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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Provide overall lifecycle oversight and coordinate part qualifications with cross-functional team of representatives from R&D, Component Engineering, Product Engineering and Global Sourcing.• Responsible for implementing and managing the tools and processes necessary to successfully manage and minimize Last Time Buy purchase requirements.• Lead Value Engineering Sessions with BL, Commodity Managers, and R&D Teams.• Ensure supply continuity for EOL components impacting product by coordinating qualification builds at the factory and ensuring alignment of R&D resources to support qualification of replacements. Manage related ECO’s and MCO’s to closure with the NPI team.• Project manage factory implementation of Redesign product cost reduction projects to optimize savings timeline.• Support environmental compliance requirements with Itron’s vendor base.• Assist inventory group with E&O dispositions and SKU rework where appropriate to minimize excess inventory.• Drive projects to streamline the processes between R&D, manufacturing and prototype development and testing.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Project Management prime for over 20 product lines within Supply Chain Operations. Responsibility for full lifecycle management: New Product Introduction, Midlife changes, and End of Life phases. (Cradle to grave.)• Created a cross functional team to manage over $2M worth of products being discontinued to minimize scrap of product/components prior to introduction of newer models. Included managing updates to tools/processes used by sales to quote/engineer customer orders.• Managed cross functional team that tracked consumption of over 500 obsolete components and ensured Design and Supply Chain primes had plans in place to address key components shortages.• Managed project to update purchasing agreements by consolidating vendor sourcing of installation materials for a cost reduction impact of 20%. Implemented stock management policies with procurement team.• Hosted quarterly reviews with Product Line Managers to determine if products in their portfolios should still be offered based on actual customer demand and/or strategic sales opportunities.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Managed monthly creation / consolidation of material forecast for over 1000 products (system, spare and repair unit demands). Included reviewing with Supply Chain Operations stakeholders, challenging Sales as needed, distribution of the forecast to suppliers, and reporting key performance metrics.• Coordinated the disposition of materials returned by customers. Included coordinating repair, scrap, and resale activities.• Reconciled with Finance the liability claims from suppliers for finished goods and components.• Worked to determine root causes of inventory shrinkage, resolve cycle count issues, and set inventory planning measures.• Automated multiple reports to save 5 hours of manual processing per week.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Managed allocation of products across multiple customer accounts and provided delivery dates to customer service teams.• Developed creative methods to find material for emergency outages and urgent installation requests.• Worked to disposition slow moving and damaged product in the distribution center.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Managed consolidation and distribution of material forecast from sales to contract manufacturers.• Reported monthly order fill rates and other key metrics to management.• Integrated new product forecasts into supply chain to phase in the new and phase out the old product(s).• Served as technical representative for Raleigh Systems House to evaluate market modeling initiative.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Developed and maintained frame manufacturing models to be assembled, tested, and reconfigured to a customer specification efficiently, without increasing cost and without quality risk to the customer.• Led cross functional team to implement production models and resolve any issues during production.• Facilitated implementation of the model concept into upstream marketing/sales/ordering and engineering teams.• Created first web pages for the supply chain organization: model configurations, bills of material, material issues, service metrics, cost reports.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Designed lab exercise for class which was also used as basis for final class project.• Created web pages covering student grades, answer keys, and links to other on-line academic resources. • Helped students with weekly labs and homework.

Lafayette, Indiana Area

• Created new routings for high volume parts to accommodate new manufacturing process designs.• Estimated internal cost of manufacturing to compare with vendor estimates.

Bridgeview, Il

• Conducted reliability studies on Rice-a-Roni and Noodle-Roni packaging lines and presented Pareto analysis to management.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Redesigned manufacturing lines to allow for changes in volume and supervised their implementation.• Completed study on Field Replacement Units: new times and processes.• Designed and oversaw fabrication of product carriers for use on manufacturing assembly lines.• Assessed the maximum utilization of floor space for various manufacturing areas to aid in capacity planning.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Industrial Engineering