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Houston, Texas, United States

Responsible for directing all operations planning, production control, purchasing, inventory control, warehousing and shipping functions to achieve company shipment revenue goals and product cost targets while meeting customer delivery requirements.

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for commercial and operational support of BP's well intervention activities in the Gulf of Mexico, including contract generation, risk assessments and mitigation strategies, and operational readiness.• Provided total project ownership and support to ensure BP realized full potential of the TechnipFMC equipment and services provided.

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for all assembly and test activities within the Well Control product line in Houston, which included trees, valves, chokes and other subsea equipment. • Drove a safety and quality culture that allowed on time delivery of product to meet both internal and customer driven build plans.• Engaged with supporting functions to ensure all technical requirements were met while flowing product in an efficient and lean manner.• Distribute resources around the various work cells… Show more • Responsible for all assembly and test activities within the Well Control product line in Houston, which included trees, valves, chokes and other subsea equipment. • Drove a safety and quality culture that allowed on time delivery of product to meet both internal and customer driven build plans.• Engaged with supporting functions to ensure all technical requirements were met while flowing product in an efficient and lean manner.• Distribute resources around the various work cells to ensure work is progressing and utilization rates remain high.• Hosted RCA efforts to identify failures and drove continuous improvement initiatives to reduce the likelihood of recurrence. Show less

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for a team of warehouse supervisors, leads and material handlers with accountability to control, preserve and deliver inventory of a $100M+ warehouse, including all shipping, receiving and control of nonconforming material functions.• Facilitated a cycle count team to catch up overdue counts, regain a compliant status with Finance, and exceed ongoing monthly requirements.• Defined process to identify, action and rework any inventory affected by a class 1 ECN release… Show more • Responsible for a team of warehouse supervisors, leads and material handlers with accountability to control, preserve and deliver inventory of a $100M+ warehouse, including all shipping, receiving and control of nonconforming material functions.• Facilitated a cycle count team to catch up overdue counts, regain a compliant status with Finance, and exceed ongoing monthly requirements.• Defined process to identify, action and rework any inventory affected by a class 1 ECN release, eliminating risk of inventory being delivered at the wrong revision level.• Established a process to identify and action any inventory that has periodic preservation requirements for storage to ensure inventory is fully conforming when delivered.• Identified gap in drop shipment process which stranded $1.5M of offsite inventory; drove corrective actions to correct inventory and fix the process to prevent recurrence.• Collaborated with cross-functional team to improve the shipping processing time by 60% by reducing handoffs and assigning clear ownership to every step. Show less

Houston, Texas

• Responsible for a team of 10-15 production control planners to develop and execute build plans across all manufacturing, A&T and NRB areas for WCS.• Collaborated with manufacturing engineering to implement a material presentation process and managed a team to execute all related activities.• Identified a process breakdown within the NRB value stream and led a cross-functional effort to redefine the process and assign clear accountability and ownership – resulted in 85% reduction in… Show more • Responsible for a team of 10-15 production control planners to develop and execute build plans across all manufacturing, A&T and NRB areas for WCS.• Collaborated with manufacturing engineering to implement a material presentation process and managed a team to execute all related activities.• Identified a process breakdown within the NRB value stream and led a cross-functional effort to redefine the process and assign clear accountability and ownership – resulted in 85% reduction in non-conforming material within 7 weeks of implementation.• Established a clean start initiative to ensure new production orders released to the shop were fully ready; any exceptions were discussed and approved by planning and A&T management.• Led production control’s efforts towards satisfying Finance’s annual WIP audit, accomplishing 100% compliance in each year of ownership. Show less

Houston, Texas

• Responsible for ensuring on time delivery of contributing components in the manufacturing of subsea well equipment.• Worked directly with management to align on priorities as well as working directly with the manufacturing shop to resolve any quality, capacity, or other issues that would delay assembly.• Created and tracked work orders to ensure assembly began on time in order to meet required completion dates from the customers.

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for managing the supply chain and forecasts of two business units to ensure on time shipment of semiconductors to communication infrastructure and ultra low power digital signal processing customers – responsible for approximately $680M in annual net revenue.• Responsibilities included order adjustment, support of any technical or quality concerns, backlog alignment, shipment statuses, and many others.• Responsible for developing quarterly revenue estimates for senior… Show more • Responsible for managing the supply chain and forecasts of two business units to ensure on time shipment of semiconductors to communication infrastructure and ultra low power digital signal processing customers – responsible for approximately $680M in annual net revenue.• Responsibilities included order adjustment, support of any technical or quality concerns, backlog alignment, shipment statuses, and many others.• Responsible for developing quarterly revenue estimates for senior management and for finalizing and publishing the revenue target for the quarter to the leadership team.• Developed and published a weekly operational scorecard to senior VP which tracked on time shipping performance, level of delinquencies, revenue updates, and linearity tracking towards the target build plan.• Responsible for total supply chain coordination to meet quarterly forecasts, including determining required manufacturing starts, raw material deliveries, and testing of assembled components.• Led regular management meetings to align teams on desired inventory levels, finished goods buffering and coordinated and monitored channel inventory to ensure shipped material was used by customers within a reasonable time to avoid channel stuffing.• Contributed to mid-quarter and end-quarter financial reporting, including margin and cost analysis of closing quarter and updating of cost expectations based on feedback from product line engineering teams. Show less

Houston, Texas Area

• Created, developed, and implemented an interactive financial tool to forecast short-term and long-term future business for the America’s region, now adopted as Lloyd’s standard financial tool.• Interacted with senior business stream managers and regional financial controllers to design a more accurate, efficient, and user friendly forecasting guideline and process.

New York City, Ny

• Shadowed senior business development managers.• Attended client meetings and conference calls, taking notes and providing research, analysis, and feedback.• Learned valuable lessons and gained significant exposure of day-to-day investment finance.