Cost Engineer, Negotiations, Inside Sales Professional

LeeAnne Bauer

***** ******* ***** *** #*** Huntington Beach, CA 92649

Mobile: 315-***-**** Email: *******.*****@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Technically-oriented, results-driven professional, skilled in growing

profits while maintaining solid cross-functional and customer relationships

through superior communication, technical product understanding, and

management. Successful in developing and executing cost and negotiation

methods, resulting in profitability growth in competitive and sole source

domestic and international markets recognizing and integrating the needs of

both internal and external customers while implementing company

capabilities, strengths, and business objectives. Consistent demonstration

of technical understanding, establishing and maintaining internal and

external customer relationships, profitability maximization, win-win

negotiation practices ensuring growth in company profits and customer

satisfaction. Proactive, finance and engineering professional with

extensive experience in all stages of manufacturing, bid and proposal, and

contract negotiations.

( Strategic Negotiations ( Gov't Bid and

Proposal Process

( Proposal Management ( DCAA/DCMA Auditing

Process

( Federal Acquisition Regulations ( Bilingual -

Moderate Spanish

( Competitive Market Analysis ( Lean/ISO

Manufacturing Experience ( Cost Maximization Techniques

( Commercial and Military Aircraft

( Automotive and Automotive Test ( Forecasting &

Trend Analysis

( Competitive & Market Analytics ( Low & High

Volume Mfg Experience

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Moog Inc, East Aurora, NY/Los Angeles, CA

2008 to Present

Worldwide leader in the manufacturer of ultra-precise, mission critical and

customizable, fluid and motion controls for space and defense, industrial,

aircraft, and medical industries

Sr Cost Engineer, Aircraft Division, Torrance, CA

2010 - Present

Responsible for proposal management, contract negotiations, complete bid

and proposal process follow through for military and commercial programs,

with contract awards in excess of $50M

. Effectively manage entire bid and proposal process, including data

collection, trend analysis, cost/price advisement, customer

interfacing, negotiations, and contract award.

. Communicate across multi-functional groups throughout proposal

process including supply chain, executive managers, program

managers, customer reps, auditing agencies, contracts

administrators, and operations techs. Received above average

rating in effective communication, resulting in establishing

concrete and dependable internal and external customer relations to

help improve proposal and award processes.

. Continually establishing cost maximizing pricing methods and

strategies, and effectively negotiated these strategies with

internal and external customers, resulting in maximum profitability

under increasing scrutiny from cost and data auditing agencies.

. Advise upper management on realized cost data, projected cost

improvement initiatives, and profitability strategies to maximize

program success, whereby customer-accepted negotiated profit levels

increased from 12% to 17.5%.

. Conduct negotiations on multi-million dollar contracts, utilizing

pricing strategies and projected cost methods, whereby contract

award has realized a profitability growth from 17.5% to 48%.

. Establish working and meaningful relationships with government

auditing customers, expediting the auditing process from several

months-long process, to several weeks-long process, an 83%

improvement in time efficiencies.

Manufacturing/Process engineer, Space & Ind Controls Divisions,

Chatsworth, CA & East Aurora, NY 2008-2010

Responsible for prototype development, production process development

and maintenance, leading operations coordination with management for both

prototype and production programs within Moog's Development Auto-Test

Industrial Controls Division, and its Space Division.

. Product line responsibility in flight simulation, turbine power

generation, automotive testing, hydraulic manifold markets, solar

array drives, gimbals, electronic actuators for both commercial and

government aerospace contracts.

. Piloted new product development lines and new product launch

programs for automotive testing actuation with regards to

development of assembly process documentation and implementation,

parts tracking and location, testing and qualification parameters

and documents, customer manuals.

. Effectively communicated with management and manufacturing

technicians to help ensure team targets and deadlines are met

through continuous improvement actions and change implementation,

provided actionable value propositions for targeted manufacturing

obstacles to ensure schedule milestones were met.

