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Inglewood, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Santa Ana, California, United States

Santa Ana, California, United States

Gardena, California

Gardena, California

• Responsible for procurement of raw materials, MRO, outsourced machining, outsourced surface treatment, purchased components supporting four product lines totaling approximately $38m annually
• Manage 13 employees (procurement – 8 buyers, receiving – 3 clerks, local logistics – 2 drivers)
• Improved vendor on time delivery quarter over quarter from 66% in Q1 2018 to 91% in Q1 2019
• Improved vendor quality from 98% Q1 2018 to 99.5% Q1 2019
• Decreased supplier corrective action from an average 17 open in Q1 2018 to an average of 3 open Q1 2019
• Decreased outside machining cost by 6.5% and outside surface treatment cost by 8.3% 2017 to 2018 by growing strategic vendor relationships, exiting poor suppliers and onboarding new suppliers

Burbank, California

• Responsible for all procurement related to vehicle production and facility maintenance
• Manage and build relationships with vendors to achieve better lead times and exclusive pricing
• Created a system to receive requisitions from the shop floor, quote them, convert them to purchase orders, submit them for shop manager approval and upon approval execute the purchase
• Secure parts/service sponsorships for projects which will receive media attention on the West Coast Customs television show “Inside West Coast Customs”
• Manage the spare parts storeroom- Created an inventory management plan which organized, assessed value, set product locations and established minimum reorder points for tracked inventory- Identified and liquidated.
• Identify areas for improvement in the supply chain and make recommendations to the CFO

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Supporting 30 plants and 8 indirect reports to manage purchases made through Southern California and Nevada for the materials and ready mix division of Calportland.
• Regional Buyer with 8 indirect reports responsible for all procurement for 30 operational plants
• Manage an annual spend of $150 milliono Manage more than 600 vendors involving 9,000 purchase orders consisting of 30,000 line items.o Implemented an updated spend management program to control vendor selection based.
• Rebuilding, reorganizing and standardizing the P2P process by introducing best practices to resolve long standing inefficiencies for the regiono Reduced purchase order creation time by 85%
• Expanded the ongoing training program for purchase order creators, goods receivers and plant personnel on the P2P process
• Developed and implemented work flow to track and add transparency to the P2P process

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Tracked spend on raw materials and freight for three cement plants exceeding $250 million per year
• Evaluated supplier and freight hauler performance against forecasted requirements leading to an annual $400K savings
• Coordinated logistic advantage with outbound freight to reduce transportation cost by $125K
• Placed and evaluated RFQs for raw material, inbound freight, and MRO for three cement plants
• Assigned as Project Manager for the Purchasing Department to manage the transition following the acquisition of a $450 million cement planto Coordinated training for new personnel in the first 60 dayso Placed new.
• Completed the SNAP project at the Mojave plant, which is now a benchmark for other plant warehouseso Yields an approximate $40K per year reduction of warehouse operating costo 90% reduction of picking timeo Increased.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Led a culture changing, 5S focused project initiated by the CEO under the new SNAP initiative (Standardization n’Automation Project) at the Mojave, CA Cement Planto Requirements included a new design to modernize and.

Bremen Area, Germany

• Repaired, serviced and renovated residential dormitory property and students’ rooms
• Worked with a partner to maintain 246 rooms and 6 common areas inside and outside the dormitory
• Effectively decreased the campus maintenance department’s response to dormitory work orders from 70% to 5%

Bremen Area, Germany

Preparing, processing and managing spot demand orders worth over €100 thousand, evaluating supplier quotations valued between €10 and €100 thousand, launching and tracking orders, managing supplier contract pricing matrix, evaluating strategic stock material entries against supplier invoices

New Jersey

Tasks include: painting, roofing, framing, siding, landscaping, electrical installation, plumbing, demolition, carpentry in the construction of luxury homes.

New Jersey

Complete landscaping service, property maintenance and landscape design for eleven private properties in Northern New Jersey.