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Menlo Park, California, US

• Design and optimize supply chains for rapid, accurate meal delivery in a high-growth startup

Sausalito, California, US

• Responsible for entire supply chain management (SCM) of PlanetBox product suite: +50,000 orders annual volume
• Ensure fulfillment accuracy through designing and standardizing data collection processes; Achieved repeatable accuracy above 98.9% by leveraging data with Lean methodologies to optimize fulfillment process
• Led the initiative to outsource fulfillment to a Domestic partner leading to a cost reduction of 53.6%; Designed fulfillment processes, including materials acquisition, quality inspection, inventory management, and.
• Conceive and execute comprehensive outsourcing transition plan; Achieve fully live transition in under 4 weeks while maintaining quality customer experience with fulfillment accuracy above 98.5%
• Author and release 2 procedural manuals: Fulfillment Operations Manual and AQL Inspection Procedure, both integral to partner training and system adaptation

San Francisco, California, US

• Develop supply chain system for socioeconomic NPO involved in managing pocket markets and food truck operations; compared operational effectiveness of each service to their industries to ultimately identify best.
• Identified product enhancement opportunity by connecting supplier base of +20 California farms with institutions (schools and health clinics) to promote the benefits of local and organic food supplies
• Lead and drive decision making of 7-person team to increase organization’s market presence (+50% new territory)
• Managed projects to develop supplier review processes for seasonal production scheduling, logistics, and payment

• Managed vendor selection and market intelligence on potential suppliers for specific components and common materials to achieve +35.0% cost savings. Monitored vendor deliverables and schedules
• Launched successful Summer 2012 pilot season; sold out suite of 12 unique pieces yielding 14.0% gross margin

Newport, South Wales, GB

• Member of lean manufacturing team; Responsible for entire supply chain management of 4 highly customized products: $300K - $1.1M systems
• Served as product development PM applying Agile values (Iterative, TDD, CI, Scrum) towards hardware development; managed lifecycle of multiple products from pre-concept commit to first customer shipment
• Applied Scrum to prioritize user-stories (R&D, Marketing) and led cross-functional teams (EE, ME, CE, Systems) to execute iterative sprints to develop manufacturing capacity, capability, design stability, and product.
• Company’s sole materials planner and procurement buyer; report directly to the CEO. Responsible for all procurement negotiations for 51 unique vendors to achieve gross margin, quality and on-time delivery
• Direct P&L responsibility with proven track record for 100% on-time delivery, 100% budget control
• Created action plan and fulfillment/manufacturing strategy to evaluate and develop supply chains to meet product and market requirements; Achieved 75.0% reduction in critical parts’ lead-times (LT) for manufacturing.

Newport, South Wales, GB

• Served as process development PM to analyze, design, control, and optimize product features for patented nanofilm deposition technology
• Applied SPC to refine multiple process parameters to yield a 98.0% accurate and repeatable uniformity specification for self-assembled organic monolayer deposition from the vapor phase
• Led extensive product application research across a portfolio of 5 unique substrates

San Jose, California, US

• Established core supply chain skillset while producing high-mix, low-volume turnkey solutions for semiconductor sub-assemblies specializing in integrated circuits, PCBs, cable harnesses, sheet metal fabrication, and.
• Assisted senior buyers in vendor selection, managing supplier relationships, contract negotiations, pricing, forecasting and supply commits
• Practiced Lean Manufacturing & Six-Sigma methodologies for statistical quality control (QC)

Mba, Operations Strategy

Ms, Manufacturing Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physics, Economics

Education record