Supply Chain Manager

John Kavanagh

**** ****** *****,

San Jose, CA **138 Tel. 408-***-****

EXPERIENCE

Finisar Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA

Finisar Corporation designs and manufactures fiber-optic subsystems and

network test and monitoring systems that enable high-speed voice, video and

data communications for networking, storage, wireless, and cable TV

applications. During my time at Finisar we increased staff from 250 to 6500

employees and annual revenues from $67M to $800M.

Vice President and General Manager, Finisar Corporation June 2006 -

Present

Responsible for a $70M, 180 person division that develops, manufactures and

sells optoelectronic components.

Introduced new products to support revenue growth of 15% annually.

Reduced wafer fab scrap and improved efficiency to reduce expenses by 25%.

Demonstrated industry leadership in VCSEL design with 30Gbs data rate

performance.

Expanded into new and profitable markets outside of the data communications

area.

Received customer and local authority awards for technology and

manufacturing excellence.

Relocated all operations to a new facility and transferred assembly

operations offshore.

Improved customer satisfaction by increasing on time delivery performance

and responsiveness

Vice President of Supply Chain, Finisar Corporation June 2005 - June

2006

Director of Supply Chain, Finisar Corporation Feb 2001 -

June 2005

Responsible for all of Finisar Supply Chain activities including Demand

Management, Planning, Procurement, Order Fulfillment, Logistics, Contract

Manufacturing, Commodity Management and Supplier Quality. Annual materials

spend was over $175M

Staffed and built the Supply Chain organization to support unit volume

increase of up to 40% per quarter.

Installed Oracle ERP system to position Finisar for growth.

Transitioned component supply and manufacturing to Asia and brought on

contract manufacturers to support offshore manufacturing.

Supported integration of seven acquired companies.

Delivered aggressive material cost reductions to support competitive market

pressures

Gained market share through shorter lead-times and better delivery

performance than competition.

Increased inventory turns by 3X

Director of Manufacturing and Test Engineering June 2000 - Feb 2001

Focused on adding both internal and external manufacturing capacity to

support business growth

Transitioned production of volume products to Asia to reduce cost and

support volume

Led development of a new product introduction process and established

program management function

Established yield improvement process and hired engineers to support

Read Rite Corporation, Milpitas, CA 1990 - 2000

Supplier of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive (HDD) and tape

drive markets. Revenue was $1B. Company is now part of Western Digital

Corp.

Director of New Product Introduction 1998 - 2000

Responsible for onshore operations, materials and program management, a 143

person unit focused on development and introduction of new products and

processes.

Worked closely with Sales and Development Engineering to manufacture and

deliver product from an advanced semiconductor fab and micro-assembly line

Successfully introduced multiple products and reduced production cycle time

by 75% through implementation of lean manufacturing techniques.

Consolidated multiple manufacturing sites without reducing yields, customer

service or product quality levels.

Director of Corporate Yield Improvement 1996 - 1998

Developed and led worldwide yield improvement programs to meet yield

objectives critical to profitability.

Wrote and implemented corporate wide phase review development procedures.

Led a worldwide team to resolve a major product qualification problem,

regaining revenue of $150 million annually.

Product Engineering Manager 1992 - 1996

Managed a 14 person Product Engineering team responsible for new product

qualification and existing product support.

Spent 6 months in Thailand to manage the Product Engineering function

during a period of significant growth.

Senior Product Engineer 1990 - 1992

Assigned responsibility for an account that consisted of 60% of revenue

Initially assigned responsibility for a low yielding product, I brought

yield from 9% to 78% in two months.

Zenex Corporation 1988 - 1990

Responsible for Engineering and Quality for a start-up storage products

company.

Defined the process, procured equipment and recruited personnel to

replicate and package software products. Volumes grew from zero to 600,000

units per month.

EDUCATION

University of Limerick, Ireland

BS Computer Engineering

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