Tom Shultz
Senior Sourcing Manager, Wind Turbine Generators, Inverters, Motors, Electrical Systems
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolTom Shultz is a Senior Sourcing Manager with over a decade of hands-on experience optimizing supply chains and product quality for wind turbine, inverter, motor, and electrical systems across multinational fleets. He combines deep Asia-Pacific OEM/ODM expertise—managing suppliers in China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand—with cross-functional leadership in NPI, manufacturing readiness, and rapid recovery operations for wind and solar plants. Known for sleuthing root causes and implementing long-term fixes, Tom has driven measurable cost savings and first-pass yield improvements in high-volume programs at Xerox and Intel and now shapes materials strategies at Avangrid. An MBA and engineer by training, he retooled with advanced full‑stack JavaScript training, giving him a rare blend of procurement/quality rigor and modern software literacy. Colleagues describe him as a creative, pragmatic change agent who builds productive B2B relationships and applies Kaizen-style continuous improvement to complex technical supply chains.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSE - Bachelor of Science in Engineering Marine & Ocean Engineering, BSE - Bachelor of Science in Engineering Marine & Ocean Engineering at University of WashingtonMBA - Master of Business Administration, MBA - Master of Business Administration at Portland State University - School of BusinessShipboard Operations Firefighting & Damage Control Propulsion & Auxiliary Systems Flight Deck Ops, Shipboard Operations Firefighting & Damage Control Propulsion & Auxiliary Systems Flight Deck Ops at US NavyCommercial Diving Offshore Operations Mixed Gas Diving Saturation Diving Protocol, Commercial Diving Offshore Operations Mixed Gas Diving Saturation Diving Protocol at Divers Institute of Technologycoding bootcamp ... 18 weeks advanced software development in JavaScript (full-stack), coding bootcamp ... 18 weeks advanced software development in JavaScript (full-stack) at Code FellowsUnderwater Inspection & Non-Destructive Testing (ultrasonic magnetic particle dye penetrant), Underwater Inspection & Non-Destructive Testing (ultrasonic magnetic particle dye penetrant) at College of OceaneeringProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mizutombo/portfolio
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:31 PRs, 52 pushes, 11 branches in 26 days
mizutombo/ripe-banana-1
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:25 PRs, 27 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
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