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Friday, September 3, 2010

The New President Of Telewave May Turn The Company Around

Roberta Boward Roberta is a 3rd degree contact

President at Telewave, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area 
Telecommunications
Current
  • President at Telewave, Inc.
Past
  • Vice President Administration at Telewave, Inc
  • President at Boward Inc.
  • Operations Manager at Steelcloud Inc.
Education
  • West Valley College
Recommendations
3 people have recommended Roberta
Connections
67 connections
Websites
Public Profile

Experience

Telecommunications industry
July 2010 – Present (3 months)
Telecommunications industry
April 2008 – July 2010 (2 years 4 months)
Continuous Process Improvement for all departments.
Roberta has 1 recommendation (1 co-worker) including:
Telecommunications industry
June 2006 – July 2010 (4 years 2 months)
Public Company; Telecommunications industry
October 2004 – May 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Roberta has 1 recommendation (1 manager) including:
Public Company; Telecommunications industry
2002 – 2004 (2 years)
 Train users on business software - SAP
 Control and track $4.5M of inventory in Engineering facility
 Work with Contract Manufacturer on assemblies requiring Tier 2 repair capabilities
 Schedule repairs in Tier 2 repair center
 Direct activities of Shipping and Receiving Department 
 Responsible for staging and deploying of Lab Trial equipment
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry
2000 – 2002 (2 years)
 Established – Shipping, Receiving, Materials and Customer Service/Order Entry Departments
 Implemented ERP’s - PC MRP and Syteline
Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry
1990 – 2000 (10 years)
Materials Manager
 Manage staff of 17, consisting of 2 Supervisors and 4 additional direct reports
 Responsible for Finished Goods Stockroom, Components Stockroom, Shipping, Master Schedulers and Material Planners
 Reduced inventory $’s 20%, Implemented “Kanbans”, Vendor consigned inventory, Stocking by location, Implemented Capacity Planning
Production Supervisor
* Supervise 38 Direct Manufacturing employees
* Balance workforce with production requirements
* Wrote ISO Procedures and trained employees
* Made process improvements that reduced production costs $1.5M
Master Scheduler and Materials Planner 
* Master schedule assemblies using Rough Cut Capacity and Forecast
* Scheduled pre-production assemblies through factory
* Plan and schedule purchased components for assemblies
* Member of AS400 BPCS 4.2, 4.5 and 6.02 implementation team
* Member of Joint Venture Team for Indonesia
Roberta has 1 recommendation (1 co-worker) including:
Telecommunications industry
1987 – 1990 (3 years)
Established Purchasing department where none previously existed
* Wrote procedures to implement paperless system
* Planned, negotiated contracts purchased and expedited components
* Reduced materials costs 5-10% each year for three years
Public Company; 201-500 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry
1985 – May 1987 (2 years)
Responsible for ATE Systems configuration planning and purchasing
* Scheduled systems for build
* Managed Finished Goods Stockroom
Telecommunications industry
1975 – 1985 (10 years)

Education

Recommendations For Roberta

“An outstanding worker.” August 2, 2008
joseph hutsick, Sr. Staff Engineer, Tellabs
worked with Roberta at Telewave, Inc
“I was Roberta's manager at Pulsecom, and was always impressed with her work. She possesses a tireless work ethic, personal integrity, and is very capable. She learns quicckly, and as a manager balances coaching her people without hand-holding. My highest recommendation - later in my career, at SteelCloud, I was happy to be able to recruit Roberta onto my team there. I am comfortable staking my own professional reputation on her.” February 14, 2008
Neil Christie, Director, Operations, Steelcloud, Inc.
managed Roberta at Steelcloud Inc.
“Roberta provided the most realistic production forecasts and created some most effective trend analysis on material management. She was consistently providing valuable input to management and her recommendations were quite valuable in improving the throughput of production orders. She was regularly commended for her actions and her enthusiasm while producing quality products.” August 7, 2008
Norm Taylor, Industrial Engineer, Pulsecom, Inc
worked with Roberta at Pulsecom

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