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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Adviser and Consultant working mainly on strategic sourcing and procurement deals and trading company startups. • Worked on engagement strategies with Mexican manufacturing, retail and commercial companies. Consulting on strategic sourcing, contract compliance and spend analytics engagements with new customers. • Leading an engagement for medical supplies sourcing and distribution for a major pharmacy chain in Mexico. • Advising a trading company startup in Mexico. • Working with a food service disposable products distributor on their strategy to export from Mexico to USA.

Kennesaw, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Duties included leading sourcing consulting team in charge of engagement, from data analysis, taxonomy and categorization to project identification, sourcing strategy, execution and implementation.• Closed PRGX’s first Indirect Sourcing Consulting contract. • Saved 5% on Indirect spend projects on the first 6 months. • Developed PRGX’s data driven sourcing 5 step process. • Assembled team in Mexico co-located with the client, for the execution of the sourcing engagement.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Main responsibility was the integration of Auto Plus and Pep Boys as well as managing high visibility / high impact projects, while also managing Indirect Sourcing and supporting the Product/Merchandising team in new products and global sourcing projects. • For the integration, managed 13 work streams (e.g. Supply Chain, Product, Stores, Real Estate, Legal, HR, Marketing, IT, etc.) with over 400 activities focused on synergies while keeping the business moving forward. • Led multi-functional team to identify $120.0M+ in synergies with $87.7M executed in year one.• Identified and negotiated 8% savings on $120.0M spend in Indirect Sourcing. • Led negotiations with overseas suppliers of private label product lines; savings of 10% on a $40.0M spend. • Supervised and managed the creation and execution of the 2017-2018 Strategic Operating Plan for the company with over 60 key initiatives with the three Business Units (Retail, Service and Commercial) and five supporting functions (Supply Chain, Marketing, eCommerce, IT and HR). - Global Sourcing (Started with Uni-Select Inc.) Built the newly created Sourcing Org. to service both Canada and US operations. Developed the global sourcing process, e.g. project id, fulfillment, quality and supplier management. Worked with the Merchandising and Purchasing teams to strategically identify cost reductions, new product lines and margin improvement projects. • Expanded the Sourcing supply base from two suppliers (agents) to 13 direct import suppliers • Realized annualized savings of $2.7M in 2014, on top of $2.0M on recurrent projects from 2013.• With Merchandising, executed new product introduction (NPI) programs for additional revenue of $10.5M

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Member of the Advisory Board

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Us

Created and led the Global Sourcing Office (GSO) in Atlanta, GA and the offices in India and Vietnam. Worked closely with our GSO office in China. Led a global team of 10 FTEs in three countries that worked with our seven business units on cost reduction, productivity projects, aggregation projects, e-sourcing projects and national contracts. • Completed 54 projects with estimated savings of $4.0M and a pipeline of 84 projects with more than $4.3M in savings. Total annualized spend of more than $60M.• Identified over 150 new potential suppliers in India, Vietnam and Thailand. • Responsible of the Procurement Council, group formed by the business units’ Procurement Leaders, that worked on best practice sharing, indirect procurement and spend aggregation.• Supporting business units on sales growth opportunities in Emerging Markets.

Us

Managed $3.0M budget and led a team of 30 people. Responsible for the Global Sourcing Strategic team and the sourcing offices in China and India. Activities included: supplier id, qualification, management, contract negotiations and the execution of sourcing services with our Clients including new products. • Overall management of $20M of internal purchases and over $30M of Customer purchases in Asia. • Executed sourcing projects on more than $100M with eight Clients. • Averaged 20% savings by applying the sourcing principles (i.e. planning, spend analysis, opportunity assessment, demand aggregation, supplier assessment, negotiations, fulfillment, contract management, etc.)• Worked on Chrysler LLC electric vehicle prototype project identifying and qualifying LCC suppliers; identified over 250 suppliers. • Commodity categories managed include a very diverse range, e.g. automobile battery components, construction material, components for the oil and gas industry; trailer and towing products; material handling equipment, steel fabrications, wire products for retail, computers, tires and industrial tooling.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

• Responsible to lead Lean efforts (waste elimination, value identification, flow) throughout Wind Energy and identify opportunities to reduce current cost of quality. • Managed and led several successful teams on Lean initiatives, among the results are: 46% (66 days) cycle reduction in design change implementation; 15% Cost of quality reduction on wind turbine blades; 32% Wind turbine installation cycle reduction.• Coordinated the Wind Lean Showcase project ($27MM impact), with teams working on Lean opportunities in Logistics, Installation, Commissioning, Services and Allocation. • Achieved Lean Qualification.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

• Lead the Business Sourcing teams on fulfillment (On time delivery, backlog reduction, promise accuracy, etc.)• Drove an overall 33% late backlog reduction throughout 10 GE Energy businesses in one year. • Led various teams on specific fulfillment project achieving extraordinary results: 73% improvement on deliveries from a critical commodity; 150% improvement on promise accuracy on a troubled critical supplier; over $60MM of missing inventory identified on 7 suppliers around the world in few weeks.• Improved fulfillment focus by implementing the “proactive approach” to focus on delay prevention, not only overdue items resolution; and the “compression analysis” to analyze items released with compressed (short) cycle that strain the supply chain.• Successfully hired and trained 19 outsourced resources from India to support the Global Sourcing organization; developed the processes for them to support all businesses on the fulfillment strategy.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

• Relocated to Atlanta HQ offices. Managed the Sourcing Performance Leaders SWAT Team (10) assigned to support Energy Services.• Led team to reduce late backlog in 88% (from 7584 orders to less than 900) in 2 years.• Developed and implemented a tool to identify fulfillment opportunities; 40% improvement in performance in the first month of using the tool and subsequent improvements in the following months.• Mentored over 70 Six Sigma projects that led to process improvement at suppliers.• Created metrics for the Services business to monitor the performance of their supplier base achieving 94% improvement on overdue promised PO’s and 99% improvement on overdue requisitions.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

• Promoted. Managed a team of 13 Commodity Leaders and Engineers responsible for more than 85% of the shipments from the Latin America pole’s suppliers ($100MM+).• Reached 100% of the target for the Latin America pole deliveries. • Implemented the Digital Cockpit tool to monitor and control the pole’s main metrics (KPI’s): Quality, Delivery and New Opportunities.• Achieved 100% of Six Sigma Green Belt certifications on my team• As a Commodity Leader, managed the Fluid Systems Commodity to identify new opportunities in Latin America and achieve zero quality defects and 100% on time delivery to promised date. • Identified more than 10 projects for more than $50MM in receipts. • Doubled the quantity of products shipped by the Fluid Systems Commodity.• Successfully developed a low cost strategic supplier ($20MM project). Responsible for the integration of the GE team and the supplier throughout all the development process; from order placement to first piece approval; involved in quality assurance and cycle reduction.• Shipped over $1MM in product on the first year (more than double the expectations) and $6.5MM the second year. Achieved zero defects and zero complains from the Customers and 100% on time deliveries.

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Mba, International Business

University Of The Aftermarket - Leadership 2.0, Aftermarket

Bs, Mechanical Engineering And Business

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