Supply Chain - Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)

Summary:
Supply Chain/Inventory professional with well rounded experience with fortune 500 companies Motorola, ITT Aerospace, Dell, and Texas Instruments. CPIM (certified in production and inventory control) certification. Accumulated leadership strengths in Production and Inventory Control, project/financial management, training, and supervision. Air Force veteran (captain) managed multi-year, multi-million dollar programs for the US Air Force Logistics Command.
• Supply / Production & Inventory Management – Master Scheduling/Production Planning/ Supplier Forecasting/Stockroom. Inventory management across multiple factories in different cities.
• Project and Financial Management - Managed install of Transverse Electric Receive Antenna System into 25 Airborne Command Post Aircraft on schedule, under budget, and with training in place. Accountable to Government Accounting Office (GAO) for financials.
• Supervision and Leadership - Led engineers and data specialists in support of new system development and implementation of military programs. Supervision of factory and contract support.
• Training - Developed plan with Motorola University for statistical methods progression of engineers/ technicians. Program success was expanded to factories in other cities.

Materials Management / Production and Inventory Management / Supervision:
• Communicated supportability and identified and proactively prevented potential supply issues for four factories and two merge centers located in Austin, Nashville North Carolina and Reno for Dell.
• External 13-week substrate forecasts for two suppliers controlling levels of “Supplier Managed” and “Motorola Owned” Inventory for high dollar perishable solder paste supporting over 100K semiconductor products per week..
• Determined and developed the Master Schedule for production of 120K automotive control modules per month meeting customer requirements, finished goods inventory targets, & capacity constraints.
• Managed clean room garment inventory including cleanings, repairs and stocking to support over 500 people. Extended garment lease without a finance charge to save Motorola $56K annually.
• Thanked by Motorola Director of Purchasing for the Americas for contributing vital effort to the success of an eBreviate internet auction of clean room commodities saving the Sector over $1.4 million annually.
• Tech product evaluations Motorola “Sector Clean room Council” saved $1M in 1998 & $1.5M in 1999. Annualized savings $264K switching to “nit rile” gloves, $39K switching to better quality wiper also eliminated $20K/wk yield issue
• Supervised production planners/ material clerks / buyers / stockroom/stock handler personnel
• Chaired ITT preliminary review board (PMRB) reducing scrap by 83% in 1.5 years..
• Developed ITT Smart-ware II programs for many applications to enhance material control, (i.e. generating ICC Number
• Developed ITT Smart-ware II programs for many applications to enhance material control, (i.e. generating ICC Number Reports or Requests for Shippers from data loaded from a barcode reader).
• Setup/maintain TI shop floor control system, considering MRP setup effects. Established system engineers to track tooling data/artwork requests. Implemented prototype barcode system for warehouse transactions.

Management/Project, Financial and Technical Management:
• Managed install of Transverse Electric Receive Antenna System into 25 Airborne Command Post Aircraft on schedule, under budget, and with training in place. Accountable to Government Accounting Office for financials.
• Program & Logistics Management of multi-year, multi-million dollar programs for development & installation of Command, Control & Communications Equipment on Command Post Aircraft.
• Combined 3 aircraft modifications into a one saving $.5 million in tech data cost & reducing aircraft downtime 95 days.
• Granted Top Secret security clearance honorably discharged at the rank of Captain.
• Authored System Program Office’s Management Summary Reports sent to Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs.
• Managed circuit board project accounts for Texas Instruments including budgeting, scheduling, cost analysis, cost center forecasting, shop loads, business projections, expediting and corrections to manufacturing problems.
• Wrote In-Process Procedure Plan for a Controlled Cryptographic Item and Industrial Preparedness Plan which netted $19K and $39K respectively for ITT from its customer.
• Managed ESD {Electrostatic Discharge} control program to protect Motorola BAT1 Product. Served over 12 years as president/Webmaster and member communications for the Texas Chapter of the ESD Association.
• Environmental monitoring of Motorola BAT1 Class 100 clean room to Federal Standard 209 requirements.

Training / Education Development / Quality Implementation / Continuous Improvement:
• Developed plan with Motorola University for statistical methods progression of engineers/ technicians. Program success was expanded to factories in other cities.
• Certified Facilitator of the “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” through Covey Leadership Center.
• Developed technical training roadmaps for Motorola engineers, technicians, supervisors and operators tied to appropriate competencies. Managers used roadmaps to identify appropriate training for their personnel
• Trained Motorola personnel in Clean room Protocol, Safety Audits, Hazard Communication, Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Prevention, New Hire Orientation, Train the Trainer, and Team Building exercises.
• Supervised 9 operators on 3 shifts while on temporary 4 month assignment, set up training objectives, created Process Video for the BUMP Process for training purposes, and wrote process procedures.
• Established confidentiality agreement for exchange of confidential/proprietary information between Sanders and Motorola to develop training for Total Control Methodology (TCM) and Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM).
• Trained personnel in using Total Quality Management and Statistical Process Control (SPC) topics in a team environment at both Weed Instruments and Motorola. Facilitated team improvement projects including: sector specs, procedures standardization, reducing waste, yield/cycle time improvement, improving engineering change process.