JAMES N. McKINNEY

**** ********* **** ******, ***** 77346

Cell 281-***-**** acfg1p@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Qualifications

Dedicated and results oriented Purchasing/Procurement Professional with 20

years of extensive experience in operations management, quality assurance,

supplier development, planning and executing the successful delivery of

training, information systems and machine operations, conversions and

upgrades in a variety of manufacturing industries. Detail-oriented

professional with strong leadership skills with emphasis on being a team

player within the organization and develop employees to take ownership and

be accountable. Demonstrate ability to work independently or with a highly

skilled team to achieve goals with minimal disruption of daily operations.

Excellent communicator, having a strong mechanical/manufacturing

background, to provide clients with guidance, training and insight to gain

maximum benefit from new and existing MRP/MRO systems and software.

Professional Experience

EMS (Energy Maintenance Services) USA 2014-2014 (Contract Position)

Purchasing Agent Supervisor (Contract)

Oil pipeline field service facility servicing the South and Southeastern

Texas corridor. Implement SAP One to field personnel and streamline

training of the culture of manpower. Supervise the buyer/dispatching of

materials, supplies and equipment. Successfully implement all necessary

material, equipment for emergency breakdowns of pump stations and pipeline

repairs. Plan and order material for project planned and bid on projects

from South Texas coastline. Extensive purchasing of pipe, flanges,

fittings and metal for bid inclusive orders. Supervised 5 direct reports

personnel.

Enduro Composites Inc. 2012-2013.

Purchasing Manager

ISO 9001 facility, maintained all records of purchases and documents of

control. Responsible for the forecasting and procurement of all materials,

including raw materials such as resins, inhibitors, matt, fibers and

catalyst to manufacture a finished product. Maintained and strategized all

resins in a bulk tank farm with large tanker deliveries. We utilized the

MRO/MRP operating system with Macola software programs. I managed two

locations, one in the Houston Corp. location and one on-site buyer at the

Freeport facility. Directly reported to the Inventory Comptroller and VP of

Manufacturing.

Speed Shore Corp. 2011-2012.

Procurement Manger

Manage and procure all necessary materials and personnel to manufacture a

finish product. Large discipline of carbon steel purchased from Mills and

larger service centers in the US. Software System used for operations was

Visual, worked with the AP department to resolve any discrepancy's for

resolution. My Direct report is to the CEO

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Gulf Electroquip 2010-2011

Materials Manager (Contract Position)

Manage all procurement areas including one storeroom and warehouse for

parts and raw material used to fabricate and rebuild finish products for

oil field electric drilling motors. The company is an Authorized GE motor

repair facility. Purchase and manage inventories of raw materials,

equipment and supplies. Establish basic fundamental procurement policy and

guidelines for visual software. Provide crucial point in lean

manufacturing, as well as performing cycle counts and report regarding

inventory. Direct reports were 2 supervisors and 6 clerks. My Direct report

was to the VP of Operations.

Robles Excavation 2010-2010

Field Engineer (Contract Position)

Assists in supervising field employees assigned to a particular

construction discipline work area, i.e., piping, erection of structural

steel, rebar, trench work, etc. Assist in evaluation and solution of

potential field problems, referring them to Superintendent. Perform all

functions and responsibilities in consonance with the

company's values and beliefs. My Direct report was to the CEO.

Willbros Co/Inserv Services-Lincoln, Nebraska 2009-2009

Project Procurement Manager (Contract Position)

Responsible for procuring all materials, goods and services to complete

seven pump stations. This includes all the civil and mechanical completion

in Nebraska/Kansas for TransCanada pipeline. Responsibilities are to Source

vendors locally and negotiate terms and conditions to supply 260 miles of

pipeline and stations. Procurement originally was arranged from Houston

office, took on the responsibility of field operations. Organized field

offices, staffed and redirected operations including all exception

reporting and coordinating accounts payables with Houston Corporate.

Resolved receivables' that were ten months in the rears. Created and

staffed personnel including trucking and directed field lay down facility

to receive and logistical distribute material to sites. Report directly to

the Global Procurement Director and VP of Operations Houston.

Sumner Manufacturing - Houston, Texas 2006-2009

Procurement/Materials Manager

Responsible for procuring all the MRP inventory and raw material for the

manufacturing facility of 44000 sq. ft. and a 20000 sq. ft. manufacturing

facility in China which included welding & fabrication, machine shop and

assembly. Managed inventory turn of 4.1 million dollars in raw materials.

Worked through the carbon steel

escalation cost to source new innovative and creative savings by reducing

low end sourced products. Company profits grew 30 percent in the three year

tenure through team efforts and collaborations of the management group.

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Worked with Engineering for structuring of new finished products. Partnered

with National Sales force to gain common and mutual vendor relations for

distributors. Managed supervisors and several personnel in shipping and

receiving, storerooms and shops. Reported directly to Vice President of

Operations.

* Reorganized plant structure using Lean Manufacturing and ERP inventory

control to reduce costs idled by excessive material not processed on a

per month demand. Resulting in freeing available spend to access the

ability to source products in foreign countries.

