Engineer Project Manager

JAY SPENDLOVE **** Manderley Ln, Ogden, UT *****

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Engineering/Manufacturing Management Leader

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Start Ups In ternational Operations Suppliers

Management Profile

Revenue & Profit Growth Over 20 years of operations management and leadership experience in

Strategies/Solutions manufacturing environments and plants. Repeatedly successful increasing

financial performance, quality, performance, safety and customer satisfaction.

Lean Manufacturing & Six

Sigma Implementations Strong Champion of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Culture.

Successful

in implementing Lean, Six Sigma culture, and driving continuous improvement .

Cost Reduction, Cost Savings Utilize KPI Metrics to accurately gauge the health of team and pinpoint

areas

Strategic Partner Alliance for enhancements. Deployed “Lean Mentality” in multiple multinational

manufacturing facilities.

Policy Design & Deployment Achieved series of quantifiable accomplishments as Director with Iomega

Corporation, including $4,500,000/year in material cost savings, increasing

Cross Functional Team Leader Supplier Capacities while reducing cost, customer PPM reduction from

10,000 to

In Building & Motivation 65, taking our product from worst to best at DELL in one year, and cost of poor

quality reduction from 5.5% of sales to less than 1.0%

Start Up Operations &

International Expansion

Professional Experience

Select Comfort

Select Comfort Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and retail of adjustable

firmness mattresses and other sleep related products. The company offers its products under the Sleep Number

brand name. It operates ~400 stores in the USA.

SR. QUALITY ENGINEER/QA MANAGER – Salt lake City, UT (2011 to Present)

Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality standards for Sleep Number products and processes. Provide diverse

and complex statistical information for quality improvement by determining and applying testing methods and

criteria. Responsible to guide technical evaluations, analysis, and related data acquisition processes to ensure

division quality objectives are achieved.

6 direct full time reports and 7 temporary reports (QA auditors/technicians, inspectors and receiving

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inspection)

Oracle Corporation

$35 Billion enterprise software and hardware company that engages in the development, manufacture,

distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, storage, middleware, and application software worldwide.

SR. STAFF PROJECT ENGINEER Louisville, Colorado (2008 – 2011)

Coordinate manufacturing tooling designs, supplier component designs, supplier selections and

qualification process. Engaged in engineering projects that interfaces between R&D and the

contract manufacturer. Participate in design reviews that include product design, testing

requirement, critical to function requirements and the design and fabrication of processes and tool

designs to support the overall product specifications.

• Lead resources to ensure tools, designs and requirements are successfully completed on time

• Strategic sourcing specialist for Asian supply base. RFI, RFQ, ISO Factory audits and approvals

• Generate technical schedule and deliverables for the T10,000 Tape drive HPA project and ensuring project

schedules and timelines are met. Use Lean Manufacturing Principles for this program

• Drive, monitor, resolve engineering designs and issues while working with a cross functional team of

engineers and suppliers. FMEA, PFMEA, DFM for each component and assembly process.

Iomega Corporation

Global company that designs, manufactures and markets Mobile & Desktop Storage Products, Removable Hard

Disk Drives and Network Storage Systems that help customers protect, secure, capture and share their digital

information.

DIRECTOR COMMODITY MANAGEMENT/ DIRECTOR SQE – Roy, Utah (1981 – 2008)

Global sourcing and supply chain management, contract manufacturing, sourced products, HDD head assemblies,

media, mechanical, plastics and printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA) sourcing. Worked with Iomega

executive management team to identify and implement cost savings opportunities through supplier selection and

product sourcing, manufacturing improvements, design for cost and outsourcing initiatives.

Spearheaded the “REV” removable hard drive project from cradle to market. Results added revenues in

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excess of $40 million per year with 40% Gross Margin.

Led supplier selection teams to identify outsourced product manufacturing, supplier quality, materials

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planning and purchasing operations for Iomega‘s Rev product to Southern China (Shenzhen, China.

ExcelStor Technology)

Participated in key strategic supplier negotiations and quarterly business reviews (QBR) achieving annual

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cost savings and cost avoidance exceeding $3 Million.

Chief negotiator for strategic components which included HDD Heads, HDD Media, plastic tooling and

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components, strategic chip supplier which included Texas Instruments, Atmel, Agere and JMicron.

Reduced inventory levels in 2007 from $9 Million to $4 Million improving inventory turns twice.

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Negotiated and procured an ODM manufacturer for the eGO product (Dell & Iomega) which produced an

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additional $50 million in revenue.

Global Supplier Quality Director for Asia Pacific Supply Base in achieving dppm levels below 100 dppm

Increased ZIP capacity from 600k per month to 1.5 million units per month.

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Effectively managed Plastic molding companies to design and mold components to 100% to print with

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Cpk values of 1.33 to 1.5 for critical parameters. Hands on knowledge of tools and processes.

Key person in organization for ramping Iomega’s Zip business to exceed $1.7 billion.

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Qualified over 450 sets of tools in Asia over a two year period with 100% acceptance.

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Manager, Process Engineering Head Stack Assemblies (1995 1997)

Development Engineer, Mechanical Head Stack Assemblies (1993 – 1995)

NPI Project Manager – Floptical Disk Drive in Japan (1991 1993)

Process Engineering Manager Disk Drive Assemblies (1985 to 1988)

Process Engineer (1981 1985)

Other Experiences

Micropolis Corporation, Chatsworth, California: Sr. Principle Mfg Engineer Disk Drive Assemblies.

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Sperry Univac, SLC, Utah: Industrial Engineer – Terminals and Computers

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IBM, Boulder, Colorado: Advanced Manufacturing/Quality Engineer – Office Products Division

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Education and Traning

B.S. – Manufacturing Engineering Weber State University, Ogden, Utah

Company sponsored training

Six Sigma Champion 7 habits of highly effective people

Lead auditor certified (ISO 9000) Team building concepts

Management Development Institute Leadership Advanced contract writing and

Development Program administration, negotiations skills

Kempner Trego Problem Solving Techniques Minitab – statistical software

References

To be furnished upon request

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