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Red Bank, New Jersey, United States

• Maintained purchase orders for supply of fabric covers for foam goods manufacturing operations in the United States and Mexico.
• Created, monitored, and maintained purchase orders in SAP for fabric covers for mattresses, mattress toppers, pillows, and furniture
• Collaborated with Sales, Planning, Logistics, and Site Operations to ensure necessary supply of materials to meet customer finished goods demands
• Collaborated with Product Development and vendors on new materials and programs
• Acted as liaison between internal partners and vendors for vendor technical assistance, complaints/defects, material availability and lead time, expediting, and demand/forecast shifts
• Monitored and expedited international and domestic shipments by all modes as needed

Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States

• Purchaser for direct and indirect materials for molded rubber component manufacturing operations.
• Planned and purchased supply of all raw materials, indirect supplies and packaging components, including expediting and open order management
• Collaborated with Planning, Global Procurement, QA and QC to ensure supply of compliant materials
• Coordinated domestic and international logistics for incoming materials
• Partnered with Global Procurement and Logistics teams for strategic sourcing and cost-saving initiatives to leverage spend across sites and ensure adequate, timely supply of materials
• Acted as the liaison between the site and vendors for material complaints/defects, changes, new material introduction and vendor technical assistance

Philadelphia, PA

• Served as buyer for all direct and indirect materials and services for the AZ influenza vaccine manufacturing site in Philadelphia and formerly AZ R&D and Operations sites Gaithersburg, MD and Frederick, MD.
• Planned supply of critical raw materials, device components and printed packaging components
• Acted as the Procurement representative for all site and above-site projects
• Collaborative work with Planning, Strategic Sourcing, QA and QC to ensure supply of compliant materials
• Partnered with Regional and Global procurement teams for strategic sourcing and cost-saving initiatives and to leverage spend across sites
• Partnered with vendors to bring value and continuous improvement opportunities to the organization

College Park, MD

• Lab Manager, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program in the Biology Department.
• Primary research project involved using chromatin immunoprecipitation to determine late-response gene targets of the immediate-early gene transcription factor Egr1 induced by visual experience in mice
• Assisted in several other projects using a wide variety of molecular biology techniques and equipment
• Trained new lab members including post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate research assistants
• Ordered all supplies for lab and maintained inventory, purchasing and budget records

Hershey, PA

• Conducted research investigating the role of polyamine synthesis pathways in breast cancer and the effects of difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) as an inhibitor of tumor cell growth and metastasis
• Studies using in vivo and in vitro molecular biology techniques

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology

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