Customer Quality

MR. LESLIE A. HALL

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Lowell, MA 01854

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior Buyer with significant experience in negotiations and cost reductions with manufacturing organizations. Strong developer of supplier relationships. Major commodities managed include electronic components, printed circuit boards, build to print materials and packaging.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Benchmark Electronics, Hudson, NH

April 2006 – December 2011

Senior Buyer (April 2007 – present)

Managed PCB, Crystal and Oscillator commodities for the Guadalajara, Mexico facility.

Resolved all invoicing, receiving and quality issues through cooperation with the appropriate organizations. Streamlined shipments from overseas suppliers, utilizing ocean freight to reduce costs by combining shipments from several suppliers in the same regions

Reducing supplier base in order to establish preferred suppliers. This will increase business with several key suppliers giving Benchmark better pricing, delivery and service in return.

Develop weekly reports for Program Managers on customer status of orders and work with them to resolve any issues that are holding up order placement

Commodity Buyer (April 2006 – April 2007)

Managed and maintained the following commodities for Guadalajara, Mexico facility; hardware, fuses, power supplies, transformers, inductors and sensors

Utilized weekly reports to initiate purchase orders.

Reschedule existing purchase orders to maximize customer satisfaction meet production schedule changes

Courier Printing, Westford, MA

November 2002 - April 2006

K6 Operator and Press Assistant

Responsible for the set up and operation of a Kolbus book casing and jacketing machine

Troubleshot any operating issues and performed scheduled maintenance as needed

In charge of direct labor assigned to work on my shift; utilized as needed

Pulled and submitted quality samples for approval

Solectron, Westborough, Massachusetts

December 2000 – September 2001

Commodity Buyer (June 2001 – September 2001)

Responsible for the acquisition of all packaging materials, fasteners, labels and information packet kits needed for customer builds

Worked closely with the planning and vendor contacts to ensure materials needed for system conversions were at the current revision.

Coordinated the arrival of materials with vendors through an open order report to meet the demand requirements of high profile customers

Generated purchase orders with customer approved vendors

Resolved all invoicing, receiving and quality issues through cooperation with the appropriate organizations.

Key committee member for sourcing all packaging needs with one supplier.

Implemented bread-man system for fasteners with local supplier.

Commodity Buyer (March 2001 – May 2001)

Volunteered for key assignment at the Raleigh, NC facility where a short term need for a commodity buyer was required.

Responsible for the acquisition of capacitors and other electronic components to support the production of backplanes and chassis builds

Eliminated $750,000 of excess material on order in less than three months

Negotiated with suppliers to return $250,000 of excess material on hand Utilized BRIO system to identify excess material available at other Solectron sites to fill shortages at NC facility.

Program Buyer (December 2000 – March 2001)

Responsible for the acquisition of all B and C class items for Motorola production

Resolved all invoicing, receiving and quality issues through cooperation with appropriate organizations. Key contributor in weekly meetings with Motorola engineers to review material requirements to support New Product Introductions.

Set up outside processing purchase orders with Source Electronics to reprogram existing excess inventory of IC’s to meet new customer specifications

Participated in daily production meetings to identify any unforeseen shortages due to increased customer demand or inaccurate inventory counts

Teradyne Connection Systems, Nashua, New Hampshire

August 1998 – December 2000

Buyer/Planner (March 2000 – December 2000)

Coordinated the arrival of materials with vendors to meet the requirements of high profile customers.

Generated purchase orders with customer approved vendors

Resolved all invoicing, receiving and quality issues through cooperation with appropriate organizations.

Scheduled the wire-wrapping of backplanes with key supplier.

Scheduler (August 1999 – March 2000)

Released assembly kits to the production floor according to MRP schedule set by the work center planner, making adjustments due to material issues where appropriate.

Expedited the delivery of materials needed for kits.

Responsible for closure of work order variances

Shipper/Packager (August 1998 – August 1999)

Shipped all orders out of the connector facility.

Packaged backplanes according to customer specifications

Completed international shipping documents for materials destined for Teradyne’s offshore facilities. Oversaw the transition of assembly packaging from shipping to the individual work centers

Collaborated with packaging supplier with redesigning shipping containers to eliminate carton waste and reduce freight costs.

EDUCATION

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida

Studies centralized towards obtaining a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering

Middlesex Community College, Bedford, Massachusetts

AS in Basic Engineering Science

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

Strong knowledge of ORACLE, Fourth Shift and Baan planning systems

Proficient in Microsoft Office and use of the internet to source materials

References furnished upon request

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