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Dana Whitfield
Hartford, CT · dana.whitfield@example.com · (860) 555-0142

Operations manager with nine years in regional distribution, from receiving lead to running a 120-person, three-shift operation serving 64 stores. Lifted on-time shipping from 94% to 98% and cut cost per case shipped 11%.

Experience
Halvorsen Regional Distribution · Operations ManagerMar 2021 - Present
  • Re-sequenced the pick route so the short shift stopped being the bottleneck; throughput recovered within a quarter without backfilling two open roles
  • Traced late orders to a warehouse and customer service hand-off gap; a shared 2 p.m. cut-off lifted on-time shipping from 94% to 98%
  • Cut cost per case shipped 11% in 2023 by using WMS labor reporting to rebalance pick zones weekly across three shifts
  • Brought OSHA recordable incidents from 7 a year to 2 with daily dock safety walks and forklift recertification for every operator
  • Rebuilt carrier management around a backup agreement after a 2022 carrier failure; all 64 stores served through two peaks without a missed delivery
  • Run labor budgeting for a 120-person, three-shift operation ($4.2M a year); finished 2024 3% under budget
  • Cut first-year turnover from 41% to 24% by pairing each new hire with a trained lead for their first two weeks
Corliss FreightJun 2017 - Feb 2021
Shift SupervisorSep 2018 - Feb 2021
  • Supervised a 14-person night shift across receiving, put-away and outbound staging at a 220,000 sq ft cross-dock
  • Moved put-away to a zone schedule, cutting dock-to-stock time from 36 hours to 20
  • Raised inventory accuracy from 96.8% to 99.4% with nightly cycle counting of exception locations
  • Wrote the onboarding checklist the site still uses for seasonal hires; new hires reached full rate in 8 days instead of 15
Lead Associate, ReceivingJun 2017 - Aug 2018
  • Ran inbound receiving for about 40 trailers a week against advance ship notices; shortage claims recovered $85K from vendors in 2018
  • Trained 9 associates on handheld scanners in the move off paper receiving; promoted to shift supervisor after 15 months
Skills

Domain: Pick zones, Put-away, Cycle counting, Inbound receiving, Carrier management, Dock safety, Labor budgeting, Onboarding

Tools: WMS labor reporting

Education and credentials
Bradford State University · B.S., Business Administration2013 - 2017

OSHA 30-Hour General Industry · 2019

The requirements it answers

  • Meets: Improve on-time shipping

    • “Sat in on warehouse and customer-service morning huddles for a month to find why orders shipped late: they stalled at the hand-off between the two teams” (You chose this)
    • “Set a shared 2pm cut-off between the two teams; on-time shipping went from 94% to about 98%” (You kept Cipher's suggestion)

How it was written

  • Combines 2 of your lines into one.
  • Your record says "about 98%"; this line says "98%".

Left out of this line, still in your record: morning huddles

The gap no one names.

You've been applying. You've been qualified. And you're not hearing back.

The tools that apply to a thousand jobs for you are the reason your resume has to be better than ever. The problem isn't your experience. It's that your experience isn't on your resume yet.

Other tools start with the job description and work backward. Cipher starts with you.

How it works

What you see before you apply.

Every need in the posting, the evidence in your record that answers it, and three scores that are never blended into one number.

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01

The Career Record

A private conversation about what you actually did. Not a form, not a checklist.

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This conversation is yours. Nothing from it reaches a resume unless you choose it.

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The master resume

Everything, in one place. Nothing reaches a resume that you haven't confirmed.

  • Cut first-year turnover from 41% to 24% by pairing each new hire with a trained lead for their first two weeks

    Draft

    Edit this bullet before confirming if the wording needs work.

  • Re-sequenced the pick route so the short shift stopped being the bottleneck; throughput recovered within a quarter without backfilling two open roles

    You confirmed: throughput recovered within a quarter

    Confirmed

03

Tailored resumes, built with you

Cipher reads the posting. You pick the evidence. Cipher assembles the page and names anything it cut. Every line shows where it came from.

Cipher reads. You confirm. Cipher composes.

Need 2 of 7 · Responsibility · Required

Improve throughput without adding headcount

From the posting

improve throughput without adding headcount

If none of this evidence actually speaks to the need, you can mark it as a gap.

