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• Increased on-time delivery of Spares orders to meet customer expectations• Managed priorities for assembly with completion dates for discrete jobs• Applied work timings to bill of material (BOM) routings and presided over manufacturing lead-time rollups and cumulative total lead-times for the procurement of purchased components• Forecasted and planned the materials for furnaces, spares orders and system conversions• Responsible for actively managing work in process (WIP) to completion of the project• Maintained status as an Oracle Super User, trained colleagues, designed reports, exported them to Excel analyzed and compared data creating Delta BOM's• Adjusted safety stock levels based on business trends

• Team leader for Planners and oversaw Shop Floor Control’s priorities with excellent results• Successfully managed tens of thousands of components for systems from cradle to grave• Relied upon for training personnel in Oracle 11i Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) and Work In Process (WIP) modules• Documented processes and procedures for various integration projects including Outside Source Processing (OSP) for make assemblies and RMA OSP repair for the refurbishment of customer returns• Coordinated the virtual planning of systems for manufacturing at the U.K. facility• Increased on-time delivery from 68% to 96% for Spares orders• Analyzed metrics and worked with Buyers and Planners consistently exceeding goals set by the VP of Materials• Managed priorities for the Assembly department in order to meet completion dates for discrete jobs• Applied work timings to bill of material (BOM) routings and managed manufacturing lead-time rollups and cumulative total lead-times for the procurement of purchased components• Forecasted and planned the materials for special engineering projects including defining and releasing discrete jobs for components to be issued• Responsible for actively managing work in process (WIP) through completion of the project• Validated ASCP/MRP in Oracle’s workbench before purchase requisitions were launched which consistently met or exceeded goals set by management• Maintained status as an Oracle Super User through continuous training

• Proactively managed the process of forecasting Spares requirements and setting safety stock levels to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction without increasing inventory• Diligently managed field replaceable units (FRU) demand including unit cost mark up for the Product Support department• Analyzed Spares forecast resulting in increased Spares revenue while achieving inventory cost reductions• Set safety stock levels based on business trends generating cost savings for the company

• Trained Operations personnel on Oracle OSP setup with excellent results• Planned OSP assemblies and autocreated purchase orders with outsourced suppliers• Forecasted Spares requirements utilizing Oracle• Launched MRP as required and scheduled reports to run automatically• Created templates in Oracle to assure correct item attributes were applied to each new item• Established excellent working relationships with I.T., Accounting, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and the Materials department executive suite• Key contributor to the success of the BOM operational sequencing project

Master Scheduler 1996 – 1998• Actively scheduled future systems and long lead-time customer special items• Forecasted Spares into Oracle’s MDS/MRP module• Setup assemblies for outside source processing (OSP) in Oracle database• Defined resources, departments and operational sequences integrating into bills of materials creating efficiencies for Accounting with cost roll-ups• Earned recognition for extensive MRP knowledge Senior Planner 1990 – 1996• Actively planned electrical/mechanical assemblies and coordinated the procurement of required components• Founding team member responsible for determining which subassemblies to be outsourced as turnkey purchased items• Managed depletion of excess assembly components which were used internally or sold to the turnkey supplier• Core team member for making a smooth transition from push or batch jobs to assembly pull, back-flushing the material consumed and implementing demand flow technology (DFT) concepts, which brought the Semiconductor Equipment Group (SEG) of WJ to world class manufacturing standards• Key team member for the implementation of various Oracle database phases at the SEG division of Watkins-Johnson

• Production Control Scheduler (Promotion 1989)• Subassembly Supervisor (Promotion 1988)• Stockroom lead (Promotion 1985)• Assembly Lead (Promotion 1982)• Assembler

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Course Work Completed

Electronics, Math Major

Electronics, Math Major

Lab Assistant for Electronics Class