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Head of Global Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing @ Cummins Inc. Columbus, IndianaHead of Global Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing @ Cummins Inc. Leading Sourcing and Supply Assurance teams, globally, delivering ~$15B in direct category spend, and ~$4.5B in indirect category spend. Driving organizational capability improvement and TCO value capture transformation driving ~$1B in incremental value. Indianapolis, Indiana AreaDirector...

Head of Global Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing @ Cummins Inc. Columbus, IndianaHead of Global Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing @ Cummins Inc. Leading Sourcing and Supply Assurance teams, globally, delivering ~$15B in direct category spend, and ~$4.5B in indirect category spend. Driving organizational capability improvement and TCO value capture transformation driving ~$1B in incremental value. Indianapolis, Indiana AreaDirector - Supply Chain Enablement @ Dell Leading a team of global logistics process and program managers in the implementation of Oracle Transportation Manager, Kewill Flagship, and other components of a TMS. I am tasked to save over $200M of freight costs over a 30 month program. From January 2012 to August 2014 (2 years 8 months) Austin, Texas AreaExecutive Director - Supply Chain Strategy @ Cummins Inc. Responsible for the, strategy, and transformation governance of all aspects of the company's supply chain, including planning, sourcing purchasing, manufacturing, network, and transportation - Lead a PMO for >$500M supply chain transformation program - Maintain and develop our corporate supply chain strategies and initiatives - Lead methods, tools, and process for supply chain analytics - Define the process for, and execute, global supply chain design - Facilitate our SC leaderships vitality through external engagements, consulting and academic partnerships. From August 2014 to February 2018 (3 years 7 months) Columbus, IndianaDirector - Global Transformation @ Dell Program Manager - Director, Client Reinvention Program Management Office (Austin, TX (12/2009 – Present)Hired by the VP of “Client Reinvention” Program Office to create an operating agenda for this transformation, and help drive key process changes throughout the company. This initiative will enable billions of dollars in COGS savings, simplification for our customers and processes resulting in both margin and share gains within the notebook, desktop, and mobility segments.Selected Accomplishments• Created a method for rolling out 16 major categories of changes within all functions of Dell. Each of those categories consisted of many individual project and IT tools changes.• Successfully led the first CR cross functional core team delivering in excess of 30 individual projects. .• Influenced, and drove the first truly end-to-end process work for our new product and process offerings. This also naturally led to brining lean tools and management systems into Dell in a very broad way.• Collaborated with both internal and external strategy consultants to drive integration.• Led tactical teams to enable acceleration of key initiatives, and application of new processes to additional product lines)• Results: we exceeded our first year savings objectives by ~25%, outgrew our competition, and had some of the highest margins on record. This performance had a measurable contribution to Dells Q4 and full year success. From December 2009 to August 2014 (4 years 9 months) Director - Global Fulfillment Supply Chain Design @ Dell Director, Global Custom Fulfillment Engineering, Austin, TX (3/2009 – 12/2009)Lead a small team of senior people to grow Dells Custom Fulfillment capabilities and service offerings from a single US instance to multiple locations within our global framework. Deliver both an enablement strategy, and the implementation.Selected Accomplishments• Created key strategic tenets, and integrated them with current tools, facilities, and processes.• Drove location and partner selection processes and timely decisions (EMEA & ASIA)• Brought up three global locations simultaneously with two different partners – on schedule• Partnered with suppliers to grow the portfolio of service offerings and land new business.• Recruited and staffed key engineering and project management positions for my team and others• Created a legacy partnership with key suppliers and operational element key to our evolution & growth From March 2009 to August 2014 (5 years 6 months) Supply Chain Director - Fulfillment Operations Engineering and Strategy @ Dell Director, Operations and Logistics Engineering, Austin, TX (6/2007-3/2009)Led various engineering groups and strategic initiatives supporting our Americas regional fulfillment system along with our Austin based desktop and server production facilities. Selected Accomplishments• Creating a process to dynamically sequence orders to pull lines that were set-up for specific value streams. There is a patent pending for this variation management process.