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San Diego, California, United States

• Managed workload and priorities for material planners. Planned, prepared, and controlled material requirements for electronic systems on Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD)
• Prepared cost effective budgets, meeting objectives of LPD program.
• Created reports advising operations, supply chain, and program management of material status.
• Supported 100% on time delivery for Whole Life Engineering, delivering parts to ship during ship trials, which allowed for successful ship testing

Greater San Diego Area

• Improved delivery and quality performance of contract manufacturing suppliers by working closely with supplier to improve first article acceptance, thus resulting in improved WIP throughput time.
• Negotiated favorable terms and conditions with manufacturing and freight suppliers, collaborating with key suppliers to remove shipping / handling charges from invoices and suppliers and agreeing to 2% 60 or N90-day.
• Worked with suppliers to avoid line-down conditions during severe industry-wide part shortage circumstances, by providing forecast to suppliers who agreed to bond inventory based on said forecast.
• Improved inventory accuracy from 60% to 95% and customer satisfaction through store personnel training that focused on kit pulling techniques and implementing 6S and daily cycle count