• Project Lead/SME for Supply Chain Design/Operational Activities to enable early stage clinical development through GMP production on a highly complex biopharmaceutical product

Direct the operations leadership in planning and management of Procurement Operations. Negotiate with internal and external executive level management to positively influence policymaking bodies with regard to procurement policies.• Oversee both direct and indirect procurement across all of Dendreon’s sites.• Lead a team of Procurement Specialists in negotiating major contracts, managing capital projects, and procuring materials, parts, and equipment.• Oversee risk analysis and develop solutions to a variety of complex problems.• Collaborate with other departments during planning and process improvement activities to support timely completion of all operational area objectives and milestones.• Participate in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.

• Led and managed the Project Management Office (PMO) and the Project Managers within the PMO.• Led organizational strategic planning and process improvement initiatives and assisted with the budgeting process in conjunction with Finance.• Work with internal Product Development, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, R&D, and Operations team members to ensure tight project timelines are met.

• Work with the team to implement changes identified during pre-validation activities.• Project milestones include successful, at scale, shakedown and engineering runs, culminating in successful validation of the revised process.

• Co-Led (with Product Development leader) global supplier selection and supplier relationship management for clinical to commercialization of new product.• Managed supplier base related to production and supply of newly launched Medical Device/Drug combination.• Procured and performed detailed analysis of equipment related to device and drug manufacturing at CMOs.Key Results:• Achieved zero stockouts or backorders, over a four year period, for commercial products supporting product sales of $200 million plus anually.• Led engineering and process improvements to ensure qualification and operation of custom automated assembly machine (COGs savings of $1.8 million over manual process).• Negotiated a savings of 30% ($4.0 million) off of an existing contract with a Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) and $500,000 off a new contract with another CMO.• Created a process to perform detailed planning and scheduling of supplier base.• Hold Board of Pharmacy Designated Representative License - Drug Wholesaler (License #24710).

Consulting Skills:Supply Chain Consulting, Manufacturing, Global Plant Moves, Strategic Planning, SAP Implementation, FDA Compliance, Team Leadership, Project Management, Strategic Sourcing, Materials Management, Data Management, Warehouse Management, Material Planning, Business Process Improvement, Demand Planning, Startups Clients included: MEDTRONIC, ROCHE/GENETECH, DENDREON, PALL CORPORTATION, VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS, BIOSOURCE INTERNATIONAL, and HUDSON RESPIRATORY CARE.

Projects included:• Project Management for a Supply Chain Redesign project in a multi-facility global environment (90 facilities) with a primary focus on improvements to supply and demand planning focused on a shared planning platform (SAP APO.)• Project Management for complex projects, including change controls related to the successful transfer of clinical production to the manufacturing facility, COGS reductions, and the annual plant shut down for maintenance.• Analyzed existing Supply Chain Processes (including MPS, MRP, and Shop Floor Reporting in a multi-facility environment) and developed a plan to reduce Supply Chain head count while improving associated processes. • Improved material flow between facilities and from external suppliers by increasing data accuracy and creating electronic kanbans (where needed), eliminating internal shortages, reducing production down time, and improving product availability, while increasing customer satisfaction.• Led a project to move product distribution from an external distributor to a new internal West Coast Distribution Center. • Analyzed existing Supply Chain Data Flow (which spanned 13 separate systems, involving multiple departments and global locations). • Migrated global Supply Chain Data responsibilities into a centralized control point.• Created and managed the project plan to migrate the Accounting, Payroll, Customer Service, Distribution, and MRP functions to a server based system, creating an annual savings of $3.2 million.• Lead an MRP implementation team, while focusing the organization on taking steps towards standardization of processes and policies.• Coached the Planning and Production personnel in implementing the process changes needed to support an MRP system migration.

• Determined capacity requirements for plants in the U.S. and Mexico, supplying weekly finite schedules to meet customer demands and inventory goals. • Analyzed existing planning and purchasing methodologies and led implementation teams to convert processes to centralized MRP and ERP systems on SAP. • Coached current and new members of materials management through the change process for the new systems.• Created processes and policies to ensure level demand flow between the manufacturing facility in the U.S. and assembly facilities in Mexico.• Achieved 99.7% schedule attainment on affected product lines, while increasing labor efficiencies by 12%. • Coordinated the transfer of an 800 employee manufacturing operation from the U.S. to Mexico. • Co-led the Supply Chain Transfer Activities to implement the manufacturing plant transfer from the U.S. location to the Mexico location. • Defined manning, space, and capital expenditure requirements. • Coordinated plant transfer activities with equipment suppliers and manufacturers, customs brokers, transportation companies, and component vendors to ensure all schedules were met and budgets maintained.• Designed the workflow for warehousing, packaging, and assembly operations. • Trained new personnel in Mexico and the U.S. to ensure proper execution of new processes and procedures.

• Managed the Planning, Receiving, and Raw Stores Warehousing departments that consisted of 35 exempt, nonexempt, and hourly positions.• Developed and implemented standardized purchasing methodologies.• Reduced inventories by 30% through implementation of JIT, supplier certification, and MRPII. * Minimized back orders (99% service level) while planning production and materials, worldwide inventories, and international distribution shipments for primary product lines.* Increased material flow efficiencies and optimized inventory through customization of the BPCS software system with consolidated pick lists and re-supply orders based on point of use real-time reporting.