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Dallas, Texas, United States

Richardson, Texas, United States

Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Commodities included Plastic Components and Indoor Air Quality - Direct spend was $110M Cost Savings of $1.5M - Responsible for Strategy and negotiations. YOY Cost Reductions - Worked with teams for cost savings and New Product Introductions on HVAC products - Work with Suppliers in the US and Mexico for Engineered components - Resourced components to alternate suppliers for better quality, delivery, service, and costs - Total Cost of Ownership - Manage Supplier Relationships for All 3 Lennox Business Units

Richardson, Tx

Responsible for Strategic Sourcing, RFP/RFQ's, YOY Cost Reductions & Contracts for Electronic Controls (EMS) - Worked with Global Contract Manufacturers in China, Malaysia, Thailand and Mexico - Worked on various teams to implement NPI throughout my Controls commodity. - $72M annual spend with $18M material cost savings over almost 7 years - Work with OEMs and Contract Manufacturers that use our BOMs for PCBAs and finished goods including Smart thermostats, Control boards and Room Sensors - Sourced suppliers for electronic components for PCBA's. Had weekly meetings during Semiconductor allocations - Created policies and procedures related to Costed BOMs and Material Purchases - Created Purchase Price Variance Procedures for Semi-Conductors/Integrated Circuits - Manage Supplier Relationships for All 3 Lennox Business Units - Strategized to eliminate 25% China Tariffs and Resourced to other Low-Cost Countries

Richardson, Texas, United States

Responsible for sourcing the most technologically complex controls. Manage Contract Manufacturing for circuit boards and Smart Thermostats. •Developing a global sourcing strategy for controls and project scopes and identify savings opportunities.•Negotiated and managed vendor contracts and relationships.•Implemented policies and metrics to ensure savings goals are realized.•Worked with technical buyers, engineers and management to identify new product needs.•Identifed new sources in order to meet business requirements with cost savings for components.•Served as the primary interface between company components and suppliers on strategic/critical quality, engineering and procurement matters.•Developed and implement long- and short-range sourcing strategies for very complex and high-risk items including Semi-Conductor parts.

Frisco, Tx

Responsible for defining and implementing strategic sourcing initiatives of $123,000,000 in direct products to build cell sites within the United States. Managed supplier qualification and selection process, RFx procedures, negotiations, contracts. Implemented supplier scorecards, forecasts and overall communication. Within the first year, direct savings was $5,000,000 by consolidations and negotiations within the supply base. • Consolidated the supply base by 30%• Increased Supplier diversity spend from $6,700,000 to $30,000,000 in one year• Manages Preferred Supplier List & Internal Compliance to it• Work with stakeholders on identifying and implementing equivalent parts for cost savings

Mason, Oh & Flower Mound, Tx

Strategically source various commodities which consist of $14.5M spend.Commodities that I am responsbile for are Aluminum Extrusions, Roller Bearings, Rollforming, Powder Paint, Castings, and Plastics including Injection Molding, Vacuum Forming, Extrusions, and Machined plastics including the raw materials such as UHMW.Currently work with Oracle and AS400 systems.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Sourced Alternators and Starters for School Buses by online auctions. Finished various other commodities for contractors who's contract was finished before mine. Saved 19% cost savings and received extended payment terms and inventory reductions. Used Ariba for Reverse Auctions

Strategic Sourcing Manager - Various Commodities and ServicesReported to the VP of Purchasing and was responsible for strategic cost savings to leverage spend for all 9 LSI sites within given commodity. Commodity spend total was approximately $17.4 Million per year. Commodities included travel service, temporary labor service, MRO, gaskets, glass and plastic lenses, electrical components and aluminum and plastic louvers. I gave quarterly presentations to purchasing team in all locations via video-conferencing. Presentations given to executive board for review of all recommendations.  Travel – consolidated 5 travel service providers to 1 for all sites; implemented new travel policy; reduced booking fees by 10% full-service and 50% on-line bookings Plastic Lenses - $460,000 and 60 parts quoted - $99,000 yearly savings or 22%; also reduced MIN order quantities. Also negotiated a 1% rebate back on all spend for certain suppliers Louvers – one supplier with financial difficulty moved all parts to 2 other current suppliers to eliminate potential supply issues.  Safety supplies - $300,000 spend identified with 14 suppliers – consolidated to 1 national supplier and reduced piece pricing 20%. Also, started consignment and vendor managed supply for 4 higher volume sites. Leveraged spend for better pricing in lower spend sites.

