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Irvine, CA, US

Irvine, CA, US

• Business Relationship Manager for all IT related matters including business solutions, vendor/contract management, Run/Project Budget, Change Management, System Architecture (backend / infrastructure).
• Project Portfolio Lead for IT-GSC strategic initiatives for Planning, Procurement, Cost Accounting and Engineering.
• Define and deploy support strategies for applications including JDA Blueyonder (Advanced Planning System), JDE (Planning, Purchasing and Cost Accounting applications), Loftware Spectrum, SDL-Knowledge Center (CMS), ETQ.
• Consolidated labeling processes end-to-end within a single and streamlined architecture integrating CMS, Loftware Spectrum and JDE. In addition to the business process simplification, this resulted in the retirement of.
• Led the enablement of Edwards’ Pull Systems, by designing and developing applications within JDE (ERP) and JDA (APS)to manage Lean supermarkets for Finished Goods, Sub-Assemblies and Raw Materials.
• Simplified the direct procurement process in Edwards by designing, developing, and implementing a PO Simplification workflow, which includes a web/mobile application to manage PO approvals, delegations, and dashboards..

Irvine, CA, US

• Provide solutions to optimize Customer Relationship Management and Sales & Distribution Processes:
• Manage the Technology roadmap for Edwards’ Customer Relationship Management and Sales & Distribution of high-quality medical devices representing a $3.73 billion USD business globally
• Lead Edwards’ technical Salesforce.com (SFDC) Architects and Business System Analysts globally
• Manage the agile delivery of Customer Relationship Management solutions by collaborating with business partners mapping Edwards’ commercial business processes, understanding gaps, gathering requirements and designing.
• Collaborate with business partners to design and deliver technological solutions to standardize Edwards’ commercial processes such as Case Management, Field Inventory Management and Deal Management globally, which.
• Provide, support and scale technologies to optimize Order to Cash and Order Fulfillment processes globally, including enhancements and expansion of Edwards’ ERP and CRM systems, and the development of mobile.

Irvine, CA, US

• Manage Planning, Sourcing and Manufacturing applications:
• Redesign and implement the supply planning process for the company’s heart valve manufacturing network integrating ERP and APS solutions
• Develop and evolve the digital roadmap for our global supply chain organization adopting innovative technologies to transform our core processes towards industry 4.0 including, smart factory, IoT, and advanced planning.
• Connect Edwards with its suppliers providing interfaces to enable collaboration, metrics and visibility
• Provide manufacturing with innovative technologies to enable production of high quality medical devices, including ERP, APS, and BI ToolsSupply Chain BSAs and Architects Manager:
• Manage Global MFG Architects and BSAs: Six professional employeeso Allocate the right Analyst to the right project based on required skillso Work with Analysts to create and meet career development goals

Irvine, CA, US

• Project Manager for the JDE 9.2 Upgrade Project and its migration to a Managed Cloud:
• Ensure meeting corporate KOD of implementing JDE 9.2 by September 2016
• Develop training program for over 2.7k users worldwide
• Manage testing, user acceptance and validation activities for all JDE business processes. (Over 1.2k test scenarios)
• Manage Project Budget of 2.5MIT-HVT Project Leader:
• Develop One HVT strategy to standardize MFG Planning process across Edwards’s Valve Network

Irvine, CA, US

• Business Analysis for Global Manufacturing:
• Lead global business analysis activities for JDE MFG-Planning
• Map and Document Year End Process in JDE
• Created Business Case and presented proof of concept to the new CCP business team on the JDE Configurator
• Designed JDE BSA training curriculum and started 1st class in October 2015

Irvine, CA, US

• Manage the Supply Chain of Capital Care and Non Invasive Products:
• Achieved LIFR of 99.1% on Clearsight and 98% on Electronics
• Reduced the backorder to Zero on Capital Care and NI before transferring to new role
• Managed Inventory for Capital Care and NI to achieve Critical Care KOD of <103M
• Managed Procurement activities for Capital Care and NI business Design and develop the Supply Chain for the newly acquire Non-Invasive Clearsight business:
• Implemented Master Scheduling and Material Planning Processes for Non Invasive

Irvine, CA, US

• Business Process Architect of project Enchilada to improve service level of the Dominican Republic site:
• Charter projects to address operational challenges on 5 major lanes: Planning, Product Flow, Incoming Inspection, Warehouse Management and Retention Management
• Improved service levels indicators: LIFR to 98%; Backorders < $100K; PvsA: > 90%Lead cross-functional team through the successful implementation of Material Requirement Planning (MPR) and Capacity Requirement Planning.
• Reduction of 25% of the production plan preparation lead time
• 75% reduction in the reworks to the production plan
• Elimination of planning errors related to manual planning processes

Irvine, CA, US

• Lead the Dominican Republic planning team in the production scheduling activities for finished goods and sub-assemblies distributed among 25 work centers.
• Lead the planning activities for AOP and financial forecast processes gathering volume information and determining man-hours requirements, resource loading and inventory forecast.
• Team up with Global Demand Management to configure the resource units in JDA determining available time and assigning the different Finished Goods items to the applicable resource.
• Lead the supply chain activities for new product introduction and product changes such as first builds scheduling, cut-off lot management, material depletion and expediting.

Irvine, CA, US

• Manage the planning process for over 2,000 finished good items among 9 production lines compounded by manual assembly lines and packaging machineries managing different levels of complexities such as high mix / low.
• Developed and implemented performance metrics for Packaging PvsA, Schedule Adherence and Backlog aging. Implemented a prioritization model to attend urgent requirements while improving service level performance.
• Team up with a cross-functional team for the effective coordination of the supply chain activities for the manufacturing startup of advance monitoring product Flo-Trac Gen 1.5.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Engineering