Long Beach, California, United States
Creative, self starter, results-oriented Project Manager with a successful Logistics and Supply Chain Management background, including proven Project Management, Inventory Planning and Negotiating Skills. Demonstrated talent for planning and implementing process improvements while integrating enterprise wide solutions for a global organization. Recognized for analytical problem solving skills, customer focus, multitasking abilities, ability to work remotely with various business and technical teams, meticulous attention to detail and a keen aptitude for listening and working with all levels of management while achieving demanding goals.
After 43 years, it's time to retire!
Consulting services included; business requirements gathering and definition, design, technical and functional development for interfaces, and liaison between 3 rd Party Logistics Services company and the business for a $1.5m project to allow logistics connectivity for 2 Consumer Packaged Goods businesses using separate SAP environments communicating to 1 Transportation Management and 1 Warehouse Management System. Projected cost saving of $12m to $16m per year. Project delivered on-time and within budget.
Reason for leaving: Pet headquarters moved out of state); 1996 to 2008 As part of a large ERP system installation, developed and implementation 70 SAP logistics application interfaces, included were HU and non-HU WMS apps, external TMS apps, SAP/EDI connectivity, and APO Deployment Orders. Technical team lead for a 12 month project to implement a $500k Manugistics transportation planning application across 5 sites in the U.S. resulting in a $3m yearly logistics savings. Project was delivered on time and within budget. Project manager for a 2 year, $650k point-of-sale Data Warehouse that included business requirements definition, data gathering, data cleansing, database design and development, and reporting progress to upper management. Project resulted in yearly sales growth of $1.5m. Project was delivered on time and within budget. Project Manager for a $1m, 9 month project to install 3 sites with a bar code scanning enabled Warehouse Management System (WMS). Worked with, coordinated, communicated and negotiated with Software vendors, Hardware vendors, Warehouse vendors, and management. Project was delivered on time and within budget. Delivered a breakout session about implementation of the WMS to over 100 people at a MARC Global Systems User Conference. Technical team lead for the other 6 installations of the bar code scanning enabled Warehouse Management System (WMS) at sites across the U.S. and installations in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Russia. On own initiative took over conversion process for the WMS installations from software vendor.
Primary liaison between site application development/support teams and centralized systems programming staff. Utilized CICS Shared Resource Pools to significantly reduce system overhead increase online response time resulting in increased user satisfaction with the application. Responsible for the IT application needs of plants