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Branchburg, Nj

Branchburg, Nj

Princeton, Nj

Performed duties as a hired consultant through Randstad Engineering, Norcross, Ga. to Solvay, Princeton, NJ Corporate Office. Responsible to identify and implement Purchasing strategies for the cost effective supply of packaging commodities for the North American Zone and to negotiate favorable terms and conditions. To select suitable suppliers that offer economic advantages and security of supply for the categories in question and to maximize the value received for Solvay’s purchasing dollar.• Strong negotiation and business analysis skills.• Experience in an international environment.• Able to multi-task, analyze, assess and make appropriate recommendations.• Good working knowledge of current and leading edge technologies in supply chain and purchasing.• Strong business/commercial experience in conducting purchasing negotiations, maintaining good business relationships and establishing strategic alliances.• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation and networking skills.• Develop RFQ’s/RFP’s for vendor review and response.• Support and lead major negotiations, • Investigate and develop action plans for customer complaints, both internal and external and provide resolution for all parties involved. • Interact with the various Business Units, recommend, advise and offer possible solutions as needed.

Reporting to the Cost Compliance Manager, and participate in reviews of contractor’s accounting estimating systems in accordance with applicable regulations and professional standards, support purchasing research and development, construction, equipment, systems, materials, supplies and services purchases. Interact with various levels of management and staff with commercial industry, educational institutions, DOE, and the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), and other governmental agencies.• Analyze contractor’s proposed cost accounting systems for allowable costs, allocation of costs and reasonableness.• Review in detail the significant direct and indirect elements of cost.• Perform pre-award financial and cost/price analysis of contractor’s proposal.• Determine costs incurred and charged to PPPL are in accordance with applicable regulations and subcontract terms.• