SUMMARY:

• Extensive diverse expertise in domestic and international experience in Procurement and Supply Chain in multiple industries including consumer retail products, semi - conductor and electronics, medical device and bio-tech, manufacturing and industrial, high-speed rail and transportation.
• Recognized for my ability to reduce cost, develop strategic and collaborative relationships wif suppliers, internal stakeholders and customers. Managed IT Consulting/Professional Services Spend of $2 million. Saved $100,000 through supplier bidding.
• Used pivot table to analyze $12 million of excess and obsolete inventory cost to management.
• TEMPEffective communication wif executive team during presentations of Commodity review wif Supplier Scorecard, annual business reviews for cost savings, lead-time reduction strategies and supplier consolidation efforts.
• Participated in generic process, systems and compliance audits of suppliers across Asia and North America. Led to better supplier and category/commodities operational efficiency.
• Applied proven sourcing/procurement strategies and methodologies wifin spend categories, supplier selection/qualification and supplier relationship management to deliver organizational objectives that created best value for teh enterprise.

  Supplier Risk Management, Six Sigma/Lean Manufacturing Trained, Seven Steps of Problem Solving, more TEMPthan 15 years of Commodity Strategy Execution, Cross-functional teams/Project Management, Business contracts, Supplier Metrics (KPI) Improvement, doing business in Mexico and Asia.

• Open-minded wif teh ability to adapt, improvise and problem solve. Ability to work independently on multiple tasks and projects wif various stakeholders. Team attitude; eager to cooperate wif others wif exceptional communication skills.
• Conflict resolution, Lead-time reduction, supplier consolidation/rationalization, inventory management, diversified experience wif automated procurement to payment ERP/MRP systems of SAP 7.0, JD Edwards, Oracle, as well as Microsoft Office applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Spring, Texas

Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Was successful in finding and selecting critical and reliable electronic suppliers for contract companies.
• Use TEMPeffective negotiation in long-term suppler agreements wif suppliers.
• Assist in developing Request for Information and Request for Proposal for small scale businesses. Recommend to contract companies teh suppliers to use after evaluating these RFP/RFQ sourcing documents.
• Identify supplier consolidation opportunities that will generate savings from executing strategic sourcing projects.
• Negotiated $2 million optics contract wif Casix for client company. Took part in teh contract formation from developing teh terms and conditions in teh template to teh final draft of teh agreement reviewed and validated by teh legal departments.

Confidential, Hornell, New York

Lead Sourcing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Formulated strategic plans for electrical and electronics categories for teh US, Italy and France divisions.
• Some of teh categories included PCBA, cables/harnesses, cooling systems, transformers, switches, gears, inductors.
• Had an annual global spend of $100 million for electrical/electronics.
• Led and completed a $6 million transit train refurbishment project for Boston and Los Angeles transit authorities.
• Used 5 Sourcing strategies to manage suppliers and categories globally to meet corporate and market goals.
• Evaluated and provided guidance on final selection of suppliers. Performed value analysis for final selection of suppliers. Evaluated suppliers core competencies and competitive positioning using industry benchmarks.
• Issued RFX for sourcing assigned commodities/categories, and reviewed, analyzed and clarified quotations/proposals from suppliers. Provided right recommendation based on sourcing process for approval and finalized/released contract/PO.
• Used win-win negotiation sourcing strategy on $20 million PCBA contract in India. Got 20% savings- $4 million.
• Improved supplier performance matrix on quality/reliability, cost, on-time delivery, and service from 70 to 98 (40% improvement) through constant communication, semi-annual performance measurement, audits, and plant visits.
• Reduced lead-time for cables and harnesses by 25 percent from 8 to 6 weeks wif General Cables.
• Spent $7 million on supplier diversity programs on minority, not-for-profit, and small size businesses.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Strategic/Commodity Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed sourcing and negotiation strategies that delivered against business objectives and achieved sustainable relationships wif suppliers. Executed global sourcing strategies for metal, electronics and plastics.
• Proficiency in Negotiating Strategic Long-Term Agreements to stabilize teh supply base performance and KPI’s year after year. Savings of $350,000 were achieved.
• Collaborated across teh organization to ensure business objectives are met, including teh ability to rapidly synthesize and communicate findings to senior managers and to actively identify potential supply issues that affected product strategy.
• Managed a sourcing spend of $15 million. Saved $3 million in cost of goods sold (20%) through centralized purchasing.
• Supervised three staff buyers that were organized by commodity while traveling 30% of my time.
• Managed nine off shore global contract manufacturing suppliers to improve overall metrics from 78 to 92 up 18%.
• Used customized off shore local commodity strategies to improve supplier relationship in Asia.
• Used supplier consolidation and rationalization to reduce suppliers from globally. 94% reduction results.
• Saved $450,000 on revenues of $2.5 million wif Metal suppliers of Changhua, Taiwan
• Contributed 100% of internal/external customer satisfaction due to well monitored suppliers’ KPI or performance metrics.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior Commodity Manager

