Trevor Vert

- Responsible to establish and execute Scout’s North America Exterior sourcing and supply strategy for all of Scout’s BEV production in the North American Region. - Lead a cross-matrixed team of buyers, who will have the direct responsibility to source and secure supply for all Exterior-related components for Scout’s BEV products in North America, such Roof, Lighting, Wiping and Sealing Systems. - Lead the development and industrialization of Scout’s suppliers in North America. Work together with others in the Scout team by participating in pre-sourcing audits to confirm acceptability of new suppliers. - Establish sourcing strategy for assigned commodities and product groups, lead the sourcing process up to and including contract award. - Act as program manager during the pre-production phase, ensuring that all industrialization at suppliers achieve the project requirements in terms of timing, cost, and quality. - Lead cross-functional evaluation of suppliers’ preparedness for mass-production, together with Scout Quality, Engineering, and Logistics teams.

Senior Purchasing Manager responsible for the next generation selection, development and implementation of digital tools within the organization for supplier management, sourcing, change order control and library of record. Responsibilities: - Process map and collaboratively work to outline current process states within the department, identify trouble points, redundancies, and areas for improvement. - Collaborate on implementation of SAP S4/HANA as the next generation purchase order tool within Nissan Americas. Select most appropriate digital tool(s), which work seamlessly with SAP, for next generation use by purchasing personnel, through frequent vendor reviews, technology evaluations and hands-on use / demonstrations. - Work collaboratively with IT/IS, SCM, Finance, R&D departments in the Nissan Americas region (US, Mexico, Brail, Argentina) to ensure all project goals and needs are being met on time and complete. - Ensure future-state tools have capability for cross-departmental functionality and meet the needs of all internal customers (IT/IS, SCM, Finance, R&D) and governmental regulations - Manage team of high performing members on all aspects of the project, to ensure needs are being addressed and have solutions in the future tool. Achievements: - Educate / train output of projects within department, to ensure internal customers know of activities and have opportunity to provide feedback into the final result, and know how to use the tools. - Provide executive management regular status reports, to guide overall project and keep within expected constraints. - Implementation of SAP BTP for use as supplier communication tool. Platform will have appropriate DOA and information embedded, to ensure that quick decisions are possible. - Operate as Co-Chair for Purchasing Career Development Committee, resulting in increase in employee satisfaction through initiatives, most notably execution of an objective-based growth promotion process.

Responsibilities: - Manage the supplier strategy (country of origin, packaging, delivery conditions), quotation schedule, and cost data for all new and changing content. - Coordinate cost monitor schedule and data with other Nissan departments (Finance, SCM, R&D), to ensure robust cost rollup and productivity of vehicles is on time and within budget. - Facilitate the measurement and success of cost reduction on production vehicles, through effective communication, explore options to improve current vehicle cost performance in a sustainable manner. - Coordinate subordinate team in quotation milestone activities and data roll up. Aid as necessary in said activities as management representative to other departments. - Work with internal functions (Finance, Customs & Trade, Supply Chain, R&D) to properly plan and implement an effective USMCA strategy for Nissan North America, Achievements: - Oversee the annual cost reduction on bought-out parts for responsible vehicle lines, resulting in 1.7-3.0% year-over-year cost reduction within scope. - Successfully solve several legacy part issues collaboratively with suppliers and R&D, through adoption of new technology to Nissan Frontier, resulting in continued supply and improvements for end-customer. - Enact survey activity with supply base to increase supply of end item vehicles, to locate capacity issues and needs. Work with Nissan supply chain group for production relocations and packaging expansion. - Operate as Co-Chair for Purchasing Career Development Committee, resulting in increase in employee satisfaction through initiatives, including regimented departmental rotation process. - Work with internal functions to properly plan and implement an effective USMCA strategy for Nissan North America, in order to successfully comply with upcoming regulations.

Senior Purchasing Manager acting as the Nissan representative to outside organizations and responsible for the purchase of body electronics for US and Mexico manufacturing facilities. - Currently responsible for up to $600MUSD of purchases per year from over 25 suppliers spanning a diverse spectrum of technologies, corporate size and nationality. - Coordinate two subordinate managers (seven Buyers) in part sourcing, supplier management, cost negotiations, and workload balance through managers. Aid as necessary in said activities as management representative to outside organizations. - Communicate with executive management regarding cost reduction achievement, supplier negotiations, part quality and future sourcing strategies. - Communicate with Nissan Engineering, Production, and Quality for future sourcing planning, including Alliance Commodity Strategy meetings. - Coordinate global supplier activities and supply decisions with peer personnel in Paris and Tokyo. - Evaluate the performance of subordinate personnel to ensure they meet the expectations of Nissan. Champion future career goals for subordinates within the organization to aid in their success. - Communicate with executive management of suppliers, with the goal of solving inter-company issues, improving relationships while achieving Nissan goals.

Purchasing Manager acting as the Nissan representative to outside organizations and responsible for the purchase of Wiring Harness systems. Previously responsible for Safety, Exterior Trim and Fasteners for US manufacturing facilities. - Have been responsible for up to $1BUSD of purchases per year from over 55 suppliers spanning a diverse spectrum of technologies, corporate size and nationality. - Coordinate eight personnel in part sourcing, supplier management, cost negotiations, and workload balance. Aid as necessary in said activities as management representative to outside organizations. - Communicate with executive management regarding cost reduction achievement, supplier negotiations, part quality and future sourcing strategies. - Communicate with Nissan Engineering, Production, Quality and SCM departments to resolve issues with suppliers. - Evaluate the performance of subordinate personnel to ensure they meet the expectations of Nissan. Champion future career goals for subordinates within the organization to aid in their success.

