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San Diego, California, United States

Lead and grew the procurement organization that is responsible for the sourcing, supply, cost, and supplier relationships for production of all Lytx hardware and indirect procurement categories.Designed and implemented supply chain and organizational strategies to support corporate growth targets and product roadmaps. This included re-architecting the production supply base and geographical footprint and centralizing and automating company procurement functions.Leveraged market intelligence and current procurement trends to drive strategies for continuous improvement, cost reduction and value creation for the organization.Established internal programs for process documentation, master data management, risk management, cost forecasting, supply chain ESG and formal supplier management.

Carlsbad, California

Lead the supply chain team for the procurement and supplier management (contract manufacturers and ODMs) of user terminal hardware supporting Viasat’s commercial satellite broadband service.Develop terminal hardware procurement strategies and KPIs to maintain a robust supply line and meet inventory targets based on forecasted product demand and historical variability.Collaborate with engineering and strategic sourcing teams on supplier selections and contract development to ensure successful next generation product launches.Establish and maintain relationships with Tier 1 suppliers and critical sub-tier suppliers at both a working and executive level.

Greater San Diego Area

Develop sourcing strategies and manage pricing and capacity to support $500M in annual spends of outsourced assembly and test manufacturing.Negotiate and forecast assembly and test pricing to meet business unit P&L targets as well as corporate level OpEx goals.Collaborate with product design and engineering teams to deliver cost effective and HVM capable package roadmap solutions and enable supplier capacities to support forecasted demand.Maintain supplier relationships at an executive level and manage quarterly performance metrics from across the organization.

Manage the startup of purchasing and supply chain operations for greenfield semiconductor fab in Dalian, China through project management of global and local teams.Transfer global processes and develop sustainable site-specific processes and success metrics to support high volume semiconductor ramp and manufacturing.Train staff and manage transition of purchasing and supply chain operations to local employees.Interface and create connections between internal factory customers and supply chain partners to manage priorities in a high volume semiconductor fab.

Manage outsourced assembly and test operations transition/transfer for Intel business divestitures and acquisitions.Responsible for managing the supply chain for CSP substrates and technology development support for next generation package technology.Long term capacity planning, supply/demand analysis, pricing negotiations and corporate purchase agreement Ts & Cs.Provide supplier and industry analysis along with market and economic indicators in support of pricing and capacity negotiations, supplier selection and future sourcing strategies.

Managed the enablement of third party development tools and operating system vendors for their support of Intel’s embedded networking roadmap products.Worked closely with customers, hard and software partners, and product engineers to develop program proposals, define product requirements, acceptance testing and co-marketing activities for Linux, QNX, compilers (Intel and GNU) and hardware-assist debug tools.Enabled streamlined communication of hardware, software and service provider partner solutions and capabilities to worldwide Intel field sales organizations and end customers.

Participated in cross-functional teams to develop new package designs for next generation microprocessors.Managed the development and technology certification of materials and processes at substrate suppliers to meet aggressive microprocessor product technologies and launch schedules.Collaborated with internal product divisions to develop new capabilities at direct materials suppliers in order to meet future product package roadmaps for power delivery and low cost high-density substrates.

Sustained manufacturing operations and drove process improvements to meet quality, cost and production output goals for PLD and flash memory products.Worked in conjunction with other fab process module engineers to disposition discrepant material and troubleshoot process and equipment issues.Transferred etch processes for low density flash memory from a 0.35um fab to the existing equipment set in a 0.8um fab.

Bachelor Of Science, Materials Science And Engineering

Masters Of Business Administration