Danny Cook

• Areas of concentration - Sprint/T-Mobile Merger, strategy, departmental development, budgetary, cross function project management.
• Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence.
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
• Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements.
• Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity and profitability.
• Streamlined and monitored quality programs to alleviate overdue compliance activities.
• Reduced waste and pursued revenue development strategies to keep department aligned with sales and profit targets.
• Performed program research and analyzed data collection to develop cost estimates and budgets.

• Developed and maintained logistics workflows, procedures and reports.
• Addressed and resolved technical, financial, and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
• Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.
• Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.
• Established milestones and objectives based on input from functional areas and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated strong writing and presentation skills to develop briefs, memorandums and analytical reports for clients.
• Participated in vendor selection and management process for program initiatives.
• Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
• Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.

• Project management SCM Ops department. and Sprint/T-Mobile merger projects. Improved internal processes with documentation and tracking tools

• Railroad Engineering and Electronics Manufacturing
• Conducted market research to identify new opportunities and target markets.
• Continually maintained and improved company's reputation and positive image in markets served.
• Established, initiated and optimized business development strategies based on company targets, product specifications, market data, and budget factors.
• Captured new customers by optimizing business strategies and launching products to diversify offerings.
• Secured long-term accounts by recommending strategies to promote brand effectiveness and highlight product benefits.

Successfully created and launched a comprehensive electronics manufacturing for QuEST Rail. Initiatives included purchasing equipment, hiring personnel, creating a COGS stockroom, implementing MRP. Developed a contract business quote model then quoted and won railroad contract electronic board business for multiple years of contract business, improving business revenues by 26%

Managed CRC (Commitment Review Committee) projects and facilitated spend management with the Corporate CFO and CEOs direct reports to optimize Sprint spend. Results contributed a 14%+ cost reduction per year.

Manger Procurement Operations: Managed purchasing for cell site acquisition, builds and maintenance (7 buyers).

Manger Procurement Operations: Managed process/reporting closing over $27B in old Purchase orders following GAAP for corporate 10K reporting. Responsibilities: Dept Budget, Procurement Reporting, B2B Purchasing Management., and Document Management. Developed and managed $14M departmental budget for Procurement, Fleet, Travel, Contingency Labor and Diversity.

Program Manger Procurement/Fleet/Travel: Sprint/Nextel merger migration project planning, fleet and travel consolidation, budgeting, Procurement/Fleet/Travel Balanced scorecard development and implementation.

Project Manager in Supply & Logistics Management: Responsibilities include Budgets, High Level Complex Projects. Areas of emphasis: Demand Met, Order Management., Balanced Scorecard, Budget and Special projects.

Consult/Project Manage/Core Team Leader on several of Sprint’s Supply Chain Management projects in Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measurement infrastructure development, Enterprise Performance Management tool, Customer Scorecard, Internal Cross-functional alignment

• Facilitate/Manage Corporate Spend Management
• Managed supply chain process, from order placement to delivery, to facilitate on-time and accurate fulfillment
• Developed and implemented procurement policies and procedures to enhance compliance with company standards.
• Negotiated complex corporate procurement contracts by working closely with internal and external contacts.
• Monitored and managed procurement budget to control costs.
• Prepared and presented reports to management on purchasing trends and cost savings to aid in decision making.
• Conducted spend analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Generated reports on purchasing activities to support management decisions.

• Master Scheduler/Business Plan/Material Planning
• Manager MRP System Implementation JD Edwards System
• Manager Product Testing and Product Manufacturing
• Worked with supervisors and team members to understand supply needs and bring levels within desired tolerances.
• Developed and implemented inventory management strategies for improved stock flow.
• Built strong vendor relationships for timely goods and materials deliveries.
• Budgeted and forecasted inventory needs incorporating sales trends and customer demand.
• Created and enforced detailed organization processes to increase quality and service standards.
• Promoted brand at industry events and through ongoing networking efforts.

Rebuilt existing test and manufacturing departments, improving efficiency and utilization from 75% to 95%. Staff included 2 supervisors, 40 technical personnel and 24 manufacturing personnel.

Test Manager: Developed a closed-loop improvement process increasing end-customer On Time Delivery (OTD) (right product, right place, right time, right quantity & right quality) from 75% to a maintained average OTD of 98%. Implemented a contract for outside temporary service for training, testing and hiring of technical specific work personnel meeting an ISO centric manufacturing environment.

As the Master Scheduler, revamped the Scheduling department through developed ISO controlled policies and procedures for higher productivity and increased responsibility, which netted an initial $2.5 million in savings in inventory and inventory carrying costs. This improved inventory turns, obsolescence and product ownership relationships.

Developed the Corporate Business Plan from 9 pages and 9 months, to 26 pages with a rolling 18 months. The developed business plan included budget, forecast, plan and actual performance identifying variance and future adjustment reporting and planning. On a monthly basis, for 3 years, created, submitted and reviewed the business plan of the CEO and executive staff. Created team strategy and planning meetings with top Product/Sales Managers for the business plan significantly improving forecast accuracy and inventory turns while reducing inventory obsolescence.

As the Materials and Production Control Manger developed an ISO controlled production control process and a staging material program for JIT in a new manufacturing facility.

As the multi-plant stockroom manager, managed two stockrooms in two separate facilities. Managed and implemented stockroom control, cycle counting and semi-annual physical inventories. Inventory cycle count improved from best of 84% to a consistent 98%.

Developed Inventory Control at the SKU level of three facilities of $25.7 million in inventory including inventory control, inventory reduction, turns tracking, trending, repair inventory, reporting, three-way inventory optimization with buyers and suppliers. This control process was implemented in eight manufacturing facilities capturing cost savings of $16M (20% overall) in inventory and inventory carrying costs corporate wide.