Experience

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  Sidel Inc.

  • France
  • Machinery Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Sourcing Manager

    • Jul 2011 - Present

    Working across all levels of employees to help secure all local purchasing and manufacturing of machine components (commodity and custom manufacturing) for spare parts sales and Emergency customer needs.Negotiating and securing local short and long term local (U.S.) service contracts & major systems.Recent major projects:2015--Telephony services, Managed ShoreTel VOIP system w/ 170+ extensions in 2 office locations and 8 home based employees, all necessary data & copper lines, installation & training. System included 2 call centers (24 hour Technical Support and Spare Parts Sales) with remote weekend on-call employees.Managed complete installation project from beginning to end. 2016--Negotiated Cellular contract w/150+ devices including world wide travel ability w/savings of approximately 20% compared to previous provider. My direct reports during this time included a US Sourcing Specialist, Facilities Manager (responsible for 2 locations) and the Safety Manager who was responsible for all Safety programs and training for 2 locations (one manufacturing facility) and 40+ traveling Technicians interacting with 300 customer locations.

  • Purchasing and Outsourcing-U.S.

    • Apr 1999 - Jul 2011

    Interact with all levels of employees and customer contacts to secure local solutions for spare parts sales and emergency customer needs. This includes a wide range of parts from commodity components to complex custom designed machined components and assemblies. In charge of all U.S./domestic sourcing of parts purchasing and repairs.My direct report during this time included a US Sourcing Specialist, specializing in all sourcing activity for the spare parts activities for two of our filling and processing lines.

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  Rock-Tenn Company (Conyers,Ga)

  • Tooling Supervisor/Manager

    • Aug 1989 - Apr 1999

    Supervised Tooling Dept.-which included 6 tool and mold makers, CNC programmer and a designer. also managed and scheduled the Mold and Die preparation department who were solely responsible for preparing all tooling prior to manufacturing, cleaning and repairing post production tooling.Designed molds and dies for the Thermoforming/Vacuum forming production facility, ordered production tooling from outside sources. Purchased all raw materials for the in-house mold and die manufacturing dept.Used AutoCAD to design thermoforming molds and matched metal dies. Designed and sourced auxiliary equipment for the production department, including stacking and out feed units.

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  Bardes Plastics

  • Greater Milwaukee Area

  • Research & Design/Packaging Designer

    • 1981 - 1989
    • Greater Milwaukee Area

    Met with customers to initially discuss their particular custom packaging needs, mostly point of purchase displays and tamper proof product packaging. From those discussions I would design and build prototype packaging which met both the design and manufacturing cost constraints, including first off samples for marketing approval. Once concept and design approval was received I would work with our in-house tooling dept. to maximixe our production profitability.

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  Harley-Davidson Motor Co.

  • Capital Drive plant-Wauwatosa, WI

  • Machinist

    • 1980 - 1982
    • Capital Drive plant-Wauwatosa, WI

    Production Machinst--cut spines and main drive shafts and gears. Rolled splines on main shafts