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Leading a team responsible for making sure YETI's products are in the right place at the right time to delight our customers - through omni-channel distribution. In addition, leading the supply efforts for YETI's global expansion. Managing supplier production plans to ensure on time and in full metrics are exceeding expectations. Responsible for inventory management through days of on hand inventory, as well as, allocations. Champion for the Sales and Operations Planning process and lead the monthly Executive S&OP meeting.

Responsible for a team of replenishment planniers around Dell's "Build to Stock" portfolio. Determined adequate days of on hand inventory based on risk to the demand and supply plans.

Lead a team centered around backlog optimization and customer experience. Objective to reduce the friction points that orders face when moving through the supply chain. In addition, reduction in backlog equates to a faster cash conversion cycle. Lowered average backlog days to $242K and 4.5 days. Awarded Silver Award for Innovation in developing the processes and governance around order cancellations. Led and taught multiple classes around influencing others.

As the OFG Manager, I led and guided a team responsible for turning customer inquiries into successfully shipped products. Through collaboration across a team of over 30 sales coordinators, engineers, compliance, contracts, and traffic specialists, we shipped hundreds of multi-million dollar oil rig projects.

Responsible for hunting out and eliminating wastes and to improve people and processes within our Cedar Park, TX facility. Accomplished this by collaborating with several engineering communities (applications, manufacturing, sustaining, intercompany, software), the supply chain community (purchasing, planning, order fulfillment, manufacturing), and with our ERP systems team in Houston to deeply understand problems, identify root causes, and drive implementation of improvements.

Responsible for ensuring all time lines related to the supply chain (ie. all departments associated with production - order management, procurement, focused factories, warehouse, quality, shipping/receiving) are adhered to in an efficient manner to maintain customer satisfaction and meet company objectives.

Responsible for identifying and selecting suppliers, negotiating prices, commercial terms and conditions, and managing the overall supplier relationship related to defined commodities. Current commodities - electrical components, computers and peripherals, software, enclosures and other various commodities associated with the oil and gas market. Manage the performance of existing suppliers (quality, delivery, and price), build relationships within the supply chain – both internal and external, and develop supply solutions to meet the cost and lead time reduction, product development, and day-to-day production needs of NOV MDTotco.

Reposible for gather and understanding customer's business requirments and processes then translating these needs into software requirments. Translate this knowledge to the development team to ensure customer requirements are included in the release process. Management of software release process.

Expertise in Account Management, Sales Engineering Product Development Support and Product Managment. Proven ability to interface with electrical, mechanical, and software engineers to ensure product requirments meet customer needs. Primarily responsible for the global/domestic oil and gas operations associated with customers in the Middle East, Europe, Canada and the Western United States. Based on customer input, I provide technical knowledge and solutions to meet their needs.Able to manage the entire order process from providing technical information at the initial inquiry, to creating the proposals, to determining traffic/export compliance issues associated with each order. Also, work directly with major manufacturing facility to ensure that the order meets the customer requried deadlines.

Promotion of leading pharmaceuticals in Alzheimer's and Osteoporosis. Responsible for largest revenue producing area in Texas.

Coordinate marketing efforts for local nonprofit agency. Determine marketing plan, targets for campaign, and marketing pieces to be utilized for the campaign.

Managed large volume/geographical territory. Marketed urology products to specialists.

Managed hospital accounts for the Austin area. Marketed and sold anti-infective and antifungal products to pulmonologists, infectious disease doctors, and hospitalists. Contracted with pharmacies for product utilization.

Marketed large women's healthcare portfolio to ObGyns.

Responsible for influencing sales for the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. Managed a portfolio of products consisting of antimicrobial, diabetes, hypertension and erectile dysfunction. Named Rookie of the Year, in my first year.