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Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown

Chandler,Arizona

Summary

To continue developing executive leadership across an organization that embraces a continuous record of success, creative thinking, loyal partnership, while mentoring and developing our future leaders. Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Factory Operations Manager

Trulieve Corporation
12.2021 - Current
  • Managing the Phoenix Facility $32 million dollar annual budget for the largest US based cannabis company that manufactures, cultivates, and distributes cannabis products under medical land establishment licensing
  • Developing 170 full-time team members into the leadership journey
  • 100% focused on removing waste while implementing Kanban practices that embellish lean principles while educating our team members and vendors.

Supplier Transformation Procurement Project Specialist

Honeywell Aerospace Corporation
07.2018 - 03.2020
  • Managed contracted Honeywell sourced suppliers that have defaulted financially or by delivery execution to include quality disruptions
  • Successfully reducing past expenditures from $129 million to $29 million within nine months
  • Managed Quality Planning systems to meet FAR, DPAS and ISO 9001 requirements while performing supplier quality assessments (SQHA)
  • Delivered FAIR requirements when quality issues appeared and worked with suppliers to get their self-release status reinstated
  • Drove suppliers to improve their OTD delivery metrics, quality disruptions, while teaching BKM’s
  • JIT, and utilizing lean manufacturing techniques
  • Lead a team of leadership engagement from VP members, commodity management, procurement, and legal to improve processes in Manufacturing, scheduling, procurement at OSV’s while recovering past due parts and revenue past due associated with parts
  • Working directly with strategic Sourcing Engineering to transition parts away from chronic performing suppliers by sourcing and developing new suppliers
  • Risk management Mitigation by qualifying additional suppliers as second and third source partners reducing single point failure positions
  • Working strategically with the HOS teams to develop a business continuity plan in the event of emergency, disaster, or environmental interruption that potentially could impact our supply lines.

Supplier Development Engineering Consultant

MAC-BAT Inc.
08.2016 - 06.2018
  • Lead NPI Product development for market segments in Southeastern Asia
  • Designed and facilitated the manufacturing process to include layout, process flow, manufacturing models, specification development, and coordination of logistical components
  • Facilitated and managed supplier selections for all custom tool development for an electronic battery manufacturing company
  • Made necessary introductions to strategic suppliers’ facilitation and negotiation of contracts, NDA’s, RFQ’s, CISPR, and FCC compliance
  • Assisted in Patent placement in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Philippines.

Senior Supply Chain MHS Development Engineering

Intel Corporation
01.1994 - 12.2016
  • Managed domestic and international suppliers that deliver World Class Material handling equipment for next-generation tooling to Intel Corporation worldwide across USA, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Costa Rica, and Vietnam Factory start-ups
  • Driven by NPI’s: Lead and Managed a commercial team that was bound by MHS equipment development engineers, commodity specialists, quality engineers, service and spares teams, that are solely dedicated to sourcing next-generation Intel suppliers globally
  • Sole leadership driving the building of first article generation tools by overseeing the development and delivery of RFI’s, RFQ’s, purchase specifications, test, design reviews, contracts, data collection requirements ensuring that Intel sourced suppliers are accountable to meeting pricing targets, tool specifications, while meeting on-time tool delivery.

Senior Surface Mount / Material Handling Systems Development Engineer Manager

Intel Corporation
01.2009 - 12.2012
  • Owned and managed all development of custom material handling tools with strategic suppliers in the front end of the assembly and throughout the test cells for Intel globally
  • Partnered with commercial sourcing teams to locate, engage and qualify next-generation suppliers and tooling for future next-generation robotic PNP and surface mount SMT process tools, inspection, and rework tools.

Senior R&D Pathfinding Engineering Leader

Intel Corporation
01.2005 - 12.2009
  • Engineer over NPI Product development for the material Handing within Assembly Test sites within USA and Virtual Factories globally
  • Facilitated and managed supplier day and Map days at each of the global location’s during start-up of each new factory flowed by postmortem and while developing the BKM’s that are still utilized today at Intel
  • Mastered all SMT tool sets to include Grohman, Micron II, BTU, KME, Vanguard, Omni-flow Reflow ovens, Assembleon FCM, DEK, Grohman and all metrology in SMT Modules to include Dage, Cognex Visual inspection tools, x-ray to include part marking traceability.

Manufacturing Systems / Industrial Engineer Surface Mount Technology-SMT Module Owner

Intel Corporation
01.2002 - 12.2005
  • Owner of Surface mount Technology modules developing all business process systems and managing material procurement
  • Delivered custom SPC DB, station controllers, for all MHS across all tool sets touched in AT to enable to ramp Virtual factories and maintain CE!
  • Facilitated and owned large projects utilizing map days, milestone tracking, deliverable management, and delivery of complex systems to both ATTD and the virtual factories globally from 100,00K to >500Mil K in some cases.

Build Logistic Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation
01.1999 - 12.2002
  • Managed a team of direct reports (10) while developing their skill sets and mentoring their WIP management capabilities
  • Managed all NPI introductions for Assembly Test Production
  • Lead team of configuration management, commodity management, engineering, production stakeholders, planning, and material leaders to facilitate and integrate all new production into our HVM factories worldwide
  • Facilitated daily Operations War Room meetings with engineering, materials, and factory operations staff reviewing critical impacts, assignment of AR’s, and real-time all hands-on-deck until resolution daily
  • Drove WIP Management pertaining to DOE/ENG issues by removing roadblocks and closing gaps daily prior to leaving the WR.

