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The growing threat to the national security, stricter requirements for DoD contractors, and more workforce moving online, small and medium-sized businesses require prompt and quality consultancy from trusted experts. CyberNINES combines both, security expertise and IT solutions to protect small and medium sized business owners from physical and cyber.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Founded in 2009, Lumenetix designs and produces UL recognized LED light engines, LED light modules, and LED components and OEMs these products to LED lighting fixture manufacturers worldwide. Lumenetix LED light.
• Lead supply chain team consisting of order management, program management, production planning, and inventory management.
• Within six months improved on-time shipping from below 50% to greater than 80%.
• Transitioned production planning, work order generation, order management, purchasing, and inventory management from Excel to MRP system.
• Implemented kan-ban replenishment system for consumable inventory, eliminating production shortages caused by these components
• Initiated ABC inventory classifications and cycle count schedule, improving inventory accuracy from 70% to 99%

San Francisco Bay Area

• Rocket EMS is an aggressive new, state-of-the-art company specializing in Electronic Manufacturing Services, Design, NPI and Test Services....
• Managed company’s largest customer, Cadence Design Systems, representing 40% of company revenues
• Responsible for overseeing quoting of highly complex PCBA builds for NPI boards with over 8000 components, consisting of SMT, through-hole (selective solder and hand solder), AXI and AOI testing, and secondary.
• Managed production scheduling for multiple, concurrent NPI builds and system builds, establishing a 100% OTS rate
• Instituted RMA processing workflow to reduce RMA aging from 90 days+ to less than 2 weeks
• Initiated workflow process improvement for work order planning and scheduling resulting in 100% OTS to promise date

Santa Cruz, California

• Supply Chain
• Collaborated with Office Call Center (OCC) Product Management to plan product roadmap and manage portfolio transition representing $300M in annual revenue introducing 8 new product families and End-of-Lifing 10 product.
• Assumed management of two product lines with less than 50% OTS rate and excess air-ship fees. Performed DMAIC analysis resulting in 98% OTS and eliminated air-shipping.
• Managed S&OP meetings to ensure collaboration between Product Management, Sales, and Operations resulting in 93% forecast accuracy.Collaborative Partners
• Worked with top distributors representing 80% of B2B revenue to set and maintain inventory levels, on-time shipping goals, and acted as S&OP team liaison. Excess and Obsolete
• Proposed, implemented, and led Cross Functional Team to identify inventory with potential high excess risk ($50K+) and developed mitigation plans to reduce risk. Since implementation one year ago, have successfully.

Santa Cruz, California

• Consignment Management
• Successfully negotiated consignment shrinkage payment with Best Buy resulting in $660k of recaptured revenue.
• Completed DMAIC analysis of OTD penalties. Implemented new pick and ship process resulting in OTD rate of 90% and reduction of monthly penalties by $30k/month.
• Developed and led Cross Functional Team from Finance, IT, Customer Service, Returns, and Inventory Management to manage $2M consignment inventory and $11M annual business.
• Drafted and implemented corporate policy and processes:
• Sarbanes Oxley Policy on Consignment (at customer) and EandO

Santa Cruz, California

• Negotiated over $1 million in cost reductions for speakers, microphones, and IC’s
• Built prototype secure website to prove theory that suppliers could use internet to plan builds based on Plantronics MRP and ship product to meet VMI requirements. Within four months inventory was at targeted levels.

Santa Cruz, California

• Managed transition of 5 new products from concept to full production and 2 projects for product upgrades (Promoted to Commodity Manager after three years)
• Led cross-functional teams consisting of personnel from Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Purchasing, and Manufacturing.
• Developed and executed all project schedules including: Design, Prototype, Engineering Pilot runs, Manufacturing Pilot runs, and product ramp-up for sustained production.
• Managed purchases of all prototype material, engineering pilot material, and manufacturing pilot material.
• Managed constantly changing Bill of Materials and costing. Bill of materials consisted of PCBA components, speakers, microphones, plastics, cables, user guides, and packaging
• Assembled all necessary documentation for release of product to production

• 2004-2006: Commanding Officer, Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit
• Responsible for Command consisting of 100 personnel and $12 million of equipment
• Successfully led command through two critical, highly visible inspections in nine months
• Managed five commands consisting of over 400 personnel during high-tempo two week exercise. Received Army Commendation Medal for performance. 2002-2004, 2006-2012: Flag Briefer/Crisis Action Team Watch Officer.
• Recalled to Active Duty March-Nov, 2003
• Responsible for briefing Four-Star Admiral on status of all assets and operations in Pacific Fleet from coast of California to Persian Gulf.

Flew SH2-F Anti-Submarine Helicopter and UH1-N Huey.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)-Honors, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Member S.A.L.U.T.E (Service, Academics, Leadership, Unity, Tribute, Excellence) Veterans National Honor Society.

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Activities and Societies: Lacrosse team for three years