Ed Zinger Email & Phone Number

Mundelein, Illinois

• Manage the planning of production of over over 30 reagent SKUs or 2.0 MM units annually including their material requirements.
• Manage a hands on active team in material management, ordering, handling and inventory control
• Control over $3M of raw material production inventory
• Developed blanket purchase orders valued at over $2M
• Played key role in rolling out MRP, MRPII and S&OP in SAP for the site
• Drove production for on time delivery in the midst of a two year $25M plant expansion

• Managed production planning, an inventory of over $10 million and shipping/receiving.
• Planned 10 instrument production lines with production shipments of over $70 million.
• Fluent in SAP for planning, production and distribution.
• Lead 11 reports in areas of shipping, receiving, traffic, service parts distribution and consumable sales.
• 6 Sigma Green Belt Certified
• Serve as key in the site obtaining Class A certification and increasing AB parts orders fill rate to above 95%.

• Responsible for supervising the production of several life science instrument product lines.
• Supervised 17 direct reports.
• Planned, monitored and controlled production of seven instrument models. Shipped over 60 units a month at an average cost of $50,000 each.
• Active involvement in continuous improvement activities such as Kaizen and 5S.
• Provide monthly production metrics to site leader.

• Responsible for managing the functions of service parts order entry, service call dispatch and service contract administration.
• Supervised 9 direct reports.
• Monitored and controlled service contract marketing and renewal for an instrument install base of over 20,000 units with over 5300 active contracts.
• Managed major contract accounts and negotiated discounts and entitlements with customers.
• Won service contracts of up to $500,000.
• Responsible for over $25 million in service contract sales.

• Responsible for the installation, maintenance and repairing of biotechnological instrumentation at customer sites. Required to satisfy customers, manage accounts and handle inventory.
• Trained customers on numerous models of DNA sequencers and synthesizers.
• Respected as lead engineer in the Chicago territory.
• In 2000 closed over 200 calls; the most in the district.
• Field response team leader in 2001 for 37x models of DNA sequencers nationwide.
• MTTR and other repair specs better than national average.

• Responsible for all the analytical capabilities of the lab. Assigned on many research projects as a team member or in a support function.
• Demonstrated a broad base of analytical knowledge by employing the use of LC/MS, GC/FTIR/MS, HPLC/DAD and other instrumentation. Brought in over $1 million of equipment into lab.
• Served as project co-leader in developing bioremediation strategies for the recovery of wash water in support of extended space missions. Designed and installed a bioreactor which was operated at NASA.
• Developed analytical methods for and involved with numerous research projects such as anti-insect coatings for aircraft and hydrotreating of energetics.

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