Commodity Manager

IKE AMUZIE

*** ********* *** ***. 510-***-****

Hayward, CA 94544 email: *******@*****.***

Commodity Manager

• Extensive experience in transferring R & D prototypes into manufacturing with emphasis on technology reviews, supplier selections, procurement, and planning

• Re-engineering of existing strategies to drive numerous cost reduction initiatives through negotiations, inventory, supplier, and commodity management

• Skilled at providing technical support to close over $100M in capital equipment sales

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Tesla Motors, Fremont, CA Production Associate September 2012 – P

• Production of power-train assemblies and subassemblies; training and mentoring

Howard Medical, Palo Alto, CA Account/Product Specialist 2010 – 2012

• Onsite management of a key account for a capital equipment supplier that included two sites and over 250 installed capital equipment tools

• Active in negotiations with other technical team members on purchase and service contracts to support this capital equipment installed base for best cost, on-time delivery, quality, and support services; total value of contract in the $15 million range

• Frequent evaluation of account’s technical and business risks using data analysis coupled with development of appropriate risk mitigation alternatives, which were communicated to all cross-functional stakeholders; these were based on tool reliability and performance issues(mean time between failures, meantime before failures, etc) as well as intelligence on new purchases and competition

• Responsibilities also included demonstration, operation, training, debugging, and technical support to customers

• Developed and maintained strategic business relationships with key onsite customer contacts; received regular excellent customer service ratings

Cooper Industries, Richmond, CA, Senior Buyer/Planner 2005– 2009

Responsible for procurement of contract services, materials and equipment

• Led sourcing initiatives that added numerous key suppliers on Approved List to support a mid sized architectural manufacturing of electro-mechanical assemblies as part of supply chain management development strategy

• Implemented a “make or buy" strategy for metal sheet fabrication, plastic sheet fabrication and glass sheet fabrication as well as machine shop operations that resulted in substantial savings through cost avoidance

• Effective management of subcontract logistics to fabrication and machine shops reduced delivery delays to 10% as part of supply chain management of existing mechanical suppliers; this included onsite supervision of Supply Managers, procurement, material transport, etc

• Achieved 15% in material cost savings using supplier negotiations; worked with other commodity council members to consolidate global volumes and leverage more favorable strategic corporate contracts valued at $50M for a variety of purchases

• Partnered with Materials group to provide supply planning to meet production demand

by reviewing, identifying and mitigating potential supply chain risks at Cooper

Ind.- late delivery, quality, cost, service, etc; this was part of on-time delivery initiative

Engineering Source, Hayward, CA, Procurement Specialist 2002 – 2005

• Completed various variety of temporary short procurement assignments

IBM Corp., San Jose, CA, Program Manager/Advisory Engineer 1999 – 2002

Process support for business units, capital equipment suppliers and new applications:

• Global Volume Planning: Collaborated with Sales and Marketing to consolidate and publish global demand for storage technology products - template for annual budget

• Global Capacity Planning: Worked with Business Units to prioritize the division’s global tool manufacturing requirements - emphasis on technology equipment products

• Global Capital Planning: Teamed with Finance, Senior Management and other supply stakeholders to recommend timely release of capital to support required tool capacity

• Active on team that re-engineered development, negotiation and execution of existing cost strategies to drive capital equipment global cost reduction initiatives including new purchases, excess spares inventory, consumables, lease buy-back and equipment maintenance services

• Led group of Sourcing Managers that developed, negotiated and executed

agreements on capital equipment procurement; locked in best pricing, on-time

delivery, quality, etc to support Technology Division’s global manufacturing operations;

savings of 10% from $100M annual budget were typical

• Contributions in achieving $1M savings - with effective inventory reduction strategy

• Equipment Council: Key role in technology reviews and supplier/tool selections

• Significant contribution in initiation and implementation of Equipment Technology Review Board to efficiently transfer new technologies, materials and processes from R&D into manufacturing as part of Technology Development Management

• Co-author on Capital Equipment Procurement White Paper

Lam Research Corp., Fremont, CA, Process/Project Engineer 1991-1998

Led an effective technical team to support sales related activities

• Configuration Specifications: Conducted technical discussions during acceptance visits, with numerous customers - to review and match customer’s requirements with appropriate configurations-Rainbow 4400, 4500 and 4600 dry etch systems from Lam

• Prepared and delivered technical presentations on over 100 complex etch equipment tools and upgrades to a cross-functional team of customers, Sales, Engineering, etc

after completion of hardware, software and chemical application qualifications,

• Led on source inspections with key semiconductor capital equipment customers including Intel, IBM, HP, AMD, etc., along with internal Sales, Marketing, Engineering/Industrial Design, Product Development, Operations, etc; authorized timely scheduling and shipment of etch systems valued at over $100M

CERTIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

• CPM Certified through Institute for Supply Management(ISM Registration No. 50102)

• Computer Skills: Word, Excel, Access, Lotus Notes/123, Freelance and PowerPoint

EDUCATION:

• MBA degree, Marketing, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA

• BS Chemical Engineering/Chemistry, Long Beach State University, Long Beach, CA

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