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Auburn, Ca

Serving customers in Placer, El Dorado, and Nevada Counties. Residential and Commercial property repairs, remodels, and new construction.

Auburn, Ca

Property Management, Real Estate Investments

Roseville, Ca

Owner and operator of coin operated laundromats in greater Sacramento area.

Auburn, Ca

Hired as Manufacturing Manager and promoted to Director of Manufacturing in first 90 days. Responsible for all manufacturing operations, operations expansion, end-to-end supply chain, inbound and outbound logistics, outsourcing, direct cost and quality drivers.• Coordinated move of manufacturing operations to new facility, February 2011.• Improved productivity, increased daily production volume by 300% while reducing direct hours per unit built by 50%. • Hired company’s first Buyer/Planner. Designed and assisted with implementation of Excel based MRP which facilitated elimination of air freight costs from Far East suppliers while reducing potential excess and obsolescence. • Led the manufacturing team during the company’s first two profitable months and quarter.• Layed out manufacturing floor, component and finished goods warehouse in new facility. • Implemented inventory Cycle Count Program while working closely with Finance Department on inventory management to reduce inventory variance from very high 25% + variance to less than 0.5% in subsequent wall-to-wall inventory counts.• Initiated outsourcing activities with several domestic contract manufacturers. • Worked closely with Sales Department to increase distributor minimum order size to reduce outbound shipping costs by as much as 75% for some strategic partners.• Responsible for all recruiting, hiring, developing, and promoting of production team.

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Co-Owner, coin operated laundromat in Sacramento Area.

Responsible for business relationships, cost, quality, and delivery performance with Contract Manufacturing partners; Celestica Nashville, Sanmina SCI Huntsville, Foxconn Ontario (co-located with HP), Foxconn Juarez, ASUSTeK Juarez, and Lite On Juarez.• Project Manager for team that implemented Configure To Order, customer customized lap top manufacturing and order management system for Hewlett Packard Business Lap Top Personal Computer Business Unit, including 90 day implementation window placing an international Contract Manufacturer inside a Hewlett Packard owned domestic facility using base models produced by three different Original Equipment Manufacturers in the far East.• Collaborated with Supply Chain partners to expand or contract capacity and capabilities, supporting HP strategies, while minimizing financial exposure and maximizing customer experienced quality and on time delivery. Spectrum covered Greenfield startups to factory lights out.• Developed, negotiated, and ultimately signed off on major contracts with several Contract Manufacturing partners. Involved with several partner RFQ and contract award cycles.• Evolved internal and external processes, capabilities, and team skill sets to support HP outsourcing strategies and HP/Compaq merger.• Trained in Six Sigma, awarded Green Belt.

Planning production of Business Personal Computers, North American Region, based in Roseville, California. Responsible for contract manufacturing relationship with Sanmina-SCI, with factory located in Huntsville, Alabama. • Collaborated with HP World Wide and Regional Marketing, Engineering, Procurement, and Logistics to determine product mix forecast to drive Regional MRP systems• Managed New Product Introduction and Product End of Life within partner supply chain, minimizing time to market while also minimizing Finished Goods and Component obsolescence. • Negotiated and approved supply chain partner non-recurring cost line items.• Team member, Subject Matter Expert, Mentor and Project Lead in several legacy business planning, MRP and Order Management conversions.• Developed metrics and regular review cycles to track Supply Chain performance, identify and track opportunities to improve customer experienced speed of delivery, cost, and quality.

As part of HP Components Group (now Agilent Technologies) was responsible for several product site transfers with destination sites in United Kingdom and Malaysia, including transfer of business, engineering support, and production line processes. • Supported HP acquisition and merger with Avantek, including systems conversion, factory and staff redefinition. • Earned APICS certification.

At Avantek Folsom, supervised a staff of up to 12 exempt and non-exempt production planners, schedulers and shop floor expediters. • Responsible for site transfer of several division wide product families. • Key member of site wide implementation of World Class Manufacturing methods, the ground work of Lean Manufacturing. This included a complete restructure of end to end processes, eliminating kitting processes and significantly reduced WIP in favor of Kan Ban systems and balanced, cellular manufacturing lines.

Master Scheduling, Production Planning, Production Control for Avantek Milpitas. Developed division level Master Schedule, with weekly upload to MRP system.• Process improvement project leader for improving shop floor control methods and division level capacity planning. • Key customer interactions on major contracts with Texas Instruments.

HARM Missile Program and others in Defense Systems and Electronics Group. Led cross functional Material Teams managing internal and external suppliers of electromechanical and RF subassemblies. Teams included Buyers, Quality Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers. Teams managed component manufacturers of electromechanical and RF subassemblies, including; • Quote analysis• Supplier selection• Contract pricing negotiations• Supplier manufacturing process audit and associated process improvement.Received Quality Process Improvement SPC/SQC training from Dr. W. Edwards Deming and Joseph M..Juran. Part of foundation work that lead to HARM team receiving Malcomb Baldrige Award.Supervisor for as many as six non-exempt personnel