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Spare Parts Inventory Management

Location:
Newark, DE
Posted:
August 11, 2025

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Gary L. Reese February **, ****

** ******** *** **

Newark, DE 19702

302-***-****

**********@*****.***

Summary

Working in the Maintenance, Repair and Operations space of Inventory Management for the past 44 years. Mostly with Intermat who was bought by IHS in 2005. One of the original group who started with INTERMAT in 1980.

Worked with many different industry verticals specializing in the data cleansing and data enrichment space.

Created a spare parts classification schema that organizes parts description content to be stored parametrically in EAM and ERP systems such as SAP, Maximo, JD Edwards, Oracle, MP2 and Asset Suite.

Specialties

Spare Parts and Master Equipment Cataloging

Experience

Inventory Specialist with Fastenal – October 2024 – February 2025

Performing cycle counts, receiving incoming shipments of stock, picking inventory for delivery to customers and coordinating replenishment efforts to maintain fulfillment center location at the Elkton, MD location. Also kitting items of inventory for particular customer orders such as special bolt kits, filter kits, electrical cable ties, etc.

SAP Data Specialist with Hunter International for Chemours – September 2018 – August 9, 2024

Working with the Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance Group (MIQA) in SAP creating, and editing Equipment Masters, Material Masters, Bills of Materials and Maintenance Orders. Enriching descriptions, gathering details to support accurate BOMs and tying materials to discipline specifications for Chemical Plants.

Cashier & Data Entry Specialist with Delaware Park Racetrack & Casino – October 2017 – August 2018 (10 months)

Working with the Food and Beverage Department to data enter units of measure so that units of purchase can be broken down into units of issue for utilization in new software to support the central kitchen. Working as Cashier in Food and Beverage Department to add hours to expand from a part time to a full time position.

Consultant with ECCMA.Org – April 2016 – August 2017 (16 months)

Working with international team to promote ISO 8000 and ISO 22745 which are data quality standards that the country of Saudi Arabia has chosen to adopt as a mandatory requirement for all companies importing goods into Saudi Arabia as well as those existing factories within Kingdom. UAE and South America are also close to adopting these standards as mandatory requirements.

Consultant with MRO Connections and Net Results Group - March 2015 – October 2015 (6 months)

Leading a group of 4 people to assist RockTenn (recently changed to WestRock) in a Vendor Data Project to expedite and validate Vendor Supplied details for JDE Item Masters.

Private Owner at GLR Consulting LLC - February 2015 – March 2015 (1 year)

Started my own consulting business to provide services to clients requiring project management resources for Materials Management of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) materials.

Program Director of Project Management at IHS, Inc. - November 1980 - December 2014 (34 years 2 months)

Spent 15 months developing a Project Manager Playbook to train new Project Managers in how to manage description optimization projects for IHS. Previously as a Sr. Manager of Projects and Project Consultant managed description standardization projects to manipulate spare parts data to import into EAM and ERP systems in an organized and parametrically stored layout for easy searching and avoidance of duplicates. Considered an MRO Materials subject matter expert. Responsible for development of an MRO Materials Classification schema (Taxonomy) for spare parts descriptions which provided description templates, guidelines, sample values and definitions for over 2,500 different class/subclass combinations in all disciplines for all industry verticals.

Project Manager for many client’s Data Optimization projects – key clients included BP, Nestle Purina, DuPont, Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, British Gas, Chevron Malongo, General Mills, Master Foods, Ventura Foods, Merck Pharmaceuticals and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.

Database Administrator at MEMS - Intermat Solutions 2005 - 2014 (9 years)

MEMS is the Mutual Emergency Materials Support Group of primarily Electric Utilities (includes some Gas and Water Utilities as well). Our company hosts a data base and contact list so that networking between the members allows them to share materials helping them bridge the gap between the time they have an emergency material need and their suppliers can assist.

Skills & Expertise

Data Quality Management – ISO 8000 Master Data Quality Manager Certified

ERP Project Management

SAP Product Management

Business Process Improvement

Databases

Operations Management

Strategy Project Planning

Software Project Management

Change Management

Team Leadership

Team Building

Education

Rutgers University-New Brunswick 1970 – 1973 – earning 53 credits in an Engineering and Forestry curriculum



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