Mary Suarez                                                                                                                           

Asociate

Mary has over 20 years of experience in project management, and manufacturing & distribution management in the medical diagnostic manufacturing industry.Expertise includes project scheduling coordination, MPS, MRP, inventory management, distribution and data management systems.   

EXPERIENCE …

• Project management resource coordinator for Consent Decree project managing resource assignments for over 50 projects and over 70 consultants.
• Administrated newly formed CAPA department in establishing process to comply with corporate and regulatory requirements involving over 50 global CAPA files.
• Developed Manufacturing Schedule for $40 million diagnostic controls product line.
• Developed inventory analysis system including 26 distribution sites and local warehouse, contributing to reductions in excess and obsolete inventory costs.
• Integrated product line to acquiring company systems and redesigned communication process.
• Developed and directed a complete physical inventory process that was new to a major diagnostic manufacturing facility, resulting in the first accurate inventory for the company.
• Developed metrics depicting performance of manufacturing departments contributing to improvement of key metric compliance to >95%.
• As Manager, QAP Operations, coordinated cross functional area activities, including MIS and Central Services,   to achieve data management goals of accuracy and schedule compliance.   Developed and implemented departmental team based concept resulting in key metric improvement by 100%. Implemented automated and manual audit processes to eliminate gross errors in processing quality control data submitted by laboratories from around the world.
• Developed training materials and performed training of sales organization and customers in using Quality Control data management system.
• As Manager, Customer Service Operations, led departmental quality initiative team, resulting in reduction of key metrics by 25%.   Areas if improvements included document preparation,   invoicing and inventory control transactions. Facilitated system integrations with external affiliates to automate distribution activities.   Managed all customer support systems including order processing, invoicing, inventory control, International Documentation, pricing and retail sales reporting.   Developed process to assure integrity of on-line product file in conjunction with Marketing and Finance.

POSITIONS HELD …

•  Associate                                                        BioTeknica
• Marketing Analyst                                             Medical Analysis Systems
• Master Scheduler                                              Medical Analysis Systems
• Master Scheduler                                              Dade International, Inc
• Manager, Customer Service Operations           Baxter Diagnostics, Inc.
• Manager, QAP Operations                                American Dade, Inc.                                                                 

EDUCATION …

• Bachelor of Science                                         Bowling Green State University

CONTINUING EDUCATION …   

• Quality Process Deployment
• Manufacturing Systems implementation and deployment seminars
• APICS course work
• Six Sigma