Matthew P. Ringman

Matthew P. Ringman http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewringman

5517 Riverview 940.781.6462 The Colony, TX 75056 [email protected]

An extremely hard working individual with diversified management experience in purchasing, inventory control systems, logistical operations, and customer service. . Motivated, analytical, and detail orientated in the utilization of operational and management concepts. . Adept at managing a variety of tasks and busy schedules. . Communicates well to all levels and effective in accomplishing timely and quality results. . Strategic thinking professional with experience creating and improving supply-chain and distribution processes

Other skills to add to a company:  Managed product distribution; inventory procurement lifecycle including intra-company inventory transfers  Public speaking experience with presentations for alumni group  Proficient in Windows operating systems, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage), Adobe packages (PageMaker and Photoshop), and Prelude Warehousing System and Syteline and Lotus Notes.

Professional Experience

Buyer/Planner Dallas, TX 2008-present ITT Flowtronex (A division of ITT Corporation, NASDAQ: ITT)  In less than 10 months, went from the buyer with the least amount of vendors to manage to the one with the most vendors to manage and the highest spend vendors  In 2010, have saved the company $2K in immediate identifiable savings through one vendor consolidation and currently working on at least 4 more vendor switches that will save a minimum of $1K each immediately. These switches do not include freight costs savings that will occur because of agreements with these vendors already in place  Responsible for procurement of inventory for the Municipal, Firepump, Turf Management, and Reverse Osmosis Value Streams  Purchasing representative for new production creation of FloBoy, a irringation package booster system  Purchasing representative in Job Closing Improvement team  Team member in resourcing of 2009 roll in of product lines from closed Canadian division of ITT  Responsible for inventory closing of each job as it is completed  Purchasing lead in resourcing of “zero lead” products in 2009  Part of team to introduce automation of order procedures  Working to document all purchasing procedures to create standard processes  Item master improvement project leader  Responsible for correction of price variances on already received PO's  Responsible for ordering of weld kits for jobs  Purchasing representative for ODBC reporting tool

Regional Buyer Carrollton, TX 2007-2008 SCP Pool Corporation (A division of PoolCorp, NASDAQ: POOL)  Responsible for procurement of inventory from vendors that account for 80% of the net sales in four branches in the Dallas area with inventory purchased totaling over $26 million for 2007 o Responsible for over $200K in discounts on orders of over $3million in PO’s for 2008  Experience purchasing from vendors of chemicals, electric motors, electronic controls, filters, pumps, service equipment, heaters, and parts to repair finished goods  Parameter Maintenance including stock status, sales trend, freight terms, cycle days o Use system that has every item I order is seen by me once a week  Manage freight expense o Less than $500 in freight charges incurred on PO’s of over $3 million ordered  Monitor and maintain open purchase orders o Maintained no PO’s older than 60 days  Conduct monthly meetings with branch personnel of assigned branches to discuss sales trends and developments with customers  Actively identify and reduce surplus inventory o Surplus inventory was reduced by 14% from January 2008 to February 2008  Currently maintaining stock out percentage under 7% for Gordon Graham inventory classes 1 through 6 for branches (approximately 4300 SKU’s) o Took stockouts from 8.5 in January 2008 to 4.5 in February 2008 Operations Manager Carrollton, TX 2005-2007 SCP Pool Corporation (A division of PoolCorp, NASDAQ: POOL)  Create and manage the distribution route for product supply. Worked from supplier order fulfillment, routing and delivery, to securing payment; approximately $14 million inventory purchased for 2007 (approximately 3600 SKU’s)  Apply routing and logistic strategy  Securing and managing warehouse inventory control  Kept stock outs of frozen items under 4% goal for branch  Developed solutions for in-house software management application and implemented technology training o Wrote a training manual for ERP system for most common operations procedure to help Managers-in-Training learn that is used in Carrollton Branch  In-warehouse training for new management recruits  Provide ongoing internal and branch team member coaching  Supplier resolution and problem solving; negotiate and resolve supplier sourcing and inventory opportunities

Education Bachelor of Science, Industrial Distribution, Minor in Business, Texas A&M University

Memberships Association of Operations Management (APICS) member since August 2009

Certifications Currently working on Certified Supply Chain Professional certification through APICS