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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Executed and administered global configuration management process for new product releases and engineering change orders averaging 2,000 annually. • Analyzed and documented change control process and proposed improvements for efficiency and effectiveness.• Executed process standardization efforts with global plants, partners, and customers. • Created and administered work instructions and process mapping for engineering change orders and new product releases for employees worldwide.• Created global process for completing engineering change orders, moving from hard copy to digital workflow within Team Center and SharePoint.• Continuously achieved 100% on-time for engineering change orders.• Provided on-going training to engineering, plants and business units on documentation processes and technology. • Worked with global customers including John Deere, Caterpillar, CNH Global, AGCO, Kenworth, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Volvo, Mack, Mercedes Benz, Western Star, and Boeing.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Sourced and managed 250 freight carriers.• Negotiated freight rates totaling $300 million.• Implemented carrier rating system, reducing loss ratio by 85% and increasing on-time delivery to 97%.• Developed and managed system to accurately track all freight deliveries to plants.• Only coordinator chosen for worldwide team to improve transportation costs as well as relationships with internal and external customers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Executed and administered procurement card program exclusively with US Bank to corporate facility and plants.• Executed and administered capital equipment program approximately $400 million annually.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Located, evaluated, and developed sources of supply within cost, delivery, and service constraints.• Worked with international customers such as Boeing, Seagate, IBM, and 3M in locations including Hong Kong, China, Canada, Mexico, and England.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Handled all sourcing and first production purchases for 26 worldwide facilities for fabricated metals including stamped, machined, and spun parts as well as tubing and fabricated tubing.• Oversaw purchases of commodities and finished goods up to $500M annually from 400 domestic and international suppliers per ISO/QS9000 requirements.• Worked with worldwide customers such as Freightliner, Peterbilt, Kenworth, Mack, Volvo, Mercedes Benz, Western Star, Caterpillar, John Deere, AGCO, and International Harvester in locations including North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.• Achieved cost reduction of 42% over goal through robust supplier partnerships.• Selected as only buyer (out of 13) for team developing ways to achieve cost reductions of $1 million in 5 months.• Achieved no plant shut downs due to supplier delays.• Collaborated with all levels of production personnel to coordinate on-time product releases.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed satellite exhaust system assembly plant for Peterbilt in Denton, Texas.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed and managed subcontract inventory systems for the Gas Turbine System division.• Developed and managed supplier held tooling programs for corporate Purchasing/Logistics.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Management & Marketing

Associate Of Arts - Aa