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Fremont, California, United States

Coordinate, align and ensured execution to timelines by working directly with suppliers and various teams within Lam’s organization including supplier quality, supplier business management, strategic commodity management, engineering, and product management. Perform on-going risk management and escalation when required. Monitor supplier metrics and drive.

Fremont, California, United States

Reporting to the Facility & Construction Director of REO Commodity Manager activities include: lead and execute Strategic sourcing Projects, Conducting complex Procurement Programs, and vendor management activities for assigned Facility and Construction categories and projects of low to high complexity scopes.Processing Supplier Master Agreements.

Santa Clara County, California, United States

• Handled procurement over a wide range of commodities including semiconductor and non-semiconductor. Managed commodity supply chain of various key suppliers from design to preproduction/production for new business.
• Part of Module NPI (New Product Introduction) team that grew from a team that grew from a fledging $3M business base to $150M. Encompassed growth from 5 module designs to over 150 designs to-date. Implemented.
• Built partnerships with strategic vendors to grow the module business as a win-win relationshipinto exponential business revenue. One partnership netted yearly savings of $500k once the partwas in volume.
• Re-negotiated a long-term clean room garment contract that if contracted with another vendorwould have cost over $500k in exit charges.
• Contracted several maintenance agreements totaling over $1.7M to longer term agreementsnetting savings of $171k.
• Instrumental in execution of purchasing plan and cost reduction of capital procurementexpenditures of over $3M with a net savings of $768k.

San Jose, California, United States

Established new purchasing department from the ground level up and design center. Commoditymanager role from design to production encompassed a wide variety of commodities that netted a 30%savings on components. Hired and had direct line supervisory experience for new purchasing staff tosupport 150% in campus population and development projects. Part of.

San Jose, California, United States

Responsible for procurement of ASICs totaling over $20M on new division for hard disk controllers.Successfully migrated NCR standard cell designs to Samsung standard cell designs for cost reduction and supply chain security. Partnered with Samsung to create custom ASIC cells from standard cell design to a custom ASIC. This action resulted from my building.