Lora Quinlan

About Lora Quinlan

Innovative professional who excels in balancing facets of supply and demand to maximize customer satisfaction at lowest cost, while realizing revenue targets and achieving business goals. Extensive experience across a diverse set of companies, implementing progressive ideas to analyze efficiencies, resolve problems, and continually develop processes. Proven leadership skills in building, inspiring and mentoring high-performing global teams.Demonstrated record of advising top level executives.Advocate of cross-functional collaboration to obtain wide-reaching results. Progressive senior level leadership experience managing suppliers, logistics, contract manufacturers and in-house production to revenue and cost targets. Focus on leadership, planning, analysis, negotiating favorable purchases and partnership contracts. Inspire and steer cross-functional teams with multiple critical deadlines. Directly manage senior level team members with a variety of skill sets, ensuring understanding of the team\'s role as a part of the company\'s vision. Launch product releases utilizing EVT, DVT, and PVT engineering and manufacturing validation phases to mass produce products in a cross functional effort. Execute contracts, inclusive of manufacturing services agreements (MSA), engineering services agreements (ESA) and statement of work (SOW) contracts, negotiate through to review with partner, legal counsel, and upper management for final sign off. Proven record of effective system implementation and increased utilization of a wide variety of ERP, MRP, CRM and PDM (Product Data Management)(ECN/ECO) systems- Ability to dig into the details while maintaining a high-level perspective to drive the team and company forward- Strategic Supply Chain development to improve costs, quality, strategic partnerships, logistics and other company specific requirements- Product Life Cycle management, including new product introduction (NPI) and end of life (EOL), managing material, capacity, and revenue planning at all phases- Develop and manage contingency plans- Re-engineering of processes to gain efficiencies and cost reductions- Successful execution of multiple concurrent projects and priorities- Drive increase in on time shipment accuracy coupled with advocating for early customer notification of sales order ship dates and, if necessary, rescheduled ship dates- Netsuite, SalesForce, Oracle, Expandable, Agile, Arena, and Excel.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Manufacturing and Supply Chain Operations

   Meta Company

   Jan 2016 — Present · San Mateo, CA, US

   Developed and led supply chain and manufacturing operations team including Planning, Inventory, and Logistic functions. Employed EVT, DVT, and PVT engineering and manufacturing validation phases to launch mass production of Meta’s original augmented reality headset. Aligned with sales team to ensure third party logistics (3PL) supply supported a positive order fulfillment strategy including leading recurring executive sales and operations planning sessions- Reduced engineering cost by 11% and overall component costs by 7%- Streamlined inventory management across the supply chain, positioning sub-assemblies and sub-tiers to support inventory cost cutting and increase efficiencies- Developed vendor-managed inventory strategy for key components- Achieved quality improvements at the supplier and increased first pass yields in manufacturing- Drove cross-functional collaboration with engineering along with multiple partners to improve shipment and release schedule- Negotiated favorable pricing and contract terms with suppliers and manufacturing partners- Led initial international trade and safety compliance and certification effort to ship into APAC, Europe, and North America- Ensured accurate product documentation was achieved and maintained- Hired, motivated, and mentored a diverse skill set team to be effective, collaborative leaders.

Education

• California State University-Long Beach - College of Business

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Management; Computer Science, Economics Minor

Skills

• Salesforce.com
• Project Planning
• Supply Chain
• Product Management
• Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Materials Management
• Strategic Partnerships
• Negotiation
• Iso
• Supply Chain Management
• Mrp
• Sales Operations
• Customer Service
• Business Strategy
• Manufacturing
• Strategy
• Logistics
• Forecasting
• Inventory Management
• Process Improvement
• Start-Ups
• Cloud Computing