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Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

- Designed, implemented, and operationalized S&OP process for Development, Clinical and two Commercial products. Leveraging credibility and influence, partnered and integrated all key functions and stakeholders at an enterprise level to evolve S&OP into the single source of planning truth. This enabled a 2x year-over-year growth in treated patients and set the franchise up for continued growth. Built S&OP and Project Management teams as business grew from clinical to multiple commercial products across regions. - Expanded S&OP to cover global demand streams and supply nodes (e.g., contract manufacturers (CMO), external partners) to ensure holistic balance between demand and supply. Defined and implemented maturity model to integrate S&OP process with financial planning (e.g., annual budgets).- Led functional and IT resources to develop S&OP suite of tools, analytics, and dashboards to digitize process. This enabled focus on identifying and resolving demand vs. supply imbalances over multiyear horizon. Worked with senior leadership on supply gaps to identify root causes, develop and implement mitigation strategies to enable supply chain continuity. Led Supply Chain Planning Project Managers to drive continuous improvement in strategic processes and operational execution.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Managed global demand & supply planning team in forecasting/demand planning, capacity planning (manufacturing, sourcing & engineering), material management and inventory optimization across 21 sites. Drove execution planning up to PO through integrated project planning. Integrated S&OP process with the financial plan and transformed to Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Evaluating and implementing digitization of S&OP through Oracle S&OP (Demantra), Cyberplan and DP/IP tools.- Led overhaul of US Ops supply chain process and Oracle ERP revamp. Utilized Quality tools to identify root causes and remediate gaps in system configuration (e.g. min-max levels, planning fences), item gatekeeping (MDM), material planning, inventory management, master scheduling, roles & responsibilities, execution KPIs, training & organization structure. Using change management methodology, transitioned US manufacturing to China.- Drove execution across 5 global factories with a focus on key KPIs (on-time delivery, overdue backlog, inventory and P&L margin). Led analysis, evaluation and implementation of rooftop restructuring, make/buy planning, standard cost updates, vouchering standardization, regulatory transition of execution & inventory to API 6A 21st edition and inventory control through risk releases, re-application, min/max and safety stocks. Led Lean action workout at Mexico manufacturing plant to improve throughput. Acting Global Supply Chain Leader for Surface Pressure Control Projects business.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Directed on-time customer fulfillment through effective Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) including demand & supply planning, optimization of production planning & control, material planning, master scheduling, inventory management and strategic sourcing including implementation of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) program to deliver $800MM/yr of revenue across 9 global factories and service shops. Managed global demand/supply planning and materials management team. Responsible for OTD, ODBL, inventory and cost liquidation across all sites. - Led joint sessions with senior executives to define a vision and strategy for evaluating 40 global sites and through a tollgate process, managed production ramp down/up, manpower, materials, equipment and site remediation for 20 sites to realize $40MM/yr in savings.- Led reduction in excess inventory by 15% ($25MM), operationalized site/regional/global S&OP processes for short/mid/long term operations execution planning and implemented Lean manufacturing principles (Kaizen events) at 2 factories focused on improving material/information flow, process controls, bottleneck identification/resolution and reduction in production lead times, costs and space requirements.

- Integrated operations of two businesses with revenue of $1.4B/yr and 1,500 employees across 6 continents. Led joint sessions with regional senior executives to define strategic goals by benchmarking organizations and customer feedback. Proposed & implemented new structure across regions. - Operationalized a business execution model for global fulfillment of equipment and services. Through global cross-functional executive leader sessions, led rollout of a lean customer focused organization of Ops Delivery Managers (ODMs) that owned wing-to-wing equipment and service execution.

- Full P&L responsibility for greenfield operations of $75MM contract in Ghana. Defined organization structure, identified site and completed design for a new service shop and established business as per local regulations and joint venture agreements.- Led cross-functional team to define and implement a project execution plan for a greenfield service shop, building a new local organization of 30 employees and operational planning of the equipment arrival logistics, integration and testing for subsea deployment.

- Reduced overdue backlog by 90% and improved on-time delivery by 43% through implementation of materials management principles including Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), demand/capacity planning, master scheduling, production, inventory and fulfillment project planning across 6 factories. - Led joint sessions with cross-functional executives to define strategy and customer buy-in for a product platform. Led 9 functional managers to implementation by utilizing Lean/Six Sigma and reducing part numbers by 56%, lead times by 25% and reducing costs by $5MM in 2014.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Operational Audit: Led team of 18 to utilize risk-based project management to validate operational accuracy with a focus on long-term service agreements (LTSA) and acquisition integration at GE Energy and GE Oil & Gas. Defined global landscape of LTSA contracts, established operational and financial risk criteria and developed scope of in-depth validation for highest risk contracts. Working at customer power plants, led validation of operational continuity by modeling turbine outages along with part lives to ensure maximum up-time. Linked operational parameters to the business P&L (balance sheet & income statement) and mitigated risks.- Financial Audit: Led team to validate balance sheet including inventory, revenue recognition, accounts receivables/payables, warranty, and cash. - Compliance Audit: Led a cross-functional team to integrate 900+ third parties (e.g. distributors) for a $3B acquisition into GE. Defined integration framework across operations, finance and compliance. Using this risk-based framework, evaluated each third party for missing requirements and implemented the project plan to integrate the third parties without impacting sales.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Using Six-Sigma, performed gap analysis to identify defects with customer invoicing driven by Oracle issues. Led team of 3 technical off-shore resources to identify root cause of issues, implement & test fixes and roll-out improved invoicing with 94% reduction in defects.- Led a cross-functional team of stakeholders and technical off-shore resources to reduce the extract, transform and load (ETL) process within BusinessObjects that enabled timely production planning and execution control across global factories.- Implemented the Xerox shared services printing model at Sarasota HQ site of 200 employees including business leadership teams.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Led evaluation and analysis of GE Security’s online catalog and ERP systems (SAP MDM & Oracle 11i) to drive synchronization and enable deployment of e-commerce using Oracle iStore.

Washington, Dc, Us

- Co-led the assessment, planning and business case development of a major plant redesign with up to $50MM cap-ex investment. Utilized Lean/Six Sigma methodologies to improve existing machinery, process flow and logistics throughput.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Business, Mathematics

High School, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program