try to enter the codes. Abuse, lies, no action taken on unsafe conditions, vehicles or other problems, ignoring customer concerns and legislators, even lying under oath to Congress – this is what we see. And that is what you deem so critical?
If you were only a fraction of the qualifications your article describes you as being.
I mentioned to a friend at work the other day that with supposed qualifications as vast as these listed, one would think they’d be in private business where they could earn a lot more money. We don’t like the fact that the PMG clears 400K a year, and it is undeserved considering she just followed Pat Donahoe from office to office and is pathetically inept, not to mention the architect behind plant closings and reduction of mail standards.
In private business, an equivalent of the two named in the article would probably get much more money – a lot more, and that reeks of suspicion that these two are not smart enough to get into private businesses. But there is always room for suck ups and insiders who know who to blow in the USPS, and that’s why a lot of very bad and very incompetent people get certainly a lot more than we as craft do, when the results of their “work” is either invisible (don’t all we get is idiotic rhetoric and stupid demands of local supervisors from people who do not know the business?) Or we get “motivational” posters for “postal proud”, which is more insulting than being treated like a pre-schooler.
And then we get shit in the mail offering assistance for personal issues, family, drug or alcohol abuse from – you guessed it – those paragons of mental and professional excellence, management. I will tell management right now to mind their own fucking business. They’re more twisted and perverted than craft, so whom are they to “help” us?
Now management can poor mouth the arbitrator and we will get our usual 1% increase while these worthless fools rake in 100k plus.
More waste of money 💵
BLAH BLAH BLAH. Extensive knowledge. Wealth of experience.
Worked with Muffin Meaghan for years. Part of the tool
and thug empire. See the new boss, same as the old boss.
Corporate USPS does nothing to help those of use doing the job. Since 1993, ever since the LLVs came out, we have been begging for someone in corporate to give us racks for our trucks. I’ve personally talked to several higher ups including Russ Gardner who personally shook my hand, looked me directly into my eyes and told me He was the one to get us racks. HE LIED ! It’s been over twenty years. So many carriers take a five minute break for each time we have to realign packages….not saying at do but they feel Since you refuse to give us the equipment to do the job…..we get a package realignment break several times a day. Some claim to be getting 30 minutes daily. Well played carriers.
Yes, “key appointments”.
Where would we be without them?! 🤔
All of my VP appointments are key appointments and don’t you forget it!