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Owner operator of a sporting goods business focused on providing corporate wear, specialty equipment, uniforms, and apparel for businesses, high schools, colleges, travel organizations in the greater South Bay. Define business strategies and marketing requirement.Establish yearly projections and forecast products on basis of historical, current market trends and product cost.Pre-book orders to achieve incremental discounts and freight savings.Negotiate best pricing strategy with suppliers.Define pricing and products discounts to insure profitability and sales margin expectations.Managed order to fulfillment process.Collaborate with suppliers to establish best pricing on standard, custom apparel, equipment and services.Coordinate artwork and collaborate with supplies to insure quality and delivery exceeds customers’ expectations.

Responsible for scheduling, strategic planning, financial planning, and implementation of all aspects of a non-profit youth development program for young women of diversified cultures in Northern California. Annual budget $250,000.

1752 Junction Ave

Owner operator of a sporting goods business focused on providing corporate wear, specialty equipment, uniforms, and apparel for businesses, high schools, colleges, travel organizations in the greater South Bay. Define business strategies and marketing requirement.Establish yearly projections and forecast products on basis of historical, current market trends and product cost.Pre-book orders to achieve incremental discounts and freight savings.Negotiate best pricing strategy with suppliers.Define pricing and products discounts to insure profitability and sales margin expectations.Manage order to fulfillment process.Collaborate with suppliers to establish best pricing on standard, custom apparel, equipment and services.Coordinate artwork and collaborate with supplies to insure quality and delivery exceeds customers’ expectations.

Responsible for documenting processes, procedures, improving performance and inefficiencies throughout the product release cycle to customer delivery. Established and documented business processes for Reverse Logistics Return Material Authorization (RMA), repair and service business unit.Managed the RMA process, order fulfillment, and coordinated MRO repairs with CM’s (Contract Manufactures), process purchase orders, and approved repairs on the basis of contractual agreements.Collaborated with business partners to define business methods, strategies and techniques to improve operational performance.Organize, schedule and track RMA and repair progress. Defined priorities for RMA Test Department.Created and monitored key quality metrics and collaborate with business partners.Initiated and executed strategies for continuous improvementImplemented corrective action as applied to the RMA and OE processes. Improved same day deliveries from 45% to 75%.Successfully implemented corrective action and improved Syspro ERP capabilities. Increased same day invoicing by 50%.Defined and Documented processes and procedures to insure repeatability in business practice and improved financials. Implemented corrective action to invoicing module. Collaborated with Accounting to analyze financial discrepancies and reconciliations past due P.O. report. Improved ERP inefficiencies and decreased discrepancies by 100%.Documented P.O. Reconciliation process for Purchasing and Accounting.

Operated a retail sporting goods business focused on providing schools in the South Bay with equipment, uniforms, and apparel. Managed outside Sales, performed product analysis and consumer studies to determine product feasibility.

Successfully directed Honeywell/Measurex worldwide QCS $45 million reverse logistics service business.Created and managed Honeywell’s Worldwide Service Operations and Service Supply Chain. Annual revenue increased 30%.Integrated domestic and international Customer Service, Purchasing and Production Planning into service business unit. Vision achieved to build a self-sufficient-self-contained business unit. Created a collaborative environment necessary to achieve positive results for customers.Provided technical support to worldwide service business affiliates Demonstrated abilities in achieving performance goals within established budgets and P&L targets by optimizing resources.Collaborated with users to analyze processes then partnered with developers to design and implement features to increase efficiencies within the supply chain.Implemented and defined Authorized Service Parts and Field Replacement Units (FRU’s) to support legacy business.Strategic planning initiatives successful. Achieved 98% same day deliverables. Performed predictive analysis analyzed historical data, market trends, and new product releases.Directly accountability for spares and service parts price strategies.Analyzed product requirements and determined best in class solutions.Led ISO implementation team in documenting processes, business practices, training guidelines, and procedures to ensure compliance with ISO standards.Accomplished implementation from legacy ERP into Oracle 10.7 and Oracle 11i. Directed a Six Sigma Green Belt team to investigate and correct Oracle attributes and set-ups affecting business performance. Same day deliveries increased from 55% to 98%.Established and monitored key quality metrics for service business and implemented continuous improvement initiatives.Performed detailed review of failure symptoms and RMA data analysis to identify systemic field problems. Improved test strategies to improve product performance

Direct accountability for day to day technical operations and long-term strategy and planning.Managed test operations and defined test equipment, functional requirements, and simulated test to ensure product compliance to defined designed functional specifications and improve quality/yield.Preformed as Project Manager and collaborated with business partners to achieve successful launch.Met aggressive project to support critical launch of new product introduction.Collaborated with Development, Factory Management and Quality management to improve product quality and manufacturing inefficiencies.Provided hands on support and problem resolutions for worldwide service business affiliates.

Performed test, calibration and repairs on PCBs and Sensors and to ensure functional requires complied with designed functional test specifications.Extensive experience in testing, calibration and repairs throughout Honeywell-Measurex ICS and QCS products.

Ba, Business Management

Aa, Electronic Technology