SUMMARY:

• Expertise includes a broad range of areas including advanced planning and scheduling systems, forecasting, materials management, production operations control, finite scheduling, order management and purchasing.
• ERP IT Analyst and project manager. He also served as an Active Duty Commissioned Officer in the Confidential for six years and was twice deployed to Iraq.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Advance Supply Chain Planning (ASCP)
• Advanced Planning Command Center (APCC)
• Available to Promise (ATP)
• Global Order Promising (GOP)
• Production Scheduling (PS)
• Master Scheduling/MRP
• Inventory (INV)
• Bills of Material (BOM)
• Engineering (ENG)
• Work in Process (WIP)
• Flow Manufacturing (FLOW)
• Process Manufacturing (OPM)
• Order Management (OM)
• Purchasing (PUR)
• Quality (QA)
• Oracle System Administration
• Applications Implementation
• System Configuration
• Fit/Gap Analysis
• Conference Room Pilot
• User Acceptance Testing
• End User
• Oracle Application Implementation Methodology (AIM)
• Automotive
• High Tech
• Electronics
• Telecommunications
• Consumer Product Goods (CPG)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Discrete Manufacturing, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Rapid Planning, Global Order Promising and Advanced Planning Command Center Functional Consultant for Panasonic’s Avionics division.
• Responsible for designing the manufacturing, master scheduling and material requirements planning solution design with Oracle Applications for Panasonic Avionics’ aerospace antenna product line.
• Assistant Project Manager and Business Analyst for Oracle Demantra Demand Management Implementation.
• Responsible for project planning, project status reporting and functional design documents for RICE, and ensuring business requirements are valid, documented and delivered on - time to the client
• Managed the Demantra Functional Consultant and Delta Faucet’s business and IT analysts’ progress via specific task assignments and project updates
• Primary APCC Functional Consultant for a life-sciences Fortune 500 company.
• Advised and provided recommendations on how to identify supply chain issues and how to quickly ascertain root causes through APCC
• Identified which extensions are needed to tailor APCC to Life Technologies’ unique shelf-life requirements
• Executed and led the distribution planning team through in-depth APCC workshop sessions to gather the true business requirements
• Assessed Nufarm’s supply chain management’s performance and processes in demand planning, master scheduling, material requirements planning, capacity planning, finite scheduling, distributions planning, inventory management, and process manufacturing.
• Reviewed and analyzed how Nufarm utilized Oracle Demantra, ASCP and OPM to execute their business processes.
• Recommended to the management on how to re-implement Demantra and ASCP to define and improve their business processes and streamline their supply chain.
• Lead Solution Architect of Discrete Manufacturing and Oracle Production Scheduling implementation project. Responsible for co-managing the project with Gentex’s project manager and designing a work center-based cellular manufacturing model and detailed and finite scheduling solution. Led the manufacturing leads in switching from Flow Manufacturing to Discrete Manufacturing.
• Authored the scheduling design with an emphasis upon master scheduling techniques via Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) application and work orders’ finite scheduling via Oracle Production Scheduling (PS) application that sequenced key operations against capacity and material availability.
• Implemented Oracle PS that utilized Oracle’s Campaign Run Optimization algorithm with a specific emphasis upon changeover time minimization and inventory carrying cost minimization.
• Designed and implemented planning process runs (ASCP and PS) that provided fresh ASCP plan runs twice a day and most up-to-date PS plan runs available on-demand.
• Ensured that the most up-to-date PS version was fully integrated with E-Business Suite R12.0.6 and Value Chain Planning Suite R12.3.3 (de-centralized environment) with zero customizations.
• Co-authored Inspirage’s Oracle Production Scheduling document and trained Master Schedulers and Materials Managers in a three-day PS workshop.
• Trained 25x Inspirage consultants in a two-day PS workshop.
• Ensured Gentex’s overall supply chain management’s improvements by reviewing the APCC’s Supply Chain Analyst dashboard with the business managers and end users during every testing event.