Assistant Purchasing Manager – Managed 5 various purchasing employeesReported to the Purchasing Manager and was responsible for VA/VE cost reductions. Was hired as a Purchasing Agent and promoted to Assistant Purchasing Manager 18 months after being hired. When a purchasing person left the company we all pitched in and split the commodities up between us. While continuing on VA/VE projects, I started to purchase raw material such as Aluminum Ingot; Powder Paint; Small Materials such as Grease, etc.  Cost Initiative letters sent to suppliers to leverage upcoming volume increases and received as much as 25% cost saving on parts.  Resourced parts from Japan to the US for shorter lead-times and lower costs of 15% Identified a local source for thru-bolts and current supplier in Japan lowered their cost 35% to keep current business

Hamilton, Ohio, United States

OE Buyer – worked on M-Class program and various commoditiesReported to the Purchasing Manager and was responsible for implementing cost reductions for the M-Class platform. Commodities that I was strategically aligned with were machined parts, rubber over metal, plastic parts and bearings.  Managed cost reduction programs for M-Class by implementing cost savings while working with engineering, quality and production.  Resourced parts to China for rubber products with a 25% cost savings Conducted supplier quality audits with Quality and myself

Sidney, Ohio, United States

Senior Commodity Manager (1999-2005)Strategically managed commodities with a spend of $39 Million per year. Was part of Emerson Plastics Team to implement cost savings for various divisions of Emerson. Purchased oil, rubber, bearings and plastic parts. Leveraged spend for other Emerson divisions with small spend to obtain cost savings. Used reverse auctions as a tool to get an average of 20% cost savings over all my commodities. Sourced to new suppliers as well as consolidated suppliers for savings. Prepared, analyzed RFQ’s, negotiated pricing for parts and tools and procured funding for capital expenditures. Conducted supplier audits prior to sourcing any new parts or transferring tools. Worked with Quality for PPAP submittals for all parts. Presentations given to upper management regarding strategic planning of commodities. Worked with FreeMarkets on all Commodities for cost savings. Average overall Savings was 20% for all commodities that were reversed auctioned.  Bearings - $5 Million in spend – received 30% savings or $1.5 Million by staying with incumbent and not having to spend time re-qualifying a new supplier with down pricing for years 2 and 3 of 2%/year  Injection Molded Plastic Parts – received 25% savings on $7 Million in spend by consolidating 3 suppliers to 1 current supplier Oil – $4 Million in spend – received 16% cost savings per year.  Powder Paint - $2 Million in spend – 19% cost savings – stayed with incumbent

Sidney, Ohio, United States

Worked Programs with Commodity Managers to implement their strategies for cost savings. Cost Savings and implementation of projects were completed. I was promoted to the Commodity Manager for Plastics and other commodities within 1 year of Program Manager

Sidney, Ohio, United States

Acted as a liaison with the Engineering Change System coordinating between Purchasing, Engineering, Plants, and suppliers to launch new product lines and cost reductions. Minimize scrap by coordinating with the Plants and Suppliers when changing parts and components for cost savings. Worked with Materials Planners in setting up new costs and suppliers.

Sidney, Ohio, United States

Processed Appropriation Requests for Capital Expenditures. Provided Asset tags and coordination of the capital item. Successfully managed the allocated budget to maintain financial controls over capital expenditure. Reconciled Bank Accounts for Payroll, Accounts Receivable and Petty Cash for the different Copeland locations.

Bs, Vocational Technical Education In Business

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