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Greater Boston

Greater Boston

Greater Boston Area

Billerica, Ma

Drive QBRs with critical suppliers to review quality, delivery and pricing. Collaborate with suppliers to drive lean improvements to improve quality and delivery.Analyze historical usage to provide forecast to suppliers. Mine spend data to identify cost out opportunities.Negotiate contracts and pricing with suppliers, maintain supplier On Time Delivery, mitigate risk of sole source suppliers.Support transition from Oracle to SAP.Support Design Engineers in new product development.

Billerica, Massachusetts

Managed four production cells with 20+ employees. Introduced and maintained performance metrics to production areas, implemented production rhythms and cross trained employees to maintain business continuity and flexibility. Analyzed data from multiple sources to calculate labor utilization rate and drive cross functional continuous improvement projects to increase utilization and lower cost. Fostered a safe working environment for all employees. Worked extensively in Oracle.

Twinsburg, Ohio

Negotiated deflation from multiple commodities for two businesses.Wrote VBA program to automate supplier scorecards to report quality and delivery performance.Programmed Excel based tool to track cost of new product introductions with real time data to improve the accuracy of cost predictions for new products.Qualified four suppliers and participated in audits of two suppliers.Developed method to automatically send supplier On Time Delivery Scorecards and Open Order Reports. Now open orders are managed systematically.Worked extensively with SAP.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Lead team of managers to change the management of an entire product line in SAP to eliminate material variance.Reviewed and updated routers to correct favorable labor variance.Calculated safety stock, MOQ and reorder points for all active partsCoordinated tracking and reporting of status on repairs orders with sales, manufacturing and commercial team. Owned weekly repairs revenue estimates to the business.Extensive work with SAP.

Houston, Texas Area

Implemented a visual management system to eliminate pipe rework due to missed NDE testing.This project reduced rework by 60%. Lead lean action workout to identify further improvements in piping process. Earned green belt certification using this project.Decreased laser alignment wait time by 90%. Collaborated with engineering, manufacturing and materials coordinators to kit shims needed for laser alignment.Created 5S kit of shims with kanban system to reduce time spent locating parts and facilitate correct identification of parts by operators. Created 8 work instructions for assembly processes. Dispositioned NCRs which required working with sourcing, engineering, warehouse and manufacturing

Amherst, Ma

Self-taught R & Matlab to develop algorithm to fit continuous distributions to discrete data on supplier on time delivery for Pratt and Whitney. Automated the algorithm to fit distributions to thousands of parts. Wrote program using R to analyze energy usage data collected from data loggers on light fixtures in commercial & residential buildings for Energy Resource Solutions, located in Andover, MA. Applied statistical tests to data to determine ways to improve energy efficiency.

Worked in the materials management division at GE Oil & Gas in Salt Lake City, Utah. Exposure to many areas of materials management including inventory management, process mapping and process improvement.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Worked at the Sandri Companies in Greenfield, MA making solar PV site plans and pellet boiler layouts using autoCAD. Also collect energy data from sites where Sandri has installed pellet boilers and analyze the energy savings using Excel.

Engineer’S Degree, Industrial Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Commonwealth Honors College Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society Society of Women Engineers Phi Kappa Phi.

Master'S Of Supply Chain, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Art And History

Activities and Societies: Study abroad program in Barcelona, Spain at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona for one semester.