David Schwer, C.P.M. Email & Phone Number

Lakeside Park, Kentucky

• Consulting company focused on development of targeted solutions to optimize clients’ Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Compliance processes by leveraging 38 years of experience and subject matter expertise garnered from multiple industries and operational functions.

Cincinnati, Ohio

• Responsible for the integration of sourcing strategies, processes, and compliance into upstream sales and repair contracting activities in support of military engine sales campaign initiatives.• Development and implementation of strategies targeted at disrupting legacy practices, increasing competitive land-scapes, and reducing reliance on single source procurements in support of $200M annual spend.• Provide solution development for executing complex USG funded procurements including the first engine overhaul agreement valued at $50 million to create incremental capacity for a strategic USG military engine depot.• Leadership of single source negotiation strategy for component repair contract in support of the mission critical Performance Based Logistics program achieving cost savings of $1.0 million.

Cincinnati Oh

• Assigned to a corporate Transformation initiative team tasked to redesign all the Indirect sourcing organizations across the enterprise to increase leverage opportunities for $17B of annual spend.• Developed and implemented new standard sourcing processes and procedures across nine GE businesses to drive one-way of working, increase productivity, leverage volume, minimize risk, and reduce costs in support of the newly redesigned organization.• Created organization’s first sourcing governance digital library to provide easy and consolidated access to all policies, procedures, guidance, and training required to compliantly perform W2W sourcing activities. • Managed development of new $150K sourcing.ge.com platform that provides one-stop landing space capabilities for sourcing employees to access materials related to commodities, strategy, business support, buying channels, preferred suppliers, procedural guidance, and enterprise wide search capabilities.• Developed framework for a new Sourcing Health Matrix to provide visibility of sourcing organizational maturity across several mission critical strategies as benchmarked against world class performance.

• Promoted to newly created leadership position responsible for executing compliance strategies associated with key Governmental & Regulatory initiatives related to Export control, Specialty Metals, C-TPAT, Supplier Relationships, and Government Property in support of $5.0B annual spend. • Focal point responsibilities for International Trade Compliance activity including risk abatement, training, voluntary disclosures, and remediation.• Two-time recipient of Aviation Supply Chain Compliance Award for success in leading internal compliance investigations and resultant corrective action development.• Proactively initiated supplier exit strategy to mitigate reputational risk associated with International supplier non-compliance with local EHS, labor, and manufacturing practice regulations.

• Assigned role of lead investigator for twenty-five internal compliance investigations over a two-year period achieving a twenty-six-day average time for closure. • Successfully managed audit closure activity for one hundred and eighty audits performed at sixty-five International suppliers located in seven different regions over a three-year time-period. • Developed and delivered procurement training focused on compliant government contracting of goods and services; executed training roll-out to thirty Aviation sites within a three-month time-period.• Authored Specialty Metal DFAR exception criteria for inclusion in company standard terms and conditions. • Attained Export Certification required to assign export classifications to aircraft engine technical data in accordance with DOS, DOC, ITAR, and EAR regulations.

• Collaboratively lead team efforts resulting in $7.0MM worth of deflation in an overall inflationary market.• Achieved 60% improvement in on-time delivery, reducing delinquent material by $10.0MM in six months. • Exceeded revenue targets by proactively managing customer critical hardware in support of military spare engine business, generating annual income of $20.0MM. • Recipient of GE Corporate Small Disadvantaged Business Development Award.

Cincinnati Area, Ky

• Successfully attained Black Belt certification within the minimum allowable timeframe of eighteen months.• Received a Global Sourcing Award for leading Aviation’s first Sourcing Transactional Lean Event focused on minimizing transactional and administrative time that resulted in a 20%-time savings reduction.

Cincinnati Area, Ky

• Negotiated $3.5MM of cost savings, representing 45% of organizations $8.0MM total savings. • Proactively managed the urgent offload of $10.0MM of strategic business from capacity constrained domestic sources to lower cost International sources without disruption to schedule.

Cincinnati Area, Ky

• Negotiated and deployed $10MM of corporate contracts for emblems, cell phones, mats, and other health and safety supplies in support of 100+ operations located across the U.S.

Cincinnati Area, Ky

Twelve years of demonstrated success, cross-functional experience, and increasing responsibility within compliance, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, and account management working in the following positions:Customer Account ManagerInternational Program AdministratorSenior BuyerProduct Quality EngineerSenior Contract AdministratorManufacturing Development Program