Experience

Norix Furniture

• United States
• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Purchasing Agent

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  • Manage vendor contracts, development of vendors, sourcing and relationship. • Track vendor performance. • Create purchase orders for raw materials and manufactured components. • Expedite orders with suppliers as required, to ensure on time delivery, preventing stock outages and production downtime. • Track on time and late deliveries. • Issue change notifications when required. • Responsible for processing rejected material and the return of merchandise. • Work with Accounting Department to resolve invoicing issues. • Negotiate price, availability, delivery schedules and terms. • Review and process proposals and quotes. • Set up and monitor blanket orders. • Source parts & material via internet, tradeshow, suppliers listing etc. for launching new and existing products. • Work with Engineering on Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), new part number set ups and supplier relationships. • Communicate with all internal departments to determine any additional purchasing needs. • Review requisitions and create purchase orders when needed. • Conduct periodic review and analysis of the inventory of slowing moving and critical items. • Set up new suppliers and update current suppliers data. • Act as a change agent, supporting project management and strategic initiatives. Show less



Tungaloy-NTK America, Inc.

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager of Logistics, Pricing, Purchasing & Warehouse Operations

  • Oct 2010 - Mar 2020

  Management of system procedures, warehouse, inventory control and evaluation of internal system relating to inventory & productsManaged $15 million dollars of cost of our cutting toolsOversaw inventory to insure sales to all of N. America of $55 millionSupervised purchasing specialist, pricing specialist,warehouse operationsAssisted pricing specialists in rfq’s-4000 unique ones annuallyResponsible for creating and updating annual electronic price list which contained ~27,000 unique sku’sNegotiated with top customer, Toyota USA, regarding annual price review yearlySupervised customer service department for 2 1/2 yearsWorked with AS400 system to maintain per company policy low levels of slow, dead, excess inventoryWorked with MS Office extensively including Pivot Tables, V Lookup formulas, etc. Show less

• Commercial Pricing Supervisor/Applications Engineer

  • Nov 2004 - Sep 2010

  Managed pricing, special quotationsSupervised and trained new applications engineerAnswered technical questions regarding cutting tools to customers and salemen



Robert Bosch Tool Corporation NA

• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Engineer

  • May 1999 - Mar 2004

  Product design and management of cordless power tools using CAD

• Mechanical Engineering Intern

  • Sep 1994 - May 1999

  As part of my university requirements at Kettering University, all students are required to work at a co-op sponsor company to earn their bachelor’s degree during which we alternate every 3 months between university and working at the co-op sponsor for period of 5 years. At Bosch, I spent months at a time working in the test lab, quality engineering, design engineering, manufacturing, liaison engineering, sales & marketing.