Global Procurement Operations Sustainment

Strategic Supply Chain(s) … Procurement … P&L … PMO … QA … Manufacturing … Production … Customer Success

25+ years of extensive experience of which 17 years were in high technology PCBA manufacturing. Delivering cost reduction in Sourcing, Procurement and Production efficiencies. Hands-on, managerial and operations experience, 6 years in Aerospace. Exceptional critical thinking, and internal/external resource management. Extensive knowledge in the development and reporting of research, requisition, and purchase of capital equipment, tooling/die, PCBA/components, bare/raw fab PCB, plastic, metal, castings, electronic mechanical assembly, keypads, membrane switches, custom cable, wire harnesses, specialty products, outside services, consumables/COTS, perishables, branding, packaging, and operations supplies.

Supply Chain Auditing

NPI Project Management

Production/Resource Scheduling

Project Management

Sourcing Specialist

Forecasting/Level Load Planning

Mentoring Excellence and Inclusion

Engineering and Plant Liaison

QA Corrective Action Assurance

Continuous Improvement Objective

Contract Manufacturing

Supplier Relations & Retention

Global Supply & Logistics MGMNT

Regulatory Compliance Oversight

Supply Chain Cost Reduction

Resource Planning & Allocation

Import & Export Due Diligence

Maximize Inventory Turns & FIFO

Manage multiple projects and resolve critical issues in a timely manner. Proactive team player and cultivate positive relationships involving multi-cultural groups of individuals in and outside of the organization. Developed methodologies that improve supplier’s cost, quality, and productivity to assure stakeholder and corporate satisfaction. Excellent communications, negotiations, organizational and analytical skills coupled with the ability to forge valuable strategic alliances. Extensive background in Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial, and complex PCBA product development and manufacturing.

Professional Experience

H2scan – Valencia, CA, 11/22-5/23

Material Manager (Laid off)

Manage Inventory Control, Procurement and Planning

Global Supplier Relations and auditing for QA and best business practices.

Restructure PCBA component shortage process by onboarding my top three brokers. USA, China, and the UK, covering globally without causing erroneous price increases due to bid saturation.

Eliminating all PCBA component shortages, enabling over $2,000,000.00 in late sales.

Revising specifications and DFM on controlled drawing to reduce costs and increase quality.

Forecasting and discrete demand plan implementation, capturing and level loading attrition

Scheduling shop resources to maximize capacities of personnel and equipment.

Re-designed stockroom layout by product lines reducing move time and burdened cost.

Fountain Group – Tampa, FL, 2/22–5/22

Buy/Planner – (contract)

Analyze PCBA component inventory and commit to buy statuses with all distribution and manufacturers.

Determine increases and reschedules requires to level load manufacturing floor.

Using SAP and Excel, communicating all commitments, changes, and new requirements to suppliers.

Process requisitions as per requirements.

Deploy brokers and capture all immediate and long-term shortages not supported by distribution.

Cameron Kendall – USA, Puerto Vallarta, and Guadalajara, 2020-2022

Business Manager Remote

Purchasing/Operations Sustainment

Procure, sustain, logistically manage, and perform accounting and payroll as required to build two apartment buildings, from the ground up, and remodel a mini mall back to its original mansion structure.

Project manager

Coordinated with team and perform regular audits. To ensure ZERO shortages at all times

Developed and maintained records and storage of materials and equipment.

Negotiate And manage supplier and employee contracts.

Determined if additional or fewer contractors were needed through progression.

Developed project scope and objectives for construction processes.

Administered job lists each morning and audited status each evening.

Issued requisitions for approval to MR Kendall and placed purchase orders ensuring compliance.

Scheduled and led meetings with suppliers and resolved challenges.

Analyzed specific project reports for requisitions.

Coordinated with continuous improvement team and perform regular audits.

SeeScan Inc - San Diego, California, 2005-2020

Senior Buyer, R&D Purchasing

Manager and collaborative leader interfacing, Engineering-Mechanical/Electrical/PCBA/Software and Scientific teams in R&D, pre-production, DFM, and production release procurement requirements.

Perform acquisitions of plastic injection molding machines, tooling, dies and resin.

Streamline and coordinate receipt of goods and services required for dual branded products, to ensure on-time completion of products without excess raw materials and finished goods inventory as required by partners, executives and interested parties.

NPI project manager

Seek and eliminate shortages created by new opportunity inflations for demand, adjusting all material and capacity constraints, ensuring production fluidity, ensuring optimal use of resources inside and abroad.

Lead sourcing partnerships globally as required by new product development and identify direct cross compatibility of cost-effective alternatives to reduce material cost and increase supply chain availability sustaining strong and flexible availability.

Visit suppliers and groups globally, steering executive client relationships to mutually beneficial partnerships, while auditing supply chain members for quality, cost containment-reduction and best business practices.

Reduced cost of sourcing projects regularly through market mitigation, demand management and negotiations.

Managed direct teams receiving and reviewing department supply requisitions and appropriation of contract, agreements, terms, conditions, and purchase orders.

Continued negotiations for cost reduction thru waste management, price breaks, thru-put, bonds, duty drawback, preferred payment terms and geographic opportunity.

Purchased capital equipment and tooling worldwide, many times partnering with tooling manufacture to supply goods in lieu of tooling relocation.

Mountain High, San Diego CA, 2003-2005

Material Analyst, Production Planning

Maintain inventory structures and outline production requirements ensuring optimum inventory levels to support production resources and client demand.

Audit and level load sales plans into production systems to support growth trends, and demand.

Analyze capacity constraints and schedule personnel, allocate resources and raw material requirements.

Streamline reporting and function to reduce staff and production thru put.

Wrote and implemented production procedure and vendor guidelines.

Oversite of scheduling and planning at plants in four countries.

Hewitt Tubular, San Diego CA, 2000-2003

Manufacturing Manager

Manage material requirements, production planning and procurement. Report real time analysis of manufacturing plant, including demand, schedule, WIP, MRP, capacity and cost.

Identify the need for increase or reduction in personnel, equipment, and material.

Negotiate supply contract and vendor managed inventory and auto replenishment solutions.

Ascertain usage trends, equivalents, cost effect alternatives in processes and materials.

Manage extensive team of supervisors and managers on the manufacturing floor and stockrooms.

Create and define schedules and planning. Work with staff to ensure plans and schedules are maintained.

Hartwell Commercial Products, Hayward, Placentia CA, Tecate, Mexico, 1996-2000

Plant Manager

Evaluate manage and report usage, labor, waste, turn-over, carry-over, cost requirements and capacities. Interface with internal and external Engineers, QA, Program Managers, and sales teams.

Perform acquisitions of plastic injection molding machines, tooling, dies and resin.

Report, implement and manage cost containment and manufacturing guidelines.

Negotiate all supplier contracts, pricing, and logistics.

Manage software implementation.

Write and collaborate all interdepartmental QA policies and regulatory guidelines and compliance.

Technical Proficiencies

MS Dynamics AX – Epicor – SAP - MSOffice – JD Edwards – Macola - MAS90 - Visual Manufacturing – ProFit Fab - Silicon Expert

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