David McDonald

($1.6B) Managing $160M in Low Cost Country (LCC) Spend over 37 Business Units (BU’s) with facilities in 30 different countries. As Sourcing Leader, I have overall responsibility for Sourcing of various electrical components and assemblies. Products and commodities vary widely from high requirement custom Automotive sensors that require TS certified suppliers and PPAP launch, to off-the-shelf bicycle accessories that the BU doesn’t maintain drawings of.

Corporate Director of Project Management - Largest US manufacturer of membrane switches (Privately Held). Turn-around situation, 5-Year plan to increase EBITDA from $300k to $4M (10%) to achieve desired profit levels for share-holders during a sale of the company.

Ark-Les Corporation ($120M) Engineering, Materials Manager – Start-up high volume membrane switch manufacturer where I developed and implemented all engineering systems, procedures, and design standards. Later I moved to the materials department where I was responsible for the procurement, product costing, manufacturing planning, warehouse management and shipping departments. I was the divisional team leader for the implementation and maintenance of the JD Edwards Oneworld ERP system and impl

Engineering Manager – Membrane Switch based Keyboards. In addition to managing the day to day operation of the Engineering Department, I also developed numerous relationships with Asian suppliers and manufacturers for product cost reductions. I was responsible for both qualification of suppliers of outsourced products, as well as customer visits to these factories.

Senior Electro-Mechanical / PCB Design Engineer - Project leader of cross-functional teams for the design, procurement, qualification and manufacture of military and industrial keyboards. I left this position when the division was relocated to Buffalo, NY and merged with another sister-division (EL-Products). El-Products had a major downsizing that provided a large amount of unused space in a company owned building at the same time that Flex-Key's lease was up for renewal. I was one of only 4 employees off