David Jones, CPSM

Experience

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  US Navy

  Jun 1994 - Oct 2000

  Aviation Warfare Systems Operator

  • Served on three separate combat aircrews working together to complete three different overseas deployments and over 1,200 flight hours safely.• Highly skilled at analyzing and interpreting ambiguous information and communicating it usefully to the rest of the air crew on which a tactical decision can be based.• Developed leadership and teamwork skills by effectively managing personnel that worked for me and working with a close knit eleven man aircrew to accomplish our common mission.• Personally responsible for the scheduling and the training progress of over 140 pilots and aircrewman via Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.• Trained new antisubmarine warfare operators in skills required to safely and successfully complete their missions as the aviation warfare systems operator trainer for VP-16.• Contributed back to the community by volunteering in the Big Brother program.• Trained in the use of multi million dollar sonar equipment utilized to effectively and efficiently track and destroy submerged submarines from the P-3 Orion aircraft. Show less

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  United States Air Force

  Oct 2000 - Oct 2006

  Supply Specialist Staff Sergeant

  Served one weekend per month and two weeks per year at Ellington Field in support of the 147th fighter wing in the supply and logistics flight including a relief mission deployment to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina. Received monthly military training in inventory, supply management, chemical warfare, supply systems, maintenance, storage, issue, receiving, shipping, leadership and forklift training.

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  Texas Instruments

  Jan 2004 - Feb 2012

  Communicated daily with demanding customer counterparts to ensure customer satisfaction and maintain a trusting rapport, as well as ensuring accurate demand profiles, realistic commitment schedules, timely shipments, prompt purchase order delivery and accurate customer liability. Established product shipment schedules and build plans using capacity limitations, piece part availability, test times, tester availability, transit times, factory cycle times and labor loadings. Planned two high volume, high maintenance processor families. Coordinated production plans to ensure materials remained on schedule. Communicated daily with management, marketing, sales, production, and engineering managers on all schedule revisions, and interfaces on matters of design changes, labor and material shortages, backlogs, and other potential supply interruptions as well as revenue estimates and inventory risks.

  • Operations Planning and Materials Manager

    Jan 2009 - Feb 2012

  • Supply Chain Business Planner

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2009
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  Hess Corporation

  May 2012 - now

  I manage the team responsible for the quoting, creation and expediting of purchase orders for our Bakken, Gulf of Mexico and Indirect assets. * Successfully managed a project to digitalize Hess’ material quoting platform resulting in a friendly user interface to easily compare quotes, optimize vendor selection, reduce emails, automate PO creation, add reporting functionality, decrease supplier quote submission times and automatically capture purchase info records.* Led a cross functional project to develop an ongoing process for maximizing purchase order automation.* Engaged with buyers, management and key stakeholders in a structured Lean problem-solving project to significantly improve tactical procurement PO creation cycle time. Show less I manage the team responsible for the creation, extension and maintenance of Hess' inventory of material masters. Additionally, I am the project manager for the implementation of a replacement material master platform with the following primary objectives:1. Provide an intuitive material master interface with appropriate governance and process flows to increase user efficiency, remove defects & decrease cycle time.2. Facilitate systematic attachment of material masters to our BoM's (Bill of Materials).3. Collection of information required to facilitate informed inventory decisions at the time of material master creation, resulting in an optimized inventory investment.4. Connect material masters to the procurement process to increase contract reference and ease supply chain burden via automated procurement.5. Provide functionality that allows for easy defect detection, duplicate removal and data enrichment that ensures efficient data quality maintenance. Show less As part of the global supply chain digital transformation team, I lead & assist in the implementation of digital projects, administer our instance of Salesforce and search for potential digital solutions to address business problems. I am responsible for maintaining the global supply chain hierarchy of metrics, facilitating the supply chain leadership team operating rhythm, maintaining the supply chain suite of spotfire dashboards, managing the supply chain budgets & forecasts, performing data analytics reports, and maintaining our workforce planning tool. Show less Responsible for the Global Supply Chain Central Transaction Support Group. Owner of the MM process surrounding the creation of purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipting and service entry data in SAP. Provide best practice process support to the Global Business units, as well as training and support to other departments concerning the Procure-to-Pay process. Maintain and update the global supply chain eLearning suite with Uperform training software, ensuring that they are kept up to date with the current Hess procure-to-pay policies and procedures. Develop and support the global supply chain metrics dashboard with data pulled from SAP BI reports, custom SAP SQVI reports and SAP transaction SE16N. Manage the value reduction and closure of approximately 15,000 purchase order line items per month in SAP with LSMW and mass PO updates. Participate on the global supply chain college campus recruitment team. Show less

  • Global Supply Chain Tactical Procurement Manager

    Nov 2020 - now

  • Global Supply Chain Material Master Data & Process Manager

    Jun 2019 - Nov 2020

  • Global Supply Chain Planning, Performance & Digital Projects Manager

    Jan 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Onshore Planning, Performance and P2P Manager

    May 2014 - Dec 2016

  • Team Lead - Global Supply Chain Central Transaction Group

    Jul 2013 - May 2014

  • Global Supply Chain Specialist (Special Projects)

    May 2012 - Jun 2013