Work with all departments to help develop long range, short term and immediate existing capital project plans. Confirming projects meet and exceed quality expectations and meet financial plan. - Procurement Lead assisting Corporate Project Manager with a new $33MM, 65K Sq. Foot coating facility saving $1.5MM to date. - Develop new vendors for capital equipment, facility services and office supplies.- Confirm NDA’s are current with new vendors allowing discussion of project scope for RFP’s and RFQ’s.- Expedite and manage maintenance projects for capital equipment at existing facility.- Manage VMI inventory program ensuring proper Max/Min settings align with actual usage.- Negotiate and manage purchase orders for Direct/Indirect materials to meet site needs.- Aligning payment terms, NDA, T&C’s and contracts with all vendors.- Schedule supply of ceramic ingot, platinum, and various gases for production.

Design and negotiate national purchasing programs in a multitude of different commodities and services for a 50 location North American $6 billion corporation.• Built companywide MRO purchasing platform. Development from manufacturing site tool cribs including special inventory management software to new national vendor relationships reducing cost and fees saving $500K annually.• Manage $65 million utility spend. Continually test market position insuring lowest cost commodity spend. Enroll plants in electric demand reduction programs adding $1.3 million to annual savings. • Coordinate contractors and utilities to receive rebates for efficiency related upgrades. Lighting retrofit rebates can amount to half of installation cost for upfront savings reducing payback months and energy demand. • Installed first solar project in New Jersey saving $50K annually. • Manage $7 million steel wire purchase. Continually negotiate commodity price as well as develop new sources to insure pricing is lower than market. • Copper welding wire is a $2 million spend. Review often to insure vendors are meeting the needs of our plants. Savings of $200K with approval of a new vendor.• Propane agreement tied to posted indexes saved $300K first year. Taking advantage of tax credits saved another $700K in a 2 year span. Saved an additional $350K due to recent acquisitions not taking the credit. • Consolidation of cleaning services, safety shoes, PPE vending and uniform rental across the company. Saved $500K.• Heavily involved in vendor and commodity consolidation during acquisitions of 6 different companies.• Managed purchases and installations of large capital projects including injection and blow molding machines. • SAPPURCHASING ANALYST, 7/09 - 8/15• Managed most of the categories above with less signature authority and volume until large acquisitions started developing more opportunity for synergy savings.

Controlled approximately $15 million of annual spend. 50% of component parts are imported from German, Italian, Swedish, Chinese and Taiwanese suppliers. The Balance of parts and plastic sheet goods are sourced from a multitude of suppliers across the United States.• Coordinated the redesign of a high end acrylic capped ABS sheet which saved $250K annually.• Negotiated corporate corrugate contract netted a $225K savings with an additional $30K rebate at year’s end.• Managed inventory cycle count program; first year accuracy results allowed the Franklin Park facility to exclude all A and B items from fiscal inventory.• Designed and implemented a consignment ABS sheet inventory program that reduced month-end inventory dollars by $250K in peak months.• 85% of vendors now produce and hold components/MRO items according to forecast. Just-in-time releasing reduced MOH inventory dramatically. Production downtime reduced to zero allowing us to focus on lean manufacturing.• Redesign and outsource of strapping products resulted in savings of $42K annually.• Direct reports consisting of Materials Controller and Cycle Count Material Handler which included managing daily activities, training and performance reviews.• Oracle 11i

MANAGER OF OUTSIDE PROCESSINGPromoted to management position keeping majority of product lines incorporated in Purchasing Agent while adding much more project development responsibilities.• Played a vital role in opening up steel buying specifications – developed overseas sources which saved $70,000 to $80,000 per quarter. Implemented program designed to save an additional $300,000 annually.• Develop Kanban and consignment programs with current/new vendors to reduce monthly WIP inventories as much as $300,000 which also improved product flow by eliminating component part outages.• Constantly monitor ways to increase efficient capacity through strategic “in-lining” to reduce flow and fixed/variable costs.• Met with cross functional groups to determine customer actual vs. expected product requirements to help reduce costs and increase “An” item manufacturing.PURCHASING AGENT, 3/02 - 8/04Maintain all responsibilities of Purchasing Analyst with additional focus on reporting to management.• Negotiate pricing and procure all sheet steel, plastics, zinc and PET’s while constantly monitoring world market pricing conditions in each commodity.• Set up and launch a new in-house tool assembly area for air/gas powered tools that were previously purchased outside, saving as much as 20% per unit cost-accomplished project 10% faster than initial project plan.• Played an integral role in setting up production/management plan for newly acquired fastener company which had no prior purchasing system while continuing to manage raw WIP components through to manufacturing.• Develop import/domestic sources for driver bits and accessories saving 15% on total annual spend.• Negotiate, design and build of any tool or die while overseeing preventative maintenance programs for all existing product line tooling.

PURCHASING ANALYST 3/98 - 3/02Schedule production for all managed lines using MRD(Market Rate of Demand) systems with feed back from sales/marketing to insure located finished goods are sufficient to meet customer demand and the supply chainis always adequate to cover spikes without exceeding maximum MOH objective.• Products and lines scheduled have a $20 million spend annually. Lines include:-7 progressive die stamping presses that encompass 30 different plate offerings-off-site plastic injection molding for part assembly and finished goods for distribution sales-off-site zinc die castings mainly for finished goods sales-PET extrusion lines for specific private label programs as well as external sales-scheduling of 8 different stand up tools to compliment many different product lines-scheduling of CNC and multi-spindle production for separate hand tools and spare parts