As Chief Procurement Officer at CommScope, I hold a global leadership role within the supply chain responsible for $4.5B of spend. I lead a team with concentrated production in APAC, Mexico and Europe and maintain long-standing relationships with the largest global contract manufacturers and electronics component suppliers. My strategic focus is driven by the changing geo-political landscape and the impact of tariffs on the supply base, driving improved margins and decreased reliance on sole-source suppliers.

Lead and manage a global team of 91 professional staff, responsible for over $4.7 billion of annualspend within the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) division.• Areas of responsibility include Direct Material, EMS Outsource Mfg., Cost Optimization, Component Engineering and Global Tools and Processes.• Support the Global Repair Organization and manage the third party Authorized Service Centers• Focused on developing a world-class supply chain organization, through short and long-term strategic initiatives.

Lead & manage a global team of 16 professional managers, responsible for 18+ external manufacturing sites for ARRIS including JDM, ODM & OEM designed products, Global Software and Repair services. Supporting all business units, managing annual spend of $1.8 billion. Accountable for product transfers, supplier performance on quality, cost and delivery. • Consolidation of external manufacturing, 70% site reduction, cost savings of $74 million.• Implemented information, governance and digitization between all outsource providers and ARRIS.• Led a global team to implement a companywide tracking and reporting system for all software and royalty reporting, resulting in a $40 million savings in 3rd party software spend.• Developed and implemented global supply strategy for improved demand responsiveness and cost reductions with external manufacturing partners.• Demonstrates strength at working across a highly matrix organization with diverse global teams to change and achieve common goals.

Lead & manage an international team of 13 professional sourcing managers with global spend of $990M. Strategic categories managed include OEM, Mass Storage, Electrical, Software, Repair, Inter-connect, Power, Optics and Batteries.• Developed supplier cost models and a methodical approach to cost reductions, resulting in 6-8% year over year cost reductions, approximately $80M.• Accountable for the strategic direction, development, implementation and administrations of all facets of procurement for the 9 managed commodities.• Built a high-performance procurement organization that is viewed as trusted advisors to the internal & external business leaders, consulting with them to solve and strategize on organization challenges. • Developed and managed supplier strategies and supply chain risks that avoided any supply interruptions during the Japan Tsunami & Thailand Flood Crisis.• Championed development of lean process for global approval of new suppliers.

Provide operational leadership for a $200M infrastructure business, ensuring on time delivery of products to the customer, while optimizing the organization’s inventory investments. Direct and manage 15 third party contract manufacturers, and multiple distribution centers to ensure best practice supply chain and logistical activities are achieved.• Facilitate global factory consolidation.• Improved on time customer deliveries from 81% in Q1 of 2009 to over 96% in Q3 of 2009 while reducing inventories by 21%.• Aggressively reduced World Wide Inventory from $68M to $26M improved cash flow and reduced warehousing costs.• Metrics implemented include customer on time performance, internal order processing cycle time, carrier on time performance, sell thru reporting, forecast accuracy and customer charge back tracking.

Chief contract negotiator and manager of Strategic Sourcing for ANS. Responsible for $600M in annual procurement activities for the Global Supply Chain.• Established strategic relationships with key suppliers and insured continuous supply during the cable industry's surge.• Achieved 17% material cost reduction in 2007, 9% above business plan.• Streamlined New Product Introduction Process and insured use of preferred suppliers.

Strategic Sourcing Manager for the Transmission Networks System division, responsible for all vendor and price negotiations within the division, with annual sales of $280 million. • Cost Savings realized since start of job, in excess of $50.0 million.• 94% of all new components designed have monolithic pricing (one-set price) established; this percentage has allowed our division to reduce the development costs of all new projects by 22%.• Negotiated a multiple year contract with two of our biggest OEM suppliers, resulting in a combined savings in excess of $7.1 million over the course of the contract.• Implemented Oracle as the MRP system for the entire facility, implementation included shop floor scheduling, forecasting, inventory management and order entry. • Reduced capital spending for the new facility by 11.1% through sound negotiations with our equipment and contract suppliers.• Developed and Implemented a forecasting tool for product management to help facilitate the monthly decision process, the tool improved the forecast vs. actual by 18% in the first 3 months of implementation.

Director of Operations of a $100M manufacturing plant servicing automotive and hardware retailers. Managed 8 shift supervisors across a (3) shift operation, with over 200 hourlyemployees in total. • Reduced machine downtime by 22% in the first 6 months, utilizing better change over schedule and coordination of crew downtime.• Improved overall plant efficiencies by 8%, resulting in a plant wide efficiency of 94%.• Experienced a 38% reduction in shop orders, results achieved by implementing the reduced machine downtime and plant efficiencies.