Engineer Plant

DeBora I. McCrary

***** ***** ***** ****, ******, MI 48044

******.*******@*****.*** 586-***-****

United States Naval Veteran and accomplished multi-faced buyer with over 15 years professional expertise serving Indirect MRO Purchasing and Production of the Automotive, Defense, Aerospace, Energy and Industrial Industries.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Coe Press Equipment Sterling Heights, MI 8/2019 - Present

Purchasing Manager

Managed all Production Purchasing the Manufacturing BOM items from start to finish. Manager of 3 staff personnel. Worked closely with the Production Team with problem solving and rework of blue prints.

Tower Defense & Aerospace, LLC Detroit, MI 3/2013 – 8/2014

MRO Indirect Tool Crib Manager

Managing and analyzing all MRO related tool crib items with correct physical counts and in charge of the related escalations to investigate problem solve issues and address discrepancies. I managed the day to day issue outs and receipts of all MRO related items to the workers. I helped maintain supplier shipping and lead time accountability.

Reduced dead stock inventory by 20% through program initiation, proactive management, effective internal, external communication and persuasive follow-up.

Lean Six Sigma, created and implemented more efficient process of kitted parts for satellite locations in the plant to avoid production down for multi daily visits to the tool crib for workers.

Gained inside plant experience, education on visual parts, location and usage.

Assisted in the plant closure with consistent inventory reduction to avoid extra expenditures.

Tower Defense & Aerospace, LLC Detroit, MI 4/2011 – 3/2013

MRO Indirect Purchasing Agent

I held full accountability maintaining Sarbanes Oxley audit compliance of planning and controlling the indirect purchasing activities for four plant locations. Assessed supply/inventory options in order to determine best sourcing solutions. Interact extensively with internal customers, ensuring overall service and satisfaction. I was the champion of the Federal Acquisitions Regulations.

Contracted with new vendors to increase profit margin with a 3% annual rebate on overall spend.

Reduced inventory costs by 28% of over 1 million dollar spend.

Achieved consistent 99.98% order fill rate which was acknowledged company wide.

Negotiated a strategic capital expenditure project resulting in a savings of $56,348 with expedited lead times to meet the customer’s requirements.

Team leader for global cost reductions ideas resulting in overall $4,228,006 reduction of spend.

Graduate and use of (CNS) Comprehensive Negotiations Strategies by Harrison-Chevalier.

W Industries Detroit, MI 7/2009 – 4/2011

MRO Indirect Purchasing Agent

Responsibilities included the procurement of all indirect MRO commodities, including facilities for six plant locations.

Slashed monthly inventory by $10,000 while avoiding internal customer shortages and backorders.

Usage of strategic sourcing initiatives to negotiate and cost save with troubled company financials with cost savings and revenue of 32% .

Negotiated extensive settlement offers with vendors for saving and maintaining good supplier relationships resulting in most cases 70% of the debt.

Assisted in the company purchase from Tower International.

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Burtek, Trialon Chesterfield, MI 7/2008 – 1/2009

MRO Indirect Purchasing Agent

Responsibilities included the research, negotiating and procurement of all indirect MRO commodities, including facilities for 3 plant locations. Procurement of raw material for production as needed.

Strategic negotiations for cost savings of $10-30,000 monthly.

Initiated sourcing packages for leverage buying commodity strategies.

Assisted in Employee tool purchases that resulted in a payroll deduction.

Assisted in the roll out of the plant tooling vending machine program.

Member of the Safety Committee as was CPR, AED and First Aid qualified.

Chrysler LLC, G-Tech-Accenture Auburn Hills, MI 6/2007 – 11/2007

Production Buyer- Consultant

Responsibilities included the consulting of the Power-train Department, Transmissions and Drivelines.

Assisted in meetings and contributed ideas of new ways to implement cost efficient strategies.

Developed and assisted suppliers in developing initiatives.

Helped over achieve the expected internal and external goals and expectations.

Implemented outsourcing parts overseas, for low cost purchasing strategies.

