Lorie Alane Sencer

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Garden Grove, California 92840

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QUALIFICATIONS

Well-rounded materials professional with expertise in all buying, planning, scheduling and materials/operations related activities. Exploring career opportunities where my strong leadership, communication and team building skills and experience can be used to achieve business development objectives.

• Entrepreneurial spirit used to identify and capitalize on business growth opportunities.

• Excellent relationship management skills used to build and retain customer and supplier loyalty.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for bottom-line results.

• Committed to teamwork, performance excellence and continuous improvement.

Employment History

Alsius Corp., Irvine, California (7/08 – 2/09) (2/20/09 Company relocating acquired by Zoll Medical)

Alsius is a pioneer in the development of advanced intravascular temperature management therapies for critically ill patients in the intensive care, emergency department, or surgical setting. ISO13485-2003 certified, FDA 21 CFR 820 registered manufacturer.

SR. MATERIALS MANAGER

Management Skills

• Manage and mentor 6 direct reports.

• Responsible for master scheduling, production planning, purchasing, inventory management, and warehouse.

• Manage the maintenance of receiving records, production schedules, production supplies, issuance of raw materials and work orders; cycle counts, shipping record maintenance and proper warehousing of all inventory freight with carriers; with complete attention to cost; and audit of invoices.

Materials

• Implement Great Planes accounting base MRP system

• Developed, implemented and maintained effective policies and procedures for all material related activities.

Quality

• Member of Quality Management review board.

• Review Quality System, validating requirements, procedure compliance reflecting current practice and policies.

• Determine and identify potential suppliers.

• Involved in all supplier quality audits.

• Knowledgeable of GMP practices, ISO 9001:2000 and 13485:2003 requirements related to Purchasing and Material Controls.

Warehouse

• Designed new layout in warehouse improving process flow.

• Implemented bin boxes and bin cards.

• Implemented cycle count program.

Safety Syringes Inc., San Diego, California (4/07 to 7/08)

Safety Syringes, specializes in the development of anti-needle stick devices for the healthcare industry. A leading developer and ISO 13485-2003 certified, FDA 21 CFR 820 registered manufacturer of UltraSafe passive delivery system for applications including: prefilled pharmaceutical glass syringes and cartridges, disposable plastic hypodermic syringes and blood collection devices.

MATERIALS MANAGER

Management Skills

• Manage and mentor 18 direct reports, 15 indirect reports.

• Responsible for managing materials inventory controls and purchasing operations with a focus on lean manufacturing and cost containment.

• Support material needs by coordinating the function of purchasing, shipping, receiving, materials forecasting and inventory control.

• 576K in cost reductions which include GE Resin Rebates, removed off-site inventory location, material cost, negotiated FedEx discounts, reduced distribution cost.

• Responsible for planning and implementing activities related to the material purchase, material control, and inventory control systems.

• Manage material movement and levels based on inventory objectives.

• Ensure executions of manufacturing schedule objectives are achieved.

• Demonstrate thoroughness and attention to detail; ensures work is accurate, reliable and timely.

• Effectively utilizes time management skills resulting in efficient planning and organization of workload to achieve goals; set priorities.

• Ability to lead multiple projects meeting timelines without impacting daily business needs.

• Proven results with well reasoned, sound decisions that affect work performance from a technical and people perspective.

• Coach and mentor subordinate staff ensuring employees at all levels are supported to perform at optimal levels for success.

• Broad vision and foresight for what needs to be accomplished based on overall organizational and departmental objectives.

• Assist in eliminating non-value activities throughout the value system.

Materials

• Implemented segments of MAS 90 accounting base MRP system.

• Provided support for transition to off-site warehouse for shipping, receiving and quality inspection.

• Reduced distribution cost by renegotiating discount percentage rate with carrier as well as combining shipments with local suppliers.

• Implemented an effective cycle count program, which has potential in elimination of fiscal inventory.

• Developed, implemented and maintained effective policies and procedures for all material related activities.

Quality

• Member of Quality Management review board.

• Complies with, and ensures subordinates and suppliers comply with the quality system and requirements, and the applicable regulations and standards of the countries/markets in which company designs, manufactures, and/or distributes product.

• Review Quality System, validating requirements, procedure compliance reflecting current practice and policies.

• Determine and identify potential molding suppliers.

• Involved in all supplier quality audits.

Production

• Publish weekly and monthly reports of production status, shipments and other activities.

• Developing the flow of material from new building/warehouse to current building; while creating a smooth traffic flow of material into two separate manufacturing floors complimenting the Lean Manufacturing Environment.

Card Guard

Instromedix, San Diego, California (8/03 to 4/07) (company relocated to Chicago)

A leading developer and ISO 13485:2003 certified, FDA 21 CFR 820 registered manufacturer of state-of-the-art health care technologies and monitoring services in the fields of cardiology, paleontology, obstetrics, and diabetes.

