MICHELLE W. GABRIEL
3800 Lake Shore Ave.
Oakland, CA  94610
Phone: (510) 444-4370, Fax: (510) 444-0231
email: mwg@jmbaai.com

SUMMARY
Management professional with fifteen years of progressive and diversified corporate experience. Proven leadership record in start-up, small and medium sized companies. Excellent strategic thinker who can translate objectives and requirements into action plans and deliver. Leads by example through hard work and persistence. Goal and results oriented. Strengths include: systematic, logical and practical problem solving; tangible and measureable results; consistent and orderly growth and reorganization of staff.

EXPERIENCE

JMB and Associates, Oakland, CA					01/00-present 
                          Manager
Managed business operations of independent contractor corporation.  

Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd, and McGrath  (PRTM), Mountain View, CA	9/99-12/99 
                          Consultant
Engagement as interim Materials Manager for Supply Chain Management project at a fast growing start-up manufacturing fiber optic components.  Set-up and implemented Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) module of J.D. Edwards (JDE) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.  
•	Designed organization for Operations of short term and long term requirements.  
•	Set up metrics, assisted in initial cell manufacturing design that reduced manufacturing cycle time 50%.
•	Reduced delinquent purchase orders by 50% in 2 months.

NorthPoint Communications, San Francisco, CA 			4/99-9/99
                           Technical Director of Operations Design,  Service Delivery
Process re-engineering for fast growing national start-up provider of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) for fast internet access.  Focused on end user provisioning process design, metrics, and bottleneck troubleshooting. 
•	Increased installed product thruput by 300% in 4 months. 
•	Reduced orders on hold status 30% in 2 months using pareto analysis
•	Created cross functional company wide teams to improve order quality. 

Ion Systems, Berkeley, CA 
                           Director of Operations							3/98-4/99
                           Director of Manufacturing						4/96-3/98
Managed production, materials, quality assurance, manufacturing engineering, and facilities for company producing ionization equipment for cleanroom contamination and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) control.  Implemented  Demand Flow in materials and manufacturing, ISO9000 qualification, updating of production floor documentation, inventory cycle counting.

•	Managed $25 million in annual shipments and 45 employees including 6 managers.
•	Reduced raw materials inventory by 30% in less than 6 months with no interruption of shipments, increased available cash by $1 million.
•	Reduced and upgraded supplier base, implemented Just In Time (JIT) contracts with key suppliers, Converted from Printed Circuit Board (PCB) kitting to turnkey.
 
Powis Parker Inc., Berkeley, CA 
                           Vice President of Operations						12/93-4/96
Managed production, purchasing, shipping, warehouse, quality assurance, production control and MIS of a document binding system and its consumables. Created, distributed and managed to Operations metrics dashboard.
•	Managed $10 million of annual shipments and 35 employees. 
•	Increased supplier on time delivery from 36% to 60% in 9 months through improved communications, awareness and metrics.
•	Implemented continuous improvement philosophy, monthly production measures, capacity planning. 

Compression Labs, Inc., San Jose, CA 
	Production Manager							7/92-12/93
Managed production functional and system test of video-teleconferencing codecs.
•	Managed $40 million of annual shipments.  Supervised 20 test technicians and mechanical assemblers.
•	Implemented workcell and JIT kanban system on the production floor. Experience in TQM and ISO9000 qualification. 

EARLY EXPERIENCE

	United Airlines, Maintenance Operations Center,  San Francisco, CA	Summer ‘91
	Summer Internship. Implemented  Just In Time (JIT) loops in Fast Cycle Time engine blade repair line.  Performed analysis of volume and cycle time of brake repair operations.

Avantek, Inc., Santa Clara, CA 
	Product Marketing Engineer, Microwave Semiconductor Group		3/88-6/90
	Product Engineer, Microwave Semiconductor Group			4/86-3/88

Motorola, Phoenix, AZ
	Package Development Engineer, RF  Semiconductor  			8/84-4/86
 
	Engineering Rotation Program 						8/83-8/84

EDUCATION
MBA, University of California, Berkeley, CA   May 1992
MS, Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1983
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1982