Responsible for Business Development, Sales, Client Consulting, Management, Marketing, Strategic Planning, and IT

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As part of his business development role, Damon is always seeking new supply chain management projects to drive cost saving strategies for existing and new BDM clients.  He has built a successful supply chain consulting firm with his business partner and the BDM team.  Damon has utilized a combined twenty-six years of Intel and BDM supply chain management experience and applied it directly to client solutions. Through the experience, he has sharpened core leadership, business development, management and strategic planning skills as a CEO to grow the company. He thrives on innovation and pushes his strategic thinking, auditing, marketing, organizational development and management skills daily to provide clients with cost saving results and best in class consulting services.  Recently, the BDM team provided solutions for their utility, oil & gas, manufacturing, and technology clients to lean their supply chain strategies and reduce costs. BDM has directly saved large utility clients over:

• $0.5M with a vendor managed inventory solution
• $1.7M through a commodity source strategy
• $2.0M with a surplus/obsolete inventory solution

In his Director role, he has set clear vision and built strategic alliances with key business and technology partners. These alliances have resulted in new product offerings and international business opportunities in Scotland, China, Romania and across the US.  Damon recently joined the Greater Phoenix Economic Business Council (GPEC) and is actively participating in renewable energy business development strategies.  He is also a member of the GPEC International Leadership team.

Damon earned an MBA with an international business focus from Arizona State University. In addition to his current role, he cultivated this focus with practical experience from two Intel international expatriate assignments and integrates this experience into optimizing his client’s business operations. He spent the last 10 years developing his global management skills as an expat in South East Asia. In this capacity he negotiated global contracts and managed inventory procurement for one of Intel's start up factories. While on assignment, he took on a role as a Risk and Controls Manager mitigating excessive cost risk, business interruption risk, and corporate fraud. A key career highlight of Damon's was the creation of a new Global Risk Management Organization for Intel's largest division, the Technology Manufacturing Group. He managed a global team of Risk and Controls Managers in 14 countries. This organization was able to reduced overall risk exposure to Intel Corporation by $300M over a three year period. 

Professionally,  Damon is driven to help develop leaders' ability to better utilize a company's most important asset -- it's people.  Personally, Damon is an adventurous hiker having hiked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, the Inca Trail in Peru and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. He enjoys scuba diving, fitness training, and international travel. Damon, his wife and 4 children enjoy spending time together at the beach, mountain biking and traveling together.

Expertise:

• Small business entrepreneur skills
• Strong leadership, people management and organizational development skills
• Proven business development and marketing skills
• Collaboration and strategic alliance skills
• Innovation and strategic planning skills
• Effective communication skills (written, verbal, and public relations)
• Strong project management skills
• Supply chain management lean skills
• Auditing and risk assessment skills
• Broad international business experience (2 Expatriate Assignments with Intel Corporation)

Projects and Activities:

• Organized a new supply chain consulting firm as CEO and entrepreneur
• Created consulting opportunities in the Energy, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Tech sectors
• Created international consulting opportunities in Scotland, China, and Romania
• Built strategic alliances with engineering firms, consulting firms and technology partners
• Owned and managed BDM’s marketing and social media strategies
• Joined Greater Phoenix Economic Council, International Leadership business development team
• Designed a three year inventory optimization strategy for client and augmented staff  (Saved >$5M)
• Managed tier I strategic sourcing vendor managed inventory project for utility client
• Drove staff recruiting and internship program for Intel’s worldwide materials organization
• Led organizational development strategies for Intel’s worldwide materials organization  (~2,400 employees)
• Managed risk mitigation strategies for Intel’s Technology Manufacturing Group (Reduced $300M in risk)
• Contributed to Intel’s Ethics Committee and drove policy design (training for 87,000 employees)
• Supported Corporate Internal Audit on global auditing initiatives (i.e Turkey and Paris Sales Offices)
• Managed business continuity scenario planning and risk assessments (Fire, Hurricane, Earthquake)
• Managed global procurement team on factory startup in Penang, Malaysia ($100M procurement of factory spares)

Positions:

• Managing Director/CEO-BDM Consulting INC (AZ, 2006-Present): Launched a successful and profitable supply chain consulting firm with global clients in 3 years with business partner and team.
• Materials People Systems Manager-Intel Corporation (AZ, 2005 - 2006): Managed a global team to drive recruiting, organizational development, training and safety programs
• Intel TMG Risk & Controls Manager-Intel Corporation (Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, AZ, 2000 - 2005): Managed global team to drive risk mitigation strategies working with the Sr. Manufacturing Mgrs. and Executive team to mitigate financial, business interruption, regulatory compliance, and fraud risks. 
• Procurement Manager-Intel Corporation (Penang Malaysia, 1997 -2000): Managed procurement strategies to support Intel’s Assembly/Test Start-up factory for flip chip technology
• Sr Buyer-Intel Corporation (AZ, 1996-1997): Managed strategic procurement on technologies for new start up fabrication facility
• Bank Officer-Wells Fargo Bank (AZ, 1991-1996): Managed a $75M agricultural portfolio for Arizona clients

Master of Business Administration,  Arizona State University WP Carey

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