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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 Chain facilities and transportation groups with timely resolution of issues as they arose.Recognized for outstanding achievement by Children's Merchandise Division for exemplary support in product delivery for key Back-to-School programs and by the Supply Chain Division for development and implementation of a Supply Chain Manager training program.Developed and implemented a New Supplier Training seminar resulting in reduced supplier packaging errors, increased on-time delivery, improved EDI usage and improved carrier routings. Overall costs were reduced by over $10,000,000 in the first full year after implementation.Primary department resource for development of in-house data analysis tools for product and cost tracking and usage resulting in over $7,500,000 of yearly savings due to reduced handling costs company wide.Implemented innovative methods of product delivery for the merchandise teams to resolve specific supplier or product delivery issues. Methods produced increased delivery speed, greater cost savings or both for the merchandise team. Coordinated between multiple Supply Chain areas and the merchandise groups to ensure successful completion of projects.Developed process to level-load warehouse receipts for a high volume inventory product resulting in increased efficiency. Enlisted cooperation from the management groups to ensure success of the project.

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 methods.

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 personnel, organizing workflow, and creating a friendly work environment.

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.