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Scottsdale, Az

General Dynamics Mission Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, develops mission-critical C4ISR solutions across the land, sea, air, space, and cyber domains. As the Commodity Specialist, my priority is to design specialist strategies to procure commodities in regional and global markets. I am entrusted in achieving cost-effectiveness and setting-up of supplier base, assisting in adhering to quality norms through resource and techniques evaluation, while also developing and consolidating business relations.Select accomplishments:•Lead activities to select a supplier and issue contracts for a VMI for electronics and electromechanical devices roll out and site adoption•Commodity lead for electronics, 9 sites – mission accomplished. The contract resolved in 3 months with cost savings equal to $2MM annually via leveraging spend and negotiation.

Tempe, Az

• MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with over 2,700 locations in more than 50 countries, including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Asia, and Oceania. As a Sourcing Manager, I was responsible for handling the company’s end to end sourcing operations. I was able to appraise and improve MUFG’s sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending, supplying partnerships, and new possibilities.Select accomplishments:•Total costs savings of $7.12MM of a $120MM total spend. Impact on total organization 5.9% of total savings.•Oversaw 4 very high magnitude RFPs for new never before utilized PSAs and IT Transformation initiatives.

Huntington Beach, Ca

Purchasing Manager - HQ of global manufacturing company• Manage department of 7• Manage spend of $150 million both direct and indirect• Refining supplier base in a privately owned and held corporation with respect to legacy employees while encouraging growth and leveraging talent and skills abundantly already available to transition to a better utilization of talent pool• Streamlining consumption into commodities, while also enhancing the utilization of technology to track, measure and improve process• Cost savings and improvements in six figures

Irvine, Ca

I was brought into Parker Hannifin as a Subcontract Manager for a six-month assignment, which later was extended two quarters due to my diligent work ethic and result-delivering nature. I supported the commercial aerospace group’s major subcontracts acquisitions for Bombardier and Embraer programs.Select accomplishments:•Worked with mechanical systems integration team for sourcing, negotiations, contracts award, and post-award administration. Built negotiation strategy, collaborated with a cross-functional team to ensure back to back contracts alignment between sales and procurement.•Successfully negotiated, justified, definitized and awarded both contract amendments during this time with costs savings of $1.4M on $18M purchased (7.77%)

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Supported the vendor management portion of the global supply management strategy, in supplier risk management→ Led a team of 7 business analysts to migrate data from one platform to R.Portal and to sync Commodity Manager usage globally of a vetted, and approved Managed Vendor List.→ Achieved ultimate end goal – a never before developed approved supplier list for total supplier leverage globally in a new IT procurement tool→ Worked closely with India counterparts to maintain the integrity of supply chain vendor risk management tools and mitigation protocols to meet risk management compliance guidelines

Orange County, California Area

Manage indirect corporate spend for 24 divisions spread across the US and various international sites.Improved travel costs savings by $2M through consolidation of hotels, auto, airfare and improved policy booking habits. Improved MRO industrial spend $300K through deployment of VMI at all No Am sites, enabling headcount reduction.Have achieved annual savings in energy reductions at 3 sites valued at $283,000 by partnering with suppliers to execute facility improvements in lighting, deregulated energy and equipment repairs/upgrades.Improved IT spend by $500K through realignment of consumption through one negotiated VAR for hardware, software, support and accessories spend.Negotiated $200K improvement over opto/mechanical new product introduction. Formulated all contracts and RFx.Contract compliance for all government contracts for ITAR, DAR/FAR, and annual small business reporting.

Irvine, Ca

$50 million start up electronics manufacturer with sole source position in broad band data communication management, sold to Semtech Corporation 12/2009. Manage procurement, and subcontract administration functions with accountability for subcontract management, sourcing strategies, compliance and strategic source development, flow-down compliance of customer contracts. Close intra discipline collaboration with engineering, sales/marketing, quality, and corporate synergies – highest focus on MRO, NPI and capital expense. Selected HighlightsManage tactical spend of 120 or more purchases per month, insuring on time delivery, cost containment, pre-award negotiations, and documentation on all purchases. Commodities included engineering services, build to print, spec.Refined reporting and data capture elements in Great Plains in collaboration with IT to better target costs savings.PCBA’s, electronics, test equipment purchase, test equipment rental. Cross functional team included purchasing (contracts and risk mitigation) engineering for scope and technologies, quality for customer flow down and compliance, ITAR, and ISO flow downs. Additionally achieved a goal to properly align over exposure of spend to too many suppliers, channeling spend to a more robustly equipped source of supply eliminating 35% of MRO supply, and 7% costs savings, and some administrative cost avoidance through improved price, delivery and customer service post award, as well as a 21% improvement in quality failures realized through weekly review of quality rejections.

Manage $50 million in total spend for division sourcing, procurement, and contract administration functions with accountability for subcontract management, sourcing strategies, procurement practices & procedures, and contract compliance. Supervise and train a team responsible for purchasing MRP inventory and services supporting product development.

Oversaw global out sourcing operations for critical path materials and services, and local sourcing supporting product development leading to production at contract manufacturers. Managed $50M spend and all contract reviews, compliance issues, and source selection processes. Introduced best practices across purchasing functions and helped Ops Director to refine planning requirements. Managed a team directly and cross functionally to monitor supplier performance and leverage that performance on future awards reduction of high prices due to unnecessary expedites through behavior mods internally to refrain from excluding purchasing until final stages of need.

Worked at Power Paragon, Interstate Electronics, 3 separate locations.

Provided subcontract administration supporting the purchase of capital equipment, software products, and various services for construction, facility, and MRO operations. Supervised team of three MRO subcontract buyers responsible for monitoring $11 million in total MRO spend. Reviewed contract awards to ensure optimal terms & conditions and requirements were met. Selected as a Green Belt accountable for all Six Sigma projects involving purchasing.