Carmen Quinones-Brown

Middleburg, Hts. Ohio *****

330-***-****

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Bi-Lingual, Responsive Purchasing Inventory Control Professional

Highly motivated professional team player with many years in purchasing, inventory control and problem solving. Bilingual in Spanish. I have been working in Maradyne for three Year, manufacturer of filters for heavy duty machines. Prior to that I worked at Laird for 20 years, started in production 1996 and worked my way to Buyer. Laird is a manufacturer of thermally conductive material, some customers are Dell, Siemens and HP.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft, Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, QAD (The material requirements program developed for Laird), SyteLine (MRP used at Maradyne), Cyber Query, ARAS (software used to track changes to products specification) E2 (MRP software)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Maradyne Corporation 04/2017-04/27/2020

Sr. Buyer/Scheduler

Purchasing duties that consist of placing purchase from pre-selected vendors. Expedite or de expedite material from supplier, depending on demand from customers.

Update BOM. Work with the ENG. Department to make sure BOM are updated and calling for correct raw material.

Purchase material for the Eng. Department for proto type and new projects.

Maintain die data base. Sent dies out for maintenance. This is to make sure that tools are working properly.

RTV. When receiving unqualified raw material, I am in charge of returning it to supplier and making sure we receive either replacement or qualified material.

Data entry. Release material from the system using work orders.

Cycle count and physical inventory. Performed monthly Cycle Count on most common use parts.

Cleveland Tool Machine 10/2016-11/2016

Buyer/Shipping/Receiving

Purchasing duties, physical inventory. Order pulling, Shipping and Receiving duties.

Laird Technology 5/2005–7/2016

Buyer II/Planner

Ran MRP (Materials Requirements Planning), placed POS (Purchase Orders) according to report. Ran report 3 to 4 times per week, this was to make sure turnaround time for orders to customer were done on a timely manner.

Communicated effectively with Supplier, national and international, to assure proper handling of the accounts. This was to guaranty all proper information was up to date such as proper codes for shipping and exporting raw material.

Consistently followed up and expedited purchase orders to ensure no interruption in production

Purchased Materials for special projects. Such as machines, services and Capital expenses. Most were over 80K.

Assisted in writing standard operating procedures. Such as detailing all the purchasing steps, RTV (Return to Vendor) and steps in adding suppliers to the Vendor list.

Maintained supplier information in the database. By doing so all the supplier contact information and actual information was accurate and available for other buyers.

Worked closely with receiving department to assure raw material was received properly and in a timely manner. This was done daily, to make sure correct inventory was in the system when needed and no shortage or overage were received, keeping the correct amount of inventory on hand.

Perform monthly reconciliation on open purchase orders. Ran report to make sure all purchase order that should be received were correct in the system, followed up with supplier and or requester, to verify the services or products were received.

Solve diverse supply chain issues in timely manner. Issues such as incorrect material delivered to us, needing certifications for materials and incorrect quantities.

Monitor the Inventory. Inventory of $1.4 Million per month, with turns of over 9 per year.

Identify areas where we were able to reduce costs to the company. Cost savings to the total of five thousand per month on one item, this was done by sourcing different material from one supplier. Handle RTV. (Return to Vendors), this would happen around four per year, totaling approximately $20,000.

Laird Technology 2/2003-5/2005

Inventory Control Clerk/Scheduler

Scheduled production for 80+. Schedule mixers, forming technician, and the converting department.

Performed daily Cycle Counts and assisted in the physical inventory which was held twice per year. Cycle counts were around 85% accurate.

Ran reports and problem solved for various departments within the company. This was to make sure inventory qty were correct, and to make sure we had proper amount of inventory to keep production flowing, making shipment to our customers were out and on time.

Monitored Inventory to assure that production received proper raw materials

Thermagon 11/1998-2//2003

Epoxy Area Supervisor

Supervised the epoxy department. Supervise 17+ technicians, made sure to have correct paperwork ready for daily production, maintain proper personnel files and performed other supervisory duties.

Assisted with physical inventory. Assist with the yearly inventory, data entry and correct any discrepancies.

Worked closely with the scheduler to react to scheduling changes. Make sure to have enough raw materials for any demand that was urgently needed. Expediting raw material for new orders that were urgently needed.

Ran machines when technicians were not available. Ran the mixing machines, forming lines and the press machines, these are machines used to manufacture and laminate panels for t-preg panels.

EDUCATION

High School Diploma Lincoln West High School

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