Manage: $3+ Billion Spend | 50+ Staff | 7 Global LocationsCost Reduction~ Ensure Supply ~ Mitigate Risk ~ Partnership Relationship~ M&A ~ Superior negotiation and leadership skills Highly accomplished proven executive with 25 years of delivering consistent solid results across supply chain and operations management. Driving notable improvement in both gross margin and revenue. Deep expertise building cross functional teams, mitigating risks, ensuring supply, driving cost reduction, and consistently contributing to profit and revenue. Multi-functional leader with solid expertise driving forward thinking initiatives to meet diverse business and operational needs. Expert at articulating and implementing progressive organizational change, creating value alliances/relationships, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing productivity. Specialties:Strong Persuasive Leader | Complex Multi-million $$$ Deal Negotiator | Tactical Leader & Consensus Builder | Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)| Strategic Capacity Negotiator | Cost Effective Sourcing Solutions | Strategic Supply Base Solutions | Skilled Influencer & Motivator | Procurement Policies | Sourcing Strategies | Process Improvement | Strong relationship builder | Hire | Train | MentorKEY HIGHLIGHTS•Built a high performance global strategic procurement organization from scratch managing $3B+ of direct and indirect spend. Effectively managed supplier relationships; reduced cost of goods sold (COGS) and expenses by $300M+ annually•Drove significant improvement in gross margins and revenue through combinations of negotiating for cost and capacity to ensure availability of parts and services at competitive price • Engaged in long term multi-billion dollar capacity reservation agreement, guaranteeing operational supply while maintaining competitive cost • Led large M&A integrations resulting in $1Billion+ of synergy savings. Chosen by executive staff to facilitate critical M&A activities at various companies including AMD, Spansion, Cypress Semi and Marvell. Drove procurement integration of systems and processes combining ‘best-in-class’ specifications, policies, and procedures. • Negotiated $300M supply chain agreement to meet sort and final testing operational requirements. Influenced subcontractor to create exclusive operating space and acquire specialized tools including 3-way maintenance agreement• Instrumental team member in leading Spansion out of bankruptcy achieved through strong key executive relationships with suppliers enabling continuous supply and materials with no line down