Experience

MEC (Mayville Engineering Company, Inc.)

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• VP of Purchasing

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Mayville, Wisconsin, United States

• Director of Purchasing

  • Dec 2020 - Jun 2022

  Mayville, Wisconsin, United States



Briggs & Stratton

• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Turf & Consumer Products

  • Apr 2020 - Dec 2020

  Manage strategic sourcing activities for Simplicity, Snapper, Ferris and Billy Goat brands covering ~$200M in spend.

• Global Commodity Manager

  • Jul 2018 - Apr 2020

  - Mitigated over $600k in Chinese tariff impact - Shifted ~$70M of spend under contract - Led team to achieve over $1M in savings through targeted price concession request and negotiation - Leveraged fact-based negotiation to save over $600k annually by removing material risk premium and adjusting conversion cost to market competitive rate - Achieved over $150k in annual savings by sourcing ~100 fabricated deck components, hard tooling high volume items and implementing a… Show more - Mitigated over $600k in Chinese tariff impact - Shifted ~$70M of spend under contract - Led team to achieve over $1M in savings through targeted price concession request and negotiation - Leveraged fact-based negotiation to save over $600k annually by removing material risk premium and adjusting conversion cost to market competitive rate - Achieved over $150k in annual savings by sourcing ~100 fabricated deck components, hard tooling high volume items and implementing a returnable packaging program with multiple suppliers

• Commodity Manager, Turf & Consumer Products

  • Dec 2015 - Jun 2018

  Wauwatosa, WI - Led team in achieving ~40% supply base consolidation over two years through commodity strategy development, resourcing and targeted new product development suppliers - Achieved over $2M in cost savings through supply localization, market tests, transitioning low volume stampings to fabrications, transitioning high volume fabrications to stamping, negotiation on scrap sharing, and supporting cross-functional engineering and operations and purchasing projects - Developed cost breakdown… Show more - Led team in achieving ~40% supply base consolidation over two years through commodity strategy development, resourcing and targeted new product development suppliers - Achieved over $2M in cost savings through supply localization, market tests, transitioning low volume stampings to fabrications, transitioning high volume fabrications to stamping, negotiation on scrap sharing, and supporting cross-functional engineering and operations and purchasing projects - Developed cost breakdown database with 25 suppliers transparently tracking material based price updates, productivity improvements and logical standard development based on raw material cost expectations - Developed linear pricing model of rocker and roller shafts to provide design input to engineering, commonize on parts and materials and consolidate suppliers - Updated tooling/bailment agreements with ~20 suppliers to track and manage tooling risk



Oshkosh Defense

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• NPD Commodity Manager

  • Mar 2013 - Dec 2015



Oshkosh Corporation

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Principal Supplier Development Engineer

  • Feb 2008 - Mar 2013

  Drive and facilitate supplier development projects to ensure a supply chain capable of providing increased flexibility and responsiveness, improved utilization of key assets, enhanced quality, and reduced overall cost.



University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Assistant

  • Aug 2006 - Dec 2007

  • Lecturer and teaching assistant for undergraduate course on manufacturing processes • Provided recommendations to Wacker Corporation to shift to make-to-order business, dramatically reducing overall inventory • Advised student team working with Nemschoff furniture to create manufacturing cells and reduce lead time • Led student team on lead time reduction project with Cummins, Inc. resulting in greater than 50% reduction in time to quote



Plexus Corp.

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Industrial Engineering Intern

  • May 2006 - Aug 2006

  • Streamlined materials operations including receiving product in, storing product in warehouse, and kitting product for manufacturing • Managed startup of offsite warehouse including designing the materials operations, laying out the warehouse, and purchasing and setting up the shelving, racking, and materials equipment



Kohler Co.

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manufacturing Engineering Co-op

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2005

  • Purchased over $700,000 of equipment for a new crankcase machining line, including two conveyors, an industrial washer, and two coordinate measuring machines • Assisted with the purchase of another $5M worth of equipment • Redesigned an assembly machine, reducing errors to less than 2% of the initial fault rate • Created a capacity planning model for Kohler’s two most profitable engine lines



Pentair

• United Kingdom
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manufacturing Engineering Intern

  • May 2004 - Jul 2004

  • Developed competitive methods of manufacturing and suggested production improvements to increase operating efficiency, material cost reduction, and raise the safety of operations • Performed design of experiments (DOE) on carbon block filters to reduce measurement error of customer specification requirement from ±15% to ±2%, allowing process window to open up by 25% • Performed time studies and wrote operator instructions for several filter assembly lines