MATERIALS MANAGER

Management Skills

• Managed 4 direct reports and 9 indirect reports.

• Responsible for managing materials inventory controls and purchasing operations with a focus on lean manufacturing and cost containment.

• Manage material movement and levels based on inventory objectives.

• Ensures executions of manufacturing schedules objectives are achieved.

• Involved and supportive of Company Quality System.

• Effectively utilizes time management skills resulting in efficient planning and organization of workload to achieve goals; set priorities. Ability to manage multiple projects meeting timelines without impacting daily business needs.

Materials

• Developed Master scheduling for manufacturing resulting in 96% of orders ship in 1 business day, 98 % within 3 business days of receiving an order.

• Planned material requirements without access to an MRP system.

• Developed supportive relationship with suppliers fostering a Lean Manufacturing Environment, resulting in lower cost of product, reduced time to conduct annual inventory from (3 days to 1day), consolidated inventory/warehouse staging (reducing space requirement by 5000 sq feet).

• Provided support for transition of manufacturing to Israel, assisted in transferring US suppliers to support an Israel manufacturing operation, resulting in a continuous supply of finished goods product without impacting on-time delivery.

• Simplified the material analysis methods for Kanban/Lean Manufacturing material replenishment resulting in lower on hand inventory (3.3 mil to 700K) and improved WIP turns (2.3 to 3.8).

• Reduced cost of product by 21% based on cost reductions of $1.7 million resulting in improved profitability for the company.

• Consolidated primary supplier pool from 32 suppliers to 15.

• Assisted in developing contracts with essential suppliers.

• Implemented an effective cycle count program, which resulted in elimination of fiscal inventory.

• Developed, implemented and maintained effective policies and procedures for all material related activities.

Quality

• Member of Quality Management review board.

• Review Quality System, validating requirements, procedure compliance reflecting current practice and policies.

• Determine and identify potential suppliers

• Involved in all supplier quality audits.

Production

• Assisted in the new layout of the manufacturing floor complimenting the Lean Manufacturing Environment.

• Developed a Kanban agreement for Suppliers, resulting in increased manufacturing capacity from 200-300 units per day, reducing floor space allocated for materials staging.

• Implemented Kanban replenishment for finished goods resulting in improved delivery performance from 90.2% to 99%, utilizing a FIFO for inventory management.

• Fostered a positive work and team environment in a constant change and transition, maintaining key personal resulting in a seamless transition to Israel and back to the US.

Interpore Cross International, Irvine, California (5/01 to 8/03) (Company acquired by Biomet)

An independent ISO certified, FDA Registered public medical device company, who designs, develops, manufacturers, and markets spinal implant devices and orthobiological products, as well as instruments that facilitate minimally invasive surgery.

SENIOR BUYER/PLANNER

• Managed the planning and purchasing activities for a new product launch (One (1) year in development and validation).

• Purchasing Representative for the New Product Introduction Team.

• Planned material requirements without access to an MRP system.

• Integral part of the Product Design Team. Played key role in establishing supply chain for new products

• Coordinated first article requirements between subcontractor and suppliers. Once approved arranged shipments between both companies.

• Focal point of communication between the development team members.

• Facilitated and prioritized change orders through the process to meet time lines for new product introduction.

• Managed inventory levels for instruments used in surgery resulting in 100% on time delivery.

• Responsible for purchasing a minimum 4.2 million dollars worth of annual inventory.

• Managed suppliers through the consistent design changes with the new product introduction.

• Assisted in developing contracts with critical suppliers.

Affinity Medical Technologies, Tustin, California (6/00 to 5/01)

Manufacture of custom designed cables used in medical monitoring devices. This includes ECD/EKG (Monitoring, Resting & Stress, Blood Pressure (IBP& NIBP), Temperature, Pulse Oximetry, Ambulatory (Holter & Event), Telemetry, Emergency Medical (Defib), Pacing & Catheter Leads, Electophysiology, Electrosurgical, and leads.

BUYER/PLANNER

• Buyer of raw materials and sub-contractor materials, responsibilities included management of all material related activities and oversaw shipping and receiving personnel.

• Increased supplier base allowing flexibility and cost integrity.

• Developed Bills of Materials for part numbers being built at sub-contractors.

• Plan for all levels of MRP, final assemblies, sub-assemblies, includes complex multi-level BOM, implemented work order system facilitating improved manufacturing efficiencies

• Developed daily cycle count of all inventory items. Achieved 98.7% accuracy from starting point of 40%.

• Reviewed and maintained product master maintenance (database).

• Maintain supplier surveys to meet current business requirements.

• Member of ISO 9001 implementation team, Engineering Change Review Board, and Non Conforming Materials Review Board

Education

Bachelor of Science Business Management (BSBM), University of Phoenix

Associate of Arts Degree, Long Beach City College

Other Work Experience

Day Runner, GE Medical Systems, and Alps Manufacturing

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