• Professional Engineer and Entrepreneur with valuable global sourcing network of companies manufacturing engineered products in Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa.
• Skilled, degreed, Mechanical/Metallurgical with Professional Engineer license.
• Designed robust process for product development in successful low-cost country sourcing.
• Developed best practices for successful value- added global sourcing supply chains.
• Sourced complex custom automation systems from China – a challenging feat.
• Straight shooter and motivator for excellence.
• Achieved millions in cost savings for customers.
• Started up LLC’s – from creating vision, setting up
customer-focused systems to delivering results.
• Built & nurtured cross-functional work teams in Asia, providing leadership and training.
• Proficient at data analysis - “seeing” trends and spotting anomalies for creative problem-solving.
• Persistent change agent for achieving manufacturing excellence.
CORE STRENGTHS
• Leadership for performance, accountability
• Effective Global Sourcing
• Global Supply Chain Development & Execution • Negotiating for price competitiveness
• Manufacturing Process Improvement
• Simplifying Automation concepts
• Materials Engineering and R&D
• Lean manufacturing
• Six Sigma and Quality System Management
• Failure analysis of components and structures