Chris Ayala Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

• Developing and documenting processes, policies and governance across our enterprise data
• Enabling product excellence across lifecycle milestones

San Francisco Bay Area

• Program Manager at a multinational technology company:
• Drove metrics, strategies and roadmaps in the context of broader client goals
• Managed team backlog, and impact to program priorities
• Provided status and daily reporting KPIs to key stakeholdersMaster Data Consultant at a multinational technology company:
• Coordinated test plan development and execution of UAT in a SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) implementation
• Collaborated on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data cleansing, migration, integration and design

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Business Senior Analyst at a leading aerospace & defense company:
• Built a reusable framework for analyzing key metrics around demand planning
• Defined requirements from business and end user perspective for new roles in LN Infor ERP
• Successfully ran pilots that enabled enhanced visibility and shop floor optimizations
• Provided recommendations / analyses to key stakeholders to improve enterprise data management for better outlier identification
• Enabled accurate inventory level control and configured with technical team the system parameters on item data and warehouses

Houston, Texas Area

• Supply Chain & Operations Analyst at leading multinational technology companies:
• Outlined project needs and supplied daily status reports with incident counts and trend graphs for new, open, closed and fixed incidents
• Worked with the business leads and the IT configuration teams to develop plans and test cases for a successful testing execution
• Analyzed and documented the current state and "to be" processes to identify areas of improvement
• Supported an SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) implementationBusiness Analyst at leading global oil and gas companies:
• Guided and supported the workstream through scoping, design, build, test and cutover phases

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Support the management of primary source change requests
• Establishing improved visualization tools around sourcing performance
• Drove the leading effort to update the company's primary sourcing data including customer master and information record data

Houston, Texas

• Provided Mechanical Engineering support for instrumentation efforts in the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM)
• Designed a 3D model that included sensor locations, cable routing and mounting brackets for transceivers and accelerometers
• Used 3D printer to convert detailed CAD model of transceiver brackets to scaled replicas to be used for engineering evaluations

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Performed the optimization of thermal and rheological performance of Amine curing agents mixed with Epoxy resins
• Carried out Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) tests for Glass Transition Temperature (Tg) research calculations
• Completed physical testing (Flexural, Compression & Tensile) for various group projects

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

• Completed 100% kitting & supermarket integration on Legacy Small Frame Breaker production line
• Delivered $38K VCP by achieving 98% Takt Time attainment
• Implemented rail system to convert to a complete Moving Production Line

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Developed and maintained process and equipment design software for use by engineers and scientist throughout the corporation
• Systems Engineer in the GEO Asset Creation Engineering Services (ACES) Simulation and Design Systems group
• Converted PDMs (Process Design Methods) and software tools from Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic.NET

Wallops Island, VA

• Provided support to the Mechanical Systems Branch Code 548
• Test Director of the Small Satellite Advanced Technology (SmallSAT) 6U Deployer
• Designed Ground Support Equipment for the International Space Station Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (ISS-CREAM) payload to be used during test phases

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Honors: Cum Laude

Architectural Drawing Cad