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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

• Manages and integrates activities across more than one discipline within materials management and transportation.
• Develops and executes project and process plans, implements policies and procedures, and sets operational goals.
• Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, and direct reports. Manages, develops, and motivates employees.

Hill Air Force Base, UT

• Oversee programs at the DLA Hill facility, providing analysis and support in the design, development, implementation, operation, and maintenance of diverse warehouse distribution systems.
• Plans, controls, manages, and successfully completes the contract deliverables in accordance with the contract’s Performance Work Statement.
• Maintains cognizance over day-to-day program operations and monitors fulfillment of contract requirements to ensure quality and timeliness of services/deliverables to various customers.
• Provides overall supervision for the contractor employees to include the coaching and mentoring of supervisors and leads to ensure that work is scheduled properly to obtain maximum use of resources.
• Provides overall management coordination and serves as the central Point of Contact (POC) with the Government for all work under the contract.
• Active Secret Security Clearance.

Promontory, Utah

• Accountable for the strategy, planning, and execution of all material and services content for the NASA Space Launch Systems (SLS) Program.
• Act as the main focal point for the Program Management Office for the entire supply chain and coordinates cross-functionally to ensure that all supply chain commitments are met, and that appropriate mitigation plans.
• Lead supply chain Program execution and is accountable for resource planning, material cost, forecasting, schedule performance, risk/opportunity management, supplier performance, and supply chain issue resolution.

Hill Air Force Base, UT

• Performed logistics and program management duties in support of the $1.1B Wing Replacement Program production contract for the A-10 Division.
• Created and managed the A-10 Master Scheduling function. This included analyzing all the projects and their tasks and figuring out what is the critical path and suggesting possible solutions.
• Active Secret Security Clearance

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

• Implemented standardized methodology to ensure consistency in competitive source selection negotiations, while significantly minimizing risk in delivering 50% in cost savings and 50% in lead times.
• Professionally engaged with Business Area to resolve critical material shortages by managing supplier base.
• Coordinated efforts between Program Management, Contracts, Legal, Finance, Engineering, Quality, and Operations to identify requirements, select subcontractors, negotiate, and manage major subcontracts.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Promoted to lead in Supply Chain, performing proactive material planning activities for $50-$100M programs.
• Achieved optimal program performance with zero shutdowns of production lines: drawing upon in-depth skills in interpreting complex material analysis, identifying and mitigating material risk.

Ogden, UT

• Managed the material support of Barnes Fabrication (Both Lansing, MI and Ogden, UT locations).
• Supported a Just-in-time (JIT) inventory system to reduce inventory costs. Worked on supplier relations to improve overall material quality and on-time deliveries through strategic relations.
• Purchased the raw stock (sheet stock, forgings, castings), components (fasteners and fabricated components), outside processes (Chem Milling, Machining, Flame Spray, Stretch Form), and MRO supplies.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

• Created and implanted value-added global supply chain initiatives that contributed to the company’s profitable and sustainable growth
• Increased Global Sales from $5.1M to $5.8M; decreased Global DSI from 103 to 95; and improved Customer OTD from 80.3% to 95%
• Delivered optimal supply assurance, pricing, flexibility, quality and delivery performance

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Led day-to-day operations of procurement and sourcing for the entire business Division (6 geographically dispersed buyers collaborating with domestic and international suppliers from China)
• Implemented Lean Manufacturing, resulting in $1.1M+ in procurement cost savings; reduction in spend-to-spend sales from 36% to 26%; and an increase in global sales from $1.8M to $5.1M
• Developed and benchmarked best practices to optimize expenditures and total cost of ownership while mitigating supply-related risks

Mba, Business Administration

Bs, Business Administration - Management

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