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Sacramento, California Area

Responsible for the Research and Development. Provides strategic direction, and financial oversight for engineering efforts. This included new product development, new production introduction, coordinating OEM relationships and oversee all engineering efforts.

Sacramento, California Area

• Responsible for the engineering operations. Selected to lead, provide strategic direction, and financial oversight for research and development efforts. This included new product development, new production.
• Provided financial oversight for engineering cost centers.
• Led implementation of engineering best practices and process improvements to improve project schedules, expand quality standard, and increase customer satisfaction.
• Provided the financial analysis and total cost of ownership analysis for all new product development effort.

El Dorado Hills

• Led the team that enhanced enterprise resourcing planning (ERP) systems into the business operations. Developed strategic plan for process improvement and was the liaison for Quality, Production, Engineering and sales.
• Directed process improvement team that delivered increases in all company’s key performance indicators.
• Led company’s quality audit team for re-certification of ISO and American Association of Railroad
• Integrated company’s engineering and production part approval process (Ppap) programs into company’s enterprise resource planning system.

Sacramento, California Area

• Responsible for the supply chain operations. Selected to lead, and provide financial oversight for sales and operations channels. This included Territory Management, SaleForce.com and MS Dynamics CRM administrator.
• Optimized sales territory and distribution channel for 15% improved sales profitability.
• Provided financial oversight for $19MM Sales and Operations cost centers.
• Led Implementation of new CRM; worked with integrators and developers to establish best sales practices for marketing automation tools; increased adoption by 300% within two years.
• Led new facilities team responsible for negotiating, planning, and relocation of 340 employees to a 60,000 square foot build-to-suit campus.
• Led process improvement team through root cause analysis, which resulted in the selection and implementation of initiatives that delivered over $10MM in savings.

Sacramento, California Area

• Selected to lead Supply Chain, Materials Management, Procurement, Shipping and Receiving Departments; implemented and developed materials management programs and supply chain techniques.
• Led quarterly project team that was responsible for coordinating product offerings including, product design, packaging and fulfillment, which optimized performance, cost and delivery to over 80,000 customers.
• Responsible for setting up material master setting in Enterprise Resource Planning System. Versed in a variety of ERP systems including configuring product roll out. Responsible for maintaining over 400 separate bill.
• Reduced inventory by 300% while sales increased 30% and total number of SKU’s increased 100%. Developed tools to evaluate inventory flow, JIT ordering processing, lean and product costing.
• Coordinated new consumer product roll out with major mass retailer. Managed EDI Implementation. Worked closely with Product Managers, Vendors, and Fulfillment Center.
• Responsible for managing inventory levels through Fulfillment Center and 5,400 Kmart stores.

Sacramento, California Area

• Responsible for all Procurement, Materials Management, and Receiving Departments.
• Coordinated company’s quarterly software release with replicator and distribution channels. Responsible for distributing quarterly 1.2 million CD’s and 6 million DVD’s to over 80,000 customers.
• Using Lean manufacturing principals, reduced software replication cost by 45% while improving delivery schedules.
• Responsible for sourcing all information technology purchases, including servers, desktops, switches, and tape management backup systems.

Santa Cruz, CA

• Responsible for all sales and production planning.
• Automated IT operations by developing an automated order entry system that dramatically improved order tracking and fulfillment, and enabled proper production scheduling.
• Developed mini – ERP system that ensured that production kept pace with a 25% increase in sales by developing a tracking system to forecast and track sub-assemblies during production.
• Improved efficiency and profitability in the shipping operation by developed of shipping calculation software program which lead to a new profit center.
• Led a change in procedures for developing sales plans, resulting in more accurate forecasting and better production planning. Instituted daily sales reporting to ensure "real time" information was available.