Chris E Douglas

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Tracy CA *****

209-***-**** 408-***-****

abonsa@r.postjobfree.com

Summary Statement

A skilled supplier manager with more than 15 years experience in high

technology and semi-conductor industries focusing on new product

development, supplier quality, design for manufacturing, cost, lead-time

and global supplier selection and development.

Focuses on supply base vendor management maintaining good interpersonal

relationship with supplier's management to achieve beyond specification

deliverables and negotiate tough as nails but always conclude with a win

win solution. Strong values which focus on solution versus blame, problems

are a hurdle to overcome, agree to disagree while moving forward

maintaining a sense of humor. Personal success and satisfaction are

achieved as a result of company success at the customer level to deliver

product and design integrity, achieving operations and supplier success by

implementing department goals and deliverables.

Supplier Quality: Vast experiences in quality improvement processes, ISO

certified audits, first article inspection methods, drawing - three

dimensional cad interpretation, root cause analysis, process capability.

Have maintained experience in International standards of production,

logistics, quality, safety, and environmental compliance in support of

global customer requirements.

Commodity Expertise: Mechanical parts and assembly, Sheet Metal, Cable

Assembly, Machined Parts, Casting, Extrusions, Injection Molding, Tooling

and various other small mechanical's.

Experience

Ericsson-(Formerly Redback Networks), San Jose, CA 2010 - 2012

New Product Introduction Engineer

Responsibilities: - Electro-Mechanical Assembly at contact manufacturers

Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI, Jabil to meet New Product deliverable's to

transfer products to any Ericsson manufacturing location in Europe, South

America, Mexico and China. Design review all mechanical parts and work with

suppliers such sheet metal, cables, injection molding, packaging, and

complete design for manufacturing and final first article qualification to

support CM level buyers. Generate Engineering change orders and bill of

material structures to support product release. Implement Ericsson Sweden

ways of working.

Accomplishments: Successfully released to production Ericsson's newest SSR

8000 product line. Change Redback bill of material and part number

structure to Ericsson to support config to order as part of production

release. Converted from Redback supply chain to Ericsson preferred global

suppliers Flextronics and Sanmina-SCI. Initiated Erimate initiative to

achieve Rohs Class 6 material declaration, affecting over 70 suppliers

across global commodities.

Redback Networks, San Jose, CA 2008 - 2009

Supply Base Engineer - Mechanical Parts and Assembly

Responsibilities: Qualify and manage Redback products with both domestic

and international suppliers. Collaborate during New Product Introduction to

implement processes that improved system design, quality and reduce cost.

Transfer existing production parts for sheet metal, cables, packaging,

labels, injection molding to low cost region in Mexico, Malaysia and China

supporting Redback contract manufacturers.

Accomplishments: Localized SE1200 to TTM Shanghai China using local

suppliers. Generated ramp up plan to deliver by sea container 3,500 units

in six month saving 40% of mechanical parts cost. PCBA face plate achieved

cost reduction support Jabil Mexico and Penang Malaysia for targeted saving

$300,000 per quarter. Completed new product introduction of Visby product,

included qualification of new contract manufacturer Flextronics USA and

China complete production at Flextronics China to allow first time initial

release to occur in low cost region. Created new document format for

drawings of all mechanical parts allowing designers to use standard

template's resulting 80 percent less documentation errors to significantly

reducing number of engineering changes after production release. Generated

production manufacturing and quality plans to provide CM and supplier

deliverable's during NPI - production.

World Wide Packets, San Jose, CA 2008 - 2008

Commodity Manager - Supply Base Engineer

Responsibilities: Commodity Manager for 20 million dollar start up

purchased by Ciena Inc. Responsible for all mechanical parts cost, quality

to support contract manufacture Flash Electronics in USA and Suzhou China.

Accomplishments: Completed ramp at Flash China of new product release

timed for AT & T qualification audit to include production ramp of 10,000

units in two months. Achieved Reduction of MRB / RMA aging to zero

dollars. Based on these successes the company was sold to Ciena who

relocated positions to east coast head-quarters.

