PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished and strategic thinking Lean Supply Chain professional with demonstrated abilities and foresight to transform, lead and improve supply chain functions with the invention and deployment of “Critical Ratio” principles to revolutionize Global Strategic Sourcing, Production Scheduling, Distribution Requirements Planning, Procurement Planning, Inventory Management and Close - loop capacity modeling.
• Change agent with over 26 years of progressive hand on and global managerial supply chain experience in streamlining and transforming end to end supply chain functions. Supply chain experience includes deployment of Six Sigma and Lean principles in forecasting, demand management, strategic sourcing, procurement, inventory investment management, inventory reduction, inventory risk management, production planning, production control, materials handling, logistics and multiple ERP implementations and business integration executive leadership experience . Process improvement experience includes six sigma, lean supply chain , lean manufacturing, value stream mapping, k aizen, product development, new product introduction, project management, program management and S&OP . Manufacturing environment experience includes out sourcing, make to stock, assemble to order, make-to-order, single piece flow, batch job and continuous flow.

Director of Supply Chain Management / Global Strategic Sourcing

• Strategic thinking supply chain professional with the vision and ability to formulate and streamline end to end supply chain functions. I n charge of project management, demand management, global sourcing, supplier quality engineer, purchasing and materials department s with 12 direct reports and 18 indirect reports in high end and fast pace EMS environment during massive expansion and ramp up period.

Supply Chain Program Manager / Supply Chain Manager

• Highly accomplished manager with the abilities to drive change on overall supply chain functions including planning, procurement, warehousing and transportation leadership responsibilities in multiple facilities. When i n charge of global inventory reduction program with 40 fully dedicated team members and $10 billions materials spend and responsibilities in 14 countries and 21 sites for tier one EMS company.

Senior Corporate Manager / Planning Manager / Master Scheduler / Planner -Buyer

• Competent and experienced manager, master scheduler, planner and buyer with over 15 years of hand on planning , purchasing and scheduling experience in automotive, EMS, building materials and semiconductor industries. Career highlights include being in charge of a staff of 18 direct reports in managing overall planning function with nearly $1 billion annual revenue and multiple international sites.

Accountant / Sole Proprietor/Manager

• I n dept h knowledge of international commodity trading, large scale inventory management / inventory control and global logistics. Personally r esponsible for P&L and pay roll for a staff of 18.

Supply Chain Management / Global Sourcing / Purchasing / Inventory Management

• Visionary supply chain professional w ith proven track record of significant inventory reduction with the invention and deployment of “Critical Ratio” principles . Over 20 years of experience in managing and streamlining overall supply chain functions for small and big companies. Over 15 years of hand on experience in international sourcing, purchasing, managing purchasing professionals and inventory management experience with materials spend up to $10B.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

EMS - tier one and specialty companies, world class OEM healthcare capital equipment, a utomotive electronic , building materials (ceramic and door hardware), continuous flow glass furnace, international general commodity trading and poly silicon wafer for semiconductor.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Lean Six Sigm a Lean Supply Chain Deployment New Product Development / Introduction
• Program / Project Management Global Supply Chain Management Value Stream Mapping
• Master Scheduling / Planning Process Improvement/Cost Reduction Global Demand Management
• ERP Integration/Implementation Inventory Management / Reduction International Logistical System
• Global Sourcing Inventory Risk Management Financial and Accounting System

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Access
• MS Excel
• MS Word
• Power Pointer
• Visio
• Data Query and Business Object.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

Director of Supply Chain Management

Responsibilities:

• Change agent with foresight and abilities to formulate strategic supply chain and global sourcing plans and in charge of the end to end supply chain functions (including supplier quality engineer direct reports stationed in Asia) for the company.
• Formulated, streamlined and transformed the supply chain organization and created strategic supply chain value and advantage through innovations and break through solutions.
• Integrated and utilized ERP to improve JIT goals and best in class customer order fill rate.
• Improved supply continuity through supply base integration and implementation of systematic risk mitigation hedging process.
• Developed and implemented purchasing planning modeling to drive cost out of products and optimize inventory investment.
• Developed and implemented configurator/calculator for 3 complex product lines to secure best pricing and service.
• Champion in the area of continuous improvement in delivering best in class Quality, Delivery, Cost and Service.
• Leveraged prior electronic industry background and secured an exclusive OEM deal with 1 billion dollars market opportunity from a major global manufacturer.
• Responsible for achieving significant cost savings (60% to 17% depending on product line) and increase in product value through global sourcing and supply chain risk diversification initiatives.

Confidential, Bartlett, Tennessee

Senior Materials Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for growing and transforming end to end materials functions within Bartlett site.
• Responsible for d epl o y ing Lean Six Sigma and value stream mapping principles to resolve and improve upon complex supply chain challenges.
• Responsible for providng leadership and contineous improvement vision to Planning, Purchasing and Warehousing teams.
• Member of new product introduction core team and Operations leadership team .
• Responsible for streamlining end to end materials functions to help improve Operations metrics.