* Identified demand material and created safe order stock to increase On

Time Delivery resulting in 86 percent increase compared to previously

52 percent.

* Implemented blanket contracts and Strict Vendor Managed Inventory with

vendors allowing a cost savings of 22 percent in slippage.

* Source products (casting, casters, machined products) from China

resulting in cost saving of 1.2 million in P/L for finished products.

* Processed and scheduled incoming shipments from China facility with

freight forwarders though customs.

* Aggressively recruited new vendors that were not considered due to

stagnant purchasing procedures and Qualified Vendors for purchasing

including terms. Built new partnerships and relations with vendors.

Gained new contracts with two major Industrial Catalog Companies.

* Negotiated contracts for utilities and environmental control.

Kraft Foods/Maxwell House Coffee - Houston, Texas 1993-2006

Corporate Buyer/Facility Buyer

Promoted to Corporate Buyer role as facility operational buyer for several

plants (5 locations) with budgets in excess of $14 million in my division.

Responsible for saving the Houston plant $3.2 million in 2005. Supervised 6

employees in Procurement area. Reported to the Corporate Division

Procurement Manager. MRO stockroom replacement parts, and managed the

reduction of inventory by consigned, committed and dedicated inventory

therefore reducing on site cost by 18 percent with a rollover rate of less

that 2 percent.

Maintained an average of 94.3 percent accuracy of cycle count inventory

over a 3 year period.

* Assisted in conversion of Process Controls to new version and

successfully managed to recover re-workable electronic controls to

associated vendor for a recoverable cost of .5 million in assets.

* Negotiated service and material contracts with potential vendors.

Assisted with National contracts with Grainger, Motion Industries and

Applied Industrial Products.

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* Implementation of Enterprise Catalogs SAP for multiple storerooms and

assisted implementations to three other locations.

* Productivity and cost analysis for multiple locations to reduce

inventories. Identified common inventory consumables for cost of on-

site items reducing assets of Houston plant by $300,000 in the last

year.

* Support Training, Exception Resolution and dispute resolutions with a

86 percent exception rating compared to a 68 percent companywide

average

Maintenance Coordinator/Planner

Successfully promoted to lead position to enhance maintenance for the

success of better business operations and improve On Time Delivery. To

promote predictable and more dependable machine operations. Find new

innovative methods of delivery of product in a more economical manner.

Reducing the costs of machine down time to escalate P/L on finished

product.

* Developed a plan, including resource and resolutions, to upgrade a

large food processing company and documenting the processes; plan was

adopted and used by operations and maintenance personnel, plan and

document preventative maintenance plans. Build bill of materials,

locate and procure material and parts for planned outages.

Successfully implemented SAP, training essential use of SAP with Train

the Trainer, assisting organizing projects, budget guidelines for

upgrades. Piloted a program to target SAP implementation of machine

structuring including BOM's and tasking. Guaranteed a 15 - 22 percent

of P/L gain in new additions and modifications.

* Recovered $780,000 cost in soluble glass line losses by working with a

design steering committee and maintenance group to reengineer in-feed

line to increase total optimal soluble coffee filler output for

packing finished product.

* Coordinated a team to reduce glass contaminate complaints Nationwide

from 22 percent in one year to less then 2 percent though the redesign

of in-feed methods.

* Involved on a committee to implement ISO food product certification.

* Worked on continuing Skill Level testing and training guidelines for

company craftsmen. Writing testing syllabus for Level Testing.

* Led the Emergency Response Team with planned scheduling and training

of team personnel.

* Member of many committees such as Accident Investigation Reviews,

auditing of Safety Risk Management, Union/Company mediation, and wrote

and parented Energy Control Plans for Safe Lock out/Tag out program in

the Houston facility.

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Packing/Process Mechanic

Provided solutions and served as Packing/Process Mechanic on upgrades,

implementations and conversions to improve operations for a variety of

packing and process units/lines, consistently completing projects within

strict time and budget constraints.

* Successfully implemented new packing lines by working with startup

team members to commission several lines in two different departments.

Substantially reduced changeover times by fifty percent and help

coordinate the implementation of operator procedure.

* Assisted in the design of non-tool change parts for jar size

conversions to equipment.

* Process experience with pumps, compressors, blowers and airveyor

delivery systems.

HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT - Houston, Texas

Vocational Industrial Instructor

SHELDON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT - Houston, Texas

Vocational Industrial Instructor

San Jacinto College/North Campus

Vocational Instructor/Part Time Evenings

EDUCATION AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING

Kennedy University

Bachelors of Science Industrial Technology

ISM/NAPM

APICS

Technical Writing for Professionals

SAP Train the Trainer LO100 My SAP

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - College Station, Texas

Life Certification Vocational Industrial Technical Texas Instructor w/TECAT

Endorsement

American Society of Automotive Excellent

Certified in 8 Automotive 8 Heavy Truck 4 Machinist

TECHNICAL OPERATING SYSTEM SKILLS

MS Word J D Edwards ARIBA Visual Basics

MS Excel SAP - MM/PM Module Macola MS Project Windows

NT

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