Ernest P.Founder

United States - Greater Seattle Area

Global Data Center Development, Strategy, Acquisitions, and Investments, Technology, Operations, and Supply Chain executive with over 20 years of progressively increasing responsibilities across multiple industries, for world class industry leaders:

- Data Center Infrastructure Development & Technology (AWS, Facebook, Iron Mountain);
- Automotive (General Motors - CAMI Automotive);
- Consulting (PricewaterhouseCoopers);
- Aerospace (Pratt & Whitney and Bombardier);
- Retail and Distribution (Amazon Retail, Belron Canada, Safelite, Carglass).

"Hands-on" expertise in supply chain, operations, and technology management:

- data center capacity planning;
- data center acquisitions and development of greenfield land and brownfield adaptations for data center use;
- new cloud services technology infrastructure support for Local Zones, Wavelength, and Outposts
- development of edge connectivity strategy, Early Due Diligence (EDD)

- material planning;
- supplier quality management;
- purchasing/sourcing;
- logistics;
- transportation and 3PL management;
- inventory and warehouse management;
- production scheduling;
- engineering - design for manufacturing;
- product lifecycle management;
- overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

Experience leading multiple ERP implementations, with knowledge and ability to translate and bridge business needs with system capabilities and to highlight limitations;

P. Eng. with analytical and problem-solving skills, delivering innovative, “out-of-the-box” ideas – strong sense of continuous improvement with experience in:

- Lean;
- 6-Sigma;
- 3-P (Production Preparation Process);
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM).

Resourceful and proven negotiator, with a track record of identifying and implementing cost reductions, with over $1B in identified and realized savings over my career;

Energetic, mobilizing, and passionate leader with an entrepreneurial spirit;

Customer obsessed, with the ability to develop strong business relationships;

High business acumen, capable of developing & executing business strategy;

Results driven turn-around transformational expert with proven record of improvements of distressed supply chain, engineering and operations departments within months.

• P. Eng., B.Eng. degree from McGill University in Mechanical Engineering
• APICS, CPIM
• Fluency in English, French, and Romanian
• Skill in German, Spanish, and Italian