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Phoenix, AZ, US

Lead an organization of 585 employees in Indonesia that manages 16 warehouses, 3 large container yards, an international port and a large transportation fleet. Team includes warehousing, inventory management, expediting & cargo scheduling, procurement, contracting and project management functions. Manage supplies inventory of $585 million with 193 thousand.

Phoenix, AZ, US

Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the processes, systems, tools and reporting used to manage inventory, warehousing and cataloging within Freeport’s 21 mining and processing facilities globally. Led the implementation of SAP for those functions during a systems conversion project in 2010 - 2013. We enhanced the ERP functionality to.

Phoenix, AZ, US

Managed all supply chain functions for our eight sites in North America as well as the corporate procurement team. The supply chain teams at our sites procure all the goods and services needed to produce copper and molybdenum as well as all the spare parts needed to maintain the plant and equipment used in the mine and town sites.

Established my own company combining my interests in supply chain management and real estate Investing to build and manage an investment portfolio of properties, while providing business consulting services in operations. Consulting projects focused on business process re-engineering and process documentation of supply chain operation activities.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led supply chain operations for Microsoft’s Latin America region. Managed the forecasting and planning team, the production and distribution vendor management team, the Logistics and Trade functions and call center operations. Established the Latin America Operations Center (LOC) in Redmond, WA and opened the Latin America Hub production and distribution.

Redmond, Washington, US

Helped establish Microsoft’s new Asia Pacific Operations Center in Singapore. Managed 3 distribution sites in Asia as well as the logistics-transportation function. Implemented a new fulfillment model for the Pre-Installed Personal Computer (PIPC) business which lowered our transportation costs by 50%. Sponsored “Project Hubble” which reduced our Singapore.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led the Supply Account Management, pricing publication and the logistics-transportation functions for the Latin America region. Implemented new processes to improve price list publication, returns processing, recommended purchase orders, and channel inventory management. Rolled out a series of Microsoft developed software tools in the region to increase.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led review of the long-term viability of our two third-party manufacturing sites in Mexico and Brazil. Resulted in transition of the site in Mexico from a manufacturing site to a distribution-only site and the closing of the site in Brazil. Managed the shutdown of the site in Brazil, replacing it with a direct ship model from the U.S. using an expedited.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed focus factory for the packaged product distributed to the Latin America market. Led implementation of the Latitude II re-engineering effort which included new processes in all areas of the operation that led to lower costs and improved lead times. Manufacturing cycle time was reduced from 5 to 2 days. Latitude II improvements also enabled the.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed the exportation of Microsoft products to customers in Africa, India, and the Middle East (AIME) sales region from our Canyon Park facility in Bothell, WA. Led the design and implementation of the first automated export documentation system used at Microsoft called QuickShip, which eliminated the manual processes involved in preparing export.

Responsible for all aspects of international air cargo and ocean shipments for the Seattle branch. This involved ensuring that Customs clearance documents were completed accurately and timely, customers were billed timely and that export documentation and duty drawback paperwork was processed correctly.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Masters In Business Administration

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science And Government