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Walnut, CA, US

Waltham, MA, US

Waltham, MA, US

• Own the global supply chain process at Ardelyx, work within a multidisciplinary team, and directly impact strategy and timing of clinical supply chain activities, drug substance manufacturing, and drug product.
• Design, lead and implement a comprehensive supply chain strategy at Ardelyx. Manage and improve the Supply & Operations Planning Process at Ardelyx.
• Partner with Clinical Operations and other internal stakeholders to create and test clinical supply assumptions.
• Act as primary point of contact with 3PL companies and actively manage this relationship to ensure scheduled delivery goals are met.
• Execute supply chain direction, and resource requirements sufficient to deliver robust supply solutions
• Direct the strategic Supply and Demand Planning efforts.

 Manages through Global Supply Chain Planning and External Manufacturing department all functional teams to ensure high performance outputs and drives continuous improvement Manages global demand and supply planning to streamline supply chain business process by standardizing demands and supply planning, manufacturing operations processes to sustain.

Provide supply chain expertise and leadership with the responsibility of manufacturing and packaging planning, material management, production schedules, resources and capacity planning required for cGMP commercial operations and new product launch (ANDA and NDA) conducted in California, Pennsylvania, and Taiwan. Manages through Global Supply Chain.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Lead enterprise foundation technology teams using industry best practice and Lean Six Sigma methodology to streamline, design and implement business process for customer support, sustained engineering, root causes analysis, and corrective actions to all business units, ultimately accomplish better customer experiences of using Juniper’s products and services

Norcross, GA, USA, US

Provide business and systems consulting services in Global Demand and Supply Chains using ERP, Lean Six Sigma and continuous process improvement methodology. Re-engineered and led the architecture design and implementation of Global Demand Planning process to collaborate and streamline sales, marketing, finance, demand management and supply operations.

South San Francisco, California, US

• Led large cross-functional teams of 50 professionals (onsite and offshore) and successfully delivered SAP ERP systems with technical and integrated solution, data conversion, system infrastructures, and wireless.
• Consistently delivered zero defect SAP applications and data to supply chain customers driving the turnaround of mission-critical operations at crucial point every time
• Implemented the first ultra high availability systems with 99.999% uptime solution to BioChem’s MES systems for EBR and eBOM resulting in multi-millions dollars saving on material waste reductions
• Initiated Six Sigma SIPOC processes to build Commercial IT Operational Support Model, resulting in reduction of Service Level Agreement (SLA) response time on level 2 support by 50% using a streamlined communication.
• Introduced and led a quality improvement program at key vendor sites which resulted in an overall improvement of data accuracy (98%), on-time delivery (95%), and improved defects from 6000 per million to 25 per million
• Reduced production data deployment time 30% by streamlining data process flow and validation procedures resulted in $140K saving each time

• Global Supply Chain Business consulting firm specializing in Pharmaceutical Industries, major clients include Merck & Co. (1996-2003), Johnson & Johnson Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (2004), Novartis Pharmaceutical.
• Directed business processes reengineering in Foreign Trade Zones for Merck’s Global Business Process & System group; since its inception, this process has resulted in an annual savings of $2M on raw material taxes and.
• Directed business process reengineering to improve Electronic Shop Floor Batch Records by integrating quality control procedures with ERP Work Order and Recipe system; this resulted in $6M of savings by eliminating.
• Directed the design and implementation of CFR 21 Part 11 Electronic Record and Electronic Signature for Merck’s manufacturing system to meet FDA regulatory compliance.

US

• Led division’s MRP II Department with responsibilities of production planning & control, organization change management, and material control for four manufacturing sites. Oversaw $2M budget of IT operations, managed a.
• Led a large Business Process Improvement program to reengineer order processing flow, reducing non-value-add steps for Engelhard Corporation’s Catalytic Gauze product; this successfully reduced the number of process.
• Streamlined Industrial Thermo Couplers shop floor processes by implementing JIT Kanban system, resulting in 30% precious metal inventory reductions equivalent to $250K in savings
• Directed the integration project of customer sales system and MRP II sales information architecture to provide on-line product information to the division sales organization and reduce customer response time from 7.

Woodmead, Gauteng, ZA

• Manufactures and markets a wide variety of specialty imaging products and services to industrial and commercial customers to meet various print application needsManaged Finishing departments with increasing.
• Improved productivity by leading improvement committee for the implementation of TQM and Statistical Quality Control in division with guidance from Deming and Conway
• Implemented JIT Kanban system on shop floor to meet company goals of on-time delivery, productivity improvement, and quality standards
• Designed and developed probabilistic model to monitor and leverage sales forecasts and inventory levels
• Designed and developed effective productivity index system to support production planning and scheduling for better customer service

Ms, Operations Research

Bs, Industrial Engineering