QUALIFICATIONSPostgraduate Diploma in Information Management Systems

Glasgow Caledonian University

BA Combined Studies (Business)

Glasgow Caledonian University

H.N.D. - Business Studies

Glasgow Caledonian University

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Jan 01 to present UNIVERSAL SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO. (UK) LTD.

MASTER SCHEDULER

Currently working in a sub-contracting environment, building electronic equipment as required by our customers.

Responsibilities:Analysing new orders and ensuring the acquisition community are aware of the material required to satisfy the orders, feeding back to the customer any supply issues. Once received I will ensure that the material is allocated to the correct order, based on customer priorities. Release orders to Production, working closely with them to ensure that the builds are manufactured to the finished units in the correct order and in a timely fashion to meet customer commit dates. When cancellations are received I analyse them and act appropriately to minimise any excess inventory of both the finished units and components.

My involvement in the New Products Introduction team is ensuring that when the orders are placed on us, we have Bills of Material available and that the master data is available and accurate. In many cases I work with acquisitions, who will be working the supply of material before the final BOMs are available.

Implement the weekly forecast received from the customer, which looks out three months and drives us to plan the supply of material ahead of firm order drops. I report daily to the customer on commit dates for all entries on the order book, listing dates when unreleased orders will be released and working with Production and the sales desk to commit actual ship dates on released orders. Also daily, I analyse any aged orders to ensure builds that are late are being prioritised to clear them as soon as possible.

As my group's SAP Superuser, I am the first port of call for anyone who has a problem with the system, whether it be understanding the system logic, the discovery of a system problem or trying to get information from SAP. If I cannot help then I report their issue to the correct person and work with them to resolve the issue.

Sept. 96 to Jan. 01 COMPAQ COMPUTER MANUFACTURING LTD.

MASTER SCHEDULER

(Previously Digital Equipment Scotland Ltd)

Responsibilities : Maintaining the daily production schedule; minimising manufacturing line Downtime / setup times; reacting to demand changes and updating the build plan accordingly; preparing and publishing customer order commitments which are both reasonable and achievable; ensuring delivery of these orders is achieved on time; working customer priorities to deliver ahead of schedule; liaising with material acquisitions so that any impact to the customer is dealt with and communicated; working with other plants world-wide to ensure that unnecessary builds do not occur if there is excess stock of material in the corporation; managing inventory to a minimum; and managing various reporting functions (i.e. reporting on planned and actual releases, material gates to release, current and projected stock, WIP levels and ships against customer request/commits).

Other Roles and Responsibilities : I was my department's SAP R3 Superusers involved in the implementation of the system. This included ensuring that the needs of my Business Unit were met and that User Acceptance Testing was carried out successfully and on schedule. I was also involved in the writing of test scripts for User Acceptance Testing and received a Recognition Award for my work.

Recognition Awards Received:

For my work with the SAP implementation awarded May 1998

For my work with the sites in Houston and Singapore with regard to fulfilling customer needs whilst balancing inventory levels within the Corporation awarded August 2000

For my work in the New Products Introduction team awarded December 2000

September 1996 Database Administrator

Clydesdale Bank Plc.

Fixed-Term Temporary Contract. I spent the contract term creating user-friendly reports on MSAccess, using data taken from recent market research, before creating a structured database and front end for data entry.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

QUALIFICATIONS: An Intermediate Level certificate in MSAccess which I gained through CTEC, a leading company in computer software training.