Oct 2024 – Jul 2025 · 9 mos · San Jose, CA · Hybrid

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Diego Metropolitan Area · Remote

• Founder and Principal Consultant: successfully established and manage a supply chain consulting business, specializing in sourcing strategies, cost optimization, and contract negotiations..
• Strategic Business Leadership: Oversee all aspects of business operations, including client acquisition, marketing initiatives, and relationship management
• Project and Client Solutions: Utilize advanced project management and leadership expertise to deliver tailored supply chain solutions that meet diverse client needs.
• Dual Career Excellence: Demonstrate exceptional organizational and time management skills by balancing entrepreneurial endeavors with a dynamic professional supply chain career.

Feb 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Diego County, California, United States

• Led the strategic sourcing team responsible for $200M in global spend exceeding quarterly cost savings targets while implementing long term initiatives to mitigate risk by ensuring source of supply is effectively managed supporting new product launches and existing commercial programs. Coordinated and championed early sourcing initiatives promoting standardization and efficiencies to enable scalable processes.
• Key Contributions:
• Successfully managed cross-functional team creating and executing an operational plan launching a new med device within just 90 days onto the market while maintaining budget and schedule.
• Reduced commercial spend in one quarter by $21M via complex contract negotiations collaborating with suppliers and sub-tier suppliers outperforming annual savings targets.

Nov 2021 – Jul 2022 · 8 mos · San Diego County, California, United States

Mar 2021 – Nov 2021 · 8 mos

• Responsible for developing and deploying the Global Sourcing Strategy and commercial relationship development and maintenance within the category of Electronics, managing $50M of spend. Spearheaded supplier negotiations, discussions, selections while understanding and navigating the electronics market landscape supporting on market and NPI programs achieving favorable terms to mitigate business risks and protect Illumina’s IP while reducing associated costs.
• Key Contributions:
• Despite ongoing semi-conductor shortages that plagued the global supply chain in 2020 and 2021, Illumina did not miss one single instrument shipment due to chip shortages based on my proactive business continuity planning and sourcing expertise supporting internal teams and sub-tier suppliers globally to ensure continuity of supply through strategic negotiations with tier 1 electronic manufacturers such as Xilinx and Texas Instruments. Received a leadership excellence award in August of 2021 in recognition of these efforts.
• Pioneered process for NPI Instrument Purchasing by creating 100-page NPI playbook during accelerated product launch of Nextseq 2000. Standardized procurement templates and implemented technical specification standards, which required garnering cross-functional support through collaborative alignment to gain consensus.
• Recognized procurement leader who spearheaded difficult negotiations with Microsoft, created and executed solutions to avoid a significant cost impact of more than $2M dollars. Negotiated an agreement to remedy and enable instrument compliance for past and future requirements but additionally negotiated major cost savings for sustained forward looking business leading a team of cross functional team leaders to establish internal processes to correct the root cause even though it was out of scope for position.

Jun 2020 – Mar 2021 · 9 mos

Aug 2017 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Mar 2017 – Aug 2017 · 5 mos

• Responsible for the global implementation of supply chain strategy and lean process improvement. Implemented supply chain improvement tools and methodologies to enhance supply chain’s ability to achieve revenue growth, expectations and business objectives. Specific focus areas include supplier performance and risk management, total cost optimization, compliance to financial controls, factory alignment to product level manufacturing schedules and forecasts, supplier capacity planning and capability development, inventory strategy and management, and execution of operational priorities and plans as related to supply chain operations.
• Key Contributions:
• Spear-headed, researched and identified transactions types and accounts within ERP system to extract historical demand for all purchased and finished good materials.
• Aligned the forecast within Rapid Response to use the historical demand as a baseline as part of a consensus forecast to systematically address the inaccuracy of the forecast.
• Identified and corrected issues within the PCBA Kanban program in order to support a 10% annual revenue growth with minimal impact to inventory while reducing company liability.
• Managed strategic negotiations across PCBA’s, cables and packaging amounting to a cost reduction of $4M, realizing the savings within 2 quarters.

