Managing

Todd Avon

Email: *********@********.***

Address: ***** ******* **

City: Garden Grove

State: CA

Zip: 92840

Country: USA

Phone: 714-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: 150

Willing to Relocate

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Todd M. Avon

12771 Chelsea Circle Garden Grove, CA 92840 714-***-**** *********@********.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

* Managing P&L

* Extensive experience managing global supply chains

* Forecasting/Demand Planning

* Strategic Sourcing

* Inventory management and optimization

* Experience with lean manufacturing process flow

* Product Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Autoshepherd.com October 2010 - Present

Director, Product Management & Merchandising

Recruited by CEO of AutoShepherd - co-founder of NewEgg.com.

Willing to relocate to the bay area to be closer to my family.

Autoshepherd.com is a start-up e-commerce focusing on automotive parts including aftermarket accessories and hard parts. I'm responsible for the aftermarket accessory category which accounts for 70% of the overall company revenue.

Accomplishments:

* Establish strategic partnerships with manufacturers and distributors to build out the product catalog. This includes negotiating pricing, discounts, and promotions.

* Create and manage the financial model that analyzes the impact of pricing, seasonal promotional activity, shipping, and merchandising activity.

* Drive Marketing initiatives to capture large growth market segments. This led to a 30% increase in revenue in the truck and Jeep segment.

* Establish short and long term revenue forecasts' by determining the TAM and growth for each market segment.

* Responsible for managing and negotiating discounted FedEx rates that saved the company an additional 25% on freight costs.

* Drive initiatives to sell on marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon, and Buy.com. This increased revenue 50% over the past year.

* Work with distribution partners to secure inventory allocation to ensure correct product mix for each segment of the market.

Newegg.com March 2007 - October 2010

Director, Product Management & Merchandising

Newegg.com is a $3 billion online e-commerce company specializing in computer hardware, software, and consumer electronics. As Director of Product Management, I managed multiple P&L`s for $200 million in annual revenue for CE and IT categories. Managed and developed a team of up to 22 employees.

Accomplishments:

* Establish and execute long-term categories strategies. This led to double-digit revenue growth, which outpaced the respective market, and increased margins.

* Created forecasting and planning processes to control buying cycles, inventory, and secure allocation. This also helped the team control product life cycles, promotional activity, and stock outs.

* Established strategic partnerships with key vendors that led to preferred allocation, exclusives for new product launches, and preferential pricing.

* Set marketing strategies to drive traffic to categories stores. This included SEO, organic and paid search, print, and on-line ads.

* Restructured category stores to focus on high growth products and ease of shopping. This led to increased traffic, order size, and conversion rate.

* Launched the Office Supplies category with 15,000 sku`s, and established new processes for category creation.

* Reduced on-hand inventory by 40% by establishing new processes to monitor and approve strategic buys that limited aged inventory and increased cash flow.

* Source new products, and establish launch strategies that include product delivery, pricing, marketing activities, and customer segmentation.

* Increased MDF/COOP funding by 30%. This additional spend was used to drive record-breaking sales revenue while maintaining an average margin of 28-32%.

Gateway, Inc. October 2004 - March 2007

Senior Manager, Supply Planning

Gateway (now Acer) was a $4 billion computer manufacturer, which ranked number three in the U.S for sales. As the Senior Manager of Supply Planning, I managed the supply chain for the Notebook and Server divisions. This included new product introductions, commodity management, customer delivery performance, and end-of-life phase outs. All of the systems were manufactured in China, Mexico, and the U.S.

Accomplishments:

* Maintained an excess and obsolete rate of .5% of revenue by managing option transitions and end-of-life transitions at the commodity level. This was previously managed at the platform level, limiting the flexibility to consume E & O. Previous E & O targets were 2.5-3% of revenue.

* Responsible for outsourcing Server and Storage manufacturing from the U.S. to Mexico. This included the planning and procurement activities for chassis, processors, hard drives, optical drives, software, and accessories. Overall cost reduction of 20%.

Comarco Wireless Technologies November 2002 - October 2004

Senior Manager, Operations

Comarco Wireless Technologies is a leading provider of products, and services to the wireless industry with $50 million annual revenue. As the Senior Manager of Operations, I managed procurement, demand planning, production, and master scheduling where we used high mix/low volume, and low mix/high volume production lines. Developed and managed 40 + employees.

Accomplishments:

* Key member in outsourcing manufacturing division to China, which added to the competitive advantage of the product line. Overall costs were reduced by 30%.

* Re-engineered the Demand Planning process for all three business units that reduced production lead times, and increased customer delivery performance.

* Set-up and negotiated a consignment inventory program with component distributors to reduce on-hand liability by $1 million, and achieved greater flexibility in high output manufacturing.

* Planned and maintained the supply chain from Asian suppliers for production lines producing 5,000 units per day.

* Set-up and negotiated outsourcing for PCB assemblies through local contract manufacturer and component distributor to save 45% on low volume/high mix configurations.

Brown Jordan Company June 2000 - November 2002

Production Control and Traffic Manager

Brown Jordan is a manufacturer and distributor of premier leisure furniture in the U.S with annual revenue of $65 million. They have manufacturing facilities in Mexico and the U.S. As the Production Control and Traffic Manager, I managed master scheduling, inventory control, shipping, and inbound and outbound traffic.

Accomplishments:

* Key member in the implementation of an in-line packaging flow, which increased throughput by 30%, and decreased rework by 50%.

* Reduced raw material inventory by 85% by implementing a just-in-time delivery from our Mexico facility. This was accomplished by scheduling weekly batch orders that were delivered two days prior to production runs.

* Reduced customers past due orders by $2 million by revamping the production scheduling process.

* Used Kaizen extensively to increase production, reduce waste, and streamline the manufacturing flow.

TRW, Inc. July 1996 - June 2000

Production Control Supervisor

TRW (now Northrop Grumman) is a premier developer, integrator, producer and supporter of manned and unmanned aircraft, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics and other systems and subsystems critical to maintaining the nation`s security and leadership in science and technology. I managed Planning and Production Control for the Radio Frequency Production Center where we manufactured high-end processors and control centers. Developed and managed 18 employees.

Accomplishments:

* Responsible for establishing, maintaining, and auditing a multi-million dollar wafer Inventory facility. Captured approximately $1 million worth of inventory discrepancies from previous system.

* Implemented a bar coding system for MBE wafer production that reduced labor handling by 30%.

* Set up a document control center that reduced the cost of maintaining drawings by 60%, and streamlined the update of engineering documents that directly impacted the manufacturing flow.

* Key team member in the development and implementation of a Kanban manufacturing process where manufacturing time was reduced by 50% using a pull vs. push production flow. This in turn reduced costs by 20%. Won Managers award for accomplishment.

Home Depot (Worked full time during college) February 1991 - July 1996

Department Head

EDUCATION

Chapman University, MBA 2003

California State University, Long Beach, BS Operations 1996

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