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Flower Mound, Texas, US

Manage procurement, sourcing, warehousing, logistics and demand/supply planning for advanced chiller products used in medical applications and industrial lasers.

Flower Mound, TX, US

Board of Directors forTIMS Hydration - Manufacturing, marketing and fulfillment of electrolyte and creatine based sports drink mixes (active)Black River Ventures Corp - Executive Search supporting technology manufacturing enterprises in North and South America (inactive)

Charenton Le Pont Cedex, FR

Annual savings of $3,912,000 in 2011. Equivalent bottom line impact equal to $70,416,000 in new sales.Category manager for MRO (maintenance, repair, operations), Production Equipment, Utilities and Contact Lenses (goods for resale), HR Services, Financial services, BPO outsourcing.Led projects focused on: Chemicals, small tools, process filters, hardware.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Global Program Management (Development Area Management) lean material flow. Managed a global portfolio of projects with an annual budget of €5.5 million focused on improving systems & processes for inbound and internal material flow in all Nokia manufacturing sites and 3PL’s including sites in China, India, S. Korea, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Romania.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Process Development Manager for Global Delivery & Manufacturing Solutions. Drove, improved and shaped process development in the areas of execution planning, manufacturing, procurement and inventory control. Mainly focused on operations in the Americas (Brazil, Mexico, USA and Canada).

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Supply Planning Manager – Manaus, Brazil factory. Responsible for the factory production planning department and export control. Created and maintained the global supply plan, customer volume commitments / allocations, resource planning and the daily production schedule. Extensive contact with all aspects of the business on a local, regional and global.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Material Project Manager – Manaus, Brazil R&D facility. Managed a staff including material project leaders, mechanical design engineers and prototype production support staff. Created systems and processes in Brazil for: new product business case analysis; government regulation negotiations; logistics systems; SAP implementation; excess and obsolete.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Bought electronic and electromechanical components. Completed the first consignment stock program at the Texas factory. Created material schedules for assembly subcontractors in Korea and Mexico. Member of the global PCB supply line management core team. Performed liaison duties between suppliers and IT to begin EDI for purchasing documents.

Tokyo, JP

Purchasing Manager for the Wireless Communications Division (WCD). Wrote and implemented procedures to establish the foundation of NEC WCD’s first American based purchasing department. Hired and managed the Sourcing staff. Responsible for all Production and R&D purchases. Member of the design team for NEC America’s first digital TDMA phone. Coordinated the.

Wallingford, Connecticut, US

Purchasing Manager for wire and cable harness manufacturer, Precision Cable Manufacturing (Amphenol). Responsible for both U.S. and Mexico operations. Managed the procurement & support staff. Wrote and implemented all procurement procedures for ISO9002 certification. Created inventory controls that reduced total inventory by 18% during a company growth of.

Executive recruiter for engineering and technical disciplines within the technology, oil & gas and heavy-duty equipment industries.

Mba, Supply Chain Management

Bachelors Of Business Administration, Bba