Re-sequenced the pick route so the short shift stopped being the bottleneck; throughput recovered within a quarter without backfilling two open roles

Cut cost per case shipped 11% in 2023 by using WMS labor reporting to rebalance pick zones weekly across three shifts

Moved put-away to a zone schedule, cutting dock-to-stock time from 36 hours to 20

04

Three fit scores

Filter probability, shortlist strength, career alignment. Never blended into one number.

Filter probability

Can a screen read your resume and find the right terms?

Partial fit

This resume carries most of what this role's screen looks for, with room to make the match clearer.

Shortlist strength

How a hiring manager will read it.

Significant gaps

A hiring manager needs more to move you forward.

Career alignment

A reading of you and the direction you've set, not of this resume.

Strong fit

This role aligns well with the direction you've set for yourself.

Why one column.

Reads the same to a parser, a search, and a tired recruiter.

Single column. Standard headings. Contact details in the body. No tables, no graphics, no sidebars. In a poll of 1,000 US hiring managers, 53% said text-based PDFs with no images or complex formatting work best with their applicant tracking software; 13% said layouts with images or heavy design elements are compatible. That's a vendor poll, and we label it as one.

Every Cipher resume exports to DOCX and PDF with no watermark and no branding.

We publish our work.

Most tools tell you their AI is good. Cipher shows you what it's built on.

Cipher's three fit scores aren't black boxes. Every factor in every score is documented, labeled by evidence type, and published. Peer-reviewed research. Sources named. Caveats disclosed.

Labor economics

A randomized field experiment with nearly half a million job seekers on an online hiring platform tested whether clearer writing changes who gets hired. It did, and employers were no more satisfied with the people they hired. The help underlined errors and could not write text, so Cipher takes the mechanism from it and no number. The methodology names the study, its size and what it could not establish.

Organizational psychology

A meta-analysis of person-job fit research: people whose work fits them are more satisfied and more committed, and less likely to plan to leave.

Hiring science

Research on how screeners actually evaluate resumes, including where that evaluation goes wrong. Cipher's methodology names what the research found and what it could not establish.

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If you've tried everything else.

"I already use ChatGPT for my resume"

So does everyone, and that's the problem. In one vendor poll, roughly half of hiring managers said they would dismiss a resume they believed was AI-generated. Cipher starts from your record, not a job description, so what comes out is specific, and yours.

"I already have a resume"

You have a resume. Does it have everything you've actually done? The Career Record interview surfaces work you minimized, results you didn't know how to quantify, and things you forgot to claim.

"I don't want to be locked in"

You aren't. End your membership whenever you like, from Settings, in one step. Your Career Record stays, and it's here when you need it again.

Six questions.

What people ask first.

All questions
Does an ATS reject resumes automatically?

Rarely. No one has traced the claim that most resumes are auto-rejected by software to any study. What filters candidates is volume plus human triage, along with any knockout criteria a person configured. The real game is parsing cleanly and reading with substance.

Will Cipher write my resume for me?

Cipher does the structural work: decomposing the posting, retrieving your evidence, composing, formatting. It never manufactures substance. If the honest answer to a requirement is "I haven't done that," Cipher respects it.

Is the free trial a limited version?

No. Same engine, same build station, same three scores, same disclosure. What differs is how many tailored resumes and alignment scores you get, and the cover letter advisor, which is Membership only.

Can Cipher be wrong?

Yes. Cipher can't invent experience you don't have; that guardrail runs in code. But the parts that use AI make judgment calls about language, and those can be off. That's why you confirm what Cipher read, choose every piece of evidence, and read your resume before you send it.

Does Cipher write my cover letter?

No, deliberately. For every role you score, it surfaces the Career Record passages most relevant to what the posting asks for, with a note on why each belongs in your letter. You write the letter. Included with Membership.

What happens when I use my trial resumes?

Nothing happens automatically. There's no card to charge. Your profile, Career Record and every resume you made stay exactly where you left them; you just can't generate new ones until you upgrade.

Pricing

Start free. Membership is $55 a month, or $135 billed every three months.

End anytime; your record stays.

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What Cipher is.

You uncover what's been missing. Then you decide what goes on the page.

Cipher uses AI to keep resumes more human.

Most of what people have done never makes it onto their resume. I built Cipher to close that gap without inventing anything. I read this inbox myself. If you find a line here that isn't true of the product, write to me. I'll fix whichever one is wrong.
Lauren Tarde · founder · hello@cipherresume.ai
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