Technical Support Customer Service

Arthur J. Padilla

**** **** ****** ****** • Mesa, Arizona 85207 • 562-***-**** • **********@*******.***

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Over 25 Years Experience with Vendor Management, Overseas Sourcing and Production Planning.

Understanding and Training of Various ERP / MRP Systems.

Always Striving for the Best Quality Products at the Lowest Price.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dignity Health, Phoenix, Arizona 10/2016 – 2/2017

Buyer

Buyer for Surgical items for Ten Hospitals within the Dignity Health Network.

Pursuant of Backorder Log and maintained contact with Doctors and Nurse Staff.

Quantum Technologies, Lake Forest, California 8/2015 – 3/2016

Senior Production Planner

Daily manufacturing planning for CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) fuel systems.

Inventory control.

Maintained and tracked all Work Orders and Cycle Counts.

Issue Shortage Reports to Management.

Johnson & Johnson, ASP, Mira Loma, California 6/2014 – 8/2015

Procurement – Senior Buyer

Material Purchasing for Medical Equipment Division.

Vendor Management.

Maintained and tracked purchase requisitions and purchase orders.

Supplier Quality audits.

Simplex Manufacturing, Portland, OR 12/2011 – 7/ 2013

Procurement Manager

Material Purchasing for Fire Attack Systems and Aerospace Agricultural equipment.

Supplier Quality audits.

Maintained and tracked purchase requisitions and purchase orders.

Source Vendors and Machine Shops for Outside Processing.

Provided technical support of mechanical drawings and assembly with Engineering Support.

Source material for manufacturing development.

CP Medical, Portland, OR 1/2011 – 11/2011

Production Planner

Implemented and tested new ERP systems (Sage X3).

Implementation of Just In Time (Kanban) System.

Daily manufacturing planning of new production materials.

Correction planning for raw materials and subassemblies.

Updated purchase orders.

IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook, ME 7/2007 – 8/2010

Buyer / Planner II

Purchased material for several various water microbiology tests.

Prepared and executed schedules based on the Master Production Plan.

Production planning for raw materials and OEM products.

Negotiated price and delivery of all purchased components.

Forecasted inventory investments through analysis of consumption and planned purchases.

Managed non-conforming material reports.

Managed corrective action programs with suppliers.

Whatman International, Sanford, ME 7/2004 – 7/2007

Senior Buyer/Planner

Purchased materials for several various fluid separation devices, DNA, Blood Pathogen Kits and accessories.

Forecasted utilizing MRP through MFG PRO.

Expedited sales orders through purchase order releases.

Expedited subcontracted work orders and purchase orders by various outside sources.

Supplier audits and integrity testing for on-time deliveries.

Lean manufacturing implementation.

Issued Cycle Counts.

Corlund Electronics Corporation, Camarillo, CA 1/2000 – 11/2002

Senior Material Buyer & Planner

Materials planner for Advanced Assembly Technologies and Contract Manufacturing.

Customer Service of sales orders and purchase orders.

Released shop work orders for numerous Aerospace programs.

Head of Min/Max System implementation.

Head of Just In Time (JIT) implementation.

Provided technical support of mechanical drawings and assembly.

Applied Magnetics Corporation, Goleta, CA 4/1989 – 1/2000

Senior Production Planner

Forecasted, planned and coordinated all engineering and prototype builds of hard disk drive tape heads.

Produced and manufactured MRP.

Supported sales, manufacturing and engineering teams.

Inventory control.

Issued cycle counts.

Implemented JIT (Just In Time) Kanban System.

SYSTEM EXPERIENCE

SAP (Version R3)

Sage ERP X-3

Oracle Enterprise

Larson

GHX

EDUCATION

Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA 1986 – 1987 Associate’s Degree in Art Studio

University of California Extension - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 1997 – 1998

Certificate in Microsoft Office 97

ACCREDITATIONS

Certificate in Microsoft Excel

Certificate in Microsoft Word

Certificate in Microsoft Office 97

APICS Basics of Supply Chain Management

REFERENCES

References available upon request

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