JOSEPH ARRIOLA

949-***-**** (C) 707-***-**** (VM)

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SUMMARY

I am a Senior Purchasing, Materials and Operations Manager with exceptional hands on experience in direct materials procurement, indirect Procurement (MRO) and T/E. I Posses strong contractual negotiation skill and I have effectively negotiated with global suppliers while achieving saving objective beyond goals. I have proven expertise in implementing product cost reductions utilizing re-design techniques, developing new supplier channel(s), and/or utilizing Value Engineering (VA/VE) technics. I managed multiple Purchasing groups in various global sites heavily influenced by Different Cultural needs, Languages, and Work Ethics. My personal strengths include departmental turn around with emphasis on Spend Cost Analysis of underperforming components such as PCBA, Metal Stamping, Plating, 3PL-Warehousing, Consignment stock, Custom Machining & Fabrication, Chemical(s), Injection Molding, Die Casting, Resin, and Various Metals. I have successfully established various new business entities in Mainland China such as Procurement Representative Offices (two), Economic Free Trade Distribution sites, and Product Manufacturing Sites (two W.O.F.E.) that achieved company goals as mandated the Board of Directors. My key competencies and Proficiencies are:

Performance Management – Implement CPK’s, industry benchmarks and group dashboards

Strategic Business Planning – S.W.O.T Analysis in conjunction with corporate financial goals

Technical Review of Product specifications (PRD’s) – Related to Design and supply conformance.

Team Leadership – Implement cross-functional collaboration teams local, Regional & Global

Business Development – Latin America, European Union, Taiwan, Korea, India and China

Mergers and Acquisitions – Procurement and manufacturing rational analysis for acquisitions

Advance Product Development Implementation training for Procurement and supporting functions

Functional Support and direct responsibilities in Lean-Product Manufacturing(Purchasing) strategy

Synergy savings: Collaboration of new materials opportunities within business sectors to increase use and improve product cost.

Management Representative & Lead Auditor for ISO-9001 and a team auditor for TS16494 & AS-9001

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Endodontic Specialist Advocates (ESA), LLC (startup) May 2015 to present

Director of Purchasing and Outside Contract Manufacturing (Contract to hire- Interim Position)

Hired to develop and implement a supplier base local to Southern California, Nevada, Arizona and Northern Baja California Mexico. Develop Purchasing control drawing to be used with the supply base that conforms to FDA traceability, materials pedigree requirements, validate Good Manufacturing Practices are in place and conform to product requirements. Develop ERP/MPS requirements for forecasted demands 6 to 12 months and implement daily, weekly and monthly validation of forecast and adjust purchase orders as required. Create supplier OTD reporting systems, Quality first acceptance reporting system, and cost improvement and consignment inventory plans.

TE-Connectivity (Formerly Tyco Electronic- TE) a Global Electronics Conglomerate. 2011 - 2015

Director Advance Procurement &Sr. Mgr. Strategic Sourcing – New Product Development Methods project manager for TE Corporation Procurement Business Unit. I am also the SR. MGR. for Strategic Sourcing for unique and sole source special items used at TE Advance Development Engineering from 2012-Present. I report directly to Vice President of Corporate Procurement.

Key Author from Procurement Elements of TE’s New Product Development Process for use at all 16

business units to achieve faster completion of new product development for cost effective goals, supplier selection, and meeting or exceeding customer needs.

I successfully revamped our “Train the Trainer for NPD” and personally implemented the course with

our AUTOMATIVE & INDUSTIRAL (aviation) Business Sectors.

Corporate Policy Documentation for all B.U. purchasing department to assure only one system is being utilized by TE Global purchasing groups.

New Technologies “Sourcing” for Theoretical Products that are 5 to 10 years away from implementation while utilizing the NPD process. Black box technologies or confidential sourcing.

Interim Procurement Manager at ICT- Group, fall 2014 until fulltime manager was hired.

DEUTSCH CORPORATION, Engineering and Technology Group (Acquired by TE-Connectivity March 2012)

CORPORATE SENIOR GLOBAL COMMODITY MANAGER

Deutsch Connector manufacture specialty connectors used in Automotive, Industrial, Commercial, and Aerospace/Aviation sectors. I Managed $250 million annual spend for DEUTSCH Corporate in Metals, Plating, Stamping, Screw Machining, and Resin. Successfully managed multiple contracts and agreements with key global suppliers and reached 3% to 6% multi-year savings. Effectively kept specialty machining center operating when sole source supplier went into bankruptcy protection in Switzerland by utilizing legal and finance groups in Europe to minimize our outage risk.