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Six Sigma and Lean principles and achieved significant order response time, inventory reduction, manufacturing efficiency and on time shipping improvements by fine tuning DRP parameters in SAP and drive forecast accuracy improvement while responsible for overall supply chain functions for six world-wide factories.
• Utilized Six Sigma and Lean priciples to drive forecast accuracy improvement, to revamp and refine DRP parameters and improve world-wide factory throughput capacity.
• Successful ly c ompleted several ERP and business integrations initiatives and gained significant cost savings and efficiency improvement by synchronizing global poly silicon, crystal and wafer production.
• Increased SOI shipment exponentially within a year when appointed as the functional leader for SOI expansion.
• Advocated and d eploy e d Six Sigma and Lean principles while stationed in Asia as the head of the Asia supply chain team to build up and train regional supply chain team on SAP functionalities, Six Sigma and Lean principles during new factory startup and ramp up period.
• Worked in Europe during massive expansion time frame and deployed Lean to achieve significant factory efficiency.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Supply Chain (Global Replenishment/Inventory) Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Six Sigma methodology and achieved $44M annual cost savings, inventory reductions, liability reductions, materials supply chain cost reductions and improved supply assurance. F ormulated and deployed global strategic, tactical, ac tion and control plans in driving global lean supply chain initiatives in support of overall corporate inventory reduction objectives.
• Executed global inventory reduction / r eplenishment (VMI) program management with $9.8 billion dollars of annual materials spend in four regions, 14 countries and 21 sites during rapid growth period by ma naging a team of 40.
• S treamlined and formulated global replenishment strategy and tactical plans in achieving higher penetration level, b etter supply assurance, lower liability exposure, lower on hand inventory / d ays of supply and lower materials supply chain cost during massive foot print consolidation period.
• Deployed ROP, Die Bank and implementing Cisco CCOP replenishment methodologies which resulted in $950M replenishment penetration improvement.

Confidential, Sterling, Virginia

Director of Supply Chain Management

Responsibilities:

• Saved the company almost one million dollars in one year. F ormulate d strategic and tactical improvement & cost saving plans to streamline overall supply chain for multiple facilities during rapid expansion and massive ramp up period .
• Supply chain functional champion for the company. S upervised, coached, trained and mentored a staff of eight Project
• Managers, entire Purchasing and Materials Departments with 12 direct reports and 18 next level reports.
• Recovered $250K dollars for the company through proper inventory investment management.
• Responsible for global strategic sourcing and achieved significant inventory investment and materials overhead reduction.
• Achieved significant on time delivery performance improvement, LEAN materials management, RCCP development and deployment and materials velocity deployment during exponential grow period.

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

Corporate Planner (Logistics Planner/Buyer III)

Responsibilities:

• Strong professional competenc y, knowledge and foresight to anticipate and create changes to deliver product and solutions that are regarded among the best in the industry. Achieved supply chain, inventory investment, international logistics and service level improvement.
• In charge of global S&OP, global demand management, global procurement, inventory management, international logistics, NAFTA and FDA regulations for Power Injector Capital Equipment out of Cincinnati , Barium contract media product out of Mexico city and Critical Care product out of Argyle-NY, Irvine-CA, Juarez-MX, Athlone-Ireland and Mirandora-Italy.
• Completed numerous cost reductions, VMI and JIT projects. Member of new product development core team ,
• S arbanes Oxley testing team , six sigma and kaizen teams and JD Edwards Demand Manager (new system platform) r eview team.
• Developed and implemented backorder prevention tool and international inter-plant order best practice. Champion in the area of continuous improvement. Member of business transition team in transferring business from Kendall to Mallinckrodt.

Confidential, Jasper, Indiana

Master Scheduler (Planning Manager )

Responsibilities:

• Achieved significant supply chain process improvement and cost saving s. Always I nitiat e and strive to seek ways to create added value among product, processes and people that are regarded among the best in the industry.
• In charge of planning, RMA, global order fulfillment and ECN teams. SAP key user and process owner for planning.
• Developed and implement ed key performance indicator tools, internal forecast and forecasting procedure, capacity model, customer profile and customer group in SAP.

Confidential, Richardson, Texas

Master Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• First planner went to work in Confidential Richardson site when revenue grew from under $1M per week to $1 BILLION a year. Self imposed initiative to understand marketplace and customer in order for the company to be successful.
• Developed process to schedule all Tyco (Lucent Mesquite/Denver/Shreveport) PTH and SMT during the start up and ramp up period.
• Traveled to and stationed in Austin for 13 weeks in moving the entire factory from Austin to Richardson . Developed capacity model for Sie mens SBU. Received one time performance bonus for job well done.
• Worked with Global Cross Functional Teams in transitioning Motorola business to China. Accomplished numerous cost reductions, VMI, JIT, KanBan and third party warehouse project. ERP process owner for planning .

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Planner / Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to pay grade 11 from 7 within 3 years. Primary responsibilities were to develop and manage annual production plans, master schedule, detailed weekly production schedule, inventory managemen g , new product launch, distribution requirements and service level .
• Responsible for facilities in Monterrey-Mexico, Gettysburg-PA, Olean-NY and Jackson-TN simultaneously for the entire Mosaics product line with over 3,000 SKU. Back up planner for the purchased product.
• Reduced inventory investment by 5 0 percent while improving service level at much higher sales through better forecasting and scheduling techniques. Provided seasonal demand pattern solution to manufacturing team in shop floor capacity constraint issues which saved the company over $100,000 in cost annually. Developed and successfully implemented Critical Ratio planning model which was highly recommended by ORR & BOSS consulting groups to the senior management for company wide implementation.

Proprietor/Manager

Confidential, Houston/Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the success of the business and meeting payroll obligations.
• Responsible for identifying new business opportunity and develop business plan to capture the opportunity.
• Responsible for all aspect of inventory investment, inventory management and inventory risk management.
• Responsible for the P/L of the company in highly competitive business environment.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Accountant (Inventory Control)

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilit ies were inventory management in fast pace international general commodity trading environment .
• Responsible for inventory accuracy, performing periodic physical inventory audit and inventory reconciliation.
• Learned tremendous inventory control methods for different commodity.
• Gained in depth general commodity and international commodity trading knowledge.