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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Responsible for global supply chain and operations including: supplier strategy, planning, manufacturing, engineering, quality, logistics, trade compliance. Data analytics focus to drive efficiency and minimize inventory within supply chain. Focal sites located in Mexico and US to fulfill worldwide.

Fremont, Ca, Us

o Served in various rolls during this period to develop and grow a new business unit within Seagate from $0 to $650M/year in revenue over a 3 year periodo Managed contract manufacturing operations and drove joint teams to reduce inventory by ~50% over 1 year, improved PO to ship lead times by 50% over 6 months and collaborated with engineering to reduce SKUs by >50%o Co-negotiated and managed divestiture of 300 person business unit o Managed a Program Management Office Structure to execute key projects to improve operational capabilities to scale new business unit including the implementation of automated Configure Price Quote solutions, Lead Time Optimizations as well as cost reduction initiativeso Implemented a process to evaluate and engage in large new business opportunitieso Lead large team and contract negotiations in pursuit of unique new business opportunity o Developed keen understanding of unique supply chain attributes to support new systems organization vs standard core business.o Engaged with customers to identify optimized supply chain solutionso Acquisition integration lead for Xyratex Systems Organization

Fremont, Ca, Us

o Responsible for commodity management and supplier relations for approximately $1.6B per year in spendo Managed cross functional Commodity Management Teams that achieved 4% year over year price reductions sustained over a 10 year period o Established strong relationships between development engineering, manufacturing and supplier quality to optimize sourcing strategies and spendo Developed key advanced technology joint development relationship with strategic supplier that was also a competitor

Fremont, Ca, Us

o Received the Seagate Chairmans Award for this role in 2012.o Led incredible team in transition of purchasing, IT, finance, logistics and planning systems that enabled factory to be running 3 days post deal closeo Oversaw transition of light contract manufacturing operations with responsibility for $600M in revenue per Quartero Recapitilized factory over a 9 month period increasing capacity by 50% in this time frame o Engaged design center engineering teams to enable a 4x improvement in quality over a 6 month period

Fremont, Ca, Us

Fremont, Ca, Us

Various positions of increasing responsibility:Suspension Commodity ManagerSupplier Qualification Manager, External HeadsQuality/Reliability Tiger Team LeadContamination/Cleaning Process EngineerAsia Factory support