Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC

Consulting in Precious Metals Strategy Development, Market Research, Thirfting, Trading, Hedging, and Forecasting,

President - Sole Proprietor

Tanaka Precious Metals

Serving as Tanaka’s Global Marketing and R&D face to the America’s, developing new markets & products.

Director Business Development

Solopower

Served in wide range of Operation capacities at this Flexible CIGS manufacturer solar panel startup.  Responsibilities included developing a Supply Chain/Purchasing, Warehouse, Foreign Trade Zone, Program Management, and Yield Management.

Sr. Director Supply Chain Management

Seagate Technology

Served as Director, Precious Metals and Media Commodity Management within Seagate’s WW Materials Organization.  My duties include establishment and execution of Precious Metals Targets, and Media sourcing strategies

Director Precious Metals Commodity Management

Facilitated a cross functional media development team in Program Management activities.  The media programs in my PSG Core Team were responsible for over $1B in internal captive media component sales.  Program Management activities working with multiple disciplines across multiple sites in Singapore, China, Colorado, Minnesota, and California

Sr. Program Manager – Media Product Core Team Lead

Managed multiple Seagate Substrate engineering functions 2 of Seagate's internal substrate factories.  Working as an expatriate in Mexicali, Mexico, and then later in Anaheim California.
Duties including managing Yield and FA departments, as well as Polish and Wash Process Engineering functions.

Sr. Engineering Manager - Yield, Wash & Failure Analysis

Total Quality Management Consulting & Training Services

Established a successful consulting practice with client companies in So California focusing on the development of each client’s Productivity and Quality Management expertise.  Clients included medical device and solar module producers.  Successfully trained over 350 technical professionals in quality engineering methods.

Independent Consultant

As a quality consultant in ITT’s Statistical programs Group, I consulted with over 45 manufacturing divisions if ITT throughout North America and Western Europe.  Taught an 80-hour course on experimental design to 700 engineers from the defense, automotive, raw materials, chemical, fluid technology, and electronic component industries.  Training was accompanies by by on-site consulting facilitating of over 800 DOE’s.   In 1989, I received the 1989 American Supplier Institute’s Taguchi (DOE) Applications Award for the best overall project in the United States.

Sr. DOE Instructor/Application Consultant

Precious and Critical Metals Market Analyst and Consultant.  Founder of Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC.  We focus on the precious metals with an emphasis on the Clean Energy and Electrification Metals markets.  My mantra is simple, "This is going to be the century of Clean Energy Transition and Mineral Constraints."  Understanding these markets and our global limits on rapidly scaling mining is leading to the current mineral super-cycle.

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