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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Greater Philadelphia Area

Direct and coordinate the activities of personnel engaged in purchasing raw materials, scheduling of manufacturing operations, customer interfacing via inside sales representatives, personnel responsible for inventory control, warehousing and logistics. Lead sourcing activities to identify and establish relationships with suppliers. Develop key supplier relationships to support collaborative and partnering initiatives. Responsible for the implementation of all policies, practices, and procedures pertaining to supply chain personnel. Supervise the issuance of all purchase orders, insuring the inclusion of required specifications, prices, terms and conditions by performing the duties personally or through assistant personnel. Responsible for the coordination, sequencing, capacity analysis and execution of production schedules in manufacturing including Sales & Operations (S&OP) planning to detailed production planning, execution and control. Also responsible for coordinating with direct and indirect inside sales management regarding customer contact in all areas relating to inquiries, orders, scheduling, delivery or other customer issues and other supply chain related questions.

Radnor, Pa

As application manager, I strengthened the link between the business, analysts and the market in the space of advanced production planning to deliver the world's most advanced Master Production Scheduling (MPS) solution featuring KPI driven optimization for large scale manufacturers. Besides keeping up with industry needs, I used my expertise in supply chain planning and optimization to define the go-to-market strategy and product positioning. This gave me the opportunity to be involved in key aspects of the business: marketing, architecture and project scoping, sales and product vision.

Radnor, Pa

As a senior business consultant I provided design and implementation guidance for supply chain optimization systems for large manufacturing organizations including S&OP, master production scheduling and shop floor schedule optimization. From business analysis to quality assurance, I was deeply involved in the project life cycle of customer implementations to ensure successful go-live events and satisfied customers who were then empowered to scale their businesses with Quintiq's world class planning and optimization solutions.

Norfolk, Virgiinia

· Redefined the company’s entire manufacturing software product line with commercialization potential that grew the company 500%.· Converted customer feedback into revenue-generating products and lead a development team to deliver the world’s leading suite of open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) supply chain management software for manufacturers. · Coordinated end-to-end development, from gathering customer requirements to delivery and implementation, while communicating progress to customers.· Oversaw professional services group and directed implementation teams.· Provided presales technical engineering and onsite sales call support, supplying business analysis and solution mapping. · Estimated costs and scheduled core development projects; developed production specifications and directed high performing remote and onsite development team.

Lawrenceville, Ga

· Defined technology and production strategy for world-leading designer and manufacturer of post-surgical compression garments; delivered on guarantee of same-day delivery of 4,000 products from a single manufacturing site.· Implemented lean production strategy including 5S, Just in Time production, and TSS (Toyota Sewing System).· Accommodated 250% sales growth.· Achieved production efficiency of 97% with 98% on-time delivery.· Achieved 15% scrap reduction.· Implemented an enterprise business system including financial, MRP, MPS, scheduling and barcode solutions; implemented system that imported customer orders electronically to reduce errors. · Managed plant logistics, acquired capital equipment for manufacturing, established manufacturing floor layout and managed production process engineering.· Leveraged business intelligence solutions to implement real time key performance metrics to drive continuous improvement.· Installed a robotic cutting table integrated with the order system, enabling creation and shipment of a non-stock product order within 45 minutes.· Recruited, reviewed and promoted team of 35 managers, leads and assembly staff. Drove performance and loyalty by collaborating with floor workers and implementing many of the suggestions for improvement.

Duluth, Ga

· Established strategy and led IT operations for division of Alcoa Fujikura specializing in telecommunications engineering and installation. Managed Visual ERP, including customizations to streamline billing and delivery processes. Configured and managed Oracle database and Exchange email servers, implemented Seagate backup systems and coordinated phone equipment. Deployed business applications, including business intelligence using OLAP cubes, CAD and BellSouth engineering programs.· Implemented a file backup system and converted a manual purchasing and inventory system to an electronic system, saving thousands monthly while reducing errors and loss to nearly zero.· Rebuilt and maintained local area network, including routers and file, email and database servers.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

· Performed gap analysis of business processes and ERP solutions for provider of Infor Visual ERP solutions. Developed project implementation plans and advised companies around implementing the enterprise application; provided expertise on manufacturing, quality and financial modules. Designed, wrote and deployed custom reports and applications to fill functional gaps.· Performed data migration mapping and import services. Conducted onsite and classroom training for sales, inventory, shop floor control and financial modules.· Provided on-premise pre-sales support.

Duluth, Ga

· Automated tasks by creating applications for advanced control system integrator specializing in machine control applications. Created applications for the recording and processing of billable time. Managed project plans for engineering team and production planning for assembly operations. Lead ERP implementations.· Developed reputation for acquiring coding skills needed to automate every redundant transaction task.

Woodinville, Wa

· Developed quality control plans and implemented production operations quality improvement initiatives for hot tub manufacturer. Reconciled electronic costing records. Wrote a new-user manual. Contributed to the engineering of new products. Supported materials management projects.· Reduced the defect rate of the most critical and expensive raw materials to nearly zero and recovered thousands by converting blanks into usable finished parts.· Performed root-cause analysis and manufacturing engineering, reducing quality-related warranty calls 75% by implementing training measures to address and eliminate the majority of production quality problems.