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Rochester, New York Area

Independent consultant providing Materials Management and Supply Chain Management & Logistics solutions to start-up companies, not-for-profit organizations, and growing companies that require expertise in Purchasing, Supply Chain Management & Logistics, Warehouse and Distribution Management.

Rochester, New York Area

Responsible for applying lean manufacturing/logistics techniques; designing, implementing, and documenting standard work processes for inbound and outbound operations to drive out cost and increase profitability in the logistics supply chain at three Carestream manufacturing facilities. • Designed and implemented a cargo quilt pilot program for trailer shipments that eliminated refrigeration and increased annual profits $250K which will yield $1.25M when fully implemented.• Led a team for transloading ocean container shipments to Germany, increasing profits $600K annually, trained operations in all procedures and documented all standard work.• Provided leadership for an international team that reduced transportation costs by $150K and reduced inventory $100K by efficiently moving silver scrap through the recycle chain with speed and efficiency.

Rochester, New York Area

Directed the supply chain and logistics excellence efforts of the $500M Dental analog and digital businesses to drive out cost and improve supply chain operations while maintaining high customer satisfaction.• Navigated the Dental supply chain organization through four domestic/international network changes which yielded $2.1M increase in profitability on a base of $13.8M for the 2008 operating plan.• Initiated an international team redesign of U.S. Dental X-ray equipment shipments from Europe, using a mixed mode ocean/air transportation process adding $1.0M to company profitability.

Rochester, New York Area

Promoted to operations manager of the 405,000 sq. ft., 65-person warehouse, stock keeping, general receiving and inbound shipping functions from suppliers to Kodak manufacturing operations. Developed and implemented lean/fast-flow cross docks from suppliers to manufacturing production facilities.• Developed standard work for all major operational functions to improve delivery reliability by methodically eliminating defects and in 2006 saved $1.2M in cost on a $12M operating base.• Developed and implemented a Fast Flow cross dock program with multiple daily J-I-T shipments to manufacturing with in/outbound delivery reliability of 96%/97% respectively within one hour.• Partnered and benchmarked with Transfreight, LLC (Lean Logistics provider to Toyota, NA) which resulted in a 15% reduction in domestic transportation costs.• Reduced LTL shipments from 50% to 15% of total inbound cost in one year, reduced raw material inventory for production operations by over 60-percent ($8M), and provided annual operating profitability to Kodak totaling over $4.0M.

Rochester, New York Area

Promoted to Supply Chain & Logistics Manager for $1B business unit with internal responsibility for three manufacturing facilities and externally to all customers; led implementation of SAP for supply chain.• Developed and led the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process and all production control functions including: production planning, MPS, shop floor planning, and logistics functions.• Improved system cycle time 30% and air shipment costs 75% from the 1999 baseline.• Reduced the supply chain budget 30% while motion picture film business volume grew by 12%.• Maintained a back-order rate below 1% and customer satisfaction measured by on-time, in-full, and no errors (OTIFNE) at a world class level of 92.6 percent.

Rochester, New York Area

Promoted to Supply Chain Materials Manager for Consumer & Motion Picture Films responsible for managing all planning and materials management functions from inbound raw materials through and including finished goods. • Directed the planning organization in developing a new demand pull process resulting in 97% customer service and 30% reduction ($25M) in film master roll inventory. • Led teams of manufacturing planners in delivering 75% reduction in cycle time and 50% reduction in inventory while maintaining customer service at 99%. • Developed the vision and led implementation of the Chemical Warehouse which became the Kodak Park site design for Vendor Managed Inventory, reducing over $10M in site inventory.

Rochester, New York Area

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE (pre- 1993)• Senior Chemical Buyer for Clinical Products fluid and enzyme businesses which delivered over $1M in material spend from baseline levels.• Supervisor of the Kodak Park Chemical Planning and Purchasing group in support of the film and paper manufacturing organizations, delivering $9 million in purchase price reductions. • Managed a planning team which certified the B&W Paper business MRPII Class ‘A’ and improved productivity of the planning organization by 33%.• Designed and implemented aggregate flow planning processes for finishing, sensitizing, and support making operations, led the S&OP and supporting planning processes for entire business.• Directed the efforts of the Quality Focus Program within the Materials Flow Planning Division which delivered 40 hours of quality training to over 200 associates.

Master Of Business Administration, Quantitative Business Management

Activities and Societies: Graduate Assistant Teaching Undergraduate Courses in Statistics and Quantitative Business Management & Finance.

Bachelor Of Science, Quantitative Business Management

Activities and Societies: Vice President Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity

Ma, Pastoral Studies

3.90 GPA