Develop strategic and tactical plans and objectives for contract manufacturing production and inventoryplanning. Manage domestic and global 3PL distribution hubs. Oversee a team of 50-70 across ZEISS and its contracted services.

Lead efforts on sourcing ERP and project manage implementation. Work with Tennant Represent Broker to source new facility. Generate RFPs for IT and facility enhancement projects. Assist finance with inventory and purchasing reconciliation. Source new raw material, consumable, and contract manufacture vendors. Responsible for obtaining RFQ’s and placing POs for all instrument, chemistry, and consumable raw material. Set up cold chain solutions. Provide support to executive management for investor diligence reviews. Develop standard operating procedures for supply chain, purchasing, inventory control, logistics, IT, and warehouse controls. Oversee MSP for all IT Help Desk tickets and manage all company IT initiatives. Implemented a Kanban card system forinstrument, consumable, and chemistry raw material.

Leverages subject matter expertise to deliver consulting services to companies in the Food, Consumer Good, Cosmetic, Distribution, Semiconductor, and Contract Manufacturing industries.Translates business processes to value stream maps and flow charts, identifying waste and improvement opportunities. Uses a deep knowledge of related industries to recommend process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce waste. Facilitates ERP/MRP/WMS implementation. ● Delivers lean manufacturing training. ● Oversees manufacturing contracts, improving inventory turns and reduction of inventory. ● Spearheaded the creation of approved vendor lists, foreign supplier verification programs, HACCP, and supplier routing guides. Develops and delivers training and leadership in the development of standard operating procedures and work instructions for supply chain, production, purchasing, inventory control, and warehouse controls.● Assisted clients in reducing on-hand inventory by $2M over twelve months.● Improved inventory turns from 6.67 to 9.14.● Implemented a 3PL warehouse to yield $20k in annual savings.● Leveraged superior negotiation skills to realize 10% in pricing savings● Leads kanban implementation and projects, successfully developing metrics for sustainability, including realizing upwards of $40k in annual savings.

Managed global purchasing, global shipping/logistics, order fulfillment, inventory control, quality, warehouse/receiving, facility, and production. End-to-end oversight of international contract manufacturers and third-party logistic centers.● Fostered development in team members through delivery of performance management and feedback. Built teams from the ground-up, including recruitment, selection, and mentoring of top talent. ● Aligned team goals with organizational goals, increasing success rates.● Spearheaded the creation of monthly metric dashboards detailing production efficiency/output, inventory, on-time delivery, supplier performance, shipping trends, and quality metrics, which translated performance to meaningful information to inform senior management decision making.● Leveraged superior negotiation skills to recognize $38 - $180k in annualized savings.● Championed the creation of time studies, visual staffing plans, work content/TACT-time charts, flow charts, 5-S initiatives, and Kaizen events to realize efficiencies and reduce waste in processes; reducing inventory on-hand by $200k, WIP by over 50%, and over-time budget by 40%.● Led the redesign of the production floor layout to reduce travel time and increase daily production output by 10%.

Managed purchasing, supply chain, inventory control, facility, warehouse, and production.● Spearheaded the development and implementation of purchasing, shipping, receiving, and production control systems in alignment with ISO regulations and quality system requirements. ● Conceptualized and implemented special engineering builds to support process/method development studies, process validations, operational/installation qualifications, and pre-clinical and clinical builds.● Led the development of a purchasing macro and inventory control tool in excel, avoiding $50k costs associated with an ERP software.

● Managed the approved vendor list, ensuring reliable material quality and availability, including the development, negotiation, management, and maintenance of supply agreements. ● Served as project manager and key contributor for various corporate and site-level correction action preventative action initiatives on material, production, distribution, and receiving controls.● Slashed surplus inventory and potential line stoppage through implementation of a Kanban replenishment system reflecting proper lead times and current demand levels.● Creatively negotiated several key suppliers on Kanban replenishment and consignment programs to improve cashflow by 30%.● Championed business improvement programs that realized $200K in annualized savings.● Owned the Lean Manufacturing Practices on production floor, focusing on reducing space utilized and scrap, which increased productivity and throughput.

Served as Laser Technician in 1998, Production Supervisor 1998 - 1999, and as a Production Manager 1999 - 2004. Managed a team of assemblers, technicians, customer service, and manufacturing engineers. ● Improved core operation processes for New Product Introduction (NPI) with various cross functional departments. Identified cost savings opportunities, designed efficient BOM structures, planed out resources and capacity, established routings, and scheduled build plan to ensure on-time shipments. ● Escalated key production issues to Operations team with daily reviews that focused on achieving results by completing directives promptly.● Project Managed an on-going team consisting of Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing on several critical tasks for key OEM's that need prompt response and execution of deliverables.● Dramatically reduced product cycle times and sales commitment lead times by establishing an Availability Schedule and Master Build Schedule that corresponded with production capacity. ● Doubled shipment capacity by establishing a flexible manufacturing environment through an aggressive cross-training plan and implementing a Flex Force.● Reviewed monthly financial statements to identify opportunities on reducing cost of goods sold and improving gross margins.● Recruit, acquire, and retained top talent from the ground up. Apply performance management strategies to develop teams and set clear objectives for success.● Key contributor in two ERP implementation cycles. Organized and set up production, shipping/receiving areas, and quality areas layouts in two building moves.● Skillfully managed a low volume high product mixture of complex lasers and systems; tactfully reduced work in progress inventory. Successfully doubled shipment capacity in two business quarters. Dramatically reduced product cycle times while improving finish good yields and on-time delivery.