DOCKE-RESUME-2026
REVA · APR 2026
DOMAINMATERIAL · SUPPLY · PROCUREMENT
STATUS● OPEN TO ROLES
KEN ECKMAN
MATERIAL & SUPPLY CHAIN PROGRAM MANAGER · PROCUREMENT OPERATOR · FOUNDER
BasedDowntown Los Angeles, CA
Phone(213) 768-6311
Emailkene.tbc@gmail.com
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/keneckman
Material and supply chain program manager who turns chaotic build cycles into shipped product — from Loon stratospheric balloons to Disney's high-priority infrastructure deployments. Twenty years of BOM management, vendor negotiations, and ERP-driven material planning across aerospace, motorsports, moonshot R&D, and entertainment.
Highlight Reel CAREER SIGNAL
$3.8M+
Vendor Negotiations
Indirect spend at Disney — pricing, terms, entitlement scope.
Project Loon
Google[X] · R&D
Sourced & build-planned R&D hardware for stratospheric balloons.
4 / 4 / 2 yr
Coupa · DocuSign · Conga
Daily P2P operator. Built workflows finance, IT & eng all touched.
20-yr arc
Hardware-Native
Wesco · HPD · Loon · Disney — regulated-industry tempo.
Experience CORE ROLES
Material & Supply Chain Program Manager @ Tech Hardware Group (Confidential)
Embedded·CASE.03
Embedded program management on a fast-moving hardware build operation — material planning, BOM verification, and risk-flagged sourcing across changing build priorities.
- Owned material planning against shifting build priorities and part availability — kept build cadence intact when supply signals went sideways and engineering specs moved week-over-week.
- Partnered with sourcing and engineering on BOM verification cycles — surfaced material-delay risks before they hit the build floor and rerouted to backup suppliers when long-lead parts slipped.
- Built the long-lead-item watch list and on-time PO discipline that kept the program off the critical-path delay list quarter after quarter; pulled monthly inventory-at-risk reviews and gave finance a clean number to plan against.
- Operated the ERP layer (stock levels, build timelines, lead-time visibility) as the single source of truth that stakeholders across product, ops, and finance could pull from without asking.
Founder & CEO (concurrent) @ HIRECAR, LLC
Los Angeles, CA·CASE.04 / FOUNDER
Vehicle co-host operator platform — hirecar.la. Multi-vehicle commercial fleet under management; partner-cohost JV operating model.
- Built and run a commercial vehicle fleet from registration through revenue — direct ownership of DMV, insurance, supplier management, and partner P&L.
- Designed the JV/cohost agreement framework (DocuSign-distributed, schedule-based addenda) that lets capital-providing partners onboard a vehicle and operate against a single master operations contract.
- Operating HIRECAR as a concurrent founder responsibility while pursuing W-2 program management and supply chain leadership roles. Available for full-time onsite or remote.
Sr. Analyst, Procurement & Planning @ The Walt Disney Company
Burbank, CA·CASE.01 / DISNEY
Procurement and material coordination for high-priority infrastructure and technology deployments across business units.
- Negotiated and managed vendor agreements totaling $3.8M+ in indirect spend — drove pricing, terms, and entitlement scope on enterprise software and infrastructure contracts; reduced over-licensed positions before auto-renewal triggered.
- Led procurement and material coordination for high-priority infrastructure and technology deployments — kept forecasted demand and on-hand inventory aligned when project scope shifted mid-cycle.
- Translated engineering and product scopes into detailed material requirements, mapping delivery schedules to build phases and rollout targets — kept long-lead items off the post-mortem list.
- Identified breakdowns in internal ordering and led the rollout of improved intake, PO routing, and cross-functional communication protocols — replaced an email-chain process with one that scaled.
- Refined BOM workflows to keep departments current on part revisions, system updates, and supplier lead times; ran monthly material reviews flagging aging or at-risk inventory and partnered with finance on liability minimization.
Sourcing & Build Planner @ Google[X] — Project Loon
Mountain View, CA·CASE.02 / MOONSHOT
Stratospheric balloon program for global internet connectivity — moonshot R&D environment with hardware that did not exist as a catalog SKU.
- Managed procurement and materials planning for R&D-driven hardware builds powering Loon's balloon-based internet delivery systems.
- Partnered with engineers and TPMs to identify material requirements, select preferred suppliers, and execute fast-turnaround orders under aggressive build timelines.
- Owned BOM revision tracking — kept vendor-facing part lists synchronized with engineering's design changes in real time. The role that doesn't get hired for in stable programs but is mission-critical in a moonshot.
- Built internal trackers to surface sourcing risks early — particularly on long-lead components — and triggered backup-supplier or early-purchase strategies before they became blockers.
Additional Experience FOUNDATION ROLES
Supply Chain Manager · Hardcraft Industries
San Jose, CA
Contract intake, supplier onboarding, spend analysis across indirect categories. Ran RFP/RFI cycles and led negotiations with new suppliers; guided cross-functional teams to procurement-policy compliance.
Buyer · Strategic Sourcing · Honda HPD
Santa Clarita, CA
Indirect procurement support for race-season operations at Honda's motorsports performance arm — kept contract files current and vendor-side communication tight under racing-cadence delivery pressure.
Sourcing Manager · Local Clean Eats
Santa Clarita, CA
Owned small-contract sourcing and vendor communication for food and logistics categories — handled intake, PO creation, and policy alignment end-to-end.
Production Engineer · Wesco Aircraft
Santa Clarita, CA · Aerospace
Aerospace production engineering — supported global supplier reviews, sourced based on contract size and lead time, balanced low-cost options against compliance constraints. The regulated-industry baseline.
Technical Project Manager · Metal Design & Fabrication
Santa Clarita, CA
Earliest professional role — handled contract negotiations and day-to-day vendor management; tracked sourcing activity and contributed to internal process documentation.
Tools & Systems STACK
ProcurementCoupa (4+ yrs) · DocuSign (4+ yrs) · Conga (2 yrs) · Smartsheets · Zip
ERP / ReportingOracle · SAP · Epicor · Microsoft Dynamics · Power BI · SharePoint · Excel
CapabilitiesContract review · P2P · SaaS sourcing · Vendor negotiation · Policy & audit · BOM workflow design
DomainsHardware NPI · Aerospace · Moonshot R&D · Entertainment infrastructure · Fleet ops
Education CREDENTIAL
B.S. Business · University of Phoenix