Aug 2014 – Aug 2017 · 3 yrs

• Responsible for strategic purchasing and management of Patient SafetyNet, Capnography and Multigas Monitoring Solutions Product Lines and Packaging with an annual spend of 21 million dollars. Negotiated and supported long term purchase agreements. Managed key and high risk suppliers to ensure continuous flow of materials while minimizing shortages inside lead time. Introduction and use of purchasing strategies that resulted in the reduction of inventory and company liability while maintaining customer service levels. Analyzed and evaluated data, and made recommendations and decisions on high-profile projects; assisted with Kanban Implementation by introducing and training the procurement team on Kanban calculators and supply chain agreements
• Key Contributions:
• Achieved cost savings of .7 million dollars for 2015 & 2016 by selecting significant cost effective suppliers. A contributing factor to the cost savings was reducing the cost of Patient Safety Net PC's and servers by a combined 25% by working in parallel with engineering to create customized configurations, which eliminated manufacturing steps and provided a lower cost solution.
• Solely managed the purchasing, forecasting, planning and supply chain management of the Capnography and Multigas Monitoring line. Instituted a Kanban agreement, which included training our Sweden team on Kanban management and creating a consumption based system. During my time, I have been able to improve on-time customer delivery from 45% to 91% within 4 quarters of managing this line.
• Acting as a Material Project Manager for 6 new products simultaneously as part of the New Product Introduction group while meeting all delivery dates as required for the project to ensure a successful market launch of the medical device.

Oct 2010 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Poway, CA

• Managed changes within the supply chain resulting from product launches and revision changes, shifts in demand or customer expectations, product promotions and product end of life conditions. Responsible for the procurement and management of over 12 million dollars on an annual basis including outsourced sub-assemblies, sheet metal, printed circuit boards, plastics and cables. Established Supply Chain Agreements with multiple suppliers to minimize lead-times, reduce inventory while achieving cost reduction and building supplier partnerships. Designed and generated weekly and monthly statistical forecast reports while continuously improving forecasting techniques, method, and approach.
• Key Contributions:
• Managed four production lines at a manufacturing plant in China, and reduced lead-times from five months to thirty days while maintaining lowered unit cost.
• Reduced printed circuit board costs by 50% saving over 1 million dollars annually.
• Using value stream mapping and identifying non-value added steps; reduced the lead-time of an ECO from inception to release from 220 days to 5 days

Sep 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Diego, CA

• Planned, scheduled, and ensured on-time delivery of finished goods, sub-assemblies and raw materials. Created and maintained documentation and standard operating procedures for demand planning processes and systems. Focused on commodity based buying and strategies. Analyzed market conditions for pricing on copper and electronic components. Sent forecasts to suppliers monthly and held meetings (in person, teleconference or video conference) to review the forecasted requirements. Expedited, rescheduled or cancelled component deliveries as dictated by changes in demand with the goal of continually aligning supply with demand thereby minimizing inventory exposure and realizing revenue opportunity.
• Key Contributions
• Developed strategies and sources of supply in Asia and Mexico to achieve reduction in costs for market competitiveness for circuit boards, sheet metal and cables.
• Prioritized multi-million dollar customer orders within the supply chain, reduced material lead-time and secured material availability.

Mar 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Diego, CA

• Established and maintained strong relationships with both internal and external customers by serving as the focal point for planning, inventory and production control. Processed requisitions and demand via an MRP system; grouped purchases to secure price advantages of quantity buying; composed and edits specifications; solicited formal bids in accordance with standard procedures and solicited informal bids, and compared and analyzed price quotations. Explored sources of supply; studied new products; and researched departments’ requests for all products and commodities such as sheet metal, PCA’s, cables, power supplies, and hardware. Studied quality of products; placed orders; negotiated and renewed contracts; investigated complaints and secured adjustments; followed up on deliveries. Assisted with research and development projects, working closely with engineering, reviewing drawings, specifications and obtaining bids accordingly.
• Key Contributions
• Managed and procured for a 1 million dollar NPI project ensuring budget objectives were obtained, the schedule was maintained while ensuring quality product was delivered.

Mar 2004 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs · San Diego, CA

• Procured open-heart surgery supplies for over 50 hospitals. Ensured on-time delivery to meet the patient’s needs by working daily with hospital personnel to procure materials needed to support critical open-heart surgeries.
• Key Contributions
• Gathered and analyzed inventory counts quarterly at each hospital to ensure minimal losses. Improved inventory accuracy across all hospitals from 89% to 98% by setting up minimum levels of inventory at each hospital.

Mar 2000 – Mar 2004 · 4 yrs · San Diego, CA

• Reviewed, analyzed, and suggested improvements to business and organizational systems to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Kept records and compiled stock reports. Supervised and coordinated activities of workers involved in providing administrative support. Conducted daily inventory analysis to solve inventory Issues. Developed and implemented inventory control procedures. Maintained financial records and accounting systems; ordered, stocked, and issued repair parts, clothing and general supplies. Maintained inventory databases for material stocked in shore based warehouses and ship storerooms
• Key Contributions
• Maintained inventory accuracy at 100% in eight shipboard storerooms.
• Supervised 7 personnel and was responsible for the financial management of the departments' accounts and reporting requirements and all orders received and validated.
• Liaison with military, commercial and government agencies for research and the procurement of critical parts.