Christopher Fields Email & Phone Number

Fremont, CA, US

• As head of business, I manage the P&L, drive core strategies, and actively engage all major customer accounts
• Transformed organization from reactive problem solving to a data-driven culture of continuous improvement
• Reduced Net Inventory by 36% by optimizing ERP attributes, resulting in COGS Turns improvement of 200%
• Reduced Cost of Poor Quality by 30% through design and development of a dedicated ultra-high purity gas delivery station for ion plasma tube processing, resulting in 100+% improvement of product average field hours
• Centralized data from nine data warehouses by developing Power BI reports improving critical data accessibility at all levels of the organization
• Eliminated OSPs for critical material through strategic supply chain leveraging reducing item cost by 15% while reducing lead time by 75%

• Eliminated business continuity risk of aging equipment through the design of modular LabView Software
• Doubled capacity of bottleneck process through redesign of UHV system while reducing conductance by 50%
• Improved equipment up time from 60% to 90% by automating maintenance of equipment and increasing the frequency of maintenance from 2 days/week to 1 hour/day
• Improved TAT by 20% through optimization of critical part processes from time based to modular/SPC driven
• Consolidated non-manufacturing space reducing the BU total footprint by 40%
• Reduced active supplier list by 40% through consolidation of key purchased commodities with strategic supply chain partners

• Improved First Pass Yield of active brazing process by 70% through development of proprietary temperature control ramp and optimization of braze joint and brazing material

Lake Oswego, Oregon, US

• Standardized FEA simulation of mold design during NPI resulting in 95+% FPY and 60% LT reduction
• High Volume NPI Development – Release of 10-25 new products per quarter
• 98% Scrap Reduction of 20 year old part by optimizing gating scheme to strategically eliminate metallurgical shrink in part reducing item manufacturing cost by 95%
• Reduced COPQ of combustor plate by reducing discrete gates from 5 to 1 resulting in reduction of charge weight by 30% and total cost by 55%