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Provided Merchandise Buying, Planning and Inventory Control personnel and their suppliers with Supply Chain expertise to control cost, while providing timely delivery of merchandise to stores and on-line customers. Optimized packaging, processing and transportation options available to ensure best flow of product to final destinations. Supported Supply.

Responsible for oversight of long and short term plant planning of 6 production facilities in the US and Mexico. Product availability was increased from under 80% in 2 weeks to over 96% in 3 days. Inventory turns increased from 2.6 to 4.1 (60%) while supporting increased sales. Production costs were decreased by over 15% by improved long term planning.

Responsible for maintaining customer satisfaction, product quality, shop floor productivity, cash flow, and profit margins. Modified material flow/processing, which quadrupled production flow and resulted in a 25% reduction in labor costs while improving deliveries and increasing cash flow. Reduced employee turnover by approximately 25% by empowering.

Managed contracts valuing $25M. Duties included cost estimating, proposal preparation, cost/schedule planning and execution, production oversight, and resolution of design and production issues

Contributed to Air Force Global Subsurface Seismic Systems program. Duties included CSSR Reporting, coordinating data control and management, coordinating customer (AF) reviews, oversight of technical audits and planning and development of training and equipment manuals

Supervised test department for hybrid electronic component design, development, and production.