Strategic, analytical engineer with broad operations, supply chain and production planning experience that understands multiple functional areas of business and how they work together. As Director of Strategic Sourcing and Global Operations Planning:• Responsible for the overall sourcing decision on parts that have more than one sourcing option. This includes all of our main product areas, with a general focus on optical components. This is a decision that must weight service, price, lead-time and various other factors to choose between our 8 factories and our vast supplier network.• I work with my team to ensure that all of our key product areas have multiple sourcing options qualified and maintained to protect our supply chain continuity. • I maintain my responsibilities I had under Global Production Planning, now expanded to 8 factories as we have brought on more over time.When I was Manager of Global Production Planning:• Responsible for the overall planning and purchasing of thousands of parts through our 4 global factories in the US, Singapore, China and Japan• Work towards improving OTD, lowering lead-times and ensuring the smooth, stable and appropriately loaded production of our parts• Work with our global sales team on a daily basis to communicate updates and work to meet increasing customer demands• Manage a team of people in planning, purchasing and analyzing our parts and demand streamWhen I was Manager of Business Analytics:• I worked with departments across the organization and on a diverse array of projects• Managed multiple projects with varying priorities and deadlines• Constantly looked for ways to improve our service to both internal and external customers, from fill rate to freight costs to CapEx justifications.When I managed our imaging and machine vision product lines, I worked:• With designers on new product development• With supply chain to determine optimal stocking and purchasing levels, eventually fully taking over this responsibility• With vendors to distribute their products and form marketing/sales partnerships• With marketing to show customers what we can offer and why we should be their preferred supplier• With sales to get the customer what they need and to develop opportunitiesSpecialties: • Production Planning• SAP ECC 6.0, PP, MM, etc...• Strategic Sourcing• Analytics• New product development• Inventory operations• Imaging optics• Marketing/sales feasibility studies• Interdepartmental projects• Product strategies