Dan Lydon, Cpm, Cim Email & Phone Number

Reading, MA, US

Ra'anana, Ha-Sharon, IL

Beverly, Massachusetts, US

Lowell, MA, US

Andover, Massachusetts, US

Director of Supply Chain managing contract manufacturing, commodity management team, logistics and RMA group. Responsible for new product introduction of new wireless and 5G market segment for telecommunications products at Casa Systems as well as legacy wireline and cable TV market products. Customers include Sprint, Charter Communications, Rogers.

Maynard, MA, US

• Provide executive supply chain leadership to help grow to $468M annual sales for telecom startup company. Customers include Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Adva Optical, Coriant, ATT, Verizon, ZTE, Huawei, Juniper.
• Established vendor base and supply chain infrastructure to support rapid growth with annual product family shipments ranging from 15K-60K units.
• Implemented planning, purchasing, and supply chain systems; inventory management controls; and shipping and receiving processes.
• Drove $30M in costs savings for 2016 across multiple products leading the commodity team.
• Achieved inventory turns of 8-14, and physical inventory accuracy of 99.7% utilizing a cycle count program.

Bedford, MA, US

• Directed supply chain for this $24M medical device and pharmaceutical reagent manufacturing company. Customers included Siemens, Instrumentation Labs, and numerous international distributors. Successfully managed a.
• Instituted work order processing to improve sales order commit dates, customer satisfaction, and inventory control/visibility.
• Led the replacement of outdated paper systems to transform business process via the PLM integration project.

• Managed supply chain for this $45M chemical analysis equipment manufacturing company. Customers included US Air Force, US government agencies, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Pfizer, Glaxo Smith Kline, and.
• Led supply chain and sourcing for all NPIs, and devised supply chain strategies for finished goods, substrate materials, lasers, gratings, filters, injection molding, fiber assembly, hybrid assemblies, and optical.
• Managed the Procurement, Master Scheduling, and Inventory Management team for Production and Engineering Services.
• Centralized the purchasing function from an engineering environment to a standardized requisition process with a hierarchical approval procedure, and identified additional process improvements and areas for corporate.
• Strategically developed a supply base to support a scalable production model, implemented an Agile PDM system, and executed government funded contracts/projects with project expense tracking within the ERP/procurement.

• Managed supply chain for this $400M medical device design service and contract manufacturing organization. Customers included Boston Scientific, Philips Medical, Ethicon, Johnson and Johnson, Smith and Nephew, Genzyme.
• Led supply chain and sourcing for all NPIs, and devised supply chain strategies for a wide range of commodities/technologies, sterilization, packaging, components, testing, and sub-assemblies.
• Managed the Procurement Team for the Engineering Services/NPI organization, and facilitated transfer of products from NPI division to manufacturing facilities internal and external to Accellent.
• Implemented purchasing and materials management modules in Oracle 8.0 for the Engineering Services NPI organization from concept to production within six months.
• Revised the NPI process to a phased review process to improve material flow and supplier qualification process.

US

• Led supply chain for this $40M telecom network equipment provider. Customers included AT&T, Qwest, Huawei, and Korea Telecom.
• Procured materials for this startup organization and managed fiber optic components/subassemblies, PCBAs, flex circuits, ASICs, FPGA devices, backplanes, custom server products, networking cards, outsourced assemblies.
• Oversaw outsourcing for Terabit Switch Router and Server products from prototype to full turnkey production.
• Led negotiations with key suppliers including Nortel, LSI Logic, Sanmina Corp., Motorola, Synopsis, and Cisco channel partners, as well as sourced and developed the supply base, performed supplier audits, and evaluated.
• Led NPI using concurrent engineering practices with supply base and Avici engineering to satisfy new technology requirements.
• Managed materials procurement from prototype to full production within five months for an NPI for the OC192C core router.