Experience

Tilley Distribution

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Supply Chain

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  Tilley Distribution is a specialty chemical and ingredient value-added distribution company serving the Food, Flavor Fragrance, Personal Care, Pharmaceutical, Lubricant, CASE, and HI&I industries. • Successfully implemented a 5-year growth plan which resulted in over 40% organic growth on a base volume of $100M and a new total sales volume of over $550M through three acquisitions in one year• Personally, led the integration of processes, cultures, and ERP systems of the acquisitions located in four facilities and three states which enabled synergies and YoY growth during the transition• In addition to implementing a new SIOP process for multiple newly acquired companies, expanded the value-added capabilities to enable growth during the same period when most companies were seeing a decline due to market conditions• By ensuring on-hand inventory and less than a 24-hour end-to-end order processing, experienced over 200% YoY growth for the past 5 years from our internet sales of chemicals and ingredients which uses a proprietary search engine and marketing tool to proactively drive product awareness



Smiths Detection

• United Kingdom
• Security Systems Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Supply Chain Management

  • Jun 2016 - Sep 2017

  Provided the leadership that transformed the Supply Chain team performing the Planning, Strategic International Sourcing, Procurement, Material Management, Logistics and Aftermarket Service into a highly effective goal exceeding organization which accomplished the following results:• Reduced production inventory from $40.8M to $32.0M • Improved the customer on-time delivery from 55.4% to 89.1%• Reduced weekly international material shipments by 12 days and the container rate cost by 17%• Reduced the warehousing foot print by 57% by re-negotiating supplier delivery schedules• Achieved $2.98M in Purchase Price Variance Savings on actual costs • Increased supplier on-time delivery from 32.3% to 92.2% • Reduced the inventory held in the Material Review status from $2.24M to $44k • Reduced Aftermarket Service inventory from $14.2M to $8.9M



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Strategic Global Supply Chain Manager

  • Jun 2010 - Jun 2016

  Directed the segment vice presidents and their teams on the implementation of a supplier/vendor based cost saving program for the $1B+ revenue generating business that improved their overall P&L bottom line by $26M in FY14, $38M in FY15 and $46M in FY16• Managed individual savings projects that included S&OP improvements, aggressive supplier negotiating using competitive bidding, conducting supplier consolidation and product bundling• Developed the International Approved Supplier List and associated cost/savings tools• Recognized subject matter expert leader on all related supply chain processes and initiatives by executive business leadership and cross-division functional teams



HP

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• World Wide Supply Chain Manager

  • Jul 2006 - Jun 2010

  Strategic World Wide Supply Chain Management• Led the executive level team’s redesign of the end to end supply chain process starting with global raw material Tier 3 & 4 suppliers through the worldwide customer delivery providers by creating the first value stream mapping of the components (over a thousand parts) with regards to cost, lead time, batching and contract agreements.• Designed a new worldwide inventory management process that accounted for manufacturing variations and demand seasonality which eliminated excess warehouse volume (facilities) resulting in a 20%+ reduction in procurement cost and a 15% reduction of on-hand inventory• Directed and conducted supplier evaluations and contract negotiations for international material/subassembly providers, subcontracting, postponement and transportation. • Designed the S&OP, supply chain and manufacturing processes from scratch for a new consumer product manufacturing facility to support $20M in annual sales

• Business Operations Manager

  • Oct 2002 - Jul 2006

  Managed the overall supply chain process of the printers, ink and digital cameras from raw material from Asian, European & South American suppliers through operations processing to reseller distribution centers• Personally led the on-site/hands-on team effort to correct the inventory management process of the operations facility resulting in a lead time reduction from 4 to 1.5 weeks and reduced on-hand inventory by 28% • Piloted a New Product Introduction (NPI) & End of Life (EOL) program that coordinated the processes of the engineering, marketing, manufacturing and supply chain organizations to reduce obsolete inventory resulting in average savings of over $250k per product at least 20 NPIs per year• Implemented the re-organization of the North American product return logistics process that re-defined the returns disposition hierarchy based on product value, demand forecast and supply chain cost, which resulted in a 22% year over year savings