Resume
ESTHELA PARRA MARIN
Email: ************@*******.***
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Alhambra, Ca. 91801
818-***-**** cell
Objective
A challenging position on the procurement field, in which I can apply my 14 years of experience on Purchasing,
Planning and Inventory management, in a growth-oriented organization which offers diverse job responsibility
and the possibility for advancement.
Experience:
Circor Aerospace Inc.
Location: 15148 Bledsoe Street, Sylmar, Ca. 94213
11-2009 to 04-2011
Position: Purchasing Manager OH division
MRP Software: JD Edwards.
Responsibilities: Procure and negotiate the cost for all need it parts, raw material, supplies and services for the Landing gear’s Repair
Station’s needs, with the help of one buyer; Administrate the stockroom’s inventory and personnel; negotiate and purchase major parts and
complete gears, for the operation, re source outside process services; evaluate vendors, participate on MRB meeting for part’s disposition and
or return to vendors; clear vendor’s discrepant invoices; interact with Engineering, Quality and Production control in order to meet the Sales
Plan.
Train the stockroom s clerks on Min-max system for supplies, cycle counting, part’s traceability record control, 5 “S”, JDE system
transactions.
Supervise a total of 3 permanent employees and 2 temporal.
Report to finances and the Material director total cost and savings per customer’s job number, and the bill to customers report, of scrap
replacement parts to Sales and Finances.
Participate on Kaizen events and Lean Manufacturing training, member of CPS (Circor problem solving) projects, in process to be a certified
trainer.
McCain Inc.,
Location: Tijuana, Mexico’s Plant
08-2008 to 08-2009 (became a permanent resident in US, on 06-2009, and move to Los Angeles, Ca.)
Position: Buyer
MRP Software: Great Plains
Responsibilities: Purchase and negotiation on raw material for the followed commodities: all framework metal parts (sand casting and die
casting, local, domestic and overseas vendors); Metal raw material (aluminum & bronze); hardware consignment program, and all MRO
buy.
Resource of parts for new projects: coordinate from quoting parts to first article approval, and the correspondent release to mass production.
Thomson Industries, Danaher Motion
Location: Tijuana, Mexico’s Plant
02-2006 to 01-2008:
MRP Software: SAP
Position: Senior Buyer
Responsibilities: Raw material s Contract negotiations; Re-source and search for economical local region vendors, to improve lead time,
freight and overall cost; Vendor evaluation and Certification as preferred vendor for Danaher Motion corporate; in charge of the followed
commodities: Metal Stamping, Metal and plastic Seals, External Process (plating, machine, paint etc.), Packaging & Label and Prints.
Also responsible to coordinate the disposition and reduction of Excess and Obsolete inventories, by selling back to vendors, or by rework of
parts and raw material, etc.
BOURNS Inc.
02-2004 to 02/2006
Location: Tijuana’s Mexico plant.
Position: Senior Buyer
MRP Software: SAP
Responsibilities: Purchase all the raw material and components for the Industrial and Automotive s production lines; Negotiate with vendor
annual purchases and cost down; Select and implement consignment programs with vendors; Vendor consolidation; Inventory reduction;
increase of annual turns of inventory; Vendor’s evaluation; Participant with QA department on Material’s rejection reduction plan;
participant of MRB meetings and coordinate return to vendor of defective materials; outsource to quote new project parts; implementation
of consignment program for the electronic component.
PANASONIC, Telephone Factory
01-2002 to 02-2004
Location: Tijuana, Mexico’s plant.
Position: Sales Coordinator for Latin America .
MRP Software: SAP
Responsibilities: Elaborate & control of: Sales order (upload in system & confirm); coordinate with Production planning the monthly
production plan; elaborate shipping plan; shipment booking; elaborate sales plan and forecasting; Issuance of Sales reports results;
coordinate sampling to customers; participate on new models projects meetings.
Travel to visit customer: Periodically visit all customers in Latin America; (Panasonic’s marketing companies located in: Panama, Brazil,
Mexico, D.F., Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela & Colombia, to do Market survey, participate on lunch of new products events, visit the
major distributors; negotiate and program sales.
JABIL CIRCUIT INC.
05-1999 to 12-2001
Plant Location: Chihuahua, Mexico Plant.
Position: Purchasing coordinator
MRP Software: SAP
Responsibilities: Supervise: 3 buyers (initially 5, personnel get reduce to 3 after workload adjustments); constant training to buyers on
MRP efficiency evaluation and improvement plan; outsourcing for new projects quotes for bid; develop & selection of local vendors; Vendor
monthly evaluations; coordinate material shortages expedites; air freight authorization control; coordinate ECN implementation; coordinate
end of products, implementation of new models; visit customers for quarterly evaluation of results.
Monthly’s Metrics report to top management : Turns of inventory; MRP efficiency report; PPV report; Inventory report: Impound RTV,
Warehouse, obsolete parts, with reduction plan; cost down results; Freight cost results.
Outsourcing for new projects quotes for bid; attendance and disposition of material on MRB meetings; follow to ECN implementations, face
out & face in of part changes; develop & evaluation of new local vendors; vendor consolidation; cost reduction negotiations; participate on
inventory’s reduction plan.
KODAK / Tijuana’s plant.
09-1995 to 05-1999
Position: Planer-Buyer
Responsibilities: Purchase of electric and mechanical parts for productions; attendance and disposition of material on MRB meetings; follow
to ECN implementations, phase out & phase in of part changes; participate on inventory reduction plan, Sale’s Goals, obtained during last 18
months in a raw.
Other jobs are not including minimizing this resume……
Education
CETYS UNIVERSITY
Technical: Purchasing Administration
2000-2001, Location: Tijuana, Mexico
GED diploma
2008 Location: San Diego, Ca.
APICS International:
• Basics 2005 Tijuana, Mexico
• Detail Planning & Scheduling 2002 Tijuana, Mexico
• Systems & Technologies 1998 Tijuana, Mexico
• Seminar: MRP II Process 1998 Tijuana, Mexico
CAPACITACION AVANZADA
Seminar: Up-date ISO 9001-2000
2002, Location: Tijuana, Mexico.
Instituto “Jose Maria Esparza”:
Associate Degree: Accounting
1982-1985, Location: Ensenada, Mexico
Languages: 100% bilingual Spanish-English