Michael Occhipinti
Wall PA *****
Home Phone: 919- 265-7894
Email address: ***********@*******.***
Professional Overview:
• Procurement Professional with 14 years of Supply Chain / Global Commodity
Management expertise who has an excellent track record working with Strategic
Sourcing and Supply Chain Management contracts and initiatives. Have negotiated
contracts and agreements for all types of procurement business units in China, Hungry
and Mexico.
The Main contact between strategic partners and procurement teams. Collaborated with
internal/external customers in the development and preparation of Specifications, General
Agreements, Statements of Work, RFIs, RFQs, bid analysis and cost targets.
Implemented compliance of all policies and procedures with suppliers. Managed supplier
relationships and solving problems in contract execution and supply shortages. Provided
support to assigned cost centers of market changes in the industry from the meetings with
suppliers.
Employment:
CVS Caremark Corporation
Customer Representative - Nov 11th 2013 - Present
Processing & implementing critical medical information and medication for clients and
patients health. Liaison between Doctors office and CVS departments to process medical
forms and data systems. Guidance and discussions with Members and clients for
logistics, pricing and terms of their contracts and coverage.
Skyware Global - Jan 2013 - May 2013 Contract/ Consulting Position
Global Supply Chain Manager - $55 Million spend, 11 suppliers
Manage and direct all Strategy, Sourcing and procurement decisions for the international
supply chain. Lead in moving business to Taiwan and China to increase revenue. Aligned
2 businesses to be fully assembled in these regions with an overall savings of $2M / yr.
Negotiated terms and conditions to setup 2 Strategic Manufacturing Partners (OEM’s) to
work on our biggest spend programs. These programs will be procured, assembled,
packed and shipped to the US for Skyware to direct to our customers 3 major sites. Lead
on ramping up NPI for launch of new products with the Suppliers. Driving all decisions
for the Asia team on logistics (Air, All Water, and Truck) that consists over seas of an
operation Manager, logistics lead and quality team for the Asia suppliers. This is to meet
the spike in demand and forecasting without affecting the company’s bottom line margin.
IBM / Lenovo - Feb 2006 - April 2012
Team Lead - Global Commodity Manager: $150 Million Spend, 11 Suppliers
Responsibilities include: Negotiation of IP, IT software contracts between teams. These
were high technical communication devices such as WWAN, WLAN, Bluetooth, Modem
Chipsets, Ethernet, These modules need to be driven at a high level for the newest
technology roadmap and innovations for Lenovo ( IBM) PC’s. Aligned contracts for all
procurement decisions, managed all negotiations and implemented a rebate process.
Managed risk assessment, scorecards, NDA’s, CDA’s, Cost data base, Contract data
base, supplier relationships. Work at Executive level to help align decisions such as
marketing IT and brand management. Established major relationships with high level
corporate entities. Manage high level suppliers such as Intel, Qualcomm, and Ericsson
etc.
Entered new business (EPBU) Enterprise Procurement business unit start up to drive new
factories in China, Mexico and Hungry for Lenovo.
This was an opportunity to start up several large global corporate businesses with Lenovo
for workstations and servers. I have now expanded my knowledge to manage the supply,
logistics, demand/forecasting and business expertise which it takes to manage a large
corporate global business successfully. Now that the regions are functioning I am
managing the OEM cards for workstations and the Raid commodity for Server business. I
currently manage the high spend suppliers in both which are NVIDIA, AMD and LSI.
Lucent Technologies - Jan 1997 - Nov 2005
Global Supplier Relationship Manager /Reliability Engineer:
$50 Million Spend & 11 Suppliers
Managed a large reliability lab for HALT, ALT, and EST testing for components. BGA
solder ability attach rates on PCB boards. Programmed environmental test chambers for
temperature ramp, dwell and soak of electronic components. Received Patent for testing
attachment reliability of RF devices (#5963039). Good knowledge of electronic
components.
Executive of Bell Labs Lucent moved me into global management of all thermal
components and systems in lucent communication systems. Fans, Fantrays, heat
exchangers, heat sinks, filters and thermal material. Managed OEM, CM’s for cost targets
and negotiated all terms and conditions. RFQ’s, RFI’s, NDA’s, forecasts, negotiations,
scorecards and supplier relationships were all part of my responsibilities. Was the major
contributor to start up factories with suppliers to implement a low cost region
successfully in China.
Thermo Metrics - March 1993 - July 1996
Final Test Engineer
Responsibilities include: Calibrating equipment and electronic measures of exact
temperature baths to test Thermistors for catheters that were used for medical devices and
RTD applications. ISO 9000 records kept for the calibration schedule of all equipment
and schedule of dates required. Repaired equipment, test leads, test wires and calibrated
baths.
Accomplishments:
• Granted the Genesis Award from Lucent Technologies for creating the DMX supply
chain in record time.
• Awarded United States Patent for testing the attachment reliability of RF components
(5963039).
• Yellow Belt Six Sigma certified
Technical Skills:
• Used extensive understanding in electronics to push NPI components and design for a
robust product in the RFI and RFQ process.
• Developed, analyzed and characterized the reliability of critical telecommunications
components.
• Specified, budgeted, procured and evaluated new test equipment for the
communications industry.
• Planned and performed internal and external independent technical audits. .
Computer Skills:
• Lotus Notes - General Agreements, Statement of works, PCMS, Contract database, E-
Source file database, Procurement team room, SAP.
• CDA’s, NA’s, Amendment files data base
• All Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access etc.
Education:
AAS in Electronics DeVry Technical Institute
Bachelor of Science, Electronic Engineering Thomas Edison State