• Provide excellent vendor relationship management to high value and complex Global IT staff augmentation and IT projects.• Review, negotiate terms and conditions of high risk contracts, ensure compliance with corporate policies and manage risk.• Onboard required skill set resources and negotiate best rates to ensure value to the project. • Audit compliance of corporate policies for the completed initiatives by stakeholders and recommend further controls.• Ensure best value for initiatives in pipeline with savings. • Recommend and implement sourcing strategies to achieve efficiency and streamline procedures for operations for best end value (cost+quality=value).

Reviewed and drafted contractual terms, negotiated contractual terms and conditions.Inspired clients with saving strategies.Worked on innovations in achieving efficiencies.Training client staff on best sourcing and procurement strategies.Recommend IT solutions to enhance current processes or recommended new processes. Implemented risk management processes.Inventory control processes and optimize inventory, i.e. minimize losses.

Scotiabank, Manager, Sourcing, Strategic Sourcing January 2011- April 2016Develop competitive sourcing strategies, work on RFP for a competitive process.Analyzed spends and identify/deliver savings.Work with business on identifying business and technical requirements.Review/draft contracts and lead contract negotiations.Managed and mitigate risk in competitive sourcing strategies and contract negotiations.Lead cross functional teams in sourcing process. Lead/manage contract negotiation and support contract management team. Managed multiple projects, cultivated and managed relationshipsRecommended process re-engineering, prepared and presented reports.• Re-negotiated an existing valid contract, shortened the term by 4 months and saved 1.2 million.• Conducted market research for retail banking processing services of $60M, only two vendors – one with immature product (cheap) and the other with mature product (expensive), saved 1 million by negotiating competitive pricing without competitive sourcing process.• Competitive sourcing strategy applied for call center hourly staff rate, saved 1 million over five years, and for domestic courier, saved 1 million. • Competitive sourcing strategy applied to remodel ABM maintenance services of $20M, saved 1 million per year by selecting a supplier best suited to perform remodeled platform.• Competitive sourcing strategy applied and negotiated global merchant processing services of $50M, ensured compliance of OSFI B10 requirement and modeled cap increases to ensure savings of $5M.• Established and maintained business relationship with Suppliers, ensured negotiated contracts are implemented, and constantly looked for cost effective products.

Scotiabank, Senior Analyst, Legal Department January 2007 – December 2011Reviewed and negotiated banking products and services agreements, championed role as advisor to all levels of management on IT contracts and business matters. Lead negotiation with lawyers, executive, sales and marketing personnel and managed risk from legal, business, regulatory and financial perspectives. Worked on terms sheets to ensure compliance of terms of corporate policies. • Successfully implemented “Scotiabank Contracting Guidelines”, the main purpose of the Legal Department recruited me, which included coaching and training users. • Implemented use of standard documents by rejecting the supplier paper to ensure consistency in contractual terms and conditions, saved cost and time, 50% of the staff eliminated due to use of standard documents. • Judgment made to forward a contract for legal review or not, and I did very good job, saved 50% of legal department’s time.• Earned a reputation as a go to person on regulatory compliance issues, managing operational risk, confidentiality, indemnities and limitation of liability issues in contracts

Senior Analyst, Contracts Provided critical, diligent and detailed review of vendor agreements, and negotiated changes to mitigage risk. Drafted master agreements, negotiated vendor changes, reviewed business cases, maintained contract management system, tracked approved dollars, and worked efficiently on rush items. • Very successful in contract negotiations (organization risk management), endorsed by Vice President for having a record of no law suites from the contracts negotiated.• Simplified process by introduding masters, due to heavy work load and time spent negotiating vendor paper, introduced contract management system and recommended automating GAAP compliance, manually enforced GAAP compliance and Year 2000 complicance.• Stricly enforced compliance issues, policies and standards and earned reputation as go to person for IT contractual matters.• Saved 1 million per year over 5 years, saving on annual software license by applying negotiation and vendor management skills.• Known as successful negotiator with supplier’s executives and lawyers to save Bank legal cost, domestically and globaly. • Proven high proficiency and efficiency in critical and analytical review of legal contracts, which was highly valuable to the management, respected for knowledge and experience by the management. • Track record as heavily relied on contractual expertise, work independently with stakeholders and resolve issues that arised outside the normal business process, well regarded by legal department and users. • Consolidated three databases into one to ensure efficienct and trained new employess, earned reputation as a very diligent expert especially in resolving irregularities.