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Elk Grove Village, IL, USA

Bringing supplier relationship management and strategic supply base development to enable double digit growth at Stern Pinball.

Direct Material Managed:Metals: steel, aluminum, copper, silver. Flat product, sheets, coils, rods, bars, tubing.Castings, Forgings, Extrusions.Metal parts; stampings, machined parts, screw machine parts.Mechanical assemblies.Plastic resins; thermoplastic, thermoset.Plastic parts; injection molded, over-molded, insert-molded.Rubber parts. Packaging..

Greater Chicago Area

Led global Supply Chain (Procurement) function with staff of 30 including category managers, buyers, and supporting personnel. Managed $325M in annual purchases with 1,500 suppliers supporting 9 global manufacturing facilities.> Designed comprehensive supply chain strategy to accommodate business restructuring including (4) plant closures, (2) business.

Greater Chicago Area

Strategic minded executive and leader with expertise in supply chain and engineering, will deliver significant value to shareholders of a growing, energetic organization. Employ project management discipline to guarantee plans are achieved. On a lifelong continuous improvement journey.

Greater Chicago Area

Led Supply Chain function with staff up to 34 and a budget of $4M with emphasis on material productivity and cost containment. Managed up to $350M in spend with 300 suppliers from 6 countries in 180 commodity codes supporting 4 global manufacturing facilities. Scope includes supplier development, contract negotiation, new product development, PO release.

Greater Chicago Area

> Implemented Strategic Sourcing campaign across business optimized for best practices and tailored to specific business needs resulted in 10X increase in opportunities. Commodities included PCBA’s, bearings, stampings, machined parts, castings, plastic parts, plastic resin, protectors, and packaging.> Improved Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.

Greater Chicago Area

> Leader for the Executive Material Council which provided senior leadership monthly in-depth review of materials and cross-departmental efforts. This broke down silos and ensured support from department leaders.> Conducted monthly department meetings educating department on state of the business, top new products and supply chain initiatives and process.

Elgin, IL

Reporting to the president, managed new product design and development for laundry appliance applications, and the shared engineering resources such as printed circuit board (PCB) layout, component development, and test equipment design & development with a staff up to 60 and a budget of $9M. Primary technical presenter on customer sales calls.> Developed.

Elgin, IL

Reporting to the VP Engineering, managed new product design and development teams developing products for the cooking appliance industry with a staff of 25 professionals. Customer executive contact during development projects.> Launched 15 new cooking products including single and double oven applications that utilized common software architecture and.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi

Supply Chain Management Certificate

Purchasing Certificate

Inventory / Production Control Certificate