Director of Planning

• Aug 2022 - Present

Enterprise Resources Planning Manager

• Mar 2021 - Oct 2022

Production Manager/Planning Manager

• Jul 2018 - Oct 2022

Manage Millimeter Wave Production Department (20 employees: MMW products assemblers, technicians, and Production Engineers) and Production Planning Department.

Sr. Materiel Manager

• Mar 2006 - Jul 2018

• Establish, improve and streamline processes for planning, purchasing, inventory, internal order, and inspection, and implement these processes in new ERP system• Confer with planner and other department managers to coordinate activities of individual departments• Provide support to program managers to ensure compliance with contract rules, materiel procurement, and scheduling• Review commercial customer orders and decide if the orders can be fulfilled by Pull-from Stock or Make-to-order option• Work with design engineers on BOM, monitor production capacity, release internal orders and schedule orders in the Production Dept. and ensure customer orders shipped on-time• Communicate with Sales Dept. to ensure customers get timely updates of order status• Provide Sales department with lead time for new quotes to customers• Maintain/monitor stockroom inventory and optimize inventory levels of raw material, Make-to-Stock products, and assemblies• Review and approve purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy• Review purchasing requisition, make make-or-buy decisions• Provide final technical decision on all machine shop suppliers’ qualifications and decide when design is ready to be released to outside suppliers• Review, evaluate, and approve suppliers• Member of MRB• Manage all procurement of machined parts (RFQ, price review, purchasing decision) to ensure best purchasing• Maintain and update weekly staff meeting reports – Sales Forecast and Adjustment, Shipping On-time, Inventory Finished Goods Level, Purchase order On-time Status, Purchasing Requisition fulfill Rate and efficiency • Mechanical design/drawing review Show less