Quality Control Customer
Resume:
GARY A. CARTER
Tewksbury, MA 01876
*************@*******.***
SUMMARY
Purchasing (Buyer / Planner), SBLO (Small Business Liaison Officer) Repair Planning, Repair Materials Planning, Production Planning, Program Planning (Master Scheduling), Inventory Planning activities.
Demonstrated strengths include:
Problem Solving
Planning and Execution of assigned tasks
Negotiation (Suppliers & Customers)
Creating repair quotes for customer assets Knowledge of MRP (Materials Requirements Planning)
Forecasting inventory levels and future requirements based on heuristics
EXPERIENCE
COBHAM DEFENSE ELECTRONICS, Atlantic Microwave Division Lowell, MA (Formerly Bolton, MA) 2002-2012
Buyer, SBLO (Small Business Liaison Officer), Materials Planner in the Overhaul & Repair Center
SBLO Activities Include:
Identify qualified sources of supply to meet the government quotas identified in FAR 52.219-9 for Small Business Subcontracting Plans.
Create Small Business Plans for prime Government contracts & other large business subcontract RFQs
Create and reconcile the ISRs (SF294s) & SSRs (SF295) entering the reporting into the government eSRS website for both prime contracts and subcontracts on a semi-annual basis, reporting on the division’s actual against goals committed to on the small business plans.
Buyer Activities Include:
Identify sources, for required repair material, for both current manufacture and obsolete assemblies.
Quote and negotiate best price and delivery for material and services from suppliers based on current and future requirements.
Identify outside sources for service to support the rework and repair of received customer assets.
Materials Planner in Overhaul & Repair Include:
Gather all required data (material costs, material lead-times & labor hours) and prepare the price quote to repair customer assets returned for repair.
Review Engineering documentation to identify required piece parts and subassemblies and identify possible sources.
Prioritize, track and report on all customer assets returned for overhaul and repair.
Analyze requirements for repair, identified by the repair technicians, for cost and availability.
Create and maintain repair Bills of Materials in Visibility, as required.
Interface with customers and negotiate repair & overhaul pricing and delivery, as required.
Act as the liaison with customers identify and obtain required documentation needed to perform “third party repairs” and to provide them the current status of their assets received for repair.
Review contract requirements and prepare documentation to ship assets back to the appropriate customers. Requires interfacing with Sales, Quality Control and various other disciplines within Cobham (Atlantic Microwave).
Enter information for repairable assets into the CAV (Commercial Asset Visibility) system for government tracking.
Review FBO (FedBizOps) government website for repair business opportunities. Using HIS (Haystack )& Logiquest to research vital information about the asset in the posting.
AMETEK AEROSPACE, Wilmington, MA 1999-2001
Planner/Buyer, Purchasing Material Scheduler
Analyzed system generated purchase requisitions, using online MRP screens and historical reporting to identify the optimum quantity to be purchased so as to maximize inventory turns and minimize excess inventory.
Quoted and negotiated best price, quality and delivery from suppliers based on current and future needs of the business.
Analyzed various inventory and expediting reports, taking appropriate action as required to ensure minimum impact on production and inventory balances.
Contacted material suppliers to negotiate expediting, de-expediting or cancellation of existing purchase orders with minimal effects on cost of the products.
Identified the need to find alternative sourcing to the Commodity Specialists when problems arise that will impact current or future on-time deliveries.
Resolved issues between AMETEK and suppliers as they arose making choices that strengthened the on-going partnership relationships established.
SANDERS, A LOCKHEED MARTIN COMPANY, Nashua, NH 1996-1999
Program Planner II
Developed working plans and Master Schedules for Operations activities on major F-22 Electronic Warfare programs.
Compiled and analyzed data to establish Master Delivery and Manufacturing Schedules.
Tracked F-22 Integration Lab assets and reported on their readiness status.
Planned and scheduled the return to Operations for F-22 hardware assets that required ECO update. Schedules based on immediacy of the update requirements, availability of required material, factory capacity, without impacting the day-to-day activities of the F-22 Integration lab.
AGFA DIVISION, BAYER CORPORATION, Wilmington, MA 1976-1995
Senior Operations Planner (1978-1995)
Planned the repair of customer returned systems and subassemblies projected into the future based on past history and future business requirements.
Planned inventory levels, of repair components, to support the repair /refurbishment of customer returned systems and subassemblies, taking into consideration the existing field population and position in the product’s life cycle.
Wrote and maintained ISO 9000 procedures.
Production Planner, Operations Organization (1976-1978)
Prepared and executed production schedules for systems and subassembly levels from marketing forecasts.
Created and maintained manual BOMs (indented bill of material) for system level products.
Reviewed engineering change documentation (ECOs) for accuracy and impact on production ensuring a smooth execution of changes.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office suite, (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) MRP in various Inventory Management Systems (ex: SAP, VISIBILITY, AS400, & HMS), CAV (Commercial Asset Visibility) eSRS (Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System), IHS (Haystack), Logiquest
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION
Associates Degree, Business, MERRIMACK COLLEGE, 1988
APICS CPIM, CERTIFICATION
MILITARY SERVICE
U.S. Army, Honorable Discharge 1973 –1976
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