Rons Resume

RONALD G. FORD

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

Corona, CA ***82

951-***-**** *********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Extensive experience in the aerospace and commercial industry as production planner scheduler, expeditor, buyer and supervisor/team-leader. Excellent reputation with internal customers as a competent, knowledgeable and helpful professional, enjoy my work and consistently strive to achieve customer service. Honest, reliable, and productive, team player with good coaching skills. Key strengths include in:

• MRP • Forecasting

• KANBAN • Inventory Control

• Planning/Organizing • New Product Introduction

• Scheduling/Expediting • Procurement/Negotiations

Software: Excel, Windows Exec, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND, Pomona, CA 2007 – 2008

Sr. Production Control Planner

• Planned and prepared production schedules for manufacturing products; drew up master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.

• Analyzed production specifications and plant capacity data and performs mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes, tools, and requirements.

• Planned and scheduled workflow for each department and operation according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times. Plans sequence of fabrication, assembly, installation, and other manufacturing operations for guidance of production workers.

• Communicated with department supervisors to determine status of assigned projects. Expedited operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.

• Prepared production reports, lists of required materials, tools, and equipment.

• Purchased orders to obtain materials, tools, and equipment.

ORTHODYNE ELECTRONICS, Irvine, Ca 2006 – 2007

Sr. Production Control Planner

• Planned, scheduled and monitored movements of material through the entire production cycle generated and tracked work orders for all sub-assemblies and finished goods and products to ensure adherence to sales order backlog and sales forecast.

• Maintained and ensured appropriate inventory levels, input all stockroom inventory transactions, reconciled and closed month and inventory.

STARTRAC, Murrieta, CA 2005 – 2006

Sr. Production Control Planner

• Responsible for monitoring perpetual inventory balances of made in-house items for accuracy, investigating aberrations in the transaction records, and making adjustments entries when necessary.

• Analyzed MRP reports; developed weekly production schedules for made in-house components by work cell.

• Communicated production schedule information to work cells; expedited and followed the progress of “hot” or “special” orders.

• Coordinated the delivery and return of all items that require outside processing; generated ad hoc reporting related to the company’s inventory balances and transactions other duties include being responsible for the shipping department and coordinating all outward bound products.

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PARKER AEROSPACE, Irvine, CA 1989 - 2005

Production Control Planner (1999-2005)

• Utilizing MRP reports that’s produced from AMAPS, planners responsibility was to schedule, plan, and forecast for our day-to-day operations, proactively track all material either purchased parts or those in various manufacturing areas to insure delivery commitments are being met on time and to schedule

• Worked on all exceptions including purchased parts or the releasing of lower level work orders to support the top assembly, if the component part needed to run in house it’s the planners responsibility to make sure that all needed components were available to release the work order

• Raised awareness to management in the event that materials fall behind schedule

• provided timely and accurate forecast to all suppliers, support all production control procedures,

• Continued to meet production schedules, quality standards, and cost targets; had a ninety day look out of availability, responsible for keeping inventory at a just in time pace.

Operations Team Leader (1996-1999)

• Responsible for general direction, leadership and team performance in a production department; daily activities of employees in one or more departments.

• Coordinated the schedules of major work activities to ensure timely completion to meet inter-department and customer commitments. Had input of developing team resources requirements (workload balancing, training and development, equipment maintenance and establishing internal procedures).

• Established and maintained effective control to assure proper use in the operation of machinery, tools and other company equipment.

• Controlled and managed the department budget.

• Worked flexible hours to cover multiple shifts, held monthly departmental meetings.

• Completed on time performance reviews of a crew of 40 team members

Production Control Scheduler (1989-1996)

• Scheduled the work centers by using the work center dispatch to insure that customer start and ship dates were being addressed.

• Communicated with the area’s team leader and operators along with support groups was an essential part of the job. Within this time period, attained the experience required to support both the shop and assembly, also in this period, became the lead expeditor, in which my job was to implement recovery schedules to follow and track past due hardware needing special handling.

EDUCATION

Master’s of Science in Business Management

University of Phoenix 2008

Bachelor of Science in Business Management

University of Phoenix 2004

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Attended numerous training seminars on team building, managerial skills, budgeting, etc.

Fully trained in Lean Concepts, can add value to Kaizen Events, brainstorming

Completed three APIC classes, TQM, etc.

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