General Motors Company, Aerotek Pontiac, MI 11/2005 – 8/2006

MRO Indirect Buyer

Procurement of indirect industrial supplies all over $10,000.

Commodities included: Casters, Tape, Marking Devices, Fasteners, Hardware, Lab Supplies Mats and Paint Ship Consumables for all General Motors plant locations.

Developed initiatives and strategies to minimize the current supply base with maintaining the same quality and service with effective cost savings.

MSX International Auburn Hills, MI 5/2004 – 8/2005

MRO Plant/Program Buyer

Responsible for managing procurement of a customer established (BOM) Bill of Material. Also the MRO buyer for 3 plant locations for all commodities including service or repair.

Met the demands of MRO plant day to day operations for internal programs and maintenance.

I worked directly with the customer, engineer and program buyer for cost efficiency, quality and timing follow up.

General Motors Company- Military Truck Division, Aerotek Warren, MI 9/2003 – 5/2004

Special Vehicles Buyer

Buyer for 5 Program Lead Engineers with procurement of engineer driven (BOM) Bill of material.

Established and negotiated contracts for second stage manufactures during engineering, design and production phases

Monitored program costs, timing and quality with dialing meeting demands and timeline reports.

Worked closely with the Engineers reviewing blue print data for quote.

Arranged major tier two supplier quote meetings with sometimes 10 different suppliers in attendance for the presentation kick off and engineering explanation and questions.

Evaluation and contracted agreement to winning supplier for program.

Order, follow up and evaluation of programs Bill of Material with meetings and discussion with supplier and or Engineer.

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Direct Sourcing Solutions Inc. (DSSI) Southfield, MI 10/1997 – 5/2003

MRO Industrial Buyer

Provides outsourced procurement services focused on indirect materials and services.

Buyer for Welding and Fluid Power Commodities for several major customers outsourced to DSSI.

Buyer for Welding and Fluid Power for all major company, Johnson Controls, Metaldyne

Launch of the General Motors Company outsourcing program for all commodities.

Commodities for several major customers outsourced to DSSI

Represented Ford Purchasing to the Ford plant locations with professional, precise and order processing.

Handled the major MRO commodities including: Fasteners, Fluid Power, Packaging, Material Handling, Plastics, Rubber, Injection Molding, Welding, Gases, Hardware, Hand Tools, OEM Spare Parts, Power Transmission, Paint Supplies, Office Supplies, Safety Supplies, E-Coating, Electrical/Electronic Supplies and Engineering drawing built to specification.

EDUCATION

Oakland Community College 4/1995

University of Phoenix, working towards my BA 1/1998

Certificate in Business Information Systems

Legal Assistant/Secretarial Type 50+ WPM

COMPUTER SKILLS

Windows XP

Excel

AS400-TCPIP

Microsoft Office

Google Chrome

Tool Kit for Ford Motor Company

Blue Prints

QAD/MLS/EAM Systems

JD Edwards System – Rumba

GM Olimpic, SMIMS, OLAS, IMPAC

Tool Kit, PROFS for Ford Motor Company

MILITARY BACKGROUND

United States Navy, 8 years

NTCC (Naval Radio Man Training School) San Diego, CA 11/1990 – 6/1991

Remote Information Exchange Terminal School San Diego, CA

Naval Military Boot Camp Training Academy Orlando, FL

Radio Man Telecommunications

NAS Selfridge, TSC 273, Naval Reserve Duty, Mt. Clemens, MI 11/1994 – 11/ 1998

Training and keeping the communications throughout the command during peace time.

USS Cape Cod AD-43, Naval Active Duty, San Diego, CA 7/1993 – 10/1994

Naval Destroyer Tender telecommunications

Supply management of hazardous material

Fire and Emergency response team

NAVCOMTELSTA JAPAN, Naval Active Duty Yokosuka, Japan 7/1991 – 7/1993

Radio Man Telecommunications, Naval Communications site

Extensive experience in military communications

Special Category Top Secret Security Clearance

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