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Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Built relationship with customer’s senior management.• New customer development.• Manage regional teams• Negotiate global pricing quarterly.• Responsible for developing Global team and growing sales.• Negotiated contracts with customers to obtain company objectives.

• Developed PCB strategy. Analyzed data and supply base to ensure suppliers capabilities, quality and pricing aligned with the appropriate sectors. • Developed tools to increase effectiveness and efficiency of the PCB strategy.• Built relationship with supplier senior management to ensure company objectives could be met.• Negotiated pricing and sourced over 55 million dollars each quarter for interconnects (PCB, power supplies, fans, connectors, cables and relays)• Achieved over 200K savings per quarter. • Made recommendations and assisted customers in supplier selections.• Supported nine facilities in North and South America with any PCB and interconnect issues.• Negotiated contracts with suppliers to obtain consignment and favorable payment terms.• Submitted budget to management each quarter.

• Coordinated and managed customer contracts. • Developed new business and grew existing business with various OEM’s/EMS. • Global account manager• Negotiate global pricing quarterly

Saint Petersburg Florida

• Coordinated and managed customer contracts. • Developed new business and grew existing business with various OEM’s/EMS. • Global account manager for Jabil. • Negotiate global pricing quarterly

Saint Petersburg Florida

St. Petersburg, Florida 1988-1996Production Control/Inventory Control Manager – 2 years. • Managed planning department• Submitted forecasts and budgets to operations. • Responsible for all aspects of inventory control.• Reduced material pull time from three days to one day. Purchasing – 2 years. • Purchased and managed all components for customer project. • Actively managed suppliers and material delivery. • Headed contract negotiations to represent the needs and goals of management by negotiating the most favorable terms and conditions. • Excelled in vendor relations.Production Control Planner – 2 years. • Managed all planning for the customer work cell. • Interfaced with project management and the customer to ensure all schedules and on time deliveries were achieved. • Responsible for maintaining master schedule and all sizing efforts to maintain proper capacity loading for manufacturing.Line Manager – 2 years • Managed all manufacturing processes. • Worked with engineering to improve processes, throughput and yields. • Helped develop new processes and participated in DOE’s. • Hired and motivated over 90 employees over 3 shifts.