Manuel (Manny) Medeiros 408-***-****

Manuel (Manny) Medeiros

Phone: 408-***-**** E-Mail: acw9pm@r.postjobfree.com OBJECTIVE:

To secure a position within a highly motivated organization that encourages creative employee ideas and solutions that contribute to the success of the company.

QUALIFIED BY:

Over 30 years of Operations experience that includes Supply Chain Management, Production Control, Master Scheduling/Demand Planning, Material Management, Supplier Management, Operations Management, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Technology, New Product Introduction and Brand Advocacy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

LENOVO – Santa Clara, CA

DIRECTOR, IBM ACCOUNT ENTERPRISE BUSINESS GROUP (EBG) SUPPLY CHAIN ADVOCATE – 10/14 to 09/15

• Key member of the Lenovo/IBM integration team. Responsible for ensuring that all Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) activities were well understood and solutions identified for a smooth transition of the networking business

• Responsible for fielding, managing and working all escalations from the IBM Account Team and directly from the customer

• Ensure the ISC understand the IBM Account revenue goals/requirements and provide status on progress

• Work with Sales and Demand Planning to ensure all data is understood and accounted for during the Supply Optimization Planning (SOP) review process

• Direct interface to both the Lenovo IBM Account Sales team as well a Direct interface with IBM

• Develop Business Management tools to support the IBM account and direct ISC team worldwide in support of the account

• Track IBM Revenue and report progress to revenue goals. Highlight areas of concern and drive actions to remove blocks IBM – San Jose, CA

ISC BRAND ADVOCATE FOR SYSTEM NETWORKING – 01/11 to 09/14

• Key member of the IBM/BNT integration team. Responsible for ensuring that all Supply Chain activities were well understood and solutions identified for a smooth transition

• Continued to manage the BNT Manufacturing Operations team as a standalone organization through October 2011

• Assigned the ISC Brand Advocate for System Networking Role in October of 2011

• Responsible for fielding, managing and working all escalations from the System Networking Division (SND)

• Ensure the ISC understand the SND revenue goals/requirements and provide status on progress

• Work with Sales and Demand Planning to ensure all data is understood and accounted for during the SOP review process

• Provide SND team with weekly ISC updates at the SND Operations meetings and drive the ISC to meet requirements

• Attend and represent the ISC in the SND Brand Plan of Record (POR) meetings for New Product Introductions

• Direct escalation point to all OEM Networking customers including: HP, NEC and Juniper. BLADE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY – SANTA CLARA, CA.

DIRECTOR, MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS – 04/06 to 12/10

• Recruited by Blade to help build a Supply Chain Organization for the new business

• Recruited and hired all personnel to support the many Supply Chain functions

• Created the original template used for all Demand Planning/Master Production Scheduling and used until late 2012

• Responsible for implementation of the company’s Product Lifecycle Management system (Arena)

• Drove development of a direct sales order management system

• Managed the Supply Chain New Product Introduction Program management team to ensure timely releases of new products

• Managed Quality and Manufacturing Engineering teams to drive hardware quality improvements and production efficiencies

• Responsible for setting up and maintaining all Logistics requirements for the company

• Responsible to ensure Blade was compliant with all import/export regulations

• Successfully managed the End of Life planning activity to minimize financial liability to the company and ensure all extended Service and Support requirements were covered

• Key member of the Due Diligence team during the IBM acquisition process of Blade RIVERSTONE NETWORKS – SANTA CLARA, CA.

DIRECTOR, QUALITY & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING – 06/03 to 04/06

• Develop, manage and facilitate the implementation of the overall strategy for Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Test, Quality and Document Control.

• Owner of hardware quality reporting, quality data collection and quality tool improvements.

• Hardware trend analysis from field and in process failure data that drives product and process improvements. Manuel (Manny) Medeiros 408-***-****

• Managed DOA/RMA quality process at Contract Manufacture.

• Aggressively pursue RCA of all RMA failures and provide corrective actions.

• Owner of all ISO documents related to Quality and Manufacturing Technology. DIRECTOR, CUSTOMER CONFIGURATION OPERATIONS – 08/00 to 06/03

• Established an in house operations group that included, Master Scheduling, Production Control, Shop Floor Control, Systems Integration and Test, and Inventory Control.

• Worked with the contract manufacture to develop processes that insured predictable product availability to meet the master production schedule.

• Conducted weekly meetings with the contract manufacture to insure that product mix changes due to mismatches in actual customer orders or due to forecast changes would occur in a timely manner including, PO push outs and PO cancellations to reduce the probability and exposure for excess and obsolete inventory.

• Drove the setup of supplier-managed inventories to assist in the reduction of on-hand inventories. TANDEM / COMPAQ COMPUTERS – FREMONT, CA.

MATERIALS MANAGER – 04/00 to 08/00

• Internally recruited to take over the materials responsibilities for the new “High End” product line.

• Responsible for the Production Control activities of two divisions.

• Developed the groundwork for a new RMA process for field service spares.

• Responsible for insuring that the correct priorities were developed and followed for production in two facilities as well as providing material to support the Field Service group. OPERATIONS MANAGER – 04/96 to 04/00

• Managed the New Products Operations group as well as the Repair Center group that included 18 Technicians and 6 Mechanical Assemblers.

• 27 new products successfully transferred to turnkey suppliers once the products test procedures were established and the product became stable.

• Successfully assisted in the transfer of the new products manufacturing site from California to Canada, within the established goal of 6 months. This was due to the sale of the business unit.

• Headed the operations development of Tandem’s first server product line that included a $750,000 automated conveyor line.

• Internally recruited to take over the Systems Integration and Test group for the NSK product line. This product represented

~75% of Tandem’s hardware revenue.

• Prepared annual budgets for departmental labor and equipment requirements. MASTER SCHEDULING AND PRODUCTION CONTROL MANGER – 03/94 to 04/96

• Responsible for Master Scheduling, Production Control and Order Configuration groups for the UB Networks and Atalla business units.

• Insured that procedures were developed, implemented and maintained to support all areas of responsibility.

• Created all necessary procedures required to successfully achieve ISO9000 certification.

• Performed monthly E&O analysis.

• Worked with the Sales groups and owners of the product road map along with the Engineering Change Board to plan the end of life of products to reduce exposure to obsolete material. UB NETWORKS INC. – MILPITAS, CA.

CONSIGNMENT BUYER / PLANNER – 03/93 to 02/94

SENIOR PRODUCTION CONTROL PLANNER – 04/88 to 03/93 MATERIALS SUPERVISOR – 04/82 to 04/88

TRAINING:

- JIT Manufacturing APICS

- ASK MANMAN ASK

- Mfg. Resource Planning APICS

- SAP Tandem

- Master Scheduling APICS

- SFDM Tandem

- Production Activity (shop floor & capacity control APICS

- Oracle RSTN

- Quality Advantage (continuous improvement) UB Networks

- Agile RSTN

- Supervisory Excellence Xerox

- Arena BNT

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