• Work with Sourcing Team to identify risk withing the supply chain of recent acquisitions. Then formulate and implement plans to mitigate identified risks. • Work with suppliers to implement quality and supply agreements with appropriate suppliers based on risk and impact rankings• Identify cost down opportunities throughout the supply chain

• Implement and coordinate with multiple marketing and supply chain teams to conduct business reviews for key OEM suppliers based on risk levels tied to quality, delivery, and revenue. • Create and maintain OEM Supplier data base for over 70 OEM suppliers tracking key contacts, spend, contract renewal dates, commodities and cost saving opportunities. This data base was needed as there were no system or automated process. The data was all “tribal knowledge.”• Represented Supply Chain and Category Management assessing/auditing new OEM supplier for a large therapy platform.• Directed a team to assess risks at all levels of the supply chain and make risk mitigation recommendations for an acquisition • Engage with OEM suppliers to learn and track their readiness for initiatives such as EU MDR & MDSAP. Then communicate internally those plans

• Operations Core Team Lead and Launch Coordinator. Included driving the qualification and release of new products across Supply Chain Quality, Marketing, Demand Planning and the Contact Manufacturer to ensure the project met launch date, ramp up quantities and inventory target. Formulated multiple manufacturing strategies for ‘what if’ scenarios to provide flexibility due to an uncertain FDA approval. • Coordinated launch of new therapy platform through CM (4 Finished Devices). Oversaw qualifications, inventory ramp, capacity review, worked with Contract Manufacturer and sub-tier suppliers to reduce costs and lead times.

involving multiple disciplines and site assessments. Created company-wide commodity strategy reducing the supply base and identifying $70M in savings. Presented $12M plan to executive leadership for funding approval of said project.• Led multiple supplier selection processes worth over $35M to narrow down contract manufacturers and locations using DMAIC process for next generation of external devices and patient programmers’ instrumentation. Focused on total cost of acquisition. • Represented Supply Chain on a selection team that vetted 15 companies to supply an off–the-shelf PC tablet as a physician programmer. The selection team won the Star of Excellence award for the Innovation Category.• Oversaw last-time build efforts over $10M while implementing new products launches in support of RoHS compliance.• Served as liaison between Medtronic and contract manufacturer on release of new programs. Coordinated build schedules, procurement of parts, and design change communications from prototype through production release.• Support contract manufacturer by explaining operational processes, communicate proper method to implement design changes, and explain/reiterate quality requirements and expectations as well as capacity reviews. • Coordinate NPI builds of PCBAs between contract manufacture and program lead engineer.• Co-authored a Statement of Work listing requirements and expectations for tier 1 contract manufacturer for next generation programmer.

• Intermediary between Medtronic Neurological and Contract Manufacturer on release of new programs. Coordinating build schedules, procurement of parts and communicating design changes from proto type up through the release into production.• Managed more than 30 production-released next generation devices ensuring continuity of supply for current production. Coordinated across project teams, Quality, Marketing, Continuation Engineers and Technical Publishing to implement any changes required on released systems and pushed out to contract manufacturers.• Achieved cost reductions of 5% in both FY04 and FY06 and a further 12% in FY06 totaling over $2.5M annually by negotiating with Contract Manufacturer and working with second tier suppliers to find creative ways to reduce overall costs.• Represented Neurological business unit in contract negotiations with CM to create a corporate wide business agreement.

• Intermediary between QLogic Design and CM on release of two new programs. Coordinated build schedules, procurement of parts and communicating design changes from proto type up through production release within eighteen months.• Material representative chosen to transition $10M of materials from one contract manufacturer to another within a nine-month timeline without disruption supply of finished goods. Responsibilities included working with custom suppliers, providing the new contract manufacture with relevant supplier information, technical data and BOM information needed to build and work with the current manufacturer on reducing obsolescence.• Consolidated PCBA board suppliers from five to two resulting in a 11% reduction ($171K) as well as increased quality.• Identified over $1M in cost savings opportunities through negotiations, supplier reductions and working with sustaining engineers. • Co-Authored QLogic’s Supplier Management procedure