Steve Jolly

Supply Chain Manager @ NetApp

About

I am a collaborative and customer-focused supplier manager with engineering, quality and business experience. I have demonstrated: •Senior engineering management influence to drive cost effective commodity sourcing •Collaborative troubleshooting within operations to solve supply, design and cost challenges •Analytical and technical problem solving skills to achieve effective project solutions •Experienced as a supplier and a customer which provides flexibility in negotiations •Extensive cost modeling and pricing negotation experience •People manager and program/project manager skills •Matrix management experience with strong written and verbal communication ability •Commodity strategy development and deployment across large organizations •Semiconductor manufacturing and qualification experience including statistical quality control programs •Cost of quality experience enabling cost/benefit analysis of multiple solutions to meet internal and external customer requirement

Country

United States

City

Mountain View

Industry

Computer Hardware

Skill

Experience

Supply Chain Manager

NetApp

2006 - Present · 20 yrs

OEM, EMS business relationship manager with Asia and European operations @ $400M/year. Manage RFQ/2nd sourcing efforts for CTO/PCBA/PCB suppliers. End of Life/Supplier Process Change Notice team leader. RoHS, REACH environmental team member. Manage Quarterly Business Reviews and Supplier Scorecard Process.

ASIC Commodity Sourcing Manager

Cisco

2002 - 2006 · 4 yrs

I was responsible for > $100M in spend with 4 business units. Developed, implemented and managed RFQs, product definition business issues for new ASICs. Uniquely supported satellite campuses (Israel, Italy, Ottawa, Dallas, Petaluma) and San Jose. Developed Master Purchase Agreements, Development Agreements, SOWs, NDAs with all major ASIC/PLD suppliers. This ensures protection of IP, supply, confidential and legal concerns such as indemnification Led the architecture, implementation and continual enhancement of the semiconductor cost model Led Cross functional teams from NPI through post mortem review of ASIC release to learn best practices

Datacom Commodity Manager

Cisco

1999 - 2001 · 2 yrs

Strategic Sourcing for Routing, Switching Development: ethernet, ATM, SONET, POTs, FPGA Led and managed the largest supplier base totalling over $1B annual spend. Enabled competition through 2nd source qualification/engineering collaboration and negotiated sourcing agreements with “most favored” pricing • Team lead for business execution of product transitions, technology migration and strategic agreements. Reduced leadtimes up to 75% through supply chain improvements/buffering strategies and flexibility agreements with materials team. • Qualified competing Serdes and Ethernet component suppliers. Mitigated revenue risks through 2nd sourcing, IP escrow agreements and shared risk taking recommendations. Savings exceeded $20M/quarter.

CPU/Foundry Strategic Sourcing Manager

Sun Microsystems

1994 - 1999 · 5 yrs

• Managed international SPARC CPU, Java CPU and ASIC supply base totalling over $250M/year • Qualified new suppliers by leading the cross-functional audit team visiting domestic and Asian suppliers. • Matrix managed processes for RFQs, customer product returns and supplier change/qualification notice/approval.. Team lead for programs which achieved a cost of quality reduction of over 20% per year.