Central Michigan University
Class of 2027
Juan Torres
Logistics Management
Torre10j@cmich.edu
juantorresmi.github.io
About
I study logistics at Central Michigan, work at Meijer, and build things on the side.
I’m a senior at Central Michigan University studying Business Administration with a concentration in Logistics Management. I carry a 3.70 GPA, a 4.00 in the major, and I graduate in April 2027.
Most of my work has been hands-on. I ran equipment on a factory line at FIAMM, and for the last couple of years I’ve been a certified meat cutter at Meijer, where a lot of the job is keeping inventory right, rotating stock and keeping the department clean enough that inspections come back with nothing on them.
When something from class sticks with me, I like to build it and see what happens, and by now that’s a lot of different projects. I’ve raced a fruit fly’s brain against Google’s routing software, built an optimizer for aggregate production planning, written a price ledger for a Minecraft economy I trade in, and set up live boards for reefer truck rates and border wait times. They all run on this site, and the projects page has every one. Outside of that, I’m in the Supply Chain Management Association and I start for CMU’s varsity League of Legends team. I also make music as jjulio.
Projects
All projects →
Simulation
Fruit Fly Dispatcher
I put a fruit fly’s brain in charge of a delivery truck and raced it against Google’s routing software for a week.
Tool
Aggregate Planner
You give it a year of demand and what labor and inventory cost, and it finds the cheapest production plan, month by month.
Tool
Plain Solver
Build your own optimization solver by filling in plain-English sentences. It does what Excel Solver does, at any size, with no cell formulas.
Tool
Craft Ledger
A crafting profit calculator for Minecraft SMP economies like DonutSMP. It works out which crafts actually make money at your server's prices.
Business
MMA Card Shop
My UFC card flipping side business, with the inventory app and eBay deal scanner I built to run it.
Data
Open Data (Free CSV Datasets)
Every dataset this site keeps, in one catalog, as free CSV files with fixed addresses, updated every weekday.
Data
USDA Market Prices
The parent of the beef, pork, fed cattle and reefer boards, USDA’s market reports turned into readable pages in English and Spanish, with every number free to download.
Data
Boxed Beef Prices
USDA’s daily boxed beef cutout and the wholesale price of every beef cut that traded, with a page and the full daily history for each cut.
Data
Pork Prices
USDA’s daily pork carcass cutout, its six primals and the wholesale price of every pork cut that traded, each with a page and its daily history since 2020, in English and Spanish.
Data
Fed Cattle Prices
What packers pay for fed steers and heifers each week, live and dressed, in USDA’s 5-area market and region by region, with a live-or-dressed calculator, in English and Spanish.
Data
Reefer Truck Rates
USDA’s weekly spot rates for refrigerated trucks, from the produce shipping districts to ten big cities, on one board with a page and a history for every lane.
Data
Border Truck Wait Times
How long trucks wait at every U.S. land port on the Mexican and Canadian borders right now, and how long they usually wait at each hour of the week.
Data
Border Wait Times for Cars and Pedestrians
How long the line is at every U.S. land border crossing right now, by car, SENTRI or NEXUS, Ready Lane and on foot, and how long it usually is at each hour of the week.
Service
YouTube Channel Stats
My YouTube channel’s numbers on this site, refreshed every three hours by a Cloudflare Worker that polls YouTube on its own, for free.
Service
Cloudflare Worker Usage
How much of Cloudflare’s free plan the Worker behind every live page on this site has used today, and how much is left.
Work
Full résumé →
2024 – Present
Meijer
Mount Pleasant & Cadillac, MICertified Meat Cutter
Cutting, inventory and food safety in a busy meat department. I manage the department’s stock in Meijer’s inventory system and take customers’ special orders.
2021 – 2023
FIAMM Technologies
Cadillac, MIFactory Operator
Ran production equipment and kept materials moving on a manufacturing line.
Contact
Torre10j@cmich.edu
Email is the best way to reach me. I’m always happy to talk about logistics, internships or anything on this site.