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Shreveport, Louisiana Area

Managed $40M of direct material spend for SHV. Drove product competitiveness and margin expansion by delivering $2.35M deflation (6%) via YOY negotiations, project savings, and synergy. Coordinated sole source elimination activities resulting 26% reduction ($3.5M to $2.6M). Supported proactive supplier management for site with 98% recovery rate on COF.Executed plan to improve cash metric via AP resolution. Yielded 90% reduction in invoice holds (300 hold to low of 16); Avg. days on hold reduced by 92% (52 days to 4).1Q15 Negotiation Challenge Runner-Up, Bronze Above and Beyond Award. 2Q15 Negotiation Challenge Winner, Silver Award.

Greenville, Sc

•Manage supplier activities to ensure the quality of Gas Turbine components •Be the technical focal point to coordinate Sourcing, Design, and Materials Engineering functions while interfacing with suppliers •Drive consistency and adherence to quality procedures and specification requirements •Manage supplier qualifications, assuring that assigned suppliers have capability and processes to deliver high quality product as required •Conduct surveillance audits to assure that Suppliers have effective process control, rigorous product acceptance standards, and robust quality systems •Drive continuous improvement of supplier's quality, cycle, and delivery performance

Greenville, Sc

Accountable for sourcing activities for C-Class commodity spend across multiple businesses. Source materials and solicit competitive bids, quotations, and proposals. Identify opportunities for deflation, single/sole source elimination, and in emerging markets in supply chain. Maintain supplier relationships and resolve issues in regards to cost, fulfillment, and quality. Managed supplier recovery efforts on service noticed flagged for vendor recovery. Achieved $1.5MM savings through RFQ and negotiation of 2.5 Wind Turbine C-Class BOM.

Shreveport, La

Support production by utilizing Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques in solving complex problems. Implement and maintain process controls through quality planning techniques .Reduce product line procurement cycle and inventory. Achieved 20-45% lead time reduction on 6 critical components, 17% reduction in procurement cycle (11 to 10 weeks) and $100K + in inventory reduction.

Greenville, Sc

Manage and lead 30+ hourly workers in Shrouds and Diaphragms cell, ensuring critical business decisions are made in a timely manner and meet safety, quality, production, and delivery metrics.Support planning and scheduling for the cell. Employ Six Sigma and Lean rigor to all functions within the cell.Implemented remote ordering system within cell, thus reducing material request cycle by 83% and 99% DPMO reduction. Led 5S efforts within cell, resulting in $5,000 raw inventory reduction

Greenville, Sc

Achieve lowest possible cost for material, balanced against optimum quality and schedule. Evaluate current and anticipated requirements, determine potential sources, obtain bids, and plan programs to meet business needs. Ensure that material / services will be delivered on schedule, at negotiated price and meet required quality standards Achieved $351K of cost savings through price deflation and competitive bidding, at 97% fulfillment rate.

Atlanta, Ga

Drive audit finding closure project to increase transparency across global teams of open minor, major, and observation finding and reduce cycle time for closing audit findings by establish and tracking past due metrics.Maintain and improve quality management system as well as review processes and procedures for other groups as they relate to regulatory compliance. Assist in internal audits.

Greenville, Sc

Establish internal processes required to provide high quality materials and services. Monitor the results of those processes with internal and external customers. Determines root cause of any nonconformances, and implements corrective actions.

Greenville, Sc

Led completion of gage calibration documentation for TEPCO 9H pre-use inspection process. Drove to completion ISO Gas Turbine Quality Management System Refit Project (Retirement of 60% of ISO docs to ensure compliance with QMS and increase audit performance) (Six Sigma Project)Participated in customer observation points with data preparation. Prepared and completed METI documentation and quality data book per external customer demand. Completed 4 Nike projects: 18 Unit Nigeria 9E vibration plot conversion, gage calibration doc., NDT Cert Conversion, and Osaka Gas QDB.