Thomas Paulsen Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Fort Worth

FedEx SupplyChain is a new multi-billion business unit and leader in warehousing, distribution and value-added services. I was brought in to expand the AT&T Accessory account after my previous employer Motorola was forced to reduce their staff significantly with the purchase by Google. At FSC I have quickly taken over their largest suppliers Otterbox, Incipio, Pelican and Popsockets. I achieved outstanding recognition for customer satisfaction with the least amount of excess. My daily duties include: NPI, Purchasing, Order Management, Production-Scheduling, Reporting and invoicing discrepancies.• Developed best-in-class metric reporting to improve on-time customer delivery by reducing the receipt-to-ship SLA dramatically. • Applied JIT philosophy by generating VMI proposals to the suppliers based on daily ATT demand changes.• Expedited Operations by introducing a custom pick-tool to tell what components in what location and how many are needed following FIFO.

Fort Worth, Tx

I moved to the Systems Engineering group to support the implementation and testing of flex programming solutions for GSM, CDMA as well as iDEN/Nextel phones distributed to North and South America. I kept the role as Reporting Manager besides my new duties.• Performed yield analysis on all new products to ensure > 98% overall efficiency. • Provided 24/7 on-call support to analyze systems issues affecting the ability to flex phones or process shipments.• Reduced non-conforming inventory from $2M to <$500K by establishing a knowledge exchange between global Engineering teams to develop and document recovery solutions.• Earning TL9000 certification for our department.

Fort Worth, Tx

I transitioned from Germany to the U.S. to ramp up Motorola’s largest Fulfillment DC. I was instrumental in implementing key tools and processes while also joining the Accessories team as Distribution Planner. My attention to detail and data analysis skill later was rewarded by moving into the role as Reporting Manager. • Used Oracle 11 to plan and OBIEE to generate reports and dashboards• Received Motorola Bravo Award for outstanding Excel automation giving answers to ‘what is needed, how many and when’ supporting lean manufacturing, VMI and inventory reduction.• Close working-relationship with founder and world-wide consultant of www.production-scheduling.com.• Sole North American support for a global Production Planning and Available-to-Promise (ATP) tool based on MS Excel which enabled promise date accuracy to stay above 98%.• Earned Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification

Flensburg Area, Germany

I was hired as a Demand Analyst for mobile phone supply from Asia, USA and UK factories to improve on-time shipments to providers across Europe and Middle-East. My role was to observe forecast and supply in order to expedite/defer PO’s, signal factory build plan changes, initiate local rework/reflash and MRP changes.• Our young team was very innovative we became a team finalist at the Motorola ‘Teaming for Excellence’ event in Malta. The competition was about improving customer satisfaction and saving costs.

Flensburg Area, Germany

Preuss was a privately-owned IT firm mainly serving IBM AS/400 customers where I was employed as Programmer. I was brought in to design and write Accounting software (Customer, Vendor, Parts, Services) under Windows using the rapid application development tool “Power Builder” from Sybase. I also planned and deployed Networking infrastructure to customers under Novell 3.12. The employment was a 2-year contract.

Computer Science And Business

State Accredited Commercial Assistant For Data Processing, Business And Administration