Manager Management

Richard J. Gonzalez

**** **** ****** ***** (***) 331-

1366

Indianapolis, Indiana 46268

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PROFILE

. Management professional with extensive purchasing and material

management experience including all inventory management and sourcing

functions. Exceptional organization, analytical and problem solving

skills.

. Demonstrated experience in implementing and creating procedures that

meet ISO/TS 16949 requirements.

. Excellent working experience in planning, scheduling, forecasting and

managing material inventories from procurement to fabrication to the

delivery of products to customer.

. Thorough understanding of Lean Manufacturing, JIT, Kan-ban

methodologies, ability to read Engineering Prints and Specifications.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Materials Manager Robert Half

International

(10/2008 - 10/2009) Contracted by: Porter

Engineered Systems

. Responsible for developing and managing departmental budgets.

. Responsible for directing the planning, scheduling, requisition,

handling and stocking of manufactured and purchased parts, including

warehouse and stockroom operations.

. Responsible for the planning and maintaining of appropriate inventory

levels that meets JIT objectives of the company.

. Managing all logistics functions, such as selection of carriers,

setting up routes, selection of customs brokers, freight forwarders

for international shipments.

. Responsible for the development of standard packaging for production,

internal parts and finished parts.

. Member of Management team that provides leadership to plant operations

and sales objectives.

Site Manager Precision Industries

(9/2007 to 10/2008) Contracted by:

ConAgraFoods

Precision Industries (DXP) is supplier of MRO materials, with a division in

supply chain management and intergraded purchasing.

. Responsible for the Purchasing of four million in MRO parts, which

includes sourcing of OEM to other direct manufactures for maintaining

inventories of MRO parts.

. Responsibility of maintaining and correcting customers ERP system

(MP2) with the correct data that is needed to maintain all inventories

required in the plant.

. Directed four stockroom associates and one buyer.

Materials Manager MC Manufacturing LLC

(7/2006 -9/2007) Contract

MC Manufacturing is a small minority owned company which produces machined

parts for customers such as Timken Corp, Steel Parts and Federal Mogul.

. Purchasing responsibilities included the development of supplier base,

negotiating pricing and delivery for product required for production.

. Responsible for the input of customer orders, scheduling of jobs, all

material requirements, planning of all incoming customers supplied

product and outgoing product to meet customer's JIT requirements.

. Responsible for project management of new contracts.

Materials Manager Moriden America, Inc.

(4/2003 - 7/2006) Indianapolis, IN

Moriden America, Inc is a mid-size Japanese company with over 20 million in

sales that supplies automotive textile goods to Subaru and Mitsubishi in

North America.

. My direct responsibilities were to oversee the activities of all

purchasing of materials for manufacturing, supplied components and

finished parts.

. Responsible for developing and managing departmental budgets.

. Responsible for producing master schedules of all products that are

produced within production and outsourced which are supplied to the

customers.

. Responsible for the planning and maintaining of appropriate inventory

levels that meet JIT objectives of the company. This would include

five million of imported goods annually.

. Managing all transportation, such as selection of carriers, setting up

routes, broker/freight forwarders, duty/customs bond company.

Responsible for the development of standard packaging for production,

internal parts and finished parts.

. Supervised a staff of ten, one lead buyer, two buyers/planners and

seven warehouse associates.

Accomplishment:

. Responsible for maintaining the structure of the company ERP system

(SysPro)

. Design plan to avoid over 1 million in obsolete material lost by

working with suppliers and customers requirements.

Materials/Procurement Manager GSC Manufacturing,

Inc.

(4/1994 - 2/2003) Indianapolis, IN

GSC Manufacturing Inc. was a mid-size automotive JIT supplier to General

Motor, Chrysler, Caterpillar and Cummins Corp.

. Responsible for the direct purchasing and negotiation of all raw

materials such as bar stock, tubing, sheet tooling and transportation

services.

. Responsible for the development of supplier base to purchase

contracted services, including machining, heat treating, plating and

grinding.

. Responsible for planning, scheduling production, product forecasting

and maintaining the best possible projection for future demand.

. Direct management of shipping and receiving.

Accomplishment:

. Led a special task force that achieved savings of over 12% annually

through the reduction of tooling cost.

. Responsible for the internal architecture and implementation of the

inventory and MRP system (Visual Manufacturing) that accounted for all

production manpower, materials, and tooling expensed with the cost

associated.

Education:

. Export/Import Procedures and Documentation (AMI) - Certificate

2005

. American Management Institute - Project Management -

Certificate 1997

. University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Production Scheduling/MRP Management -

Certificate 1997

. American Management Institute - Inventory Management -

Certificate 1997

. San Jacinto Community College (Houston, Texas) -

Accounting 1991

Computer Skills:

Microsoft Office Pro 2007

Visual Manufacturing MRP/ERP (Lilly Software)

Oracle ERP Software

SysPro MRP/ERP Software

Made2Manage ERP Software

MP2 Professional Software

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