. Completed monthly strategic manufacturing reports to upper

management regarding prototype testing results and project

progress, design review presentations to assess project planning

and development, ensured appropriate resources were being deployed

and invested throughout the design cycle.

. Initiated applications engineering work and customer support for

turbine power generation markets, involving customer calls,

troubleshooting tactics and feedback.

. Cross-functional communication and planning with repair and

management group for turbine power generation industries, flight

simulation industries.

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employment experience (cont)

General Motors, Buffalo, NY

2007 to 2008

American multinational automotive corporation, classified as one of the

world's largest automakers, manufacturing various high volume powertrain

engines, with application in some of America's most popular sedans.

Process/Test Engineer, Powertrain Division, Buffalo, NY

2007-2008

Responsible for manufacturing process improvement, maintenance, engine

testing, and machine data analysis on Tonawanda Powertrain's highest

volume engine production line, L850 (Ecotec 2.0L).

. Made significant organizational contributions with engineering

documentation - increase in frequency and thoroughness/accuracy of

process documentation. Facilitated meetings between hourly and

engineering functional group to ensure accuracy of process flow,

resulting in first-time tech training improvement by 100%.

. Significant training and implementation in cold test assembly area -

daily understanding of part salvage and problem documentation to

investigate quality problems, facilitated daily meetings between quality,

manufacturing/salaried, and hourly groups to initiate problem solving and

pinpoint quality defects, resulting in a cold-test first pass through

acceptance rate improvement from 74% to 92%.

. Exposure to process engineering and quality control with real-world

engine issues

Supervisor / Assembly line Manager, Powertrain Divison, Buffalo, NY

2007-2008

Responsible for sole direct management and supervision of entire assembly

line operation, GM's HVV6 3.9L Engine line, a production line of

approximately 900 units / 8 hr shift.

. Managed 40+ employees including duties ranging from payroll, training,

and general leadership roles/responsibilities, established reputable

relationships with team leaders to enable key team targets were met and

implemented on all levels.

. Selected by management to serve as lead supervisor to implement

new methods to calculate and track first time quality (FTQ) on

plant-wide basis in Nov 2007 - contribution to FTQ increase from

69.5% to 82.2% within 2 months - targeted largest area of

autostation defects and implemented three meeting/shift policy to

stress importance of rejects and discuss daily findings to initiate

immediate response solutions to chronic machine problems.

. Initiated and trained team leaders to communicate machine

problems across functional groups to include maintenance,

engineering, quality, and upper management levels. Implemented

documentation process to track key business metrics specific to the

area and individual teams in order to initiate team leader

interaction and problem solving methods amongst each other, as well

as providing a visual aid to track successes and struggles in first

time quality objectives.

College Intern, Powertrain Division, Buffalo, NY

2005-2007

Process engineering and Assembly Line Supervision

. Co-wrote and designed new templates for lean manufacturing

instructions

. Appointed temporary assembly-line supervisor

. Collected machine data and formatted / organized to communicate and

discover chronic machine failure problems

. Supported quality initiatives and performed internal manufacturing

process audits to ensure machine accuracy

. Communicated manufacturing and assembly line problems to upper

management

Cochrane Motorsports, Buffalo, NY

Summer 2006

Apprentice to crew chief/head mechanic, participation in weekly

worksessions

. Gained skills for general maintenance on racing engine including

performance ball-bearing rocker arm tuning, weight distribution

calculations, brakes/rotor installation

Formula SAE, Potsdam, NY

2004 to 2007

Team Lead - Business and Finance

. Participation in international competition, involving building and

mechanics of mini-indy racecar

Costa Rican Student Exchange Program, San Jose, Costa Rica

2000 to 2001

High School Student Exchange

. Developed nearly bi-lingual speaking skills, exposure to different

cultural and economic factors while staying with host family for a period

of several weeks

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, 2007 (Major : Mechanical Engineering, Minor :

Mathematics) - Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY

Bachelor of Science, 2003 (Major : General Studies, prerequisites for

above) - Daemen College, Amherst, NY

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