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Irvine, CA, US

Minneapolis, MN, US

• ACTIVATOR recruited to educate, align, and implement Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for a strategic and rapidly growing operating unit of a global firm.
• Responsible for partnering with the Operating Unit President, CFO, and senior leadership team to rapidly deploy Active Portfolio Management (APM) into proven IBP end-to-end tools, processes, and technology across a.
• Delivering transformational global change management and demonstrating agile leadership behavior to accelerate the growth of market share, revenue, and free cash flow.
• Completed the Inclusive Leadership Program at the University of Minnesota as I grow my life-long learning while expanding my global leadership, cultural diversity, and global equity education.

San Clemente, California, US

• ACHIEVER who was promoted to lead all global sourcing actions defining procurement and category strategies. Received Supply Excellence award in 2019 for my leadership and team results.
• Influenced and strategically focused over $400M of direct material and indirect services procurement at 14 global sites as the Global Head of Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Strategy, Category Management.
• Revitalized global sourcing cost impacts by focusing on value and strategy through a staff of 40 sourcing professionals who streamlined supplier assurance management, shaped value engineering at contract manufacturing.
• Reorganized supply assurance teams, procurement processes, and metrics to support agile design, new product introductions (NPI), and commercial ramp up for 23 NPI projects with no sourcing delays.

San Clemente, California, US

• MAXIMIZER that oversaw strategic sourcing, built contract manufacturing strategy, and sustainable supply plans. Vision and strategies drove cost saving results of 5% and 8% exceeding global goals.
• Negotiated and strengthened strategic contracts accelerating cost savings while delivering both supply optimization and supplier consolidation initiatives across 1,700 suppliers and $275M in material spend.
• Focused on leveraging low cost country (LCC) opportunities and strategic global contract manufacturing firms to deliver year-over-year (YoY) cost improvements, supply assurance, and sustainable supply plans.
• Assembled and empowered a globally diverse, robust, and high performing sourcing organization.

Cleveland, OH, US

• STRATEGIC VISION enhanced and transformed contract/tolling manufacturing, supply chain planning, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) strategies to align and accelerate operational optimization of two divisions prior.
• Recruited to be a motivating executive responsible for changing Supply Chain and Sourcing strategies of two businesses with $1B+ in sales and $400M in global spend with suppliers and logistics providers.
• Spearheaded with key leadership and internal stakeholders the business turnaround and globalization opportunity to standardize and simplify Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) processes. Defined and deployed IBP.
• Achieved results by quickly assessing, aligning, and integrating three new strategic acquisitions with legacy supplier contracts, complex formula data streams, and multiple supply chain channels into IBP.
• Optimized at 12 months the on-time-in-full (OTIF) customer service metric to over 95%, reduced excess and obsolete inventory by $1.8M, re-purposed $4M of total inventory, and improved supplier cost of poor quality.

St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• INSPIRING strategic leader of a supply chain team managing over $270M of materials and services for complex medical device capital equipment systems, new products, and OEM products at domestic and global locations.
• Collaborated with internal development teams and strategic supply partners to accelerate new product launches that drove revenue of over $55M within the first two years after global commercialization.
• Orchestrated supplier category strategies, new supplier selection, and negotiation of new technology agreements and development contracts with contract manufacturing firms and Tier 2 and Tier 3 hardware and software.
• Organized the costs, risks, and revenue potential of acquiring a new business and with P&L responsibility oversaw the merger and integration of their supply chain and sourcing activities into existing operations.

St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• TRANSFORMATION of North America site centric legacy suppliers to global value stream aligned partners with second sourced options forged by commodity management and sourcing actions for top 80% of global spend.
• Championed strategies for selecting and implementing strategic suppliers for a new manufacturing site in Costa Rica. Implemented future focused cost saving and supply assurance plans with 40 local suppliers.
• Optimized total cost of ownership on over $120M of direct and indirect material spend between 4 sites.
• Achieved 4.5% to 6% annual cost reductions and consolidated global supply base by 25% in first 3 years.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• CRITICAL THINKING master of global inventory and operations planning who standardized forecasting, demand management, S&OP process improvements for make to order and make to stock capital equipment and service
• Developed behaviors, habits, and winning outcomes from 14 high performing professionals who delivered planning and global inventory optimization of $180M of custom products to achieve 95% order fill rates.
• Challenged planning complexity to drive cost and variability out of the extended manufacturing supply chain by value stream mapping S&OP planning, regulatory approval, and new product launch processes.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• INFLUENCED and unified the implantable device, leads, and instrument global sourcing and planning team of 12 professionals to improve global supply assurance performance and improve S&OP processes and key metrics.
• Redesigned and clarified key metrics to focus on customer fulfillment of 95% and inventory turn velocity.
• Delivered outcomes that improved inventory turns by 8% and reduced E&O exposure by over $12M. Value Stream Manager (2005)
• Engineered value stream processes to achieve 70% order lead time reduction, with 99% Kanban - Loop replenishment service levels, and 20% reduction in Total Process Cycle Time (TPCT) within 8 months.Supply Chain.
• Managed a team of 65 supply chain planning, sourcing, and distribution center resources. Aligned team goals and objectives to deliver 12% - 15% in annual inventory reductions and $6M in operating savings.

Louisville, CO, US

CREATED AND EXECUTED Member Integration and Supply Chain Connectivity strategies at HealthNexus (.com start-up) prior to sale to GHX of integrated on-line supply chain platform and exchange portal technology.

Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Executive Education

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration