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North Richland Hills, TX, US

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Worked within the Integrated Business Planning team focused on financial & inventory programs and processes to support the IBP Planning Cycles. Managed the IBP Inventory Optimization Project with a focus on excess, surplus, obsolete, and aged inventory, stagnant WIP, and stagnant aftermarket finished goods. Created “demand change what-if” inventory.

Irving, TX

Created and developed a new Sales, Inventory, & Operations Planning (SIOP) framework, then managed the process and monthly cycles. Worked closely with finance, product line managers, supply chain management, procurement, operations, and senior level managers in all efforts tied to demand & supply alignment, and process maturity. Conducted the monthly.

Fort Worth, TX

Defined, implemented, and managed new product material demand for post sales customer service center. Worked closely with engineering developing planning BOMs, worked the “Reverse Logistics Center” developing a demand forecasting, executed the MPS, and managed the MRP. I worked closely with Supply Chain & Operations to resolve material and capacity gaps.

Fort Worth, TX

Managed a team of five planners in execution of material supply planning, and inventory initiatives supporting daily Distribution Center operations. Responsible for material gap analysis and resolution, coordinating global supply logistics, optimizing material profiles, Master Data setup in Oracle ERP, identify and execute continuous improvement initiatives.

Fort Worth, TX

Managed global team of two Master Schedulers and five Product Planners in execution of the company’s monthly global S&OP cycle. Responsibilities included – monthly S&OP tie off with the Global Sales and Operations teams, weekly disaggregation of the MPS, daily MRP management. Conducted monthly global S&OP reconciliation meetings with factories in Fort.

Fort Worth, TX

Managed a team of five planners enforcing global inventory policy. Responsible for global stock balancing, supplier-owned-inventory program, safety stock optimization, lead-time reduction initiatives, asset recovery, and warehouse management analytics. Worked with Marketing and Engineering on product life cycle profiles, Supply Chain on supplier.

Irving, TX

Managed a team of six production control associates and a production planner. Responsibilities included management of work in process (WIP) material and assemblies, transactions and movements within a job shop environment, and timely resolution of inventory transactions impacting operations. Separately, I created, implemented and managed the process in SAP.

Fort Worth, TX

Managed seven production planners in desktop and laptop manufacturing. Responsible for S&OP demand planning, capacity planning, MRP, production plans, daily collaboration with operations management for optimal operations planning, two week rolling production plan, systemic kanban and JIT signals, New Product material planning, supply gap planning.

Great Falls, Montana

Directed the internal financial process for a startup business focused on global computer networking equipment sales. Managed cash flow during a 4 year period of annual sales growth from $600K to $19.2M. Other responsibilities included network administration and oversight of production operations for a private label personal computer brand.

Bachelor Of Business Studies, Business, 3.80

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor SocietyFocused on business and operations management.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.94

Graduated magna cum laude. Focused on Organizational Behavior and Accounting.

Education record