Gary Ayers Email & Phone Number

Lake Forest, CA, US

• Manage supplier base improving on time metrics, payment terms, leading cost down initiatives.
• Successfully implemented cost savings 1 million on 17 million in spend.
• Improved on time delivery from suppliers from 82% to 93%.
• Parker valves go into majority of worlds ventilators needed for COVID patients - Managed critical supplier base keeping material flowing for production during a 4x production growth over a three month timeframe.
• Drove a number of quick supplier changes/ qualifications as supplier base was at max capacity to support unprecedented growth.
• Implemented new rubber over molding tooling 75% faster to support COVID growth.

• Managed representative office in China focus on sourcing and managing China supply chain.
• Developed and implemented vision and road map for China national team with senior management. Influenced management to set up a representative office to legitimize their China operations. In 6 months’ time set up.
• Initiated new financial controls for China operations: result was clear visibility for where money was being spent and under budget performance for 18 months running.
• Drove goals and performance for RFQ turn-around, shipments, quality resolutions and supplier improvements. RFQ response time was shortened by from one month to less than two weeks.
• Partnered with Quality Manager to improve suppliers manufacturing and quality processes. Introduced new quality methodologies to our factories such as PPAP, control plans, 8D root cause analysis, 5 why’s problem.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes which include automotive investment cast parts for Kingshock (shock absorber parts), forged aluminum parts for Jazz (aftermarket auto parts), wire racks for Belshaw.

• Worked out of China representative office responsible for sourcing new product and developing supply chain within China.
• Led Chinese team of project managers to reduce new production lead times from 16 months to 7 months.
• Coached team daily on engineering principles and best practices for project management.
• Spent many hours on the foundry floor improving processes to reduce casting porosity issues and improve machining operations. Influenced factories to implement travelers, SOP’s, quality alerts at cells, training.
• Worked closely with customer and factory engineers to ensure new product design matched the manufacturing process capabilities.
• Influenced management to develop Smartsheet companywide to manage logistics, RFQ’s, supply chain, engineering documentation, and new product development.

BAM Journeys Program.o Traveled to more than 30 kingdom businesses.o Saw many stories of success and failure in BAM implementation.o Gained knowledge in understanding the challenges of a foreigner running a BAM business in China. o Helped in understanding the importance of relationships in the Chinese business world and fostered an appreciation for Chinese.

Danbury, CT, US

Financial – o Creation of budget for the year and implementing tools for financial tracking and analysis with monthly oversight of the P&L including Profit Margin, Monthly expenditures, amortization of capital equipment, etc.o COG calculations and costing for products o Responsible for end of month accounting, closing accounts and reporting to corporate. o.

US

Part of engineering team developing new product (ion implanter) and responsible for improving manufacturability of existing plasma beam ion implanter products.

Mechanical Engineer: Startup: new product development (design automated equipment for fiber optic switch handling – fusing technology).

US

Part of engineering team developing new product (ion implanter) and responsible for improving manufacturability of existing plasma beam ion implanter products. Patent holder for real time data acquisition for plasma beams.

Startup: new product development part of engineering team actively involved in the development of new chip handling equipment. Responsible for development of automated carrier system.

Entrusted with improving manufacturability of mass flow meters (Coreolis).

Mba, Business

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering