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Kerrville, TX, United States

Kerrville, TX

Northern Colorado

• Professional consulting services for early stage startups requiring strategic planning, sales funnel design, operations optimization, funding strategy and leadership development.
• Over 8-month engagement at Kiinja Corp (high volume, fully automated CO2 supercritical fluid extraction equipment manufacturer) created and drove go-to-market sales and marketing strategy, defined technology roadmap.
• Over 8-month engagement at Kiinja Corp (high volume, fully automated CO2 supercritical fluid extraction equipment manufacturer) created and drove go-to-market sales and marketing strategy, defined technology roadmap.
• During 4-month engagement at Hexmag LLC (firearms accessories), implemented financial planning and controls, sales and operations planning process, product roadmap/commercialization planning, employee engagement.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Successfully led a high performing engineering, quality, global strategic sourcing, global logistics, distribution and Americas/EMEA/APAC/WOFE regional operations team supporting multiple consumer product brands..
• Championed engineering, quality and supply chain capability to scale revenue from $450M to $1.1B (2012-2016).
• Achieved a 37% year over year improvement in product commercialization time-to-market, cost and quality performance by forming and… Show more Successfully led a high performing engineering, quality, global strategic.
• Achieved a 37% year over year improvement in product commercialization time-to-market, cost and quality performance by forming and providing executive sponsorship of multiple project teams Show less

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Utilized supply chain leadership skills in strategic sourcing, supplier performance management, logistics, compliance, data control, purchasing, S&OP planning, warehousing, distribution and transportation for.
• As a result of reengineering of global fulfillment product configuration strategies, launch of vendor performance management system and optimization of logistical processes… Show more Utilized supply chain leadership.
• As a result of reengineering of global fulfillment product configuration strategies, launch of vendor performance management system and optimization of logistical processes, delivered a 17% ($51M) MCOGs improvement in.
• Championed implementation of “voice of customer” initiative for carrier, retail, e-tail and distribution customers. Customer satisfaction average score improved from 2.2 to 4.1 (scale of 1-5) and resulted in an.
• Sponsored a highly motivated department team to improve employee engagement feedback from 66 to 92 (scale 1-100) Show less

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Defined and implemented strategies to accelerate company technology development and rapid manufacturing scale-up to include direct material vendor-managed inventory, capital equipment acquisition, MRO/factory spare.
• As the 3rd employee of 420 employees… Show more Defined and implemented strategies to accelerate company technology development and rapid manufacturing scale-up to include direct material vendor-managed inventory.
• As the 3rd employee of 420 employees, contributed leadership to scale and evolve organizational structure to achieve company objectives
• Established processes for product order planning, fulfillment and product distribution in Southeast Asia, USA and Europe resulting in greater than 99% on-time delivery to customer requirements
• Sponsored the deployment and process engineering of Microsoft Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning platform.
• Drove vendor continuous improvement strategy and managed cross-functional implementation according to technology, quality, responsiveness and responsiveness objectives

Loveland, Colorado

• Accountable for manufacturing cost of sales, manufacturing quality, new product introductions and revenue delivery for the California Semiconductor Test Division. Accountable for $90M annual operating budget, direct.
• Reduced North America operations manufacturing overhead by greater than 10% via 3rd party, co-located manufacturing partnership
• As a result of global manufacturing consolidation, managed the… Show more Accountable for manufacturing cost of sales, manufacturing quality, new product introductions and revenue delivery for the California.
• As a result of global manufacturing consolidation, managed the closure of the Loveland site operations and ensured a successful product line transfer to contract manufacturing partner in China Show less

Loveland, Colorado

• Accountable for cross-functional direct management of Strategic Procurement, Materials Engineering, Order Administration, Planning, Technical Information Services, Coordination and Logistics (4 managers / 40 total.
• Reduced days of inventory by 30% within 9 months through Lean and Six Sigma methods
• Reduced bill of materials cost for two capital equipment product platforms by 34% through supply base consolidation, value… Show more Accountable for cross-functional direct management of Strategic Procurement.
• Reduced bill of materials cost for two capital equipment product platforms by 34% through supply base consolidation, value engineering, e-bidding and direct vendor negotiations. Total 3 year savings of >$24 million
• Led deployment of Kinaxis RapidResponse supply chain planning software to reduce production scenario planning capabilities from 4 days to 3 hours.
• Championed the successful business unit implementation of Oracle’s enterprise resource planning platform Show less

Loveland, Colorado

• Drove Automated Test Group contract manufacturing (CM) strategy, eventually leading outsourcing of Agilent’s 3070 in-circuit tester to Singapore.
• Ensured compliance and realization of Singapore Pioneer tax benefits
• Cut project timeline by 50%, ensuring realization of outsourcing benefits 2 quarters ahead of most aggressive projections.
• Created/implemented strategic alliance management model between Product Generation, Order Fulfillment and contract manufacturer.

Sao Paulo, Brazil / Boise Idaho

Established HP LaserJet’s first completely outsourced manufacturing operation. Hands on experience in every phase of the operation set-up, from supply chain development to delivery and support. Major focus: global tax alignment, organizational design, strategic alliance development.

Boise, Idaho

• Responsible for aligning HP’s outsourcing strategy with supply chain objectives. Ensured $500M+ annual supply chain transitioned smoothly during a divesture to a tier 1 CM (Jabil Circuit, Inc.).
• Led cross functional team to modify contractual, financial, logistical and planning processes to support divestiture of two PCA manufacturing sites (Bergamo, Italy and Boise, Idaho) to Jabil Circuit, Inc..
• Recommended, negotiated and established flexibility boundaries for 5 HP… Show more Responsible for aligning HP’s outsourcing strategy with supply chain objectives. Ensured $500M+ annual supply chain transitioned.
• Recommended, negotiated and established flexibility boundaries for 5 HP LaserJet Divisions (required development of statistical models to right size flexibility parameters for current and future products).
• Assisted product line teams in the evaluation of contract manufacturer proposals to shift PCA production to lower cost regions of the world.
• Developed supply chain metrics and tools to define “excellence” to present and future contract manufacturers.

Boise, Idaho

Mim, Operations

Mba, Business Admin

Ba, International Economics

Activities and Societies: 2 term ASBSU Senator (College of Business and Economics) 1 Term ASBSU Vice President