BDManufacturing Operations - Senior Program Manager - Bridging our team with our supplier - Shanghai
Nov. 2012 - Dec. 2014San Diego, California, United States50% Travel between US and China. Recruited to successfully re-designed and re-developed under-performing project strategy to offshore 12 mixed technology PCBAs for FDA class II devices from US to China based on educational and experiential background managing cross-cultural teams in full turnkey, end to end, electro-mechanical manufacturing and engineering/design services. Responsible for managing end to end operations between CFN and our Contract Manufacturing partner, from PO initiation, material planning, production, shipment planning, receiving and accounts payable. Point of contact for globally disparate and culturally diverse project teams of internal and external operations and R&D stakeholders on a portfolio of supplier development continuous improvement programs, from investigation to verification of effectiveness, resulting in supplier of the year awards in FY’14 & FY’15. Lead Manufacturing Core Teams to qualify 5 NPI and EOL replacement components, in all phases of the project lifecycle, delivering projects resulting in successful mitigation of risk to continuity of supply.