- Negotiate the price level of safety products for Nissan US production facilities. - Source new models: issue RFQs, evaluate supplier quotations, and resolve deficiencies through supplier development. - Communicate with Nissan Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality and Production departments to resolve issues with suppliers. - Work with suppliers to improve overall part and supply quality to ensure high vehicle quality, stable supply and a healthy supply base. - Member of a cross-functional team to improve raw material utilization, with a focus on material optimization at the early design concept phase of vehicle development. - Created a simulation of U.S. economic conditions for the MGV2 cost-estimating program. All Alliance personnel now use the system for benchmarking, cost estimation and initial production parts budgeting. - Negotiated $7 Million in annual cost reduction with suppliers through commercial/technical achievements in the fiscal year 2011.

- Process Improvement Team Chairperson; identify and solve process-related problems with successful launch of countermeasures. Coordinate the creation and deployment of standardized procedures/forms, and track key measurables of all ongoing administrative projects. - Departmental training program Chairperson; create and publish new training material (online and classroom), including verification of competency and skill sets on a job-by-job level. - Administer part localization program to increase regional supplier production by $212M USD, reduce yen exposure and realize an annualized cost reduction of $12M USD in 2010. - Supplier Kaizen visit activity Coordinator; Schedule Nissan personnel for Kaizen visits to suppliers. - Facilitate Nissan V-FAST, V-DECIDE and IDEA problem-solving project investigations. Successfully use the methods of root cause analysis and fact-based decision-making to produce measurable and quantifiable results with major corporate financial impact.

- Manage the teardown, technical comparison and cost estimation of Nissan and competitor vehicles. Includes vehicle and commodity selection, adherence to project goals and timing, coordinating inter-departmental resources, and presentation of final results to top management. - Develop standardized electronic costing tools internationally within the Nissan-Renault alliance. Arrange for and administer training of personnel in the standardized tools; engage in “Expert” training for administration of tools. - Facilitate Nissan V-FAST & DECIDE problem-solving project investigations and internally deploy results for process improvements.

- Manage the day-to-day customer accounts for the following customers: Honda (automobiles, motorcycles, ATVs, power equipment, racing), Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, ECHO, Robin and Kawasaki (power equipment) for NGK products (spark plugs, oxygen sensors, and knock sensors). - Coordinate multiple development projects concurrently, including the ordering, manufacturing and shipment of prototype parts for customer trial builds, quality documentation submission, administrative setup of customer logistics, packaging design, price negotiations and quotation submission. - Interact with customer supplier quality assurance personnel to resolve quality issues. Process, track and respond to customer defect claims of supplied products in a timely manner. Includes enacting any interim actions needed to prevent defects from reaching the customer facility, such as on-site sorting activities, and overseeing the implementation of permanent corrective actions for ongoing quality assurance. - Attend customer audits of NGK manufacturing facilities globally, to act as an intermediary and ensure that all customer needs are met. - Address and resolve logistics issues of NGK product shipment to customer facilities. Includes resolving short-shipments, finding lost product, coordinating drop-shipments and packaging concerns. - Provide on-site technical training and sales presentations to customers. Includes detailed technical explanation of NGK products, the science behind them, future products, and technical capability. - Prepare monthly forecast of customers’ future 3 -12 month needs for production control departments. - Operate as the NGK USA Technical Center official QS9000 Champion, and the Management Representative for the TS16949 system. Manage the complete overhauling of the QS9000 system to meet the ISO/TS16949 requirements, including the redesign of all policies and procedures, the training of personnel, and its adaptation to NGK and customer requirements.

- Provide engineering customer support to Subaru/Isuzu Automotive of America, Inc. for Yazaki products (wire harnesses, combination switches, and junction blocks). - Prepare all Initial Submission Report (ISR) (i.e. PPAP) documentation for new part submissions / design change submissions. - Interact with customer Supplier Quality Assurance personnel to resolve quality issues. Process, track and respond to customer defect claims of supplied products, by serving as the communication intermediary between the customer and Yazaki manufacturing facilities. Enact any interim actions needed to prevent defects from reaching the customer facility, including on-site sorting activities and implementing permanent corrective actions for ongoing quality assurance. - Coordinate the production of prototype parts in Yazaki manufacturing facilities for upcoming customer pre-production builds in-line with customer schedule. Perform quality checks on said product prior to shipment. - Attend customer audits of Yazaki manufacturing facilities globally, to act as an intermediary and ensure that all customer needs are met.

- Assist in the teaching of communicative English in the Japanese public school system. - Promote internationalization by educating Japanese students about American culture / way of life. - Prepare lesson plans on a daily basis relevant to current in-class topics or American culture. - Aid students in mastering English as a spoken language through verbal exercises and activities.

(11/94-03/95) IEEE “Crate Conquest” Robot Design Competition, Team Captain, Sponsored by AMD

Three part coursework: - Six Sigma Green Belt - Lean Six Sigma - Lean Six Sigma Black Belt