Experience

PSS

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

• Import Procurement Specialist

  • May 2011 - Present



Interline Brands

• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Import Inventory Analyst

  • Feb 2007 - May 2012

  • Manage purchasing of 50 overseas vendors from throughout Asia and Latin America.• Responsible for monitoring and stock balancing 1,650 SKUs throughout 50+ warehouses, worth an average of $12 million.• Solely dropped 4th Qtr inventory by $2.3 million, for my vendor base, 2009.• Negotiated vendor minimum order quantities in order to buy more vendors direct to new distribution center.• Attained all quarterly incentives when offered by company, for meeting or exceeding a 2.50 average in inventory turns and 95.0 service level.• Manager a VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) faucet vendor, resulting in turns of 4.25 and service level of 97.8%, as of Jan 2011



Astral Products, INC.

• Supply Chain Manager

  • Nov 2004 - Oct 2006

  • Manage purchasing with 15 foreign Spanish vendors and 15 Domestic vendors.• Work closely with Accounts Payable to approve and manage supplier invoices.• Analyze past sales history trends to aid in forecasting purchases.• Coordinate the allocation of inventory of $6.2 million in yearly sales for 2005.• Manage the traffic of all imports and exports, averaging 275 containers yearly.• Supervised the 2005 year-end inventory stock take valued at $2 MM.• Manage a team of 6 warehouse and logistics personnel, along with a 50,000 Sq. Ft. warehouse.• Research and negotiate pricing with transportation carriers resulting in a reduction in freight costs of $89K for 2005. • Promoted from Traffic Coordinator to Purchasing Assistant in December 2005.• Promoted to Supply Chain Manager in March 2006.



NYK Logistics

• Logistics Associate

  • Apr 2004 - Nov 2004

  • Worked on a team to manage branch’s largest account, Lennox Industries Inc.; oversaw 100% of North East Region’s transportation needs.• Coordinated the flow of an average of 40 monthly intermodal shipments for a large grocery chain, Winn Dixie.• Worked with Account Manager of Sapporo Beer to meet the distribution schedule goals and transportation needs for the customer and its distributors. • Worked on a team to manage branch’s largest account, Lennox Industries Inc.; oversaw 100% of North East Region’s transportation needs.• Coordinated the flow of an average of 40 monthly intermodal shipments for a large grocery chain, Winn Dixie.• Worked with Account Manager of Sapporo Beer to meet the distribution schedule goals and transportation needs for the customer and its distributors.