Management Engineering

STEVEN KROPFL

California

Telephone 415-***-****

EXPERIENCE

SF KNOWLEDGE COMPANY, San Francisco, CA 2010 to 2012 Strategic Buyer & Business Planner

Responsible for sourcing new products and developing sales channels for new business promoting educational strategy games.

CLEAR-COM, LLC / VITEC GROUP COMMUNICATIONS, Alameda, CA 2006 to 2010 Sr. Buyer Planner

Responsible for planning and purchasing materials, equipment, and services to support engineering and production builds for network equipment. Manage material impact of implementing ECO process. Responsible for sourcing new suppliers, requesting quotes, negotiating terms, measuring quality, price, and delivery. Work closely with suppliers, materials management, engineering, manufacturing, receiving, regulatory compliance agencies, and accounting. Drove material cost reductions, increase inventory turns, reduce excess, disposition NCMR, request RMA, resolve accounting issues, track and expedite materials, reduce shipping expenses, and increase material margins.

SAFEWAY CORPORATION, Pleasanton, CA 2005 to 2006

Information Technology Field Specialist Rollout network and server information technology to retail store operations throughout Northern California. Install and service routers, switches, servers, computers, cash registers, retail equipment, and printers. Calibrate and certify store scales, upgrade operating systems and configure systems applications software.

SOLECTRON CORPORATION, Milpitas, CA 1998 to 2003 Material Program Manager / Sr. Project Buyer

Managed the purchase of materials for client projects for all stages of production and product life cycle from; NPI, RAMP, PEAK to EOL. Prioritized material resources, allocated components, communicated gating items, and implemented Engineering Changes. Performed “What If & Cost Analysis” to advise clients on availability & costs for customer demand changes. Coordinated inventory reduction goals to reduce excess by analyzing forecast history and demand changes. Key contact for vendor support reported on corrective actions, PPV and reconciled accounts payable issues. Measured supplier performance based on key metrics; On Time Delivery, Flexibility, Quality and Cost.

READ-RITE CORPORATION, Fremont, CA 1997 to 1998 New Product Planner

Planned prototype builds through the assembly process managing material and capacity constraints. Coordinated engineering builds with program management, production, programming and documentation. Maintained BOM, yield data, quality data, and engineering change and production transfer documentation.

SEQUEL, Santa Clara, CA 1996 to 1997 Materials Planner Responsible for production materials needed to ramp disc drive production from 100 to 3000 units per day. Planned materials per MRP to meet capacity plan based on production people, clean room lines and equipment. Lead Material Review Board managed excess materials and coordinated quarterly physical inventory. Managed database of materials, planned for yield lost, ordered materials, replaced defective materials. Organized continuous improvement meetings, identified root cause of defects, implemented corrective actions.

ERICSSON / RAYNET (Division of Raychem), Menlo Park, CA 1992 to 1996

Buyer Planner / Inventory Control Materials Analyst Planned and purchased electronic manufacturing services for printed circuit board assembly from EMS suppliers. Responsible for meeting schedules on time, resolving any component quality i0r shortage issues, and implementing engineering changes. Measured and reported supplier performance based on price, quality, and delivery.

EDUCATION

PRESIDIO GRADUATE SCHOOL, San Francisco M.B.A. Sustainable Management 2004 to 2006 KEAN UNIVERSITY, Elizabeth, New Jersey B.S. Industrial Technology 1988 to 1989 UNION COLLEGE, Cranford, New Jersey A.A. Engineering Curriculum 1982 to 1984

CERTIFICATES OF TRAINING

• Supplier Negotiations

• CFT-Member of Customer Focus Team

• TQM-Total Quality Management

• MRP-Material Requirements Planning

• APICS-Master Scheduling

• APICS-Material & Capacity Planning

• APICS-Inventory Management

• APICS-Production Activity Control

COMPUTER SKILLS

• ERP / MRP Software – ASK, AVANTE, BAAN, EXPANABLE, IFS, ORACLE, SAP

• Microsoft Office – Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Word

SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

• Life Cycle Product & Packaging Analysis

• Supply Chain Logistics Management

• RoHS Implementation

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