Developed and implemented annual 5% saving programs for Plating, Custom Machining, Injection Molding and Precision Stamping, indirect supporting purchases (MRO), and Travel & Entertainment.

Extensive Commodity Contract Negotiated Resin, Metals, Contract Services and avoided price increases by consolidation of small volume commodities to existing contracted suppliers.

Aligned supplier base and reduced low volume suppliers to be able to improve overall cost of product.

Effectively created cost modeling for new customer tenders as requested by Marketing & Sales groups

AVERY BERKEL (An ITW Company) Troy, OH, Birmingham, UK, and Nanjing, China. 2007 – 2010

Purchasing Director for AVERYBERKEL. UK.

Chinese Offshore Business Unit Manager, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China,

AB is major retail and back room food processing equipment manufacturer controlling 70% of UK, France, Middle East, and African markets in retail applications, portion control processing and self-service applications. I established the Chinese business operations unit in conformance to the approved plan developed by AB executive Management group. I Obtained Chinese Government License, leased site, recruited and trained staff, and managed initial $30-M USD annual spend to $200-M spend annual when I depart for all direct commodities to produce final products to be sold by AB worldwide sales network.

I effectively lead the cost-reduction for transferred legacy products through redesign, right-sourcing and assembly & Test up to 60% before taxes and shipment cost (as validated by cost accounting).

I Achieved new product release ahead of schedule by almost 3 months by utilizing reward & perish programs and owning design responsibilities once product was transferred to China.

I managed and directed the QA team S.W.O.T analysis to find solutions for our customer issues and created benchmarking, and dashboard measurements.

I lead the developed programs to exceeded FDA- Good Manufacturing Practices, Safety agencies requirements for UL, CSA, TUV, CE, and U.S. Department of Commerce & European Union O.I.M.L / Weights & Measure requirements for financial implications to the final end customers.

AVERY WEIGH-TRONIX, LLC Santa Rosa, CA. USA (An ITW company) (2000 – 2007)

Corporate Director of Procurement and Quality Assurance (manager of purchasing & QA 1996 to 2000)

AWT at the time was the second largest (by sale & output volume) Manufacturer of Industrial weighing equipment in the U.S.A, Canada, and U.K. for Rail, Truck, In-line Weight Processing, and Batch/Portion Control Equipment.

I was transferred by the request of the Chief Operations officer to address critical issues. I began by developing and successfully implemented a Lean Manufacturing Team and a new Quality Improvement team to take full ownership of our customer issues. I effectively conducted product rationalization plans for legacy products to be made overseas. Managed Purchasing, Service Repairs and Quality departments, and had direct site responsibilities for the USA, UK, and China. Managed all Project coordination for all outsourced product whether (OEM, ODM) or legacy designed transferred by Large Multi-National Transportation Customers.

Maintained direct responsibility for two mergers, and effectively conducted procurement and production rationalization on similar products based on cost and/or component availability.

Implemented Lean processes for in-house Service Repair, Shipping, Receiving, Warehousing, Purchasing, Quality assurance, and Final Assembly, test and Custom configurations group for High Profit Models an Options Sales.

Wrote first draft of company-wide procedural program for ISO-9001/QS9001/TS16494 requirements by auditing each department and creating work flow charts. Primary author on final company Global-wide procedures to assure consistency in processes to documentation.

Achieved Multi-million dollar cost savings by finding alternative components and/or redesigning costly sole source assemblies.

EDUCATION:

MBA – Business “Golden Gate University,” San Francisco, CA. degree achieved 2004

B.S. Management – “Saint Mary’s College of California,” Moraga. CA. degree achieved 1996

B.S. Industrial Technology Engineering (2 courses short of degree) Incomplete 1986 .

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. .

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

ISO-9000 Certified Lead Auditor: British Standards Institute

Procurement Expenditure Rationalization Training: New York Management Consultant Group

Merger and Acquisition Rationalization Training: Bain and Company – London

“SBU” Strategic Business Unit Management Training: Boston Consulting Group

Supervisory Skills Training, Ethic & Values Training: ITW HR Training

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