Riad Ghazal

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

City: Pflugerville

State: TX

Zip: 78660

Country: USA

Phone: 512-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $126,000

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Riad Ghazal

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SUMMARY

Tenacious, success-oriented, Senior Manager and Technology Professional in process engineering, quality, manufacturing, procurement and supply chain. Acknowledged for the ability to accurately assess client needs and deliver major projects on time and under budget. Consistently delivers high levels of results, especially in high technology environments. Recognized for embracing and quickly understanding rapidly evolving technologies. Accomplished procurement and supply chain operations with a strong track record of delivering high quality results. Adept at problem solving and thrives working with people and suppliers individually and as part of a team. Strengths include:

Negotiations with Suppliers

Organization

Project Management

Developing Winning Solutions Strategies

Coaching Others to Succeed

Building Profitable Relationships

Honesty and Integrity

Providing Detailed Analysis

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Complex Problem Solving

Lean/6 Sigma Methodologies

Global Procurement

Global Supply Chain

Statistical Process Control

Printed Circuit Board Processes

Business Process Improvement

Change Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Dell Inc, Austin, Texas

Senior Manager, Global New Product Planner 2009-2012

Managed a team of 7 Global New Product Planners in Shanghai. Responsible for new product launch forecast/material readiness and forecast accuracy to ensure successful on time launches of new systems. Developed and implemented new validation process to identify and resolve forecast issues to improve accuracy. Coordinated with Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Marketing, Core Teams and Senior Management to ensure timely communication of issues and actions to improve.

Improved forecast loading on time performance by 50%.

Improved efficiency of new product introduction global support team by 40%.

Developed new performance metrics to analyze data, identify improvement opportunities.

Program Manager, Global Buyer/Planner Transition 2007-2009

Led a global program to transition regional buyers/planners from Asia Pacific, US, Europe and Brazil to a global central role in Asia. Developed and executed a comprehensive strategy with milestones, timetable, tools, skills and training gaps/needs. Built very strong working relationships with all regions and worked closely with key stakeholders on change management to smooth, successful transition. The project completed 6 months ahead of plan and impact of ~$2m annually and tangible benefits of $5m.

Standardized and globalized regional tools. Eliminated redundancies and inefficiencies.

Improved continuity of supply, material transfers and ownership.

Implemented a governance process to ensure regions receive global support needed on a weekly basis.

Regional Supply Manager 2005-2007

Oversaw and executed short term tactical actions to ensure adequate supply of parts to support daily factory demand within 2 to 13 weeks outlook. Worked with procurement, factory planning, suppliers, logistics and demand supply teams to mitigate any gaps and minimize short to backlog orders. Led a cross functional team to reduce Enterprise system short to backlog from 1.5 days to 0.2 days with net impact savings of about $1.8m annually.

Provided daily updates and follow-up to stakeholders of part shortages and actions to mitigate.

Improved part continuity of supply by closely working with stakeholders and constantly monitoring ship dates and arrival dates. Reduced notebook part shortages by 50%.

Improved teamwork between stakeholders, daily and weekly reviews of the major part shortages and actions to mitigate.

Senior Manager, Supplier Engineering Quality 2003-2005

Managed a team of 8 engineers. Developed and executed strategies to improve quality performance at Dell factories of critical commodities. Worked with procurement, engineering, quality engineering, supply chain and factories on supplier quality problems and excursions, drove for root cause identification and prevention actions with suppliers.

w Worked with cross functional teams to improve supplier quality and introduce new technologies.

w Developed and conducted quality system, process, product and SWOT audits at suppliers.

Led Supplier Engineering Quality organization Winning Culture efforts to address employee concerns and improve working conditions.

Global Commodity Manager 2000-2003

Managed all aspect of electro mechanical commodities, printed circuit board(PCB), connectors, crystals, fuses in the areas of price negotiations, supplier selection award, and product quality. Built a strong global PCB team, developed 3 year PCB strategy and took ownership of managing PCB commodity from Electronic Manufacturers. Net impact to the business is savings over $130m annually.

w Developed suppliers as partners, suppliers helped develop PCB strategy.

w Created PCB team in Asia, a supplier quality engineer and global supply manager to manage the supplier operation transition to China.

w Developed a PCB cost model that is the foundation of setting target price.

w Revamped PCB quality requirements to focus on improving product quality.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS/ RAYTHEON, Austin, Texas

Held several individual contributor and managerial positions in PCB fab operation. Promoted within, holding position of responsibilities in process engineering, quality, manufacturing and development.

EDUCATION

B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Proffessional Development

Business Process Improvement, Green Belt

6 Sigma Methodologies

Continuous Flow Manufacturing

Lean Operation

Self-Directed Work Teams

Statistical Process Control

Models for Management

Change Management

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