JOHN F. DICARLO

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Carmel. Indiana 46032

317-***-****-Home

317-***-****-Cell

E-Mail: abqyme@r.postjobfree.com

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

GLOBAL PURCHASING SENIOR BUYER AND MANUFACTURING

ENGINEER with over 25 years of progressive responsibilities at the corporate and

managerial levels in a changing diversified automotive system Industry Corporation.

Professional Experience

Wabash National, Lafayette, Indiana - 2011 to 2012

A 1.3 Billion manufacturer of semi- trailers including reefer and other types of

transportation systems.

Purchasing Buyer, Lafayette, Indiana - 2011 to 2012

Responsibilities for all Lafayette Customer supplied products coming into the corporate

manufacturing location. Had to interface with all facets of the organization including

engineering, sales, customers, suppliers, manufacturing,transportation, material accounting.

Responsible for cleaning up existing problems, interfacing with sales, Manufacturing, Materials,

and Engineering on a daily basis, along with cleaning up past due, critical parts, past due invoices,

reordering parts, fixing and finding parts, Finding where parts went and tracking parts on carriers.

DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, Troy, MI - 1999 to 2009

A $28 billion manufacturer of automotive systems with over 169 locations worldwide.

Global Purchasing Senior Buyer, Kokomo, IN 2006 to 2009

Responsibilities for all Delphi Tooling and Integrated circuit chip machine purchases for

Delphi’s fabs- Responsible for over $60 million in purchases yearly.

Responsible for leading teams consisting of 8 Staff Heads and well over 100+

Engineers for US, European, and China Operations.

• Lead current production programs; develop and launch new products-

Purchased the tooling for the new Chevrolet Camaro programs.

• Lead Purchasing Agent for all Fab Purchases, Tooling Purchases in

Engineering Worldwide.

• Develop Purchasing and Engineering Strategies for future OEM production

• Represented the customer interface for all the tooling and Fab Purchases.

• Establish the business relationships for global programs

• Supported the launch of Multiple Production Programs resulting in customer

and industry award winning acclaims

• Provided support to many of the tooling Suppliers when Delphi went into

Chapter 11 and provided files for motions so that Delphi could receive there

tooling and many of the suppliers could stay in business.

• Provided Savings to the Delphi Corporation of well over $7.5 Million in

Savings Annually on a $60 million spend. Additionally renegotiated the Fab

Service Contracts that saved the corporation in 2009 of over $4 Million

Dollars on a $13 Million Spend. This directly impacted the bottom line to the

Delphi Corporation.

Global Purchasing Senior Buyer, Kokomo, IN- 2003 to 2005

Responsibilities for all Delphi Tooling, Integrated circuit chip machine purchases for Delphi’s

fabs, Service contracts for Fab, all Chemical Spends for Delphi and Mold Machine

Purchases- Responsible for over $60 million in purchases yearly

Responsible for leading “pursuit to continuous” production of all program aspects

(engineering, manufacturing & supplier interface) for numerous programs for the

Automotive Industry.

• Supported and managed all of the chemical contracts for Delphi's business

including individual cylinders and plant n2 farm's

• Purchased and supported all of the Delphi Molding Machines for Delco and

Delphi Mexico.

• Guided the team to concept, develop and present alternative commercial,

engineering and manufacturing solutions for many of the purchases

• Provided Savings to the Delphi Corporation of well over $4.8 M on a $60 M

spend annually.

Global Purchasing Senior Buyer, Kokomo, IN 1999 to 2002

Responsibilities for all Delphi Test and Measurement Purchases Worldwide- Responsible for over

$70 million in purchases yearly.

Responsible for the engineering interface for all Testing Equipment Purchases

• Established Incircuit and Functional Strategy for Delphi Purchases.

• Commonized many Test Purchases to take advantage of leveraging the

amount of money spent.

• Purchased well over 200 Incircuit/Functional machines which was the largest

purchase of test equipment at that time.

• Provided Catalog Pricing for a three-year period with established pricing for

many purchases with managements approval.

• Provided Savings of well over $9.8 M in savings on a $70M Spend annually.

GENERAL MOTORS, Detroit, Michigan/Delco Electronics-Kokomo,IN

1984 to 1998

A $200 billion manufacturer of automobiles and trucks/Electronics Division

of GM $6.0 billion in annual sales.

Global Purchasing Senior Buyer, Kokomo, IN 1995 to 1998

Responsibilities for all Delco /GM Sensor Purchases Worldwide- Responsible for over $140

million in purchases yearly.

Responsible for Accelerometer's provided for every air bag system in every GM vehicle

worldwide. Additionally supported all other sensor programs, which included radar devices for

back-up aid, and all other Sensor OEM Programs for all of GM Vehicles.

• Managed over $140 M of product per year resulting in over $20 M in savings

annually.

• Provided necessary Commercial, Development, and support for the New

Product Occupant Detection System, which is an annual business to

Delphi of $400M. Over the program life it has been well over a $4 Billion

Business for Delphi. This product is in every GM Vehicles today.

• Developed and help set strategy to go to a single and double axis

accelerometer chip that is used in every Air Bag controller Today.

• Supported the development of the Radar Back-up Aid Device provided in

many cars and trucks today.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Kokomo, IN- 1991 to 1995

Responsibilities for all Air bag Control Modules for GM MFG

• Responsible for managing 4 engineers in the mfg facility

• Responsible for many processes from wave soldering machine, smt

equipment, coating machines, and many other processes.

• Responsible for all mfg. processes mechanical and electrical testing for

module.

• Provided quality award for lowest parts per million failures for air bag

controller by GM

• Developed and Built Equipment for the Air Bag Control Module

manufacturing area.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Kokomo, IN – 1988 to 1990

Responsibilities for Output Assembly Machines, which produced the output for all Ignition

Modules on all GM Vehicles worldwide.

• Responsible for managing 3 High Production Machines which ran 3 shifts

and produced 13 M assemblies a year

• Responsible for retrofitting all Three Machines Controls to improve

efficiency of machines while still running high volumes.

• Increased yield of machines from 96.0 % to 98.0% yield. A substantial 2.0

% yield increase.

• Developed and Built Equipment for the Ignition Module manufacturing

area

Associate Manufacturing Engineer, Kokomo, IN- 1984 to 1987

Responsibilities for a variety of Processes which provided High and Low volume manufacturing

for the Pressure Transducer Modules on all GM Vehicles worldwide.

• Responsible for managing welding and prototype Pressure Transducer

Modules for low volume applications.

• Responsible for surface mount equipment for High Volume Pressure

Transducer Modules

• Responsible for Backplate Assembly Machines, which had gluing and

passivation operations.

• Developed and Built Equipment for the Pressure Transducer Module

.manufacturing area

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology

Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL 1983

Associates in Drafting and Manufacturing Technology

Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby, IL 1981

AWARDS AND EDUCATION COMPLETED AT DELPHI & GENERAL

MOTORS

GM'S Presidents Award to Purchasing Members for savings provided to the GM

Organization, Cost Management Certification, International Purchasing Training,

Fundamentals of GM Financial Management, GM Worldwide Purchasing Process

Training, GM Business Control Practices, GM world wide international sourcing,

Delphi/Delco Electronic Systems Commercial Legal Seminar, Dealing with Highly

Skilled Sales person, GM GPS Sourcing Training, Sap training and very good knowledge

of purchasing Module, and Stats courses taken 1, 2, and 3 which utilized SAS

programming.

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