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North Kingstown, Ri, Us

Middletown, Ri, Us

Responsible for the overall direction and execution of the global supply chain for KVH Industries’ domestic manufacturing facilities and multiple overseas warehouses and 3PL providers. ● Negotiated and consolidated global freight contracts for KVH Industries to achieve an annual 10% savings based on volumes and increased dimensional sizing. ● Reshored manufacturing out of China to other low cost countries and reshored PCBA manufacturing to Mexico and USA to help eliminate COVID related supply chain issues. ● Upgraded Purchasing department to a cloud based vendor portal system that eliminated the paper based purchasing system that had been in place for over twenty years. ● Restructured 3PL distribution model and forecasting to increase customer on-time shipments to greater than 95% from 73%, decreased distribution costs by over 50% and increased inventory turns by 3X. ● Automated commercial invoice and export paperwork generation by using existing ERP and 3rd party software packages. ● Responsible for establishing annual budgets for domestic and international cost centers and reported monthly/quarterly/annually on the variances to budget. ● Responsible for SEC Conflict Mineral Reporting. Contacted all relevant vendors to have them complete the required information for annual SEC filing. Completed annual CMRT Form for distribution to customer base.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Directed daily planning and purchasing for the Rhode Island facility and was responsible for the global commodity management for all electronic components for all four Hayward Pool manufacturing sites in the US. ● Responsible for all sourcing, vendor management and new supplier development activities for raw materials and turnkey finished goods purchased within the United States, Asia, South America and Europe. ● Managed multiple domestic and offshore contract manufacturers for the manufacture of PCBA’s that are used in the assembly of consumer goods assembled in the USA. ● Manage Sales and Inventory Planning process for Hayward Rhode Island Facility to ensure capacity and sales forecast coincided with all corporate financial plans and forecasts. ● Supervise all Lean Supply Chain Activities and participated in various production and warehousing Kaizens. ● Responsible for annual standards setting for all purchased components and reported on all purchase price variances on a monthly basis. ● spend Hayward corporate commodity management plan for all electronics and ruthenium with total annual spend of greater than $65 million. ● Recipient of the 2013 Paul Adelberg Corporate award for Lean Manufacturing Excellence. –

Directed the material operations for three manufacturing facilities in RI and CT with 550 employees and an annual Cost of Goods Sold of $175M. ● Lead member of product transition team implementing the movement of pneumatic tool assembly from the RI facility to Taiwan and China facilities and moving the manufacturing of nail fasteners from China back to RI. ∙ ● Collaborated with Stanley corporate purchasing team to renew annual Master Purchase Agreements and extend payment terms to help improve working capital and ROCE. ● Worked with Plant Management Staff to utilize Lean tools to help improve productivity and drive down costs within the manufacturing locations. ● Developed global production capacity plans for the three major product lines manufactured in RI, Germany and Asia to ensure product availability during peak season demand. ● Implemented VMI Program at the Clinton, CT facility that led to the reduction in $650K of inventory. ● Began formal cycle count procedure that decreased unfavorable year-end physical inventory variance by over $800K. ● Worked with a vendor to reduce utility costs by over $300K in the first six months of the program. ● In-sourced MRO purchasing from 3rd party for an annual savings of $675K.

Cumberland, Ri, Us

Directed the day-to-day functions of the corporate supply chain consisting of customer service, Sale and Operation Planning, purchasing, warehousing and distribution of goods for an interior automotive manufacturer. ● Negotiated annual contracts for inventory, freight and support services in excess of $40M annually. ● Provided annual budgets and monthly reports of inventory, distribution costs and purchase/invoice price variances. ● Managed the distribution of materials between the four locations in North America and locations in Mexico, Brazil and France. ● Implemented Oracle 11i ERP system for manufacturing, planning and order entry. ● Reduced staffing levels in support service by 5% by moving jobs to manufacturing locations from the corporate offices to the various international production facilities. ● Reduced inventory by 20% while maintaining a 99% on-time delivery with increasing annual sales.

In charge of all divisional scheduling, capacity planning, purchasing and worldwide logistics for Availability Enhancement Group with annual sales exceeding $300M annually. ● Determine the lowest cost to produce goods globally and the best distribution route to bring them to market. Negotiated purchase orders and terms for all turnkey items. ● Worked as integration team member for newly acquired Network Air Division. ● Managed planning, warehousing and operational integration to American Power Conversion’s business practices and Oracle software conversion. ● Managed approximately 3,000 SKU/ DC combinations in over 30 warehouses on five continents.

Oversaw all the receiving of inbound freight, Factory Direct shipments, onsite raw material warehouse, offsite material and equipment warehouse and for the entire Rhode Island operation. ● Responsible for the production planning, on time shipment of finished goods to customers and raw material inventory levels for the Water Systems Business Unit with annual sales of $110M. ● Managed and maintained budget for thirty-five hourly and salaried employees combined whose duties ranged from cycle counting, receiving, data entry, material handling and production scheduling. Member of various teams which included Kaizen, Oracle Super User group and IQR Inventory software implementation and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) implementation team. ● Assisted in transitioning the movement of two production lines from Tennessee to Rhode Island.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Business Administration - Mba