Confidential

Project Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a team of five Functional Analysts to implement Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 at Christchurch, New Zealand Eaton Manufacturing Plant (ATO, MTS, MTO); a manager of Eaton’s internal consulting team, served as the liaison between the client and Eaton’s Oracle Program at Christchurch, NZ project ($1.1MM) and Horseheads, NY project ($2.2MM) simultaneously Implemented a program for recently hired analysts.
• Authored future state design for Plan to Produce (PL2PD) business process for Christchurch, NZ’s operating unit with an emphasis upon implementing the Assemble To Order (ATO) manufacturing strategy and Product Family forecasting strategy.
• Implemented a strategy that synchronized material planning amongst New Zealand’s manufacturing plant, distribution center, and services warehouse; Increased procurement of raw materials’ efficiency within Southwest Pacific region.
• Responsible for implementing Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 with an emphasis in Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning, Capacity, Inventory, Bills of Material, Purchasing, Work in Process, Project Manufacturing, Global Order Promising, and Oracle Production Scheduler.
• Configured, designed, and successfully implemented Oracle Production Scheduler application at Horseheads, NY manufacturing plant; reduced manufacturing lead times by 65% in two manufacturing departments and improved customer’s on-time delivery by 30% within the first two months after Go-Live
• Finitely scheduled three weeks’ worth of discrete jobs (5,000+) for Horseheads, NY manufacturing plant within Oracle Production Scheduling with a specific emphasis upon simulating machine shutdowns and offloading the work orders from a primary cell to an alternate cell of machines.
• Developed and implemented standard operations designs and routing logic for 9,500 assemblies at Horseheads, NY; provided the business with a more realistic manufacturing lead time through Oracle’s lead time calculation and optimized subassembly planning, which reduced the scheduling time from 1 business day to 2 hours.
• Championed and successfully implemented Master Scheduling techniques to Costa Rica’s manufacturing plant that manually scheduled and planned their materials; synchronized the planning and purchasing teams for material planning and operations manager and the master scheduler for capacity planning; led to 90% sales orders’ on-time performance.
• Implemented Available To Promise for Costa Rica’s purchase resale operations that is 65% of their gross revenues; improved customer order promising, resulting in an increase 25% of sales revenue the first two months after Go-Live.

Confidential

Brigade Comptroller

Responsibilities:

• Led a 30-person team managing a $32 million budget for a 4,000-person Stryker combat brigade at Ft. Lewis, WA and $65 million budget for a Stryker brigade deployed in Iraq.
• Led team that managed over 300 purchase requests and 300 contracts worth $65 million in Iraq that contributed to mission success during Operation Iraqi Freedom; ed the Bronze Star Medal.
• Provided material and labor resources for 4 forward operating bases/12 outposts supporting 5,000 Soldiers in Iraq that met 100% of life-support force protection, combat and equipment requirements.
• Partnered with Iraqi vendors/contracting officers and advised on improving strategic sourcing for raw materials and infrastructure; successfully implemented cement, sand, and concrete supply chain plan that linked U.S. bases together; reduced lead times for procuring force protection materials from 6 months to 30 days.

Confidential

Executive Officer

Responsibilities:

• Second in command of 180-person Infantry Company at Ft. Lewis WA. Led 6-person support team maintaining and providing logistics support for 36 vehicles and equipment worth $35 million.
• In charge of $200 million worth of Confidential assets' operational readiness daily through maintenance, sustainability, and logistics operations
• Taught and mentored U.S. soldiers' close-quarter combat and counterinsurgency operations' tactics during a 2-year cycle in preparation of a deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Designed and commanded every logistics operations and missions during 40+ major events at Ft. Lewis, WA and at Yakima Center.
• Forecasted resource requirements for land, ammunition, fuel, food and water, and repair/spare parts for weapons and fighting vehicles two to three months' in advance of any operational month.

Confidential

Scout Platoon Leader

Responsibilities:

• Commanded a 36-member Scout Platoon in Baghdad, Iraq in participation of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Led over 500 daily Baghdad combat and humanitarian missions with the primary focus of securing the city from sectarian violence and possible Al-Qaeda threats.
• Delivered over 10,000 gallons of clean drinking water to twenty-five schools in Baghdad; led school infrastructure-repair projects with the Army Corps of Engineers.
• Directly responsible for the safety and welfare of 250,000 Iraqi citizens and trained over 1,000 local police officers in close-quarter combat tactics and roadside IED detections.
• Managed $1.5 million worth of Confidential assets in a combat environment.