- Create and communicate detailed executable supply plans for both internal manufacturing and external contractors.- Analyze inventory performance metrics to drive improvements with alignment against brand inventory policies.- Validate the supply plans match with customer service requirements and resolve any constraints as necessary.- Follow up and ensure execution of supply plans to manage service expectations.- Manage team of Production Planners to execute supply plans, maintain fabric flows, and minimize backorders.

- Responsible for managing and adjusting demand forecasts for the Red Kap brand, a multi-hundred million dollar business.- Provide analysis for multiple brand categories using sales data and projection-based insight.- Strong team collaboration skills working with multiple departments; Business Team, Merchandising, and Operations.- Helped to support OTB process for Red Kap and Horace Small brands during post Covid recovery. Led weekly team meetings to discuss backorders, fabric shortfalls, and recoveries.- Attend customer meetings and provide input to better align demand forecasts while keeping a customer first focus.- Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly reports to monitor and track changes as well as identify and resolve risk/upside scenarios.

- Assumed ownership of outside contractor capacity management.- Managed spot buys when needed and managed the transition of garment sectors out of external contractors to bring them into our internal manufacturing facilities.- Make schedule adjustments needed by other team members. Keep track of shortages and downtime.- Assumed the planning lead for new Airgas opportunity. Developed and maintain weekly tracking report.- Assumed product development responsibility for Managed Programs.

- Responsible for handling the planning and transition of the Wrangler business to Workwear. Including: SKU quantities, lead times, service levels, as well as streamlining our planning processes for seamless integration.- Managed production plans for internal/external manufacturing to meet production schedules.- Determine fabric amounts needed, maintained fabric codes, and managed inventory levels to support plan.- Maintained marker libraries, increased marker waste efficiency, and issued cuts to maximize utilization.- Collaborated with merchandising team to quote delivery lead times and end-user requirements.

- Manage inventory through MRP and produce work orders to keep scheduling on track.- Forecast future product requirements using prior year data and sales curves.- Determine machine capacity and operator hours to achieve desired part volumes.- Unit Leader for polishing department. Responsible for hitting departmental metrics and goals as well as removing any roadblocks.- Leader of all-new exhaust header system project. Managed project time-lines, bill of materials, and coordinated between various departments.

- Worked during the summers of 2004-2008. - Performed Quality Inspections on aluminum ingots using ultrasonic devices- Updated existing drawings using AUTOCAD to properly document existing layouts- Created new drawings for new part designs- Itemized and maintained Cold Mill 1/Cold Mill 2 monthly budgets of $2.7 million to allow department leaders immediate access to month to date spending.