Senior Electro-Magnetic Compliance Engineering Technician-EMC

Intel Corporation
01.1998 - 12.1999
  • Designs and conducts Pre-compliance Testing under FCC and CISPR regulatory guidelines for first run silicon and manufactured products for a wide variety of products Intel supplied to OEM’s.

Senior Electro Mechanical Maintenance Technician AT11- Shut Down Team

Intel Corporation
01.1997 - 12.1998
  • Coordinated the demolition and shut down of End of Line C-4 Factory shut down
  • Lead for transferring equipment lines to Costa Rica, Philippines, and Malaysia…Crating, Shipping, Logistics, and Purchasing and overseeing contractor’s obligations to closure
  • Trained all receiving Engineers in Virtual Factory for the respective equipment sets.

Senior Electro Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Intel Corporation
01.1994 - 12.1998
  • Senior Technician in support of C-4 Production Assembly
  • Repaired and serviced all Test Equipment cells, Lasers, Finish and Marking tools as End of Line Assembly.

Education

Completed over 300+ hours in Advanced Electrical, Mechanical and Manufacturing courses over 23-year span at Intel Corporation. Trained in all SEM standards related to semiconductor manufacturing. ISO 9001 facilitator and mock auditor with familiarity with ISO 13485 regarding medical device quality compliance. Studied Toyota Lean manufacturing principles in Utsunomiya Japan 2012-2016 while managing Japanese suppliers for Intel. Graduated as a supply Chain Master from IU and facilitated negotiation classes for Intel University as an instructor. Intel University trained in PMP, Value stream Engineering, JIT, Lean Manufacturing encompassing all the Kaizen methodologies and practices. Experience in all Microsoft suite applications and SAP/Syteline/SPEED/ERP/CAP’s management systems. -

Intel University/ASU
Chandler, AZ
10.2023

Bachelors Sciences Certification in Semiconductor Manufacturing -

Intel University
Chandler, AZ
01.2016

Mesa Community College
Mesa, AZ
01.1995

Business Administration -

University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
01.1985

Skills

  • Financial Management
  • Data Analysis
  • Document Control
  • Inventory Management
  • Maintenance Planning
  • Customer Retention
  • Health and Safety Compliance
  • Process Improvement
  • Customer Service
  • Labor Relations
  • Contract Management
  • Business Development
  • Production
  • P&L Management
  • Business Planning
  • Workflow Optimization
  • Program Administration
  • Organizational Management
  • Performance Reporting
  • Corporate Partnerships
  • Distribution Center Management
  • Logistics Management
  • Project Leadership
  • Negotiation
  • Workforce Management
  • Project Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Cultural Awareness
  • Vendor Sourcing
  • Business Intelligence
  • Building and Facility Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Stakeholder Relations
  • Startups and Turnarounds Background
  • Warehouse Operations
  • Operations Management
  • Lean Manufacturing and Quality Systems
  • Continuous Improvements
  • Lean Manufacturing and Design
  • Engineering
  • Supply Chain Logistics
  • New Product Introductions Strategies
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Risk Management
  • Performance Management

Timeline

Site Factory Operations Manager

Trulieve Corporation
12.2021 - Current

Supplier Transformation Procurement Project Specialist

Honeywell Aerospace Corporation
07.2018 - 03.2020

Supplier Development Engineering Consultant

MAC-BAT Inc.
08.2016 - 06.2018

Senior Surface Mount / Material Handling Systems Development Engineer Manager

Intel Corporation
01.2009 - 12.2012

Senior R&D Pathfinding Engineering Leader

Intel Corporation
01.2005 - 12.2009

Manufacturing Systems / Industrial Engineer Surface Mount Technology-SMT Module Owner

Intel Corporation
01.2002 - 12.2005

Build Logistic Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation
01.1999 - 12.2002

Senior Electro-Magnetic Compliance Engineering Technician-EMC

Intel Corporation
01.1998 - 12.1999

Senior Electro Mechanical Maintenance Technician AT11- Shut Down Team

Intel Corporation
01.1997 - 12.1998

Senior Supply Chain MHS Development Engineering

Intel Corporation
01.1994 - 12.2016

Senior Electro Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Intel Corporation
01.1994 - 12.1998

Completed over 300+ hours in Advanced Electrical, Mechanical and Manufacturing courses over 23-year span at Intel Corporation. Trained in all SEM standards related to semiconductor manufacturing. ISO 9001 facilitator and mock auditor with familiarity with ISO 13485 regarding medical device quality compliance. Studied Toyota Lean manufacturing principles in Utsunomiya Japan 2012-2016 while managing Japanese suppliers for Intel. Graduated as a supply Chain Master from IU and facilitated negotiation classes for Intel University as an instructor. Intel University trained in PMP, Value stream Engineering, JIT, Lean Manufacturing encompassing all the Kaizen methodologies and practices. Experience in all Microsoft suite applications and SAP/Syteline/SPEED/ERP/CAP’s management systems. -

Intel University/ASU

Bachelors Sciences Certification in Semiconductor Manufacturing -

Intel University

Mesa Community College

Business Administration -

University of Nebraska
Jeffrey Brown