Pauline Church

Email: abqjhk@r.postjobfree.com

Address: ** **** ****

City: Boxborough

State: MA

Zip: 01719

Country: USA

Phone: 978-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $114,000

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PAULINE CHURCH

91 Stow Road Boxboro, MA 01719 978-***-**** abqjhk@r.postjobfree.com

Qualifications for Purchasing/Materials

SUPPLY CHAIN PURCHASING MATERIALS

Possesses over 25 years of experience in worldwide materials, procurement, and supply chain management. An expert in supplier and commodity management. Skilled in negotiations, team management, and business planning with a focus on strategic sourcing and supplier development, market conditions and capabilities analysis. Offers in-depth knowledge of precious metals, optical components, nano-technology, disk drives & components, electronics, mechanical etc..

Background includes coursework in business management as well as extensive professional training in management development, valuing differences, benchmarking, financial analysis, cost and price analysis, ISO9000, Six Sigma, and Karass negotiations.

Building strong organizations internally along with strong supplier relationships.

Influences and integrates business and technology goals/objectives with suppliers. Manage supplier/buyer relationships, conducts supplier audits and quarterly performance reviews.

Managed, prepared and issued requests for quotations. Negotiated contracts for disk & tape drive components, precious metals, optics, mechanical, electronic components, IT, manufacturing equipment and various commodities, etc..

Materials Mgr, Paratek, acquired by Research in Motion, & On Semiconductor (Superior) April 2010 - 10/2012

Paratek (Start-up company 50 employees) designs and manufactures adaptive RF front end component solutions for mobile wireless applications.

Manage/work strategic and tactical purchasing operations for the companies three locations. $5-10M Quarterly.

Maintain inventory/warehouse operations.

Implemented direct ship from "supplier" to "customer".

Negotiated short and long term purchases. Averaging cost reductions of ~5-10% quarterly. Negotiated cost reductions for Capital purchases (deposition chambers) savings ~$350K.

Implemented Purchasing/Inventory Management ERP modules.

Sr. Materials Manager, Komag/Western Digital January 2007 - March 2009

WDC manufacturer of disk drives, with vertical integration capabilities. WDC is a $9.5 billion dollar corporation.

Managed strategic world wide sourcing team(s) for precious & non-precious metal targets for the volume manufacturing of disk drive media while managing all San Jose's Materials/Purchasing Engineering activities. Managed a team of 7 reducing inventories on site, achieving quarterly cost reductions, supplier sourcing and management.

Reduced San Jose inventories from $26 million to $5 million over a two year period

Obtained quarterly cost reductions for Engineering / Operations of 10% or $400K

Obtained quarterly cost reductions for Engineering Capital of 10-15% or $450K

Dual sourcing/qualification of new Target sources leading to quarterly cost savings ~$600K

Quarterly cost savings in Target commodity of $1 million.

Managed Purchasing/Planning and Logistics groups to support product development and co-managed Malaysian strategic Purchasing teams supporting volume manufacturing for all commodities.

Expanded re-claiming practices for precious and non precious metals adding $500K to $1M in quarterly savings/cash back.

Sr. Commodity Manager, Avid Technologies March 2006 - September 2006

Avid develops and manufactures digital Audio and Video systems for radio, TV & movies. Annual sales ~ $700M

Project manager for new "configure to order", System/Order Processing system in SAP

Managed local strategic contract manufacturer from a tactical and strategic basis.

PAULINE CHURCH

91 Stow Road Boxboro, MA 01719 978-***-**** abqjhk@r.postjobfree.com

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Sr. Production Planner, L-3 Communications October 2005 - March 2006

L-3 is a prime contractor to the government with products in communications, intelligence, surveillance and homeland defense. Annual sales range $15 billion.

Responsible for: purchase orders, work order releases, expedite and follow through with production.

Director of Supply Chain Management/Materials, IOLON, INC. (A Seagate Spin-off) 2000-2005

Iolon the largest manufacturer of tunable lasers, developed the first widely tunable small form factor laser for the Telecommunications industry. Iolon achieved an employee population of ~155 with sales of ~$20 million a year.

Negotiated all BOM component pricing quarterly with cost reductions of 5 - 15%. Sourced new suppliers, and moved 50-60% of the components off-shore to decrease bill of materials costs.

Achieved ~40 % cost reductions over a one year period through offshore sourcing.

Successfully created a world class Materials/Supply Chain/Purchasing and IT organization. Managed and approved all purchase orders for components related to the product(s), computers, software, services, and office equipment.

Achieved annual materials cost reductions by benchmarking, process analysis, market knowledge, sourcing and contract negotiations. i.e. Laser diode from $375 to $125 each.

Worked closely with Engineering and Sales/Marketing teams to better understand technology requirements from customer to better steer component/supplier sourcing.

Optics Business Manager, SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1999-2000

Seagate is a $10.9 billion volume manufacturer of disk drives with ~ 20K employees

Implemented a purchasing, shipping, and receiving module from Oracle to improve operational efficiencies.

Team member writing and planning the 'Business Plan' that resulted in the spin out of Iolon. Helped raise the initial $10 million.

Purchasing Manager, QUINTA CORPORATION (A Seagate Acquisition) 1996-1999

Quinta was a start up company who develop optical technology for the use in disk drives.

Created a purchasing/materials organization from the ground-up to execute worldwide materials planning, sourcing, procurement, stockroom, shipping/receiving and services. Managed 8 buyer, planners and warehouse personnel.

Negotiated critical component contracts and Development Agreements up to $20M.

Corporate Purchasing Manager, AVATAR SYSTEMS CORPORATION 1995-1996

Avatar was a manufacturer of removable storage/disk drives. Approximate number of employee's 1500 at it's peak.

Negotiated new technology development agreements, non-recurring engineering (NRE) agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.

Collaborated with engineers to balance technical requirements with cost goals for new products. Relocated to Singapore while sourcing and qualifying new suppliers

Commodity Manager for Media and Heads, DEC/QUANTUM CORPORATION 1990-1995

Digital Equipment Corporation was a ~$6 billion business with over 100K employees world-wide. Quantum Corporation acquired DEC Storage division in 1994. Quantum manufactured disk drives with revenues of $1 billion.

Held various other Purchasing/Planning positions within DEC in California, Colorado and Massachusetts

EDUCATION

University of Southern Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO. Completed 90+ credits towards B.A..

Oracle, SAP, SAGE, Excel, Power Point

Core Strengths:

Procurement

Contract Negotiations

International Sourcing

Cost-Reduction Programs

New Product Development

Supplier Management

Precious Metals

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