Qualifications Highly-qualified purchasing specialist with engineering background in international manufacturing with over 30 years of direct, hands-on experience. * Proficient in all aspects of supply chain management and with demonstrated success in reducing costs across multiple manufacturing plants. * Extremely accomplished negotiator with domestic and international suppliers. with Sourced various commodities including steel, resin, copper, motors, metal stampings, wire harnesses, and injection molding. $1.5 billion in spend total. * Facilitated the activities of the cost reduction team at all four plants including value engineering. * Averaged 1,200 cost-out projects per year resulting in over $150 million in PPV and OMV savings. purchasing team with over $450 million in spend total. * Prepared budgets and forecasts to cover the operation's PPV OMV freight variance payment terms inventory adjustments rebates and obsolescence. * Prepared the forecast for low-cost country sourcing activities for Electrolux's corporate initiatives. Responsible for generating a controlled budget for supplier tooling replacement and refurbishing.

Highlights:

• Commodities
• Management
• Purchasing
• Sourcing
• Supply Chain
• Engineering
• HVAC
• Injection Molding
• Manufacturing
• Inventory
• manufacturing
• "project management"
• mechanical engineer
• steel