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Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Managed team of Commodity Leaders and Sourcing Specialists. Responsible for global supplier activity for two US operations and one UK including: Supplier selection, contracts (supply/warranty), pricing negotiations
• Led Global Cost Out initiatives for US and UK. Implemented net cost out resulting in $4.1M+ through negotiations, VA/VE, supplier rationalizations, and strategic alliances.
• Responsible for Global ISC New Program Development. Managed team to complete successful launches of (10) major programs. Held monthly presentations to Textron Senior Leadership on programs. Project targets were met per.
• Selected as Textron Procurement Council Chair by peers from other Textron business units.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Responsible for all ISC activities surrounding New Program/Refresh launches. Responsible for determining Beta/Gamma production and initial production dates. Responsible for supplier selection and supplier approval for.
• Negotiated contract renewals resulting in $370K in annual savings
• Responsible for new supplier selection and auditing. Led multiple supplier audits with cross functional teams including engineering and purchasing.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• 48% reduction in Supplier Quality PPM, 7,252 (2010) to 3,758 (2011), through supplier development, corrective actions and design for manufacturability
• Decreased warranty expense by 36% YOY, as measured by percent of sales through working cross functionally with design engineering and ISC. Initiated design changes for improved quality and worked with supplier.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Responsible for trouble-shooting electrical failure modes in control boxes and established Root Cause analysis methodology for interim and permanent containment actions.
• Led (2) New Program Launches for Air and Water Cooled Industrial Chiller Systems. Utilized Advanced Quality Planning (FMEAS, Control Plans, Work Instructions, and Supply Base Management), conducted Process and Facility.
• Responsible for daily production scheduling and resource allocation. Developed flex plan for technicians to increase productivity and throughput which saw an increase of 5% productivity. Developed production scheduling.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

• Configured new Production Printing System to prevent out-sourcing of Information Sheets, resulting in annualized savings of more than $450,000 in annual savings, reduced lead time from weeks to minutes and improved.
• Implemented $250,000 laser etching machine, resulting in improved first-run quality, reduced order lead time and annualized savings of more than $60,000.
• Supervised a team of non union technicians of 25+ while maintaining sustaining / improvement projects and increased productivity by 25%. Responsible for daily planning and scheduling.

Hillsville, VA

• Developed and managed design of material handling processes which yielded $35,000 savings. Project scope included current and future state analysis, investment, cost analysis, process flowanalysis and project.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

• Led research project for various time saving activities including changeover project which saw a decrease in cycle time from one hour to 15 minutes which increased capacity by 5% (~700 pc daily).