Leonel Garza

719-***-**** adns6h@r.postjobfree.com

Flint, Texas https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonelgarza1/

Leader in Operations and Procurement

Detailed business oriented Leader with comprehensive experience in supply chain and logistics, operations, project management and customer support. Demonstrated track record in 20% process improvement and year over year savings. Strengths include team building and culture awareness, business analysis, negotiations, problem resolution, process improvement, and support the team and organization meet set objectives and goals. Bilingual.

Key Strengths

Supply Chain and Distribution Management Program/Project Management Supplier Development - (KPI)

Safety & Risk Management Contract Negotiations Strategic Source Planning Lean Six Sigma Communication and Innovation Budget Management Diverse Team Building

Experience

Ingersoll Rand / Trane Technologies 2012 – 2020

Senior Procurement Operations and Indirect

Focused on procurement operations as well as optimizing our processes and systems for direct material and indirect material spend (~$2B) for Residential & HVAC Supply. Ensuring a safe, positive, and diverse culture aware work environment.

Improved our product posture and productivity outputs and led root cause analysis.

Supported plant operations at multiple sites. Provide daily management of the team.

Provide strategic planning, procurement operations, analytics and reporting support for global procurement, cross-functional teams, and leadership. Other focus includes acceleration of our application of standard work and alignment to the Business Operating System within the division organization.

Led and supported new initiatives for SBU procurement with Amazon Business and other platforms.

Supported four manufacturing and two distribution centers in six different states.

Co-Led the Veterans Employee Resource Group (VERG) for Tyler Plant estimate 2,000+ Employees.

Senior Procurement Program Manager (SPPM)

Lead PPM team for the SBU facing Procurement organization within a region. Ensuring a safe and diverse culture aware work environment.

Accountable for successful completion of Procurement projects within responsible plants.

Accountable for SBU Procurement goals and metrics within region including addressing any gaps in achieving goals. Ensured alignment of commodity strategies with sector and plant strategies and requirements.

Worked cross functionally to align PPM resources to support execution of projects to maximize impact to plants. Accountable for aligning PPM and functional resources to maximizing Procurement benefits for SBU.

Accountable for accurate forecasting and reporting of Procurement financial metrics, including productivity and inflation, across sector within region.

Supported and managed new product development programs. Procurement's portion of Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Budget for sector/region.

Accountable for collaborating with Finance to complete standard setting process for sector/region.

Collaborated with commodity teams to ensure plant and sector regional leadership understanding Knowledge, Skills and Abilities.

Procurement Program Manager

Interfaced between the Global Procurement Commodity Teams and the manufacturing facilities. Ensuring a safe, positive, and diverse culture aware work environment.

Drove the implementation of improvement projects, including material productivity, supplier rationalization, and supplier performance projects, in the manufacturing facilities.

Identified metric gaps and collaboratively develop and support countermeasures and activities to close.

Participated in and secure commodity team representation for plant or product Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) or Major Model Review (MMR), New Product and Design events to include budget goal adherence.

Supported the development of the Annual Operating Plan (Budget) for productivity projects, targets and initiatives.

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XOTECH LLC Tyrone, GA 2010 – 2011

Project Manager

Managed inventory and material management teams providing direct supply systems support and supply chain analysis for the United States Army. Project reestablished $105M into the customer's inventory and $83M in cost avoidance.

Produced bi-weekly and monthly statistics reports to executive management and the United States Army.

Detailed reports consisted of project goals quantitative accomplishments, and financial impacts.

Managed 24 personnel located at over 10 sites within the United States. We maintained 100% on time delivery. Developed enhanced preliminary SAP migration data analysis tools. Customer and Staff business strategy consulting.

DRS Technologies Milwaukee, WI 2007 – 2009

Department of Defense manufactured/designed product based ISO Certified Company

Supply Chain Manager

Managed complex supply chain operations; MRP/ERP planning, procurement and warehouse departments to support manufacturing plant and division goals. Ensuring a safe, positive, and diverse culture aware work environment.

Directly led procurement negotiation and purchasing functions ensuring compliance.

Continually delivering cost savings on major project. Increased on time delivery and quality rating over 10%.

Directly involved with supplier value and quality management, and rating system.

Procured all commodities, electronics, circuits boards, electro-magnetic, metal fabrication.

Provided Executive Management with material deliveries and KPI reports, cost savings and risk updates.

Managed 3 departments at multiple sites with 26 personnel and directly supervise 11 employees.

Additional Relevant Experience

Converteam Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 2007-2007

Department of Defense manufactured/designed product based ISO Certified Company.

Manufacturing Engineer

Coordinated, planned, scheduled and implemented all project tasks for the manufacturing group.

Conducted multiple Kaizen events with value stream map improvement of over 1000 man hours for a $187M project.

Produced monthly KPI reports including; manufacture lead time, on-time delivery, days of supply, rework cost and labor efficiency information for Senior Management.

Produced project cost and budget estimates.SAP transition planning and coordination for supply chain.

United States Army, Pittsburgh, PA 1982-2007

Senior Logistics

Senior Logistician for an organization exceeding 16K personnel, covering a five state region and 130 Facilities with 160+ units/entities.

Oversaw property accountability of nearly $2B in equipment assets.

Planned, analyzed, coordinated, and executed supply discipline measures.

Reviewed and executed force modernization fielding plans of new and replacement equipment.

Quality management and established distribution plans for new equipment.

Key Strengths

Microsoft Office Suite Advanced; Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Pivot Tables Windows

Varies STAMIS/MRP Systems Oracle SAP CINCOM Windchill Visio Bilingual: Spanish

Education

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Columbia Southern University

Master of Public Administration in Public Administration, University of Texas Pan American

Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling, Liberty University

Certificate – Army Logistics Management College

Certificate – Lean Six Sigma, Defense Acquisition University

Certifications and Affiliations

American Society for Public Administration - UTRGV

Prepare and Enrich Facilitator - Prepare/Enrich, LLC

Veterans Employee Resource Group – Ingersoll Rand

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