Supply Chain Project Manager

Sharath Puttabuddi

**** ****** ****** ****, *** #1827, Roseville, CA 95661

Mobile: 408-***-**** E-mail: **.*******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging position in Supply Chain/ Materials Management,

Procurement, or related field.

WORK EXPERIENCE

. Database Administrator/ Business Analyst, TechPoint Solutions, Milpitas,

CA (Oct 2008 - Present)

o I am trained for performing various database and business analyst

functions.

. Materials Planner/ Supply Chain Manager Intern, KLA-Tencor, San Jose, CA

(July 2007 -January 2008)

o Prepared bid-packages, verified documentation and content, and

helped to obtain RFQs from vendors.

o Helped to explore the option of introducing a third party logistics

(3PL) into the supply chain, to increase its operational

efficiency. Determined that we can reduce operations costs by 28%

with the help of a 3PL company.

o Generated NPI OUTBOMs for assemblies and developed cost saving

methods for material procurement from suppliers.

o Populated material procurement lead times from SAP to excel spread-

sheet and analyzed data to reduce cycle time.

o Aided Project Managers in determining supplier performance through

supplier scorecarding based on time, cost, quality, and

responsiveness.

o Coordinated meetings between different cross-functional teams in

the company.

o Validated vendor and purchase order information as a part of ERP

conversion from Manman to SAP.

. Supply Chain Management Intern, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA

(June 2006 - August 2006)

o Under the supervision of the Engineering Team, modeled and

forecasted operational drivers, compiled information to track

contract manufacturer performance.

o Assisted Project Manager in tracking cost and yield data,

manipulated data, created charts, and prepared presentations.

. Graduate Trainee (Manufacturing Engineering), Kennametal, Bangalore,

India (March 2005 - July 2005)

o Assisted facilities engineers in the planning and design of

facilities, developed facilities layout using AutoCAD.

o Assisted industrial engineers in developing Lean initiatives in

the production engineering department.

o Improved process instructions and drawings to achieve Lean shop-

floor paperwork, developed and updated operation charts to

reflect changes in process, wrote standard operating procedures

(SOPs) for various production machines.

. Technical Support Engineer, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Bangalore India

(July 2004 - January 2005)

o Member of the technical support team responsible for

troubleshooting and documenting laptop issues. Worked

extensively with customers to identify problems, find solutions

and document problems.

o Maintained database of customer-calls and related queries using

spread-sheet.

EDUCATION

M.S. - Industrial and Systems Engineering,

Graduation Date: May 2008

Specialization - Supply Chain Management.

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.

B.S. equivalent - Industrial & Production Engineering,

Graduation Date: June 2004

Visveswaraiah Technological University, India.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

Business Logistics in Supply Chain Management, Advanced Supply Chain

Engineering, Operations Management, Engineering Economic Analysis,

Financial Methods for Engineers, Advanced Operations Research, Information

Engineering, Marketing Management, Quality Assurance and Reliability, Lean

Manufacturing and Six Sigma Techniques.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS AND SEMINARS

. A Lead Time Reduction project.

(May 2006)

1. Utilized DMAIC methodology and Project Charter to plan the project and

to map the deliverables of the project.

2. Applied Critical to Quality Tree (CTQ), Value Stream Mapping, Process

Flow Diagram and Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers (SIPOC)

diagram to understand the process flow and requirements.

3. Performed root cause analysis of longer lead time using Fishbone and

Pareto analysis.

. A Seminar on IT- Enabled Supply Chain Management focused on the need

for integration of Information Technology with Supply Chain

Management, and its subsequent advantages to managers in managing

uncertainty and lead time through improved collection and sharing of

information between Supply Chain nodes.

(May 2003)

COMPUTING SKILLS

Software Packages: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project),

Minitab.

ERP Systems: SAP (Materials Management), MatrixOne.

Lean Manufacturing Tools: Kanban System, One-Piece Flow, 5S, Poka-Yoke,

Lean Metrics, Takt Time, etc.

Design Tools: AutoCAD, Pro-E, and Solid Works.

OTHER SKILLS: Excellent communication and analytical skills, quick learner,

flexible, can multi-task.

Activities: APICS member, Society of Industrial and Production Engineering

(SIPE) representative, NIE, Mysore, India.

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