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Los Angeles, CA, US

Hawthorne, California, US

Starship valves - sourcing, planning, and supply chain engineering.

Hawthorne, California, US

Raptor turbomachinery, combustion devices, and valves.

Cincinnati, OH, US

I managed strategic sourcing initiatives and cost productivity projects across two commodity groups. The Composites group consisted of highly engineered PMC (polymer matrix composites) and CMC (ceramic matrix composite) input material and fabricated engine parts. The Shared Hardware Solutions group consisted of small castings and forgings, machined parts.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Develops and executes cost productivity projects on greater than $105 million of direct spend in the metals and optical fiber commodity groups servicing 7 North American networking and industrial cable manufacturing.
• Manages supplier relationships with 30+ suppliers providing 400+ SKUs from the North America and Asia Pacific regions.
• Leads contract negotiations and executes performance based agreements on supply encompassing greater than 65% of controllable spend.
• Works daily with product engineering, plant management, and product managers to develop and execute project funnels and cost savings opportunities.
• Forecasts, tracks, and realizes cost savings projects against the group's budget to meet year over year cost productivity metrics.
• Created and manages a forecasting tool utilizing SIOP (sales, inventory, and operations planning) data to communicate raw material demand delineated by supplier machine groupings to ensure adequate capacity at suppliers.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Developed market intelligence in the wire and cable supply chain to manage supply risk and drive cost savings in the Procurement team for direct material spend (non-ferrous metals, plastics, optical fibers).
• Managed $34 million in direct material spend while developing, communicating, and improving supplier performance metrics (OTD, DPM, Inventory Turns, Excess & Obsolete Inventory, etc.).
• Assisted in efforts that lead to cost optimization and improved supplier performance by developing supplier relationships, innovation through strategic sourcing, and risk management techniques.
• Developed three new suppliers in the North America and Asia Pacific regions consisting of $1.4 million annual spend while refining and standardizing the new supplier qualification process.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Devised, tested and recommended quality action plan for over $200,000 worth of PVC compound to be re-worked with zero customer impact.
• Trained and partakes in Kaizen events with a focus on Variation Reduction Kaizen. Most recent VRK focus was to increase CP and CPk in plastic extrusion operation from 1.5 to 2 and 1.2 to 2, respectively.
• Communicates with customers daily regarding quality concerns and corrective action implementation outlined in 8D reports.
• Direct contact and co-ordination with suppliers on quality issues in order to meet specification requirements.
• Utilizes Failure Mode and Effects Analysis training (FMEA) to identify risk and create preventative/corrective actions in drawing and plastic extrusion processes.
• Drives lean daily management using tools such as Eight Disciplines (8Ds) Problem Solving and pareto analysis to implement poke-yoke process solutions.

Louisville, KY, US

• Conducted cost-benefit analysis for sourced metal stamping parts.
• Assisted tooling engineers in troubleshooting quality defects.
• Led $7,000,000 tooling audit of company-owned assets.
• Derived tooling specifications and requirements from engineering component and assembly drawings.

Louisville, KY, US

• Root cause analysis of machine complications.
• Daily production reports and presentations to 10-15 salaried engineers.
• Troubleshot problems on the newly-installed dishwasher assembly line and recommended appropriate action.
• Formulated, coordinated, and completed installation of UHMW board along assembly line to prevent unit damage and address safety concerns.
• Conducted time studies of assembly line processes to ensure takt time was met.

Louisville, KY, US

• Drove toxicity approval and compliance for new product development.
• Coordinated Appliance Park material changes.
• Organized and handled engineering work requests to ensure material specifications were met.
• Acted as a liaison between the suppliers, design engineers, and manufacturing engineers for new assembly approval.

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering