Experience

Trystar

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Materials and Inventory Manager

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Manage a team of 16 maintaining an organized warehouse and coordinating material movement in our manufacturing operationsDevelop and implement strategy for warehousing and material handling bringing scalability and accuracy.

• Sr. Procurement Specialist

  • Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

  · Manage direct report to achieve procurement/sourcing goals and projects· Built supply chain strategy to achieve scalability and accuracy targets to maintain and accelerate multiple double-digit growth· Developed actionable KPI’s to maintain material availability and healthy inventory levels with a target of 6 turns · Co-lead a plant-closure/move of a $30M value stream to Faribault MN. · Manage the supply chain covering $50M of spend across multiple value streams with ~8,000 active raw material SKU’s



Cantel Medical

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Buyer

  • Nov 2018 - Nov 2021

  · Manage many of the sourcing and supplier relationships for the Medical division.· Improved the MRO procurement process for production by moving 95% of their supply ordering to VMI solutions and MRP management.· Demonstrated project management experience with MRO sourcing, SAP purchase requisition implementation, and SAP Concur implementation.· Created and trained the invoice management process for direct and indirect procurement. · Contract negotiation and RFI/RFP experience through sourcing MRO with preferred suppliers, ongoing negotiation, and contract management of capital equipment purchases.

• Buyer, Indirect

  • Nov 2018 - Aug 2020



SICK Sensor Intelligence

• Germany
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Buyer II

  • Jun 2018 - Nov 2018

  · Managed the procurement activities and supplier relationships for raw material PCBA’s, plastics, and optical plastics for manufacturing.· Negotiated supply agreements with key suppliers.· Managed procurement activities for new product launches and product replacements.· Created and lead an excel competency workshop for the procurement team.· Lead the procurement team in development of processes in SAP to assist the team with the successful implementation of SAP.· Identified and executed continuous improvement efforts as the company further embraced the SAP ERP system.

• Buyer I

  • Oct 2017 - Jun 2018

• Inventory Analyst

  • Jun 2017 - Jan 2018

  · Ran a daily analysis of sales order availability and prepared a monthly dashboard of forecast accuracy for upper management.· Aided in the analysis of inventory stocking levels and adjusted the levels appropriately to contribute toward 95% availability of stocked SKU’s and optimization of inventory cost.· Assisted with SAP implementation activities including the master data loads and SAP process development and training. · Trained the next inventory analyst into the role.



Medbio, LLC

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Assurance Intern

  • Oct 2016 - May 2017

  · Improved the filing and storage process for production documents. · Assisted in training and roll-out of good documentation practice program that helped achieve compliance. · Gained hands on experience of lean manufacturing practices and inventory management in an injection molding and assembly manufacturing environment. · Improved the filing and storage process for production documents. · Assisted in training and roll-out of good documentation practice program that helped achieve compliance. · Gained hands on experience of lean manufacturing practices and inventory management in an injection molding and assembly manufacturing environment.



Medtronic

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Intern

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  · Improved the MRP report process used in procurement by adding pricing data to the MRP reports generated from the ERP system. · Conducted a manufacturing time study used to update the manufacturing standard cost. · Completed a project to update process flows and re-map work cells in production. · Documented business processes and created process flow maps used for SAP implementation. · Improved the MRP report process used in procurement by adding pricing data to the MRP reports generated from the ERP system. · Conducted a manufacturing time study used to update the manufacturing standard cost. · Completed a project to update process flows and re-map work cells in production. · Documented business processes and created process flow maps used for SAP implementation.



NJK Painters LLC

• Chanhassen, Minnesota

• Founding Partner

  • Dec 2014 - Jun 2016

  Exterior painting service. We provide a top quality job at an unbeatable price. Njkpainters@gmail.com Exterior painting service. We provide a top quality job at an unbeatable price. Njkpainters@gmail.com



College Pro

• Canada
• Consumer Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Job Site Manager

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  I worked as a job site manager for a franchise in Eden Prairie Minnesota, one of the top ten franchises in North America. On every house painting project I had to lead a team to meet the standard written in the contract of providing a top quality long lasting paint job that meets the needs of the homeowner. Some responsibilities include: communication with the homeowner and franchise owner, managing materials budgets, labor budgets, and purchasing supplies, leading a crew towards a 5 out of 5 rating on every project.