During my 38 years in the wood manufacturing industry and as the leading member of a purchasing team, I have learned the concepts and strategies related to demand management, procurement and supplier planning, material requirements planning, capacity requirements planning, sales and operations planning, master scheduling, performance measurements, supplier relationships, quality control, and continuous improvement. 

I look forward to assisting your business in developing solutions using my experience, procurement knowledge, technology, and sound commercial judgment.  My significant experience with both internal business and outside suppliers across a broad number of indirect budget categories allows me to effectively assist and mentor your staff to deliver solutions and be an essential part of building your business and maintaining your purchasing team's edge over your competitors.

Relevant Experience and Accomplishments

• Supply Chain Management

• Vendor Identification

  • Developed powerful performance measures for supplier evaluations and qualifications
  • Over a 12 month period researched and developed national and international suppliers resulting in excess of $800,000 annualized savings

• Vendor Development / Strategic Sourcing

• Recognized innovative suppliers as a valuable part of an organization

• Identified suppliers with a focus on reducing waste and non-value-added costs

• Vendor Management

• Ensured compliance, controlled costs, and maintained quality

• Identified and developed off-shore supply vendors including a $1.5 million annual supply of aluminum extrusions

• Optimized overall logistics and supply chain management operations

• Streamlined operations through accurate forecasting

• Developed and implemented product design changes to consolidate multiple application specific components and assemblies into broad use components and assemblies yielding both unit cost and inventory reductions

• Multi Sight Procurement

  • United States and Canada

Skilled at leading / managing multifunctional team for

• Product Development

• Guided design teams to create product component specifications that align with established quality standards. Provided guidance to Product Design, and Vendors to produce components at the lowest cost consistent with high product quality

• Vendor Integration

• Bridged the gap between vendors and manufacturing engineers, enabling engineers and vendors to work collaboratively to resolve operational issues quickly and effectively regardless of where issues originate

Experienced in:

• Wood Products

• Sheet goods, veneer, and lumber products

• Sourced outside suppliers for high quality desk systems as finished goods

• Surfacing Materials

• Extensive experience sourcing glass, wood and plastic laminate, marble stone, tile, chipboard, painted finishes

• Die Casting (Zinc and Aluminum)

• Identified and developed new sources for die casting ready for painting and machining including steel ball shot blasting

• Experienced in procuring and proofing tooling

• Injection molding including gas assisted

• Involved with the design, development, and procurement of products manufactured using injection molded products and processes

• Implemented the use of gas assisted injection molding resulting in increased cost savings

• Aluminum and plastic extrusions

• Experience with lineal extrusions as well as fabricated parts including parts with anodized finishes

• Tooling development

• Worked with parts designers, vendors and tool makers in the development of molding, casting and extrusion tools to assure quality and capacity to meet production demands

Employment History

Knoll, Inc.
1235 Water Street
East Greenville, PA 18041

Purchasing Manager / Purchasing Director (1986 to 1994)

Single Site
$300 Million in Sales

Global Commodities Manager, Corporate Purchasing Department (1995 to 2006)

Multi-sight purchasing (multi-states and Canada)
Company performing $800 – $900 Million in Sales

Memberships

The Association for Operations Management

APICS--Advancing Productivity, Innovation and Competitive Success

Certifications

APICS-CPIM - Certified in Production and Inventory Management