Purchasing Agent/Manager, Materials Manager

John K. Marshall

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Summary

Need your supplier to improve their Performance Statistics? Is your Purchasing Department building supplier relationships and partnerships? Are you getting hammered with price escalations? Is the quality your suppliers provide starting to slip?

These are the areas where I have charted success: Cost Reduction, Supplier Development & Management, Design for manufacturability, Lean Manufacturing, time to market product development.

Outstanding Supplier Relationship building and problem resolution skills are the key. I have wide ranging experience and knowledge of manufacturing processes as well as experience as Fleet management, Program Procurement Manager and Capital MRO support & Capital Equipment procurement.

Professional Experience

SYSTRON DONNER, CONCORD, CA 3/2004-7/2010

Company profile: Develops and manufactures micro electro mechanical systems, inertial navigation units and quartz rate sensors for aerospace applications.

Senior Purchasing Contracts Administrator

Managed and controlled inventory of fabricated components and assemblies for guidance systems and motion sensing devices valued at over $20M annually.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Reduced supplier base in manufacture components by 18% through review of supplier capabilities allowing savings of over $2M by consolidation of procurement. Developed sourcing and managed materials acquisitions for R&D and new products under development, worked closely with Engineering to select supplier with highest level of performance to contract, pricing and quality for all programs. Contract types: CPFF, FFP. CRAF Initiated and tracked RFP documents for complex manufacturing and test equipment, building services, office telephone, copy equipment and computer equipment, consulting services, negotiated final contracts & tracked progress. Generated and provided total cost evaluations for management with specific recommendations. Upon receipt of authorization developed, negotiated and initiated the contracts and non-disclosure documentation with suppliers.

Regulations management under ITAR, EAR, FAR, DOD & DFAR & UCC

Coordinated and negotiated complete facility relocation (twice) for the company. Achieved significant cost reductions which permitted completion $10K under budget.

Key Commodities:

Subcontract machined components

Stampings, castings and forgings

Ceramic and Quartz components

Hermetic assemblies

Application Specific Integrated circuits

SIEMENS ONCOLOGY SYSTEMS, CONCORD, CA 8/1998-3/2004

Company Profile: Siemens Healthcare is one of the first companies to bring together medical imaging and therapy, laboratory diagnostics, and healthcare IT solutions across the continuum of care.

Logistics Purchasing Administrator

Planned and purchased all major system components and fabrications for large medical treatment equipment valued at $10-15MM annually. Generated cost savings in excess of $250,000 annually thru negotiation of national supply contracts, and strategic procurement of business critical items.

Reduced supplier base 15% in first 6 months through supplier consolidation efforts. Contract types: CPFF, FFP. CRAF & T&M

Regulations management under GMP, FDA & MBP & UCC

Served as purchasing coordinator for implementation of SAP software and ERP program. Completed implementation on time and $7.5K under budget.

Key Commodities:

Complex drive system components

Electromechanical subassemblies

Large welded & fabricated and machined sub-assemblies

Cast and forged copper and tungsten components

Standard and custom components and MRO supplies

POWIS PARKER, INC, BERKELEY, CA 3/1995-7/1998

Company Profile: Powis Parker is the inventor of Fastback - revolutionary tabletop binding machines that produce strong, tape binding, and bookstore-quality binding and hard covers.

Purchasing Manager

Planned, hired and developed the purchasing department. Trained a staff of buyers and Shipping /Receiving Department clerk, Developed Policies & Procedures Manual for department.

Worked closely with Engineering on development of new equipment and source selection for cost control management and time to market production. Project completed on time and below proposed budget. Provided design assistance for plastic molded components. Procured tooling and production for 2 new products which reduced overall pricing for products by ~10%. Purchased equipment & tooling for 2 production lines. Negotiated long term supply contracts for production supplies. Sourced and negotiated subcontract agreements for the design, development and manufacture of printed circuit assemblies achieving savings of 10-15% over in-house manufacture.

SYSTRON DONNER, CONCORD, CA 10/1988-3/1995

Company profile: Develops and manufactures micro electro mechanical systems, inertial navigation units and quartz rate sensors for aerospace applications.

Manager, Fabricated Parts

Responsible for the procurement of all components for electro-mechanical motion sensing systems and navigation system components valued at approximately $ 9M annually for both automotive and aerospace applications.

Reduced automotive product cost by 15% by improved sourcing techniques.

Improved automotive time to market by 15%. Improved on-time delivery of production requirements from suppliers (avg = 98.8%) and coordinated the implementation of FAR regulations for procurement. Supervised planner and expeditor. Purchased critical fabricated components and assemblies to Scope of Work documents. Converted Machined parts to Laser Welded, Extruded or cast components eliminating Machining. Initiated Preferred Supplier Program for Printed Circuit assemblies & established first company Partnering Agreement. Negotiated & purchased complex equipment, tooling & consultant sservices for development of Quartz Rate Sensor technology. Managed and controlled precious metal inventories by tracking London Metal Market Forecast trends in metals for management.

Contract types: CPFF, FFP. CRAF. Regulations management under EAR, FAR, DOD, DFAR & UCC

Excellent communications and team building skills.

EDUCATION

BA Psychology & Business

Oakland University – Rochester, MI

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certificate in Purchasing - U C Berkeley

AFFILIATIONS

APICS - Membership 26 years

APICS - V.P. Membership - Solano Chapter 1994 to 1998

APICS - V.P. Membership - Golden Gate Chapter 1990 to 1998

NAPM - Member 35 years

ADDITIONAL SKILLS & TRAINING

Trained in ASPR, FAR, DFAR, EAR, ITAR, TQM, ISO 9000, 9001 & AS9100,

ANSY 14.2 design specs & Mechanical Drafting & Design

Six-Sigma green belt- Packaging Design & Recycling

Proficient in: MS Office Suite, SAP ERP, PowerCerv MRP, J D Powers ERP

and Mapics DB.

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