Asyst Technologies, Fremont, CA 2003 - 2007

Commodity Manager - Supply Base Engineer

Responsibilities: Initiate processes and managed supplier qualifications,

Quality, Report Cards for domestic and international suppliers with

extensive traveling Singapore - China. Directed and managed supplier

management including competitive quotation packages, negotiations, quality

management and supply to six month build plan. Collaborated with design and

product marketing teams on new product releases to ensure that supplier

were qualified and met project deadlines. Supported commodities included,

machined, castings, extrusions, sheet metal, cable assemblies, moldings

suppliers. Maintain "copy exactly" process to maintain Intel - Applied

Materials customer requirements.

Accomplishments: Saved 28 million dollars across eight product lines.

Negotiated supplier business award by product line and target cost reducing

quotation lead time and improved part quality at assembly when demand

forecast was near zero. Transferred and re-qualified 8,500 part numbers to

new suppliers in Asia pacific. Reduced approved vendors by 70 percent.

Generated web based first article tracker for reporting copy exactly AVL

changes to product marketing. Generated cosmetic design standards and

updated all drawings to clean up extensive red line drawings at USA supply

base. Implemented manufacture equipment and CMM (coordinate measuring

machine) calibration to match Solectron CMM to reduce inspection error and

improved root cause failure analysis. Qualified lower cost supply base in

Malaysia and China for ongoing cost reductions. Reduced MRB - RMA aging to

1 week. Increase commodity quality to 99.9% at target suppliers. Support

hire and training of local supply base engineer to support ongoing

production. Created 24 hr proto buy process to reduce receipt of proto

parts to one week from any global supplier. Complete NPI release for

Spartan and next generation ISOPORT product-line for 300mm wafers. I was

promoted to Commodity Manager.

Ascend Communication - Lucent Technologies, Alameda, CA 1997 - 2002

Staff Supply Base Engineer

Responsibilities: New Product Introduction, sustaining production,

supplier qualification of Plastic, Sheet Metal, Cables, Packaging,

Connectors, Software Doc. Sets, Labels, Fans, Fan tray assemblies, Site

Tooling Budget. Advise operation management global production road map for

United States Europe and Asia pacific expansion.

Accomplishments: Implemented multiple cost reductions, though

negotiations, improved supplier global selections and implementation of

hard tooling. Chair weekly NPI team meeting at mechanical suppliers to

support new product release schedule. Release Ascend - Lucent global

packaging design & test requirements, global cosmetic & workmanship

standard, supplier quality agreement, supplier score card for mechanical

suppliers.

Sun Microsystems, Milpitas, CA 1986 - 1996

Supply Base Engineer

Responsibilities: Sole supply base engineer for Sun's desk side server

products, responsible for supplier qualification of Injection molders,

sheet metal, internal cable assembly, fan tray assembly and electrical

mechanical assembly suppliers NPI cost and Tooling design, budget and cost

reduction related to hard tooling. Product release must achieve production

goals in both Sun factories located in USA and Scotland.

Accomplishments: Member of tooling commodity team responsible for over 200

production tools representing $4 Million in spend. Implemented Sun Auto

MRB- RMA program and reduced defective material aging to one week or less.

We achieved highest rated supplier quality and technical performance as

measure by Sun supplier scorecards.

Education, Professional Development and Training

Two years De-Anza Jr College - Cupertino, CA

Machinist, CETA Vocational School - San Jose, CA

* How to do business in Asia - Japan

* Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiment, Advance Problem

Solving

* Supplier Management, Effective Negotiations and Presentation

* G.E. Molders Workshop and Advance Molding for Design

* Certified completion BSI lead auditor, auditing to ISO 9000

* General user of Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook, Oracle and Agile

Memberships

Linked in Sheet Metal Association, Linked in Cable Assembly Association

Procurement Professionals (#1 supply chain & sourcing group)

ANSI -American Standards Institute

Member of American Rose Society

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