Manager Air Force

Leonard Washington

Executive Summary:

• Experienced management professional with an excellent record of performance and a broad range of skills that

include:

• Materials Planning Supervisor, Aircraft Material Manager

• Involved in acquisition procurement of line items from small companies in the United States to support an

Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) acquisition program office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

in Ohio

• Raytheon Material Systems Planner

• Senior Acquisitions Specialist

• Principal personal strengths include integrity, loyalty, and the ability to respond to challenges with a professional

approach.

• A team builder and team player who can be counted on to attain better than expected results!

Education:

• Academy of Aeronautics – Queens New York (Aircraft Maintenance Engineering)

GPA 3.7 Present

St. Philip’s College (Business Management & Technology A.A.S)

Professional Development:

• Leadership B.C.S.O Award

• Raytheon Employee of the Year Award

• U.S. Air Force Journeymen Crew Chief Award of the Year

• Certified Emergency Manager

• Crash and Fire Rescue

• Emergency Care Attendant

• License Airframe 54467353

• Microsoft (Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint)

Career Accomplishments:

Progressively advanced to positions of increased challenges and responsibilities as a full-time employee in positions that

included:

Yoh (Boeing) – San Antonio TX 2011 – May 2013

Materials Mgmt Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Ordering material's such as consumables, hazmat and other various commodities

• Coordinates and schedules on time delivery of complex items needed to support change incorporation and

refurbishment.

• PowerPoint presentations/Excel Charts are needed frequently to provide status on all items being tracked

and ordered

• A variety of tasks involving shipping, receiving and other various tasks related to the material role within the

organization.

URS EG&G – San Antonio TX 2007 – 2010

Senior Acquisition Specialist – for USR (United Research Services) EG&G

(Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc.)

Responsibilities:

• Acquisition Specialist for purchasing supplies, equipment and parts for USR EG&G in support of national

defence contract for the United States

• Provides technical services while overseeing ongoing purchases from overseas clients to ensure quality

assurance of material are met

• Provided technical and administrative support for URS/EG&G to 85 foreign countries during contract negotiations

• Involved in acquisition procurement of line items from small companies in the United States to support an Air Force

Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) acquisition program office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio

• My interaction with the ASC program office included being responsible for the development, production and

life cycle sustainment of new aircraft, modifications, and integrated weapons systems. As the Senior

Acquisition Specialist, I supported logistic analysis, cost estimates, and technical support to the U.S.

government negotiating teams during all contracts involved

• My duties also included managing contract closeouts, processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and

assisting the U.S. government program office with preparing contract documentation, reports, briefings, and with

complying with procurement directives and procedures

• Dealing with contracts I use my abilities to build the print and I’ll day-to-day contracts.

Gore Design Company, LTD – San Antonio TX 2005 – 2007

Material Planner Supervisor – for GORE Design Company, LTD

Responsibilities:

• Assured on-site implementation of standard policies and procedures are enforces through oversight management of

directives

• Supervised purchasing, “kitting” and distribution of aircraft materials, parts and components for production and site

operations

• Established reports for delivery dates, cost for programs and receiving of parts

• Assumes responsibility for establishing and maintaining good communications, coordination, and working relations

with customers supporting parts and materials for Gore Design Co

• Keeps managers informed of area activities and of any significant concerns that might affect daily operations.

Knowledge of material acquisition and or purchasing

• Knowledge of blue print reading

• Well-organized and attentive to details

• Willingness to assist others

• Ability to work independently upon receiving verbal and or written instructions to meet deadlines and or suspense’s. I

was hired at Gore design as a senior buyer for my capabilities of being able to read blueprints and placing orders for

parts and materials required to complete the tasks of the mechanics working projects.

Bexar County Sheriff Office Benevolent Fund, Inc. 2003 – 2005

Assistant Commissary Manager – for Bexar County Sheriff Correctional Facility

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in supervising and coordinating the activities of the commissary

• Analyzed daily sales data and inventories to determine inequities and make adjustments

• Trained commissary personnel in the selection of merchandise, preparation of orders and inventories

• Developed a system of merchandise redistribution between sites to provide maximum rotation and decrease

the quantity of “out of date” merchandise

• Developed a perpetual inventory system for the commissary to include the preparation, maintenance and

reconciliation of departmental purchase orders

• Assisted with the preparation of departmental budgets

• Directed site start-up and problem solving

• Trained and assisted with the evaluation of commissary personnel

DeCrane Aircraft – San Antonio TX 2001 – 2003

Material Manager – for DeCrane Aircraft Co

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of Aircraft material purchasing, bid process, pre-bid conferencing, vendor negotiations

and contracts

• Responsible for inventory control and billing of materials

• Developed and implemented processes to minimize aircraft cost and overhead by 20% during my tenure with

the company

• Managed all aspects of warehouse operations, shipping and receiving of materials and or invoices

• Provided purchasing department with reconciliation documents for purchase orders and monthly and annual physical

inventories

• Supervised buyer, planners and stockroom personnel

• In my job as material manager I had the responsibility of all large projects to read blueprints for placing bids for future

projects, I also built a plant the largest projects for this company.

Raytheon Systems – Waco TX 1984 – 2001

Material Manager – for Raytheon Systems

Responsibilities:

• Services within the logistics management discipline, which support a product or system through its life cycle

• My duties included Acquisition Logistics, or Integrated Logistics Support associated with the design, development,

testing, production, fielding sustainment, and or/improvement of cost-effective systems including the eventual

disposal or salvage of these systems

• Provide logistics expertise in the pre-production or design phases of systems to ensure that the systems can

be supported through their life cycles and that the infrastructure elements necessary for operational support

are identified and acquired

• Managed aircraft inventory levels, monitoring schedules, determining availability of manufactured and

purchased items

• Calculated requirements for materials using “bill of material date” baseline

• Inventory master production schedule to calculate requirements to meet deliverable dates against contract

• Controls the production, supply line from planning to control of work in process, to the warehousing,

shipping and distribution of the finished goods. At Raytheon I do not build to print skills for all the over and

above contracts outside of statement of work

United States Air Force 1976 – 1980

Aircraft Mechanic – on KC-135/A Stratotanker

Responsibilities:

• Honourably discharged with assignments at Plattsburgh AFB and overseas

• Temporary Duty locations throughout my four-year tour in the military.

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