Brian Bulgarelli Email & Phone Number

Saint Clair Shores, MI, US

Maumee, Ohio, US

Auburn Hills, MI, US

• Materials Manager for FATA Automation.

Maumee, Ohio, US

• Lead and manage plant MRO Purchasing and tool crib personnel (16) for a high-volume, production parts facility managing over 15,000 SKU’s and monthly spend of $1,000,000.
• Plan and release supplier deliveries using Epicor (AS/400 based) software, and work with a variety of suppliers on daily and weekly deliveries, including overseas suppliers.
• Managed entire component value streams for both Ford (Transit Van), American Axle (Dodge Ram), and intracompany to Dana (Dodge Ram) production lines.
• Key player in resourcing forged components for Ford Transit Van program from a German supplier to an Indian supplier for significant cost savings and risk mitigation.
• Project Managed physically relocating 7,000 sq. foot tool crib internally, during production, without stoppage or interruption of daily operations.
• Key member of transition and implementation team moving from AS-400 Epicor into SAP.

Warren, Michigan, US

• Lead critical purchasing projects for capital equipment purchases and turnkey manufacturing solutions. Ensure these activities are aligned with the Executive Management's and Engineering Management’s expectations.
• Total spend from 2015-2016 approximately $40 million dollars from a broad base of suppliers from machine tool providers to total turnkey automation systems.
• Trained and knowledgeable in PPAP process as well as SPC data collection for machine buyoff procedures.
• Oversee each phase of the capital investment purchasing function to including scopes of work, quoting and negotiation, supplier selection, project timing, and execution through project closing.
• Responsible for all indirect materials, contract labor, rental agreements, and MRO plant spend pertaining to production equipment maintenance, special project job builds.

Warren, Michigan, US

• Assist in the management of 15+ UAW Toolmakers in a multi-shift environment.
• Create process flow job routers for all manufactured in-house details.
• Manage multiple engineering projects simultaneously and report on status, ensuring that projects stay on time and within budget.

US

• Initial member of 6-person start-up team that eventually grew to a 20-person operation and helped business grow from $0 into a $2.5M company when sold.
• Initiated and maintained systems and strategies that allowed for lights-out manufacturing.
• Critical player in the development of the Lean Manufacturing System utilized, including use of Value Stream Mapping techniques for optimal plant layout configuration to maximize efficiency and leading Kaizen events to.
• Reported all measurable data including production efficiencies, capacity utilization, scrap rates, inventory levels, on-time delivery, mean time to repair, mean time between failures and overall equipment effectiveness.
• Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure for all aspects of CAD/CAM manufacturing, ERP production.
• Tested, validated, and debugged beta-release CAM software and provided feedback to software developers for repair and improvements suitable for release.

Fraser, Michigan, US

• Responsible for the competitive sourcing of all materials, commercial items, and outside labor related to the building of custom designed special machines and all aspects daily business operations.
• Managed status of all manufacturing projects from inception to completion and handled multiple projects simultaneously.
• Developed and implemented project plans, timelines, and budgets while defining all measurable milestones and key deliverables from kick-off to buy-off.
• Knowledgeable in “print to part” manufacturing including AutoCAD and blueprint reading experience, as well as import/export shipping practices, supplier negotiation and evaluation, engineering change implementation and.
• Internal Auditor for ISO/QS-9000/TE implementation team.

Fraser, Michigan, US

See job description above for purchasing and project management experience and responsibilities at Bay Products, Inc. During my first year at Bay Products I used AutoCAD on a daily basis for creating detail drawings of machine part before being promoted to the Purchasing Project Manager and ISO/QS-9000 Auditor

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Industrial Technology & Management

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