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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Serve as S&OP leader for the organization and deliver forecasts, plans, reporting, analytics business unit leadership. Ensure forecasts are aligned between commercial and operations with a deliverable volume and mix.• Lead Supply Chain staff from melt to shipment to customer.• Lead Business Unit integration of supply planning with SAP IBP roll out.• Special projects manager supporting product transfers, asset/capacity utilization, and lead time quoting for multiple site initiatives.• Ensure collaboration between commercial, sales, operations, and planning teams to improve clarity of demand signal and continuity of operational production plans, commercial forecasts, and financial projections.• Integrate Inventory planning techniques, production planning methodologies, capacity management processes, and continuous improvement to optimize use assets while providing high customer service through multiple department interrelationships.• Select, motivate, and develop team members in optimal positions to provide growth and success to the associate and the company. • Perform strategic evaluation, development, and direction for supply chain organization to ensure continuous improvement.• Optimize internal and external capacity utilization, melt balancing, resource allocation, demand load, and business synergies across internal operations.• Support continued improvement efforts for system optimization within SAP and Factory Planner applications.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Responsible for global strategic sourcing and contract negotiations of Alloying Materials with annual spend of $300M for the aerospace & defense, automotive & commercial transportation, building & construction, Industrial solutions, and packaging markets.• Drove annual cost reduction strategies responsible for $30M in annual savings for the following materials (Bismuth, Boron, Calcium, Chromium, Copper, Grain Refiner, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Nickel, Scandium, Silicon, Silver, Strontium, Tin, Titanium, Vanadium, Zinc & Zirconium)• Directed key negotiations with the global Lithium metal producers (Albemarle, Livent, Ganfeng, Tianqi, and CMP Lithium) during critical supply chain shortages which caused disruptions in overall market. • Drive continuous improvement thru cost reduction, process improvement, and strategic initiatives. • Responsible for developing strategies relating to US ITC/Dept of Commerce anti-dumping and countervailing duties for above mentioned materials.• Oversaw overall negotiations and e-Auctions for Alloying Materials driving down costs for downstream operations.• Managed ESG strategies for Alloying Materials spend and collaborated with suppliers to effectively manage overall impact on society and the environment.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Responsible for global Titanium supply chain including procurement, forecasting, SIOP, inventory management, materials planning, distribution, and logistics.• Drive continuous improvement thru cost reduction, process improvement, and strategic initiatives. Drove scrap segregation at finishing facilities to reduce cost and variability. • Lead cross-functional business critical projects (Delivery, Commercial, Services, etc.) to increase the organization’s performance across functions and to bring added value to organization by diving into the entire supply chain process.• Collaborated with operations, sales, accounting, planning, engineering, and quality assurance to ensure all goals are met or exceeded for company.• Led simplification projects to reduce non value added tasks and automation of reporting to shareholders.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Oversight for entire supply chain business unit (BU) from raw materials supply chain planning to shipment to customer. Supervised supply/demand planning teamsCORE COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:• Managed ~$300M in yearly planned sourcing volume while at same time leading efforts developing $15 in annual cost savings initiatives. Secured and administered procurement of all raw materials for BU from all sources and developed process and procedures to minimize inventory and increase turns.• Led Supply Chain integration project for new $1.2B capital equipment project between ATI and Primetals Technologies developing new master scheduling process utilized throughout BU using Broner / PSI Solutions.• Directed S&OP process to achieve key strategic and business goals for BU. Aligned demand forecast with commercial and product management teams.• Drove delivery performance improvements, shortened lead-times and maximized inventory turns while eliminating any non-moving/aged inventory thereby maximizing cash flows.• Collaborated with operations, sales, accounting, planning, engineering, and quality assurance to ensure all goals are met or exceeded for company.• Oversaw team that generated order releases, resource mgt, purchasing requirements based on order due dates, customer priorities, and shop floor scheduling.• Led domestic and international sourcing• Project Management• Forecasting/Planning• Rail / Vessel Management• Production/Sales Plan• Lean manufacturing• Materials Management• Master Scheduling• Production Planning• Promoted from Manager, Supply Chain Management Oct 2017

Dallas, Texas, Us

Led sales and marketing staff with customer accounts totaling $400M• Managed all sales (inside & outside) and marketing activities for BU including negotiation of all contracts for customers• Increased revenue for BU by winning new customers from competitors employing superior delivery performance, topnotch quality, and decrease of overall lead-times.• Directed sales plan, NDA administration, product development, EDI, consignment, and negotiations.• Trade case development (testified at ITC and Dept of Commerce)• Setup Supply Chain Vendor Finance Programs• Drove forecasting/demand planning effort for BU.• Led all pricing and legal reviews.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Managed activities relating to continuous improvement (Six Sigma, RCM, and TPM) at 250 employee facility.• Initiated Kanban, value steam mapping projects, process improvement generating significant time and cost savings at both a corporate and facility level.• Steered cross functional teams to eliminate waste, optimize resource utilization, organize work flow throughout organization. Created daily management process at multiple facilities.Other quality tools used for process improvement Pareto ChartsCreation of policies and procedures for BUChecklist/sheetsCause-and-effect diagram (Ishikawa / fishbone diagrams)Poka-yokeDMAIC5 WhysSIPOCHistogramRACI MatrixLeanFMEAKaizenMinitabControl chartsScatter diagramsPDCARun ChartFlow Chart

Dallas, Texas, Us

Oversaw staff of 25+ employees in areas of Operations (Superintendent), Supply Chain, Shipping, Receiving, Logistics, Purchasing (Sourcing), as well as USW Union/Hourly workforce. • Reduced cycle time by 55% and improved delivery performance 6% for $17M in savings while shrinking obsolete inventory by several thousand tons. This decreased working capital by an additional $10M and improved delivery performance during same period.• Supervised project team that developed master scheduling process enabled by I2 Material Allocator / Factory Planner to automate application of material thereby generating $20M in annual savings on oracle platform. • Drove Detailed Scheduling and Planning process at multiple facilities. • Other areas of responsibility included: demand planning, master scheduling, forecasting, inventory control, strategic planning, MRP Planning, ERP setup, and scrap control.

Master'S Degree, Master Of Public Management (Mpm)

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), It & Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting