Randall Edward Reardon

41 Ryan Road, Florence, Ma 01062

CORE COMPETENCIES

Mechanical Hardware (machined parts, castings, forgings, sheet metal fabrications & composites), Part Family based strategies and Global Sourcing – offering the following services:  supplier search, hardware to supplier match, RFQ development, price and cost analysis, supplier selection, contract negotiation and completion of award justification package.

 

EXPERIENCE

CDI CORPORATION

Provider of professional staffing for various Fortune 1000 companies

 

March 2010 to July 2010

• Accepted work contract from Hamilton Sundstrand’s AMS Contracts, working on Embraer Programs
• Responsible for internal HS verification of Embraer schedule changes, schedule flow-down to a select group of suppliers and maintaining ‘link’ between HS Contract’s sales orders and supplier purchase orders.
• Developed MS Excel based auditing tools to verify accuracy of data input for all Embraer Sales Orders, as compared to Embraer’s open orders and the Hamilton Sundstrand Drop Ship Purchase Orders.  Wrote detailed standard work for using these audit tools.
• Incorporated major changes into the manual invoicing system used in Embraer Contracts, both in appearance and data input methodology.  Wrote detailed standard work for using this tool.
• Maintained regular communication with the Embraer Buyer, providing weekly updates on Hamilton Sundstrand’s deliver commitments

February 2009 to August 2009

• Accepted work contract from Hamilton Sundstrand’s AMS Program Office, working on Embraer Programs
• Responsible for internal HS verification of Embraer schedule changes, schedule flow-down to a select group of suppliers, maintaining ‘link’ between HS Contract’s sales orders and supplier purchase orders and tracking internal engineering changes
• Maintained regular communication with the Embraer Buyer, providing weekly updates on Hamilton Sundstrand’s deliver commitments.
• Identified cost savings exceeding $90,000USD

April 2008 to July 2008

• Accepted work contract from Hamilton Sundstrand’s AMS Program Office, working on Embraer Programs
• Responsible for internal HS verification of Embraer schedule changes, schedule flow-down to a select group of suppliers and maintaining ‘link’ between HS Contract’s sales orders and supplier purchase orders

 
 

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December 2007 to February 2008

• Accepted work contract from Hamilton Sundstrand’s AMS Engineering, working on the Boeing B787 Program
• Responsible to support on-going hardware development at TPS Corporation in Newcastle, England

June 2007 to September 2007

• Accepted work contract from Hamilton Sundstrand’s AMS Procurement, working on the Boeing B787 Program. 
• Responsible to support New Program Buyers and certain suppliers, including LA Composites in Prague, Czech Republic

 

HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION

Global supplier of integrated sub-systems for the aerospace market

 

Sourcing Manager - July 1999 to December 2006

• Accountable for supplier selection on over 4,200 machined parts awarded to low/lower cost sources at over $50M in annual direct material purchases (DMP), achieving in excess of 30% annualized savings to then current costs.
• Developed and led the Machining Part Family strategy for over 19,000 parts at over $200M in annual DMP
• Led team that identified part family classification and reviewed each drawing for possible lower cost manufacturing opportunities; such as the elimination of castings, change from machining to sheet metal, elimination of non-industry standard special process call-outs, etc.
• Conducted supplier searches and initial surveys in Mexico, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey, Israel, China, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia
• Responsible for making part family based sourcing recommendations on over 300 machined parts at over $7.5M annualized design-to-cost (DTC) for the new Boeing B787 Aircraft - achieving over 45% savings to program design-to-cost targets.
• Served in a leadership and mentoring role to in-house Regional Transition Managers and in-country Project Managers.
• Led contract negotiations with companies in the USA, England, India and China.
• Supported aircraft sales campaigns by representing Hamilton Sundstrand at external customer (Boeing, Lockheed Martin & Sikorsky) sponsored Supplier Conferences in England, Austria and Greece.
• Developed a number of MS Excel based tools to facilitate Purchase Order awards, including check lists, price analysis spread sheets and upper management summary sheets.  These tools are still in use today.

 

Integrated Product Development  Buyer- February 1992 - July 1999

• Responsible for all mechanical hardware procurements for numerous Hamilton Standard (company name prior to UTC procuring Sundstrand Corporation) commercial and military programs, including: Boeing B777 Air Management System, DHC8-400 Air Management System, F/A18 E/F Air Management System, C130J Propeller System, EMB145 Air Management System, P&W PW4000 Fuel Control and Rolls Royce Trent 800 Pneumatic Engine Starting System.

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• Worked closely with cross functional teams including: Internal Customers, Engineering, Suppliers, Program Office and Quality to achieve cost and delivery goals, while at the same time ensuring the highest quality.

 

Various Roles in Procurement and Operations – November 1982 – February 1992

• Held positions of increasing responsibility in the Procurement organization
• Coordinator / Expeditor / Buyer / Senior Buyer / Procurement Technical Specialist
• Complete responsibility for supplier performance, including quality, price and delivery.
• Procured low to moderate complexity machined parts and sand castings.
• Held various hourly job responsibilities, including fiberglass blade repair and production inspection

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Excellent working knowledge of a wide range of machining processes and various casting types.

Good working knowledge of sheet metal fabrication, composites and engineered items.

Good to excellent working knowledge of financial tools, such as net present analysis (NPV), use of standard costs, price and cost analysis, regressive pricing, business volume discounts, price adjustment clauses, etc.

Excellent capability in MS Excel and Word

Solid working knowledge of MS PowerPoint and Project

Experience with Web based tools

 
 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Semi-retired in December 2006.