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Tigard, Oregon, United States

Accountable for ensuring supply of key material for production, while maintaining appropriate inventory levels to meet executive needs. Established strong supplier relationships with key accounts and maintained purchasing programs.Accountable for purchasing key components, maintaining MRP attributes for, and ensuring supplyfrom Biamp’s largest component supplier to meet our production needs per the forecast.• Stood up supply chain capabilities for a key acquisition; led the team to develop a purchasing programcadence, build supplier relationships and MRP system data.• Maintain system integrity for ERP information within Microsoft Dynamics AX.• Accountable for identifying potential delivery issues; work with supplier to pull-in or push out materialas needed to meet production needs and inventory targets.• Participate in new product development teams, ensuring that material is secured for all NPI builds,considering material and design risks, lead-times and costs.• Drives functional leadership and coaching across supply chain team.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Accountable for leading strategic programs and managing contract manufacturers to ensure supply meets customer demand. Established processes, agreements on inventory levels, and improvement plans for future business. Managed several products within other business models.  - Supply Chain planner/buyer for products supplied by contract manufacturers - Successfully implemented major ERP software upgrade enabling company’s compliance strategy  - Led project that successfully increased inventory turns, from 11.5 to 18, to meet executive level goals - Utilized Lean methods to drive continuous improvement projects for Supply Chain - Successfully led and implemented several new product introductions as a Supply Chain NPI buyer/planner

Beaverton, Or

Managed team of planners responsible for ensuring supply meets customer needs, utilizing Lean practices and inventory models. Established and maintained Finished Goods inventory and work in process as set by executive level goals.  - Team managed several hundred SKU’s, planned at high level as well as scheduled builds in production - Responsible for planning and scheduling NPI builds, collaborating with cross-functional teams to execute on-time delivery  - Planning Super User for ERP system, striving for continuous improvement through projects, as well as identifying issues proactively - Sales and Operations Planning Manager – led Supply, Partnership, and Executive meeting each month, while successfully improving several metrics set by the Executive Team - Managed team to identify and track component shortages that impacted production builds, decreasing the number per month by 99%.  - Developed an automated tool used by production, customer service, and supply chain that provided visibility of inventory levels, a multi-level supply, and demand for each product. This helped the company accomplish a 100% on time delivery to our customers.

Beaverton, Or

Responsible for planning and scheduling all purchased and manufactured products. Drove continuous improvement in supply chain practices to drive efficiencies and best practice.  - Developed and managed Master Production Schedule which was used to plan and purchase material for production builds - Successfully implemented Lean philosophy into Production, converting builds through work orders to building all manufactured assemblies with kanbans - Responsible for implementation project to introduce Sales and Operations Planning practices into company - Supply Chain liaison for communicating issues that impacted customer shipments or production builds - Successfully implemented Dynamics AX ERP as Planning Super User, responsible for identifying team’s needs, gaps, and working with ERP team to resolve issues

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration, Management And Operations, 4.0 Gpa

Associate’S Degree, Executive Assistant/Executive Secretary