Experience

Hoosier Pride Plastics Inc
• United States
• Plastics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Plant Manager

  • Oct 2022 - Present


Creative Liquid Coatings

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Commodity Manager

  • Mar 2019 - Oct 2022

  Manage resin and outsource molding  Solicited quotes from suppliers for a variety of commodities.  Promoted the supplier who meet all required specs, best pricing and valuated who could perform the job asked to do that was quoted.  Read drawings and specs to make sure supplier knew what to quote.  Supported buyers in following up with late deliveries.  Followed up with suppliers with low supplier rating and quality issues.  Visited suppliers regularly to perform annual and bi-annual audits.  Performed risk assessments on any potential new suppliers.  Visited all CK plants to work with buyers and/or operations with supplier issues.  Traveled to different CK plants to help operations with layouts, warehousing restructuring, and any special tasks to help operations work efficiently.  Negotiated annual contracts with suppliers.  Provided the company with cost savings via negotiating pricing with suppliers, moving business from one supplier to another, and worked with customers to change materials to create a cost save.  Worked with Program Managers, APQP, Tooling Engineer and Account Managers to help the launch of new programs go smooth and efficient.  Provided top management with data and charts to show company spend based on commodities.  Followed market trends to prepare the company of any impacts that may halt the supply chain process. Show less



CK Technologies, LLC

• SCM Senior Purchasing Specialist

  • Mar 2016 - Feb 2019

   Solicited quotes from suppliers for a variety of commodities.  Promoted the supplier who meet all required specs, best pricing and valuated who could perform the job asked to do that was quoted.  Read drawings and specs to make sure supplier knew what to quote.  Supported buyers in following up with late deliveries.  Followed up with suppliers with low supplier rating and quality issues.  Visited suppliers regularly to perform annual and bi-annual audits.  Performed risk assessments on any potential new suppliers.  Visited all CK plants to work with buyers and/or operations with supplier issues.  Traveled to different CK plants to help operations with layouts, warehousing restructuring, and any special tasks to help operations work efficiently.  Negotiated annual contracts with suppliers.  Provided the company with cost savings via negotiating pricing with suppliers, moving business from one supplier to another, and worked with customers to change materials to create a cost save.  Worked with Program Managers, APQP, Tooling Engineer and Account Managers to help the launch of new programs go smooth and efficient.  Provided top management with data and charts to show company spend based on commodities.  Followed market trends to prepare the company of any impacts that may halt the supply chain process. Show less



Kamco Industries, Inc.

• United States
• Automotive
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Logistics Coordinator/Purchasing Agent

  • Jan 2010 - Mar 2016

   Place purchase orders for all components and resin to our multiple suppliers.  Used MRP system to monitor inventory levels and to make purchase orders.  Managed inventory levels through weekly cycle counts.  Communicated any inventory issues with managers of the department.  Communicated with suppliers on a daily basis.  Worked with Honda on developing efficient packaging for all upcoming New Models.  Held meetings with other departments to go over packaging concepts and issues.  Responsible for subcontractors.  Received invoices, components and resin.  Designed shipping protection for plastic parts.  Worked with Honda on any packaging reports/issues.  Pulled and staged product for shipments.  Unloaded inbound trucks.  Worked with Honda on delivery reports/issues.  Supervised over employees that were assigned to me.  Setup carriers for pickup and deliveries.  Viewed incoming 830 and 862 orders from Honda. Show less