Purchasing Supervisor for the Lehigh Hanson cement plant in Cupertino, CA Manages Purchasing. Managerial responsibility for four warehouses, outside storage areas and steel yard. Propose and manage inventory control and reduction initiatives. Plan and buy maintenance and spare parts for heavy industrial equipment (equipment dates date from 1939 to new installations). Manages equipment rental and contractor services.

Category Lead – Steel Transmission Structures and Distribution Transformers. Negotiated multi-year contracts worth $26M/year. Dramatically expanded the supplier base adding three major suppliers, alleviating sole source positions. Prepared price change methodologies and preformed price change analysis bases on shift in commodity costs

Materials Manager - 1.5 years- Lead the Materials team on continuing cost savings initiative ($15,000 COGS saving per month).- Materials rep. for ERP system changeover. - Secured finished goods stock, eliminating available-to-ship errors, improving on time shipping performance. - Expanded overseas sourcing (China, India). - Introduced long term turn-key blanket orders for stable products lines. - Ended informal purchasing for all production material.- Manager of Purchasing, Stockroom, Shipping, Production Control, Customer Service, (16 people).

Buyer/Planner - Responsible for purchasing all imported components (Taiwan/China), preparing a 7 month rolling forecast for all requirements, launching weekly releases from vendor managed inventory. Achieved 100 turns per year using Vender Managed Inventory, long-term blanket orders, and third party logistics.