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San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for strategic and project sourcing at Ericsson and managed the organization transition from a materials function to an Ericsson strategic sourcing department. Guided teams of up to 6 professionals in formulation of local sourcing strategies, supplier selection and governance, risk mitigation, agreement creation and cost reduction.• Managed team participation in annual global negotiations process to achieve double digit savings on annual spends of up to $165M.• Drove a cross functional, ongoing cost reduction program to remove product cost through re-design, alternate source implementation, negotiation and other savings initiatives.• Implemented a project sourcing function and recruited project sourcing professionals. Implemented a sourcing review process and project function to drive preferred supplier and multiple source component selection to reduce risk and mitigate risk and ensure production readiness.• Drove selection process of Asia based electro-mechanics suppliers for the SSR edge router platform and ensured successful implementation with significant cost savings

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for in-bound supply and EMS management of enclosures, line cards, optics and accessories for Redback’s Smart Edge routers. Ensured on-time delivery of inbound material for at $250M Revenue Company.• Implemented production planning function and managed inbound supply into two overseas Contract Manufacturers• Established a bonding program with a key optics supplier whereby agreed inventory levels were maintained at supplier expense ensuring product availability on short lead times with no liability.• Leveraged off Ericsson global spend to negotiate and achieve annual cost savings of 20% in 2009 through Ericsson’s annual price negotiation process• Established a sourcing department based on Ericsson ways of working and recruited three strategic sourcing managers.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for all operations activities at Exalt Communications, a design and manufacturer of high volume point to point microwave Ethernet radios deploying a full outsource, turnkey supply chain model.• Selected and successfully transitioned all products from two existing Contract Manufacturers to a new Contract Manufacturing partner who was better positioned to support Exalt’s growth plans.• Managed the transition of all product families to RoHS compliance.• Ensured on time shipments of products to customers and distribution partners during a period of rapid growth and transition to the new Contract Manufacturing partner.• Selected, installed and implemented a PC based ERP system to track procurement activity, inventory, product shipments and costs.

San Jose, California

Responsible for all of Caspian’s operations activities. Areas include Supply Chain, Operations Engineering, Logistics, Document Control, Order Fulfillment and Repair. Key contributor in defining company wide business processes, including New Product Introduction, Supply/Demand planning and Quality Improvement initiatives.

San Jose, California

Designed and established Caspian's supply chain. Hired a materials team. Selected a tier 1 contract manufacturer. Selected and set up Caspian's ERP system (pc-MRP). Drove the supplier selection process for key suppliers. Ensured on time delivery of all prototypes and sales demo equipment to Caspian's internal customers.

Mountain View, California

Responsible for the enhancement of Silicon Graphics supply chain business processes. Partnered with CSC Consultants on a major Quote-to-Collect internal improvement initiative. Deployed process mapping and modeling, analysis, process design and change management skills to stream line business processes in SGI’s internal manufacturing operations.

Mountain View, California

Responsible for establishing a quality organization and processes for a new, entry level product division. Organized and recruited quality groups including reliability, component engineering, supplier quality to a staffing level of twenty professionals with responsibility for all divisional quality functions. Responsible for all production, procurement and quality functions during end of life ramp down of MIPS products. Also responsible for SGI’s reliability and peripheral engineering department.

Mountain View, California

Flemington, New Jersey

Responsible for the logic design of peripheral subsystems for Burroughs ATMs/workstations. Rose rapidly to project engineer and to section manager. Relocated from Burrough’s Croydon, UK to Flemington, New Jersey facility to lead a team of engineers responsible for integrating, qualifying, testing, and supporting OEM workstations (Burroughs B20)

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Honors in Finance, Statistics, Business strategy (Capstone)

Bsee, Electronics Engineering