Jeremiah Stevenson

753 Catherine Avenue

San Marcos, CA 92069
760.591.0655 – H
760.504.2071 – M
jstevenson753@yahoo.com
js1124@cox.net

Professional Experience

Applied Microcircuits Corporation, San Diego, CA Mar 1998-Jan 2010

Production Control Manager

• Oversaw scheduling and processing of product orders at offsite test houses.
• Monitored all assembly builds and confirmed SOD.
• Ensured all finished products reached third party shipping points.
• Confirmed all SAP transactions were completed correctly and on time.
• Ensured all SAP transactions for product in wip matched physical inventory.
• Forecasted tester capacity needs at test and assembly vendors.
• Collaborated with engineering and quality departments to keep production line on schedule.
Anticipated special testing needs in the PE lab and worked with staffing vendors to fill the
requirement.
• Worked in partnership with planning and inside sales groups to ensure correct orders were
planned and processed.
• Worked with outside vendors on special expedite orders.
• Collaborated with engineering team to reduce average percentage of lots on hold from 40% to
2%, with a disposition turnaround time of 24 hours.
• Worked with test vendor to improve their productivity 70%.
• Reduced production control receipt errors by 95%.
• Worked in partnership with accounts payable department to reduce number of monthly
invoices and receipts that needed reconciliation by 95%.
• Reduced the number of product orders in WIP on SAP from 170 orders to 40 orders.
• Achieved 100% cycle count accuracy globally of production orders in process.
• Attained 98% on time delivery to stock rate.

Global Inventory Manager

• Supervised cycle counting of company assets around the world.
• Ensured all customer shipments were shipped on time and correctly.
• Reviewed and monitored all company receipt of finished goods product.
• Trained and worked with offsite third party logistics shipping companies.
• Coordinated with sales, quality, engineering, and planning groups to facilitate reduction of
inventory.
• Worked with the accounting groups to track invoices against purchase orders on a weekly
basis. Created and monitored KPI monthly for performance reporting to upper management.
 • Successfully integrated two product lines into existing procedures in Logistics.

• Initiated implementation of SAP outbound delivery monitor for customer shipping.

• Implemented change in pack-out procedures for key customers, saving time and money.
• Reduced warehouse related CSI misses from 15% to 2%.
• Improved upon and developed key specifications for warehouse procedures.
• Created KPI for tracking productivity trends for shipping and receiving departments.
• Increased inventory cycle counting accuracy from 85% to 99.5%.
• Established a system to perform 100% cycle counting of inventory, replacing sample counting.
• Facilitated setup and training of 3PL’s to perform cycle counts and ship to company
specifications.

Senior Manufacturing Supervisor

Provided leadership and supervision to 20+ staff, over three shifts, in three departments.
• Wrote and presented employee performance appraisals, provided career counseling.
• Created daily and weekly schedules for testing of products for customer orders.
• Set schedules for assembling of products by customer orders.
• Worked with engineering and quality departments to keep the production line on schedule.
• Anticipated special testing needs in the PE lab.
• Coordinated with planning and inside sales groups to ensure correct orders were planned and
processed.
• Scheduled and monitored special expedite orders.
• Worked with outside assembly houses and internal support teams.
• Managed all backend areas including: test floor, assembly floor, and logistics area.
Created and implemented online equipment utilization system for purpose of improved
communication, unifying three shifts to one team.
Implemented system for cross-training of personnel, contributing to increased and consistent
productivity and efficiency.

Test and Assembly Supervisor

• Created daily and weekly schedules for testing of products for customer orders.
• Set schedules for assembling of products by customer orders.
• Coordinated with engineering and quality departments to keep production line on schedule.
• Anticipated special testing needs in the PE lab.
• Coordinated with planning and inside sales groups to ensure correct orders were planned and
processed.
• Scheduled and monitored special expedite orders.
• Restructured manufacturing production Test floor, resulting in improved work flow and
increased productivity.
• Created and implemented online equipment utilization system for purpose of improved
communication.

First Shift FAB Manager

• Tracked and reported productivity of all departments, including IC FAB, Photo, Etch, Thin
Films, and Diffusion.
SGS Thomson, San Diego, CA Sep 1995-Mar 1998

Supervisor II
• Using Six Sigma methodology, contributed significantly to the creation of an automated run
card system, resulting in improved work efficiency and $250,000 annual savings to company.
Represented team for corporate presentation and award at French headquarters.

Supervisor I
• Using Kaizen principles, led Test Wafer Excellence team with primary objective to analyze use
and reduce test wafer expense.

Professional Skills / Training / Education

Proficient in SAP, MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint

Advanced SAP training with emphasis on Inventory Control, Production Control and Planning, Data
Reporting, and Data Analysis.

Trained in Six Sigma and Kaizen business methodologies.

Professional workshops: Communicating for Effectiveness, Getting the Best from Your People,
Coaching and Confronting, Effective Negotiations, Supervisor As Coach, Cycle Time, Latch
Cascade (TQM), Frontline Leadership-Making Organizational Impact, Dale Carnage’s
Leadership Management, Hazard Communication, Basic SPC, UDCS-Unified Document
Control System, and Confronting Without Guilt or Conflict.

Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA

Coursework emphasis in Business Management, 1980-1981

East Waterloo High School, Waterloo, IA

Diploma

Excellent References Available Upon Request