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Phoenix, Arizona Area

Kerry Search Partners is a boutique executive search firm, that specializes in middle management to executive-level positions in a variety of sectors across North America and Europe.Areas of specialization include:Procurement and Sourcing (direct and indirect)End to End Supply Chain ManagementOperational Excellence (Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, TPS)Industries supported include:Medical Device | Pharmaceutical | Biotechnology | Life Science | Semiconductor | Complex Manufacturing

Tempe, Az

• Leading a team of 6 Supply Chain professionals to improve processes and standards for master data, capacity management, and inventory level setting at 3 manufacturing sites in Mexico.• Driving portfolio management and SKU reduction project globally which has identified 8% of the portfolio for obsolescence and incremental cost avoidance.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

$20B division of Honeywell with portfolio of manufacturing, distribution and services of industrial products. Integrated Supply Chain function responsible for global operations and 160+ manufacturing sites. Responsible for driving organization transformation and business wide process leadership to deploy program management strategy and execution. • Leading cross-functional teams to reduce Indirect Spend by $26M (Travel, Facilities, Operating Supplies, Energy) and reduce Indirect Labor costs $42M. • Led standard deployment of Team Guru collaboration / productivity web application to all manufacturing and distribution sites. Driving overall operating system in a standard way with reduced presentations, standard metrics, and organization efficiency.• Developed and deployed a Business Continuity Management program designed after the ISO22301 standard. This program is driving completion of manufacturing site continuity plans, a criticality assessment, and an enterprise incident management team.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

$16B spend management center-led procurement organization leading sourcing and procurement for 80k suppliers globally. Led the annual planning process, benchmarking processes and procurement middle offices in Bangalore and Nanjing. • Built a 30-person procurement middle office in Bangalore for analytics, administration and buying. Drove process efficiencies and became the “go to” organization to achieve short and long term objectives. Reduced staff turnover by 50% and developed a talent pipeline to procurement across Honeywell. • Created category strategies via supply base optimization, market intelligence reporting, internal/external benchmarking and analytics. Utilized a suite of products to enable the category strategy teams to be prepared before negotiations and to increase spend leverage. • Improved payment terms compliance and completed payment cycle projects generating $10M+ cash flow. Completed 2 short term assignments in Shanghai, China from July to October 2012 and March to August 2014 focused on APAC regional procurement function and process.• Led team that designed and built a unified regional category focused structure from 5 divisional teams. This became the model for Indirect Procurement across Honeywell and has been deployed globally. • Drove Procure to Pay assessment which identified opportunities to increase transaction automation, catalog adherence and improve visibility to cash disbursement.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

$12B division of Honeywell with portfolio of manufacturing and repair of electronic and mechanical products. Integrated Supply Chain function responsible for global operations and manufacturing for over 70 sites. End to End Cycle Time team drove projects to reduce $1.75B inventory by >$250M. Led the management of finished goods inventory and drove ownership of FG by the customer facing organization.• Built an enterprise-wide matrixed team in the supply chain and customer facing organization to reduce excess inventory by $33M. Results were incremental sales of $3M, improved order management processes which reduced $5M of repair inventory and growth of our trading business. • Negotiated 9 vendor managed inventory agreements that improved supplier responsiveness and reduced raw material inventory by $4M.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

$4B spend direct material sourcing group in Aerospace Division managing 5,000 suppliers. Developed global operating system and led spend analysis, scorecards, dashboards, annual planning processes.• Created a commodity manager scorecard that drove standardized performance measures, enabled negotiation and improved commodity manager efficiency. • Developed and deployed a sustainable process to harmonize payment terms across business units and drove contract compliance yielding $1.4M improved cash flow.• Negotiated $1M contract with a sole source supplier which owned the design intellectual property. This contract offered savings better than plan and ensured continuity of supply.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

7 manufacturing site division focused on Defense and Space customers. • Directed Executive Decision Support processes and operations analysis across 7 sites (Annual Operating Plan, Weekly Operations Review Process, Targeted Customer Metrics, Monthly Operating Reviews, Census Analysis, Product Center Scorecard) • Led site process improvement projects (Tucson Site Standard Cost Process clean-up, Clearwater Site Scheduling / Purchase Order alignment, Jabil Past Due Mitigation)

Tucson, Arizona Area

$200M revenue Aerospace manufacturing and repair facility serving commercial and defense clients with mechanical and electrical products. • Developed/Maintained 15+ production support information tools/databases/performance scorecards• Produced and delivered SAP and Business Objects training to 15 co-workers as a Power User• Managed a wide range of complex forecasting, scheduling and planning activities requiring interaction with personnel at all levels of the organization from floor level to executives

Greater New Orleans Area

Intralox is the World Leader in modular plastic conveyor belting. ($120M/year sales; 99.92% on-time)

Mba, Strategy, Operations, Marketing

Bs, Industrial Management

Activities and Societies: Purdue Reamer Club, Boiler Gold Rush, Old MastersMinor: Engineering