Manager Engineering

Ray French

Cell Phone: 714-***-****

E-mail: ****.******@*****.***

Accomplishments

• Experience in the Aerospace, Electronics and Machine Tool industry, Production, Purchasing,

and Inventory Control.

• Experienced in TQM and ISO 9000, Lean Manufacturing, Lead several Kaizen events

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Lotus, Chess / Glovia, MAS 90, Oracle, Macola, Made 2 Manage,

and SAP.

• APICS Certified CPIM

• Reduced lead time in production from 120 days to less than 45 Days

• In creased on time to customer from 61% to over 80%

• Reduced inventory levels using JIT methods in the value stream

• Team member in the value stream SIOP process

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sr. Buyer /Planner 07/2012 – 01/2015

Meggitt Sensing Systems, Irvine Ca

Schedule the value stream to satisfy customer demand.

Ensure that purchased and manufactured materials are available for production.

Evaluate Supplier risk and manage relationships, recommend vendors for approved vendor list

and award contracts.

Resolve problems with inventory, production schedules, vendors, engineering, and recommend

procedures to avoid future problems.

Lead several Kaizen events to reduce production lead time and increase on time delivery.

Created metrics and produced charts to track progress within the department.

Operations Manager 11/2011 – 07/2012

Digitran, Ontario, CA

Coordinate the overall level of manufacturing and related activities to satisfy the current levels of

sales.

Meeting business goals of cost, productivity while keeping customer lead times.

Ensures that purchased and manufactured materials are available for production in a timely

manner and resolve any problems with inventory, production schedules, or materials shortages

and set up procedures to avoid future problems.

Production Controller 05 /2010 – 12/2010

Safenet Torrance, CA

Create production routers, bills of materials, release of work orders based on Material availability

interface with engineering and purchasing on issues and constraints

Held weekly / daily meetings on work in process with all production managers

Establish procedures for the production control department.

Production Control Manager/ Master Scheduler 01/2007 – 05/2010

Caran Precision Fullerton, CA

Manage day to day activities of department staff that creates production routers, bills of materials,

release of work orders

Interface with engineering and purchasing on material planning and constraints

Held weekly meetings on work in process with all production managers

Held weekly meetings with the CEO on projects in the production control department

Establish procedures for the production control department including system failure work around

plans

Implementation of the scheduler in the ERP system to forecast capacity issues in department

bottlenecks.

Purchasing Planner 06/ 2005 - 01 /2007

Oconnor Engineering Costa Mesa, CA

Analyze usage of material to create purchase orders, production plans

Interface with engineering on manufacturing requirements

Responsible for scheduling Material for production of assemblies to meet the customer demands

Interface with suppliers on production plans

Create production forecast to insure deliveries of OEM product in a timely manner

Contact vendors to reduce lead-time

Responsible for the transfer, receipt, and location of materials in warehouse

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