Judith A. Joseph has over 25 years of experience in business analysis, financial forecasting, and project coordination. She is currently a Senior Materials and Production Scheduler at Bradford Exchange LTD where she places orders, schedules production, and coordinates shipments. Previously, she held several roles at Motorola Solutions including Supply Chain Analyst, Business Manager, Quality Manager, Product Planning Manager, and Business Analyst where she forecasted sales, analyzed materials requirements, and drove metrics around on-time delivery and cycle times. She has a B.S. in Business Administration with a specialization in Finance from Marquette University.
1. Judith A. Joseph
813 Willow Street
Lake in the Hills, IL 60156
(847) 513-1596
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
A results oriented contributor with extensive experience in financial forecasting and analyzing
results. A creative strategic thinker with high energy, business savvy and very strong relationship
building skills that can translate vision into results.
DEMONSTRATED SUCCESS:
Twenty five years of business analytical experience in fast-paced environment working for large
Telecommunications company. Key strengths include:
• Project Coordination • Process Automation
• Interpersonal Communication • Financial Analysis
• Forecasting • Multi-tasking
• Documentation • Inside Sales
Professional Experience
Bradford Exchange LTD. – Niles Illinois - Present
Senior Materials and Production Scheduler 2014 to Present
• Place product and component purchase orders and schedule production with suppliers to
fulfill sales forecast and customer demands.
• Build strong relationships with domestic and international suppliers to resolve delivery and
quality concerns.
• Coordinate multiple product shipments to Bradford’s regional distribution centers in a
timely fashion.
• Coordinate and communicate across multiple departments to problem solve and manage
production and QC issues, and then provide recommendations and resolutions to the team.
• Present status updates at weekly meetings with internal teams (including department
heads).
• Problem solve on the fly and utilize resourcefulness to seek out answers.
• Maintain accurate and reliable records and reports.
• Update and maintain accurate production planning systems information (i.e. update system
dates, product quantities, and other vital system information).
• Audit vendor invoices, and expedite product manufacture and shipments as needed.
Motorola Solutions Inc - Schaumburg, Illinois 1988-2013
2. Supply Chain Analyst 2013-present
• Balanced customer demands with vendor capabilities. Maintains strong customer and
vendor communications.
• Managed supplier performance and deliverables, ensuring outsourced services are meeting
customer needs. Addresses delivery issues with supplier.
• Worked on a variety of projects in the analysis and development of materials management
efficiencies.
Business Manager, January 2003-2012
• Responsible for forecasting a $220M high tech start up division per upper management
request.
• Monitored discounts and warranty accounts effecting the profit and loss statement.
• Forecasted product order backlogs, releases, and shipments on a weekly, monthly and
cumulative basis, based upon continuing historical analysis and interaction with sales.
• Analyzed material requirements and monitor inventory levels based upon forecasts and actual
performance.
• Maximized shipments through proactive efforts of pulling in business, and expediting the
factories.
• Created the long range plans while gaining consensus with Finance, Marketing, and
Operations input and approval.
• Communicated to upper management the assessed risks and opportunities in achieving the
financial forecasts.
• Prepared summarized historical data for the Brand function to aid in developing new products
for emerging markets.
• Lead ship maximization meetings with factories and the regions of the world.
• Analyzed and published shipping linearity and plan attainment metric.
Quality Manager, January 2001-2003
• Responsible for driving on-time delivery metric down to 10%.
• Paretoed the results and drove to resolution.
• Interfaced with and presented to sales, supply chain, and upper management.
• Proposed the expedite process for the North America region.
• Responsible for achieving cycle time metric goals.
• Generated metrics to communicate improvement and identify systemic issues.
Product Planning Manager, May 1997-2000
• Coordinated all aspects of the cancellation of the Forte data terminal.
• Introduced the MW300/350 data terminal; entailing ordering set up, new price pages, product
announcement, and catalog sheets.
• Developed complete and detailed product descriptions for the latest model MW520 data
terminal.
• Responsible for all of the data modems including new product releases, customer beta
evaluation, and day-to-day field assistance.
• Productively interfaced with distribution, engineering and other internal groups.
• Managed the 2.0.3 system release for the MWCS II middleware product.
3. Business Analyst, May 1994-1997
• Forecasted the sales and revenue for the subscriber radio portfolio.
• Interpreted historical data and built relationships with sales to gain insight into new orders.
• Assessed the risks and opportunities associated with the forecast and communicated them to
upper management.
Inside Sales State and Local and Fortune 500 customers, 1988-1993
• Conducted cold calls to determine the validity of leads.
• Promoted to inside sales representative with assigned territory.
• Promoted to sales team leader responsible for attaining both sales and quality goals.
Education:
Marquette University
Major: B.S. Business Administration, Specialization: Finance, 1985
References available upon request