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Successful and experienced operations leader

Created a unique research and decision making securities investment methodology; enabling individuals to efficiently identify high potential securities based on specific technical and fundamental financial indicators.

Volunteer to newly transitioning veterans on resume writing and interviewing skills.

Preparing for the APICS CSCP exam.
 
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Proactive supply chain professional responsible for improving supply chain performance by establishing and communicating operational standards between the supplier base and PETCO .
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Project manager responsible for creating and managing the company’s first Supplier Compliance Program. Developed vendor KPIs and scorecards. Created a supplier guide to incorporate standardized policies and improved procedures across the entire supplier base. 
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Established more efficient procedures, to identify and take action on high risk regulatory and product safety / recall situations. Key point of contact for creating corrective action plans for underperforming suppliers.
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Improved retail store inventory by establishing better coordination between suppliers and internal departments. Streamlined POs and by consolidating supplier IDs which lowered lead times by an average of 1.5 days, increased on-time delivery rate by 20% and raised fulfillment accuracy by 17%.  
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Created a solution to eliminate poor communication between internal departments and suppliers which had led to $3MM in annual losses due to missing supplier promotional contracts. Additionally led a major review of key supplier contracts to ensure all terms aligned with business objectives for price, quality and on-time delivery.  
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Reduced by 12% man hours required to replenish stock at all warehouse and retail locations. Worked with logistics / warehouse, third party audit teams and 3PLs to make a 30% improvement in the proper scheduling of shipments to all warehouse locations.

Supplier Operations Manager

Proactive supply chain manager solely responsible for Cymer's Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) supply chain partners with a total spend amount of $65MM.
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Accomplished a detailed review of all suppliers’ capabilities and capacities, identified critical component risk areas and made sourcing and outsourcing decisions to minimize supply chain disruption. Increased quality and on-time metrics by 10% and 12% respectively for all electronic sub-assemblies suppliers. 
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Decreased by 25% spares turnaround time by developing an accurate spares forecast; optimizing the amount and type of spares in worldwide inventory.  
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Developed KPIs and scorecards to communicate key quality, price and on-time performance indicators to suppliers and internal departments. Key point of contact for creating corrective action plans for underperforming suppliers. 
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Successfully negotiated the first contract with the company’s largest ($55MM) supplier. The agreement established critical elements in the business relationship; including inventory ownership and risk abatement. Ensured all suppliers had current contracts and non-disclosure agreements.    
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Reduced by 15% the amount of obsolete items in inventory by establishing better coordination between suppliers, engineering and purchasing to better match available inventory and engineering change orders. 
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Led a cross departmental team to standardize the largest components of the laser platform; giving the company significantly better flexibility in meeting customer delivery dates. 
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Led a successful effort to initiate a New Product Introduction department at a major electronics supplier; resulting in a significantly better rate of new product development and introduction to market.  
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Decreased by 10% rework required on laser platforms by establishing the position of an on-site representative from the company’s largest supplier. 
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Sr. Supply Chain Manager

Manufacturing operations leader responsible for the 24/7 manufacturing of high quality optics for the consumer electronics industry.

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Led over 150 exempt and non-exempt personnel in the accomplishment of departmental objectives. S&OP leadership; developing tactical and strategic plans that achieved all production goals while staying within budget. 
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Established supplier quality thresholds for incoming materials. Created and communicated KPIs for internal departments and suppliers. Established second sources for critical components. Key point of contact for all supplier quality reviews and corrective action plans.
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Reduced by 10% the amount of obsolete / excess inventory by creating a master schedule which improved the transition between end-of-life inventory and inventory for the introduction of new products. Worked closely with suppliers to establish VMI and JIT replenishment systems. 
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Reduced staffing in a key production area by 50% while increasing yield by 20%. Consistently achieved new records for units produced by creating a master schedule which made optimum use of the plant’s capacity. 
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Championed the use of Six Sigma methodology in the company. Established a defect recovery program that saved 8% of product initially designated as scrap, created an inline inspection system that reduced final product defects by 15% and led the effort to optimize a critical coating process which resulted in 25% fewer defects. These first three projects saved over $500K.
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Instrumental in leading the effort to enable the facility to achieve its’ initial ISO 9001 / 14001 certification.
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Managed plant security as well as EH&S and hazardous materials handling.

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Operations Manager

Leader responsible for exceeding all operational requirements to support a highly dynamic consumer products business with annual sales in excess of $90MM.

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Led an extensive lean Six Sigma initiative, which eliminated 79% of the businesses’ non-value added steps. Key improvements were made in: logistics, inventory, control of production orders between East and West coast production facilities, SAP systems and communications with customers and suppliers.
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Led over 200 exempt and non-exempt personnel to exceed all departmental objectives. Provided S&OP leadership; achieving all sales goals which exceeded $50MM per year. 
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Achieved a 35% increase in customer orders processed without substantial increases in staffing or equipment. Created and managed all aspects of the department’s budget, master production schedule. Improved customer order turnaround time by 30%. Decreased cost per unit by 22%. Worked closely with master data to standardize BOMs resulting in fewer production errors. 
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Identified and negotiated with international and domestic suppliers for supplies and services. Improved new product development times by including suppliers in the process of developing new products and packaging.
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Decreased time to market for new products by broadening the department’s traditional scope and used the department’s expertise to provide graphics and product prototypes to the marketing, advertising and R&D teams.

Solely responsible for the golf ball company warehouse. Point of contact for all distribution, logistics and customer service functions. Led the conversion of the warehouse from a MRP to a kanban based system; maintaining lowest possible inventory levels and increasing inventory accuracy. 
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Managed EH&S as well as tooling and equipment purchases and maintenance resources. 
 

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Senior business operations analyst for electrical subassemblies for Boeing's commercial aircraft division supplying value added, accurate and timely cost and scheduling reporting documents used to make improvements to the production process.

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Achieved a 15% improvement to the on-time delivery of electrical subassemblies by establishing better coordination between customer delivery requirements, production capacity and inventory levels. Instrumental in the establishment of 5S, Kaizen and other lean tools to improve production flow and quality. 
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Successfully outsourced all Boeing 717 wiring harnesses assemblies ahead of schedule. Led a team to determine and remedy the cause of damaged wire assemblies; reducing rework hours by 45%.
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Initiated a comprehensive supplier review program which increased communication with suppliers, documented capacity / capabilities and identified potential high risk situations.  
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Developed a highly accurate cost model for the electrical wiring / avionics production process. This model also identified over $200K in incorrect supplier charges in a one-year period.

Sr. Business Operations Analyst

Naval Aviator with 20 years of active and reserve duty. 

Pilot in command and mission commander at Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 4 (HS-4). In addition to flying duties I led teams of enlisted personnel as communications, maintenance, safety / survival equipment officer. Volunteered for additional responsibility as weapons loading officer and as a functional check fight pilot. 

Flight instructor at Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 1 (HC-1). Additional duties as safety officer and NATOPS evaluator for Commander of Naval Air Forces Pacific Fleet. Graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School of aviation safety.

Executive Officer (XO) of two aircraft carrier reserve detachments.

Naval Aviator

Find out detailed information about Richard Weinhofer, Successful and experienced operations leader in Carlsbad, CA

Richard Weinhofer: Successful and experienced operations leader in Carlsbad, CA

Richard Weinhofer

United States Navy Retired

PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.

Cymer

Toppan Photomasks, Inc.

Callaway Golf

Boeing

US Navy

San Diego State University-California State University