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Lake Placid, NY, US

34 Years of Procurement, Sourcing and Contract negotiations remains available for remote consulting and contracting.

Norwell, MA, US

Clean Harbors/Safe-Kleen is a top notch Enviromental Cleaning firm with 40-plus years of sustainability in action, where I participate in the Sourcing Management Activities for greater process and cost efficiencies.

Laval, Quebec, CA

Bausch is a multinational specialty pharmaceutical company with over 21,000 employees and more than $8 billion in annual revenue.As the senior buyer of capital equipment, I oversaw the full lifecycle of indirect sourcing and procurement contracts for capital equipment and construction. I also delivered indirect procurement solutions across multiple.

Gothenburg, SE

Getinge Group is a global medical technology company with over 15,000 employees and more than $3 billion in annual revenue.As the senior manager of strategic sourcing, I drove continuous improvement to exceed corporate objectives through strategic supplier relationship management.𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 ✘ Renegotiated supplier agreements to secure over $1.2.

Rochester, NY, US

Carestream Health is a subsidiary of the Onex Corporation. It has over 4,000 employees with nearly $2 billion in annual revenue.When I started out as senior buyer, I immediately delivered improvement in coordinating forecasted and drop-in materials availability. In addition, I spearheaded purchasing and Kanban in the Morning Market, GEMBA, and all Quality.

West Henrietta, New York, US

Melles Griot is a photonics products supply company that was acquired by the IDEX Corporation for $400M.As the senior buyer, I oversaw the materials supply chain and buy-to-order production capacity. I also managed metrics and daily meetings to foster cohesion.𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 ✘ Consistently exceeded quarterly cost savings goals. ✘ Trained newly hired.

Jena, DE

Carl Zeiss Meditec is a multinational medical technology company with 3,500 employees and over $1.75 billion in annual revenue.In addition to managing international product development, I also enhanced global logistics processes across domestic and international suppliers and affiliates. I also supervised affiliate purchasing groups spanning APAC, SA, and.

Forchheim, DE

• Sr. Buyer/Planner 2000 - 2002Sr. Planning Analyst 2002 – 2005Use of state of the art ERP technology and seasoned supplier experience to continuously improve Supplier On Time and Quality performance, along with Internal.
• Improvement of Critical Supplier delivery performance from 45% to 95% FPY/OTD.
• Lead for implementation and management of JIT Logistics for Global (APAC) Service Support.
• Key Team participant in ERP transition from canned (JD Edwards) to Windows based (SAP)
• Improved Inventory Turns via Research, Analysis with charted METRICS to ID and quantify database glitch that was causing false MRP messaging and excessive inventory; despite mgmt. resistance.

Hercules, CA, US

• Purchasing Supervisor, Global Service 1996 – 2000Continuously Improve Supplier performance, in house inventory accuracy /turns and outbound Service Parts Global delivery.Accomplishments
• Immediate recognition and resolution ID of supplier data integrity and performance issues.
• Manage Service Inventory Cycle Count Process for improve in Inventory accuracy from 79% to 98%
• Supervision of Buyers and Material Handlers.
• Negotiation and Management of VMI program of obsolete and allocated electronics prior to Global trend.
• Certification of company/departmental ISO SOP for EC compliance.

• Establish and manage contracts with key suppliers, Supervise Pittsburg, Ca. Purchasing Team.Accomplishments
• Negotiated a 30 % COST REDUCTION with “A” supplier (transit car trucks)
• Transformed new facility expediting group to class A purchasing team.
• Strategic Re-Sourcing of key hardware and electrical vendors locally for 20% COST REDUCTION.
• ID and stop in-house ethics violations.