Cindy Paulsen Email & Phone Number

Wilsonville, Oregon

Quickly took on Purchasing electro-mechanical parts; generated purchase orders under government compliance procedures, expedited deliveries, resolved quality and invoice issues. Four months later added floor stock, chemicals and manual purchase requests to existing work load.* Strategically negotiated groups of related products; achieving a $130K cost savings on one slip ring and $24,400 on one joystick in the first year implemented.* Initiated a new process to avoid sending good displacers and coolers back to supplier, avoiding a $1500 evaluation fee per unit.* Work closely with key suppliers improving on time delivery 34.8% on one supplier alone

• Sourced materials for board builds including inventory management, scrubbed BOMs, projected shortages, purged obsolete stock.• Managed quality issues with suppliers and kitted materials. • Interfaced into the Systems Engineering team to assist in selecting components, seeks the hard to find components and suggests alternative parts when applicable• Generated, tracked and expedited purchase orders then resolved any invoicing issues.• Track BOM changes across multiple SKUs; often building many variations of the same board simulanteously. • Improved the productivity of the programs by establishing rights for NBI to create part numbers in SPEED; ensured the Systems Engineers for each program took the right level of ownership to ensure the accuracy of the data entered into the SPEED database

Managed inventory based on Min/Max setting and rapidly fluctuating production schedule; resolved invoice and quality issues. Forecasted packing needs to primary suppliers based on sales projections. • Created a master parts list to streamline reordering, so significantly increased efficiency that two less heads were required. • Researched and identified opportunities to reduce costs of packaging materials and freight.

Ensured Development and global deployment of custom test equipment while achieving critical processor production schedules. Generated best known methods; managed commercial systems and processes. Created and maintained web pages and implemented web based forecasting system.• Creatively achieved $1.7M savings in a team negotiated second generation Value PC test equipment; personally achieving 3.1% savings on the tester, 55% cost reduction on user manuals, $500K in avoided cancellation charges and $14K by eliminating excessive training materials.• Analyzed interdepartmental charges and indentified process gap. Developed process, procedures and trained employees which resolved 90% of budget gaps and increased forecast accuracy. • Identified supplier’s data corruption on report shared with 3 companies; organized orders and due dates in a spreadsheet which saved the schedule on several projects for a month.

Purchased electronic components from MRP increased inventory turns and reduced exposure to excess. Issued and maintained purchase orders, work orders and customer forecasts. Sourced suppliers and negotiated pricing. Handled prototype kits from BOM auditing to incoming inspection and kitting.• Saved over $200K in cost avoidance though detailed documentation of customer authorizations within hours of complaint• Consolidated dozens of customer bills of material for quotation with common part using Access database to filter to best quote on each part, locate internal part numbers and completing the all the turn-key quotations in less than two weeks.• Audited all internal part numbers, significantly reduced duplicate part numbers.