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President

 

Rick Merritt, CPIM is currently the President of APICS Santa Clara Valley Chapter. He is currently working in Supply Chain Management at Applied Materials. During his 30 year materials career, he has held several management positions with Acurex, Hexel, JDSUniphase. As a past guest lecturer at Arizona State University, Rick has spoken on such topics as Supply Chain management, materials management and quality.

 

 


 

 

Executive Vice President

 

Paul A. Long Sr, CPIM, CPPS is the Executive Vice President of APICS Santa Clara Valley Chapter. Paul is a Lead Buy Part Controller (Senior Staff) with Lockheed Martin, Space Systems and supports the Avionics group in Sunnyvale, California. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Paul was a member of the SAP Implementation Team at the Northrop Grumman facility in Azusa, California and responsible for developing process supporting the SAP users? Paul’s prior experience includes positions in Customer Service, Production Planning, Shop Floor Control, Capacity Planning, Expediting, Dispatching and Master Scheduling. Paul is an individual dedicated to life long learning and professional development. and has a B.A. in Business and is currently pursuing his M.S. in Organizational Leadership. In addition to APICS Paul is a member of NPMA, ISM, PMI and LMLA. He is CPIM certified a past chapter president and has taught Manufacturing and Inventory Management classes at the San Gabriel, California Chapter of APICS. Additionally Paul is certified in Systems Engineering (CalTech), Project Management (UnivCal Irvine), ISO 9000 (Perry Johnson).


 

  Past President/VP of Marketing for Pacific Northwest District

Sue Nelson, CFPIM is Past President and VP of Marketing for Pacific Northwest District. She has been an associate of M.N. Nelson & Associates since 1993. Her background includes ten years in Sales, Marketing and Distribution followed by over fifteen years in Computer Operations and Manufacturing/Inventory Management. With a degree in Computer Programming, she has been instrumental in the successful implementation of a variety of ERP systems. Sue has been an active member of APICS for over ten years, serving as President of the Portland, Oregon Chapter and Region Ten Staff. She is certified in CPIM at the Fellow level and is currently in the process of CIRM certification. Sue has presented at 4 APICS International Conferences, multiple professional society dinner meetings, numerous universities and teaches all CPIM Certification Preparation Workshops for APICS.

 
 
   
 

Vice President Marketing 

Brian Pessano is currently the chapter's Vice President of Marketing .

 

VP Secretary/Treasurer


Terry Myers, is currently the chapter's Vice President Secretary and Treasurer.


Vice President Membership


Mary Ann Pelzer-Hiller is currently the Vice President of Membership.

 

Vice President Programs/Events

Marcelle Walters is currently the chapter's Vice President of Programs/Events.


   
 

Vice President Technology

 

 

Parth Parikh is a Supply Chain Specialist with KLA-Tencor Corporation, San Jose. Prior to becoming Vice President of Technology, Parth was the Vice President of Student Chapter at Santa Clara Valley Chapter. Parth has a Masters degree in Supply Chain Management from San Jose State University.

 

Vice President at Large

Charlie Chen is the Vice President at Large at Santa Clara Valley Chapter.

 

Vice President Education

Candyss Fitzgerald, is the Vice President of Education.

 


 

Director at Large

 

Vivian Chan is the Director At Large of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter.  Before she moved in logistics management in retail industry, she had been in airlines customer relations and police operations management for 11 years.  She, then, returned to school to obtain her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems.  She is now pursuing her MBA degree in Operations Research in San Francisco state University.

 

 

Director of Technology

Vish Shetty is the Director of Technology at the Santa Clara Valley Chapter.