• Implemented flow lines, supermarkets, sequenced material delivery systems into the server factory and eventually captured ~75% of the volume in this production system.• Created value stream view and flow for our largest fulfillment center enabling significant process change and transformation of that facility.• Strongly influenced our domestic fulfillment outsourcing strategy around value streams and 3PL partner capabilities From February 2005 to August 2014 (9 years 7 months) Supply Chain Senior Manager - Fullfillment Operations Engineering @ Dell Sr. Engineering Manager, Logistics Engineering, Austin, TX (2/2005-6/2007)Directed small teams and engineers delivering standard business processes, design and implementation of capacity projects, and parts of domestic fulfillment strategySelected Accomplishments• Created and executed a dynamic parts plating technique for our fulfillment pick lines the reducing the number of pick faces and improved operational efficiency metrics by up to 50%• Designed, contracted, and delivered a 2400UPH picking capacity solution in our West Coast facility that combined lean end-to-end flow with the best of automated material handling techniques to create the new benchmark of efficiency. From February 2005 to August 2014 (9 years 7 months) Business Unit Leader - Design Services and Prototyping Operations @ Solectron Hub Manager, Design Services, Austin, TX (10/2001-12/2004)Led a medium sized business unit serving both large and small customers with design, rapid proto-typing, and global product launch services. The group consisted of several departments of account managers, process engineers, electronics designers, operations supervisors and associates, material planners, buyers, and warehouse supervisors and associates. There were approximately 300 in total. This business unit achieved best in class commercial metrics (PBT%/GM%; GM grew 4X from FY02-FY04). Selected Accomplishments• Improved sales and revenue growth by consistently delivering outstanding operational performance. Our revenue went from $49M to $97M, and our number of customer increased from 6 to over 15.• Drove gross margin and profitability productivity through lean methods in all areas of operations and business flow. • Delivered outstanding customer satisfaction through organization design tenets (accountability and autonomy); serviceability tenets around flexibility and precise execution; BU level planning that always ensured resources were always available to profitably service our customer’s needs.• Created a global launch process and service for our small and medium sized customers enabling them to have rapid time to market and domestic channel fill volumes followed closely by pipelined supply from low cost geography facility. • Built a world class team and benchmark operation from a combination of resources from two acquisitions: IBM and Texas Instruments. Early on there were culture and process clashes. I brought the team together through a new structure and set of tenets and processes that served the customer. This enabled us to win together. From August 2000 to December 2004 (4 years 5 months) Senior Software Engineering Manager @ IBM AIX Communications and Base Devise Drivers Area Manager, Austin, TX (8/1999-8/2000)Was promoted from PC interoperability manager to area manager over six departments of operating systems software and device drive engineers. The group delivered objects consisting of TCP/IP applications and kernel extensions, IP-Security, networking device drivers, level three service for all current and past communications products.. The scope was approximately 115 IBM engineers and contractors with a $10M budget.Selected Accomplishment• Incorporated many patented IBM technologies and algorithms in the areas of IP-Security and TCP/IP kernel performance.• Delivered over one hundred development line items for AIX release 4.3• Supported many large customers with custom solutions through level 3 service process.• Provided leadership in AIX and PC Inter-operability PDTs (Product Development Teams)• Created best in class project management protocols within my area through systematic tools and procedures for handling build breaks, service levels, and project communication.AIX PC Inter-operability Development Manager, Austin, TX (10/1998-8/1999)Moved organizations in IBM to lead one department comprised of software architects, programmers, engineers, and service coordinators. Our mission was to plan, develop, and deliver AIX PC interoperability products.Selected Accomplishment• Delivered initial release of the AIX Fast Connect and NSM 2.0 products• AIX Fast Connect was the rated as the highest performance file/print sharing application• Delivered level 2.5 and 3 service support for AIX Fast Connect, AIX connections and NNS 4.1ECAT Operations, Austin, TX (12/1991-10/1998)Several roles within this function from new hire Functional Test Engineer to Senior Design Services Manager positions. From December 1991 to August 2000 (8 years 9 months)