Mitchell Harmon Email & Phone Number

Newark, California, United States

555 Harbor Blvd., Belmont, Ca. 94002

• Converted estimates into production orders and generate sales orders for shipping & billing.• Generated material requisitions and forward to Purchasing as needed for ordering.• Created purchase orders for outside services and tooling to meet production deadlines.• Provided feedback to customers on production schedules and any issues with open orders.• Updated sales reps on any scheduling conflicts based on daily production meeting.

Burlingame, Ca

• Same responsibilities as a planner for the POD dept., only now in relation to the Litho department. • Worked as a POD overflow planner when needed. • Worked as the Large Format backup planner as needed. • Created documentation for ERP/MRP program that further details Planning processes & procedures.

Burlingame, Ca

• Planned and established production schedules to meet customer demands.• Created production schedules in accordance with plant and employee capacity, sales forecasts (Reservations), and new business opportunities.• Attended and advised dept. managers of current schedule with twice daily production meetings.• Notified appropriate dept. managers and worked with them to resolve scheduling conflicts.• Created forced buyouts as needed to maintain production schedule.• Had the responsibility of maintaining production schedules for both Burlingame & Ohio plants .

San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked in the P.O.D. (Print On Demand) dept. as a production planner.• Coordinated with Production Managers & Sales Reps to create travelers and work instructions from engineering drawings, samples, BOM's, estimates.• Examined documents, materials, and products to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications.• Conferred with department supervisors and other personnel to determine most efficient process for production and discuss changes as needed.• Created requisitions for materials, tooling and outside vendors per order.• Updated change orders to jobs, re-quoted or updated cost as needed, notifying appropriate departments affected.

San Jose, Ca

• Ordered and maintained a minimum on hand inventory of materials and equipment for 3 separate warehouses on the West Coast to prevent any shortages when customers would place orders. • Comprehensively purchased certain quantities of materials in order to obtain discounts on shipping.• Maintained pricing in separate systems. One for customers on-line, the other for sales in-house.• Notified management and sales of price increases.

Fremont, Ca

• Worked with vendors to reduce costs.• Using Lean practices, reduced WIP inventory over a 3 month period by 35%, which in turn reduced on hand inventory by $500,000.• Reduced Purchasing vs. Sales spending from a high of 42% to 28%, improving cash flow without impacting production.• Wrote the scope of work and coordinated with the ERP software provider and internal IT Dept. for a real time wireless barcode inventory control system.• Provided and coordinated training for inside/outside sales and CSR staff on the latest material advancements and marketing trends in printing, via presentations and on-site vendor visits.• Maintained U.L. compliance through documentation and on-site audits.

• Provide estimates for single and multi-process printing methods; using EFI Programmed Solutions software and Microsoft Excel.• Reduced purchasing costs from 30% of total overhead to less than 19%.• Created and implemented an inventory catalog system for all Materials, Inks, Foils, & Dies, which was later adopted into Programmed Solutions (EFI) print production software.• Worked with Production to maintain on-time delivery schedule, including coordination of equipment down-time and maintenance.• Pre-Flight artwork using Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, Photoshop, InDesign, Quark Xpress, MS Word & Excel.

Uss Arkansas (Cgn-41)

• Work Center Supervisor Engineering Div (EA04) onboard USS Arkansas (CGN-41)• Simultaneously supervised the repair and installation of ship’s Reboiler, as well as the installation of the first Prototype Plastic Waste Processor, November 1992 (earning Navy Achievement Medal)• Participated in operation ‘Desert Storm’ , April 1991 – November 1991 (earning National Defense Service Medal & Southwest Asia Service Medal)• Participated in operation ‘Fiery Vigil’, evacuating survivors of Mt. Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines, June 1991 (earning Joint Meritorious Unit Award)

Nas Alameda, Ca

• Field Training Officer NAS Alameda Base Police (first E-4 to hold that position)• Named Sailor of the Month for NAS Alameda, May 1990• Participated in the evacuation and recovery of victims of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake at the San Francisco / Oakland Bay Bridge (earning Humanitarian Award)

Nuclear Physics

Mechanical Operations - Nuclear Propulsion