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Irvine, CA, US

The myth of Prometheus, the titan who defied Zeus to gift humanity with fire, symbolizes the ultimate technological leap. Promethean IT embodies this spirit of defiant innovation. We specialize in delivering services custom-designed to your business’s unique needs, ensuring security, adaptability, and strategic alignment in today's fast-evolving digital.

Management consultant for financially distressed companies. Apply program management skills to analyze business problems and client data to improve supply chain, marketing and sales, production and operation strategies to achieve defined business goals. Manage and maintain project plans, risks and issues logs, and project reporting. Partner with Executive.

Managed 42 suppliers with a $32M+ spend and led a team of 2 buyers. Responsible for reducing supplier lead times and driving material cost savings with existing and potential suppliers.

Los Angeles, CA

Accountable for increasing the yearly sales of 100 Clients, while growing the Customer base in the southern California and Arizona regions. Focus on understanding the Customer’s requirements and developing strategies to better service each individual account; based on Customer industry, location, demand, and historical buys, by proposing and executing JIT.

Anaheim/Oxnard, CA

Responsible for a $35M+ direct and indirect material spend and all performance measurements for 400+ external suppliers for 2 sites, including; cost out, on-time delivery, quality, and inventory. Lead a team of 10 sourcing and procurement professionals in Anaheim and Oxnard, CA, while assisting with the closure of the Las Vegas, NV site. Recruit, develop.

Anaheim/Oxnard, CA

Lake Forest, CA

Managed a raw material spend of $60M and 40 Suppliers. Worked in partnership with 5 plants, in the US and Mexico, to ensure the best total value in quality, cost and delivery from Suppliers. Successfully, drove $1.5M in working capital by moving Supplier payment terms, within 4 months of service.

Tempe, AZ / Torrance, CA

Collaborated with Material Cost Take-Out Team to develop and train the Negotiations “Playbook” for the $1.3B direct material off-contract spend. The “Playbook” is recognized as a Honeywell Aerospace “Best Practice.” Traveled extensively both domestically and internationally, to present, train, and mentor the 400+ Global Sourcing Buyers and Commodity.

Torrance, CA

Inherited a desk of Sole Sourced off-contract parts, sought fair and reasonable pricing, while working to lower supplier lead times and ensure on time delivery of parts. Lead all site Buyers in material productivity, successfully driving $1.73M in off-contract direct material cost savings in a 5 month period.

Torrance, CA

Managed a supply base of 40 vendors and over 800 parts. Worked with suppliers to improve on time delivery performance, decrease “Excess On-Order,” and ensure continual quality improvement. Played a key role in working supplier past dues from $7.1M down to an all time low of $500K. Administered a desk with a weekly average supplier past due of $0; through.