Responsibilities:

• Formulated and executed commodity strategies for teh Cell Analysis Division.
• Managed $100 million spend for $1 billion Cell Analysis division in San Jose, CA for metal, electronics, optics, OEM, machining, plastics, and other indirect material. Implemented over 50 SAP VMI scheduling agreements resulting in cost savings of $280,000.
• Used advanced product quality planning, continuous improvement, value engineering/value analysis and lean manufacturing wif engineering teams and suppliers during New Product Development stage to drive quality, cost efficiency and value.
• Outsourced $20 million PCBA assembly business to Flextronics in Mexico. Negotiated savings of 30% ($ 6 million) in contract talks. ed $8 million to minority owned business to meet supplier diversity programs.
• Managed global suppliers’ risks through assessment, threat mitigation and putting contingency plans in place.
• TEMPEffectively worked wif suppliers to negotiate optimal terms for sourcing. Understood teh trade offs between cost, volume, and quality in order to strike agreements that met company performance criteria and secure long-term supply continuity.
• Worked wif NPI and Product Life Cycle Managers for AIDS and Cancer medical devices to improve testing of prototype issues, quality/reliability tests and mature/declining product issues were handled properly.
• Managed teh sourcing of a $40 million program to supply medical devices for research to Center for Disease Control.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Commodity Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a $50 million annual spend for electronics, metal, optics, plastics, MRO, professional services.
• Developed competitive strategies, including outsourcing electronic assemblies, and Optics products to Asia and US contract manufacturers. Achieved 30 percent ($2.1 million) cost savings on revenues of $7 million for a sourcing project of optics in China
• Worked wif sales, production planning and customers (Intel, Samsung) to manage purchased materials, lead-time, and cost on engineering-to-order, assemble-to-order, make-to-stock, and make-to-order semi-conductor/electronics tools.
• Identified and developed strategic sourcing initiatives for a US contract manufacturing supplier resulting in a 20% cost reduction in precision machined parts. Save $250,000.
• Analyzed current spend and evaluated current suppliers. Consolidated spend across supply base to create leverage, analyzed purchasing trends and develop sourcing alternatives. Identified new high potential suppliers on global basis.
• Participated in generic process, systems and compliance audits of suppliers in Asia and North America.
• Worked wif NPI Team, Suppliers, Internal Quality and other stakeholders to drive Value Analysis/Value Engineering, advanced product quality planning, six sigma and continuous improvement issues to achieve products’ quality, cost and performance.
• Supervised a 5-person procurement/sourcing staff (buyers, sourcing specialist, expeditor, RMA/ root cause analysis/ failure mode and TEMPeffect analysis administrator.)
• Senior Sourcing Representative to supply 30 semiconductor tools for $30 million to Intel and Samsung in six years
• Selected/qualified global suppliers admitting them into preferred and approved panel status. Reduced inefficiencies in operations.