Roy Prieser

**** ******** **** **** ******, Florida 32720 321-***-**** adzvmn@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Strong operations supply chain professional with 20+ years’ experience translating corporate goals & objectives into successful strategies & results. Managed multi-site projects exceeding performance goals of cost, quality, and delivery. Experienced with contract negotiations that must be compliant with DFARS regulations and legal review. Manage relationships with key suppliers at both executive and working levels. Customer facing program management with emphasis on open communications and problem solving within cross functional project teams. Supply chain management of critical suppliers for schedule, cost, quality, change control, invoice approval/payment, and ITAR compliance. Examined market trends for lead-time variations, embracing new or emerging technologies, planning for obsolescence. Strong knowledge of ERP systems & how they work. Established procurement/program milestones, track cost, position-to-schedule. Program Manager to bringing products through new product introductions to qualification testing and full-scale production. Highly organized with an analytical common-sense approach to problem solving. Excellent negotiator, collaborator, and communicator – both written and verbal. Developed strong relationships across departmental boundaries while earning the trust of customers and co-workers. Strong computer skills with MS Office Suite – Word, Excel, Presentation, etc. Lean & 6-Sigma Statical Process Control Black Belt certified.

Core Competencies:

Contract Negotiations Supply Chain Development Contract Management Demand Planning

Master Scheduling Statistical Process Control Program Management FAR/DFARS Regulations

Kaizen Events AS9100 & ISO-9001:2008 Compliance Financial Controls Capacity Planning

ERP/MRP Installation & Set Up Kaizen, & Value Streams Document Control New Product Introduction

Critical Design Review Vendor Readiness Review Sourcing Printed Circuit Boards & Mechanical Housings

WORK EXPERIENCE

Pathfinder Digital LLC, Sanford, Florida 3/2022 to 4/2023

Vice President of Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Satellite ground station manufacturer building latest on-the-move military communications systems that allows our armed forces to communicate via cell or satellite link anywhere in the world. Responsible for manufacturing, MFG Engineering, supply chain/subcontracted items & procurement activities within framework of DFARS regulations. Was customer facing program manager. Direct responsibility for profit & loss (P&L), budget adherence, master production scheduling & forecasting, systems test, quality control, ERP/MRP set up & execution, inventory control, order fulfillment, MFG engineering, document & revision control.

Airbus-OneWeb Satellites, Merritt Island, Florida 3/2017 – 2/2022

Supply Chain Contract/Operations Manager - Payload

Establish, implement & monitor a Commodity Sourcing Strategy with the Multi-Function Team (MFT). Establish sourcing strategies in the areas of Electronics technology and Satellite Payload equipment. Develop structured relationships with suppliers for strategic matters, Lead supplier evaluation and development, develop together with MFT a comprehensive Technology Road Map to bring products from engineering development to full scale production. Tender supplier selection process and prepare request of quotes, along with contract legal review/award/management. Interface with other supply chain Managers & Supply Development Managers, Heads of Procurement, Programs/New Business/Product Development, Engineering, Legal, Finance. Prepare and present weekly progress reports. Managed Contracts totaling $100M+. SAP ERP/MRP environment.

Extant Aerospace, Melbourne, FL 5/2014 – 5/2016

Director of Supply Chain Management

$110M Contract manufacturer of printed circuit board assemblies building FAA approved avionics/flight hardware for military (Boeing) and civilian aircraft. Company was also an approved part 145 FAA repair depot.

Managed up to 25 employees including supply chain managers, production planners, inventory control, and receiving & shipping. Supply chain director developing & managing all activities for the procurement department. All procurement activities were compliant to DFAR regulations and internal ISO-9001:2008 & AS9100 processes for large company procurement. Lead a cross functional team to select and manage our strategic suppliers then brought those suppliers through the new product introduction processes to full scale production. Direct responsible to set up the supply chain for the critical procured items such as: bare printed circuit boards, fabricated sheet metal and electro-mechanical assemblies, 3rd party value add integration and cable harness assemblies. Accountable for all material movements throughout the facility from receiving, stockroom & warehousing, tool crib, inventory accuracy, kitting, annual inventory, work in process completions to finished goods and shipping. Management representative for maintaining and/or upgrading our MRP/ERP software program. Established KPI’s to measure and improve above functions. Epicor ERP/MRP environment

On Time job order release (shortage free) from 67% to 94%

Inventory accuracy rating from 62% to 94% (via stock cycle count program). Annual savings of $ 235K

Decrease incoming inventory receiving to stocking cycle time from 4 days to 6 hours average which resulted in annual savings of $90K

Decreased stockroom kitting time by 50% which resulted in annual saving of $150K

Lead our team through the 1st wall-to-wall inventory the company has completed in 12 years.

