James Sligar

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Allen, Texas *****

469-***-****, acemm5@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

Mavenir Systems, Inc. Richardson, Texas

Material Manager August 2011 - present

• Responsible for managing purchasing and inventory including planning and forecasting customer orders and devising policies

and procedures in the areas of procurement and inventory control

• Manages all aspects of supply chain while working with outside vendors to evaluate competitive pricing, lead-times, payment

terms, and overall product quality.

• Ensures appropriate support contracts are in place with end-user vendors

• Maintains tracking of inventory within applicable databases including identifying minimum parts requirements, to include

sparing, and ensures that parts are on-hand

• Manages RMA (return material authorization) process

• Provides forecasts to Sales and Engineering teams which include hardware availability, assembly, and shipping

• Minimizes excess inventory costs by ensuring that all available hardware is assigned to customer orders in a timely fashion

• Manages shipping vendors to ensure timely and safe delivery of all products

• Receives excellent performance evaluations; Works long hours as required to meet business needs

• Consistently received bonuses and salary increases based on good performance

Sanmina-Sci Inc. Carrollton, Texas

Program Manager November 2006 - August 2011

• Achieved customer satisfaction rate improvement from 82% to 100% within a 6 month period

• Received outstanding performance reviews

• Built a reputation for providing excellent customer service

Reporting Responsibilities and Accomplishments

• Maintain and Update KBI Report (per customer)

• Maintained Customer Excess / Obsolete report

• Shipments, Backlog, OTD, Shortage RPT, Shipping Schedule, AP, AR and

• waterfall reports

• Address overdue Account Receivable issues with customer

• Led all customer interaction by meeting weekly to review work on issues

• regarding non-ROHS compliant components

• Facilitate New Product Meetings with all internal parties (doc control, eng,

• purchasing, manufacturing, etc)

Financial Responsibilities

• Analyzed PPV

• Summarized Special Charges

• Reviewed Bills of Materials

• Verified labor quotes

• Reviewed PAW from Account Manager and Submit PAW to Finance obtaining signature approvals

• Collaborated with engineering to capture hidden NRE costs

Globitec Inc. Sherman, Texas

Globitech Inc. provides turnkey and epitaxial services using high tech, single chamber reactors for the discrete component industry

Senior Manufacturing Planner And Supervisor November 2003 - August 2006

• Planned production schedules and controlled ship commitments by communicating with Sales, Order Entry, Supply Chain

Management and Product Engineering

• Led weekly OPS meetings

• Planned for a 39M per year, 24/7 four shifts production schedule

• Determined procurement requirements and production priorities based on Sales orders, inventory and reactor availability

• Provided inputs to Supply Chain to plan, prioritize and manage shipments from China in extremely tight and unpredictable

silicon material supply environment

• Managed production scraps and return to vendor materials

• Managed customer-supplied materials for EPI-services

• Monitored and reconciled material variations

• Communicated with customers to address outages

• Built a reputation for providing excellent customer service

• Received strong performance reviews from management; Promoted in recognition of outstanding performance

Howe ISD Howe, Texas

US History Teacher and Athletic Coach July 2002 - May 2004

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University Commerce, Texas

Certificate in Secondary Education

University Of Texas Dallas, Texas

B.A. in Business Administration

• GPA: 3.7

ADDITIONAL

• Technical Skills: Microsoft Office Suite, Oracle, ERP, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing

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