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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Program Management of high impact transformational solutions that leverage third parties for improving margin and increasing revenue. Sourced and contracted a new SaaS platform and developed crowdsourcing model to lower cost and speed time-to-market.- Built funnel of projects exceeding 120M€ savings over 3 years based on business cases and strategic thinking.- Collaborated closely with business and process leaders to develop an end-to-end Source to Pay process for freelancers.- Redefined procurement process, contracts, and policies to address risks in using freelancers.- Confirmed savings of 30% through execution of a crowdsourcing pilot to digitalize deployment of field services using on-demand resources: built a crowd of 24 workers who completed over 220 customer sites.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Procurement lead managing relationship with the business division. Influenced senior management through spend analytics, benchmarking, and early engagement sourcing new technology. Drove lowest total cost by managing cost reduction program.- Delivered 12% savings in Professional Services and implemented a scorecard and Executive reviews to improve quality.- Teamed with Product Management to build a partner ecosystem to speed the deployment of small cells. Negotiated contracts and managed 32 companies across 10 Countries providing transport, infrastructure, and installation services and resulted in 2M€ of net new revenues.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Managed global team of 5 subject matter experts and expanded new business by collaboration with business development and local project teams. Identified and on-boarded new suppliers, built relationships with competitors, and created a sourcing strategy to avoid buying maintenance from IT and Telecom equipment providers. Managed global maintenance spend across all major Managed Services contracts.- Exceeded yearly savings stretch targets on 240M€ spend enabling the business line to exceed their VM stretch target.- Led Procurement project team for Managed Services in Zurich Switzerland leveraging best practices and resulting in yearly savings > 20%.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Enabled new business by creating and implementing a new procurement strategy which included sourcing and negotiating contracts with new suppliers, risk assessments, and developing new SOW’s. Provided coaching to regional teams on strategy.- Negotiated and secured cooperation with competitors while achieving >12% savings on over 400M€ spend.- Handpicked for program management of new projects: traveled to the Netherlands to lead 10 managers in contract negotiation with over 25 suppliers, and received 2005 Lucent Chairman’s Award for Successful Project Launch.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Recruited, trained, and managed a team of 6 process modelers and a full time consultant for SAP implementation. Global processes included: pricing and quoting, logistics and warehousing, return and exchange services, Lucent.com portal, orderable item master data, and internal and credit card orders.- Partnered with IT Department on driving a process centric approach on enterprise-wide SAP projects resulting in detailed and simplified process flows. - Developed and implemented a process modeling methodology and provided consulting across 10 complex projects.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Category management across 4 technology areas: broadband access, VoIP, optical networking, and mobile handsets. Leadership for global team of 11 professionals included managing workload and priorities while insuring a strategic focus, market insight, and close collaboration with business partners. Enabled new revenue through strategic sourcing and contract management of new and existing suppliers.- Achieved over 20% savings from $327M spend across more than 80 suppliers.- TL9000 lead for Supplier Management Department - updated procedures to insure compliance and passed all audits.- Developed and managed sourcing strategies across each business unit, and project managed the contracting and on-boarding of Customer directed suppliers.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Commodity manager responsible for passive optics sourcing strategy, pricing, new product introduction, and contract negotiation across all product units. Co-located with R&D to improve supplier management and evaluation of new and existing suppliers.- Launched 24 new optical networking products.- Achieved 37% savings on $200M yearly spend and reduced liability by over $90M for excess inventory.- Led in creation and implementation of global commodity strategy by leading technical cross functional teams, managing pricing strategy, RFI / RFP / RFQ, and implementing supplier relationship program for the most strategic suppliers.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Strategy and process development across external manufacturers, internal manufacturing sites, and component suppliers in the areas of commodity management, forecasting, and component shortages. Assessed contract manufacturing sites and assisted with supply issues during product transfers.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Senior Engineer, Supplier Quality and Process Improvement- Managed supplier quality for semiconductors with $180M yearly in purchased parts and 4 on-site supplier field quality engineers. Drove performance improvement in material management, root cause analysis, and resolution of special cause and common cause supplier quality manufacturing issues.- Leadership creating supplier resourcing and perfect launch plans, and led Kaizen for incoming quality and reporting. Engineer, Manufacturing and Advanced Manufacturing Group- Plant-wide expert on solder printing and process development - utilized Six Sigma, conducted DOE's, rewrote specifications, implemented new materials, and evaluated/launched new equipment within lean manufacturing operations.- Led division wide team of 8 engineers (6 Countries) to a common soldering process resulting in savings of over $2M yearly.- Awarded Visteon Continuous Improvement Team of the Year for Copy Exactly, and following year was awarded the Henry Ford President's Award for Customer Driven Quality for Screen Print / Reflow CIT.

Bs, Materials Science And Engineering

Ms, Manufacturing Systems Engineering