COBHAM SATCOM Land Systems / TRACSTAR SYSTEMS, Orlando, FL 2005 – 2014

Director of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Scheduling & Planning

$80M Division Manufacturer mobile V-Sat satellite antennas & associated communications systems to allow 2-way Ku & Ka Band satellite broadband communications anywhere in the world. Part of a $4B UK Parent company.

Direct responsibility for all supply chain activities for the internal manufacturing team to integrate our final satellite antennas products. Direct liaison between critical antennas suppliers, satellite equipment, custom machined and sheet metal components, printed circuit boards and their associated electro-mechanical assemblies. Established schedules and milestone plans to ensure our vendors hit their final ship dates. Was the primary point of contact between our engineering department and vendors working issues related to contract negotiations, written statements of work, process documents, CAD files, bills of materials, vendor quality, specifications flow-downs, material review board, scheduling products through the NPI process and to full scale production, tooling, on-time shipments, and anything else needed to meet our customers’ requirements. Required travel both domestic and international approx. 25% of the time. Directed internal production planners to release work orders to manufacturing per established schedules. Integration co-chair charged with bringing our materials requirements planning system (Made-2-Manage) online. This integrated our sales, finance, purchasing, material control, scheduling, manufacturing, QC, shipping, and field service under one computer system. Internal project director for our ISO-9001:2008 certification & management representative to our ISO registration partner; Perry-Johnson. Led cross functional team to determine make/buy decisions. Facilities manager responsible for all aspect of our facility from negotiated leasehold agreements to purchase of capital equipment and facilities layout - moved the company once.

Chairman of a lean team that decreased manufacturing cycle times from 3 weeks to 4 days average. Estimated labor saving of $300K+ annually

Decreased inventory stock outs by 89%

Increased inventory turns from 1.5 to 6 per year.

Improved on vendor time delivery from 73% to 97%

ADS Electronics, Melbourne, FL 2004 – 2005

Contract manufacturer that assembled surface mount technology/ball grid array printed circuit board assemblies, cable harness assemblies, Back-Plane assemblies, chassis integration & testing.

VP of Manufacturing Operations

Managed up to 35 people. This was a turnaround situation. Internal project director for the ISO-9001:2008 certification & management representative to the ISO registration partner, BAS Systems.

Advent Networks, Inc., Austin, TX 1998 – 2003

Director of Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Manufacturer of Cable Internet Access Systems (company was bought-out and moved operations to CA)

This was a startup company. Managed up to 18 employees including test technicians, manufacturing engineers, and purchasing personnel. Managed all procurement activities and processes for an OEM company utilizing outside manufacturing partners (no internal manufacturing). Major procurement included 18-layer BGA printed circuit boards, machined housings, coax & cable wire assemblies. Project director in charge of co-engineering a custom cable modem with our Asian manufacturing partner. The modem was capable of download speeds of 24Mbit per second, allowing programmable MAC addresses. It passed both FCC part 15 & Japanese VCCI regulations for radiated emissions and UL certifications. We hit schedule, & production cost points. Production rates hit 30,000 units per year. Selection chairman for international contract manufacturing partners located in North America, Mexico, Taiwan, and China. Negotiated international manufacturing agreements including supply chain, contract assembly for new product introduction thru full-scale volume production, customer returns, set up depot service offices.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Concentration in Finance, Operations & Industrial Management, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS)

Certifications held toward Certified Production & Inventory Manager (CPIM): Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Shop Floor Control, Capacity Planning, Just in Time Manufacturing, and Master Scheduling.

ITT Management Training University

6-Sigma Statical Process Control (SPC), & Continuous Improvement Class I – SPC Green Belt Certification

6-Sigma Statical Process Control & Continuous Improvement Course II – SPC Black Belt Certification

6-Sigma Statical Process Control & Continuous Improvement Course III – SPC Training the Trainer

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