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Vice President NA Supply Chain, Logistics, and Procurement @ The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Responsible for developing and implementing Goodyear North America's strategy as well as for daily operations in the areas of Demand and Supply Planning, Customer Service, Transportation, Warehousing, Materials Management, and Procurement. Leading a team of 175 to ensure delivery of high levels...

Vice President NA Supply Chain, Logistics, and Procurement @ The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Responsible for developing and implementing Goodyear North America's strategy as well as for daily operations in the areas of Demand and Supply Planning, Customer Service, Transportation, Warehousing, Materials Management, and Procurement. Leading a team of 175 to ensure delivery of high levels of Customer Service while driving for lowest Total Delivered Cost and optimizing inventory levels to improve cash flow. Direct report to the President of Goodyear North America and participate in monthly operating reviews with CEO and senior leadership team. From 2014 to 2017 (3 years) Cleveland/Akron, Ohio AreaVice President Operational Excellence @ The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Overall responsibility for the architecture and implementation of Operational Excellence across the end-to-end integrated supply chain. Main focus is creating a platform for change that enables the delivery of company wide cash flow and productivity targets, leads Goodyear to excellence in Lean/TPM, and drives value to shareholders. Responsible for driving Goodyear's Operational Excellence vision globally including plant optimization, complexity reduction, network optimization, and a robust loss analysis program to drive lowest total delivered cost. Direct report to SVP of Global Operations, participant in monthly operating reviews with senior leadership team. From 2014 to 2014 (less than a year) Akron, OHGlobal Director Transportation & Warehousing @ HJ Heinz Continued responsibility for HNA operations with the additional responsibilities of global transportation and warehousing strategy, policy, budgeting, and contract management. Manage global logistics budget across Europe, APAC, LATAM, North America, and RMEA. Tasked with driving global cost out initiatives as well as standardizing and implementing global KPIs. Direct report to Global VP of Logistics, and regular report outs to executive team including COO and Zone Presidents. From 2013 to 2014 (1 year) Greater Pittsburgh AreaDirector Transportation & Warehousing, HNA @ HJ Heinz Responsible for managing the warehousing and transportation strategic direction and daily operations for Heinz North America. The team is responsible for managing 3rd party logistic providers for both Dry and Frozen warehousing and transportation to drive the optimum balance of people, processes, and technology to deliver superior innovative supply chain solutions that create value. Key objective is to drive continuous improvement within the logistics area and across departmental boundaries to find the best “total delivered cost” and service solution to ongoing opportunities generated from the dynamics of the market place as well as the current business challenges. From 2012 to 2013 (1 year) Greater Pittsburgh AreaSr. Manager of Operations @ HJ Heinz Full operations responsibility for large continuous operation potato processing plant with 900+ employees producing the OreIda brand. Manage a direct staff of 8 and and extended staff of 78. Responsible for Cost Out, Yield, Quality and Sanitation, Health and Safety, Schedule Attainment, Capital Budgeting, and Continuous Improvement programs. From 2008 to 2010 (2 years) Plant Manager @ GE Consumer & Industrial Full site responsibility in Arecibo, PR for quality, cost, EHS, and delivery for a large Industrial Circuit Breaker manufacturing plant with a workforce of 400+ across 2 business units and 3 buildings. The operations include metal fabrication, electro-plating, welding, and circuit breaker assembly operations. Manage a direct staff of 8 managers covering all plant functions, and extended staff of 24. From March 2003 to October 2006 (3 years 8 months) Sourcing and Materials Manager @ GE Consumer & Industrial Responsible for all sourcing and materials management for 9 plants in Puerto Rico. From September 2001 to March 2003 (1 year 7 months) Manufacturing Integration Leader, Shanghai JV @ GE Consumer & Industrial Complete manufacturing startup responsibility for Joint Venture making Air Circuit Breakers and Vacuume Circuit breakers in Shanghai, PRC. This included construction, line specification, procurement, and installation, materials management, and localized sourcing of components. Also transferred production line from Liverpool England along with all appropriate work instructions, product documentation, and quality systems. From January 2000 to September 2001 (1 year 9 months) Vice President Global Supply Chain Planning @ Cargill Responsible for building, implementing and leading the Global Supply Chain job family within Cargill across all global regions and 20 businesses. Leading the efforts to design and implement the approach, organizational structure, and process capabilities to enable businesses to utilize a common set of core best practices around demand/supply planning, IBP/S&OP, supply chain network design and production/procurement/logistics scheduling. Taking an active role in helping to fuel the integration activities across the Business Operations and Supply Chain functions as well as the Enterprises. Direct report to SVP of Business Operations and Supply Chain. Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaSupply Chain Director, Long Fong Foods @ HJ Heinz Long Fong Foods is Heinz's frozen food business headquartered in Shanghai with 4 regional manufacturing facilities across China. Responsibilities include driving cost, quality, service, and inventory at the 4 factories, as well as national Quality, EH&S, Engineering, Procurement, Logistics, and Planning functions. From 2010 to 2012 (2 years) Shanghai City, ChinaPlant Manager @ HJ Heinz Site responsibility for quality, cost, service, environmental, health, and safety for a Single Serving Condiment and Sauce food manufacturing plant Managed a direct staff of 8 managers covering all plant functions, and extended staff of 25. From October 2006 to April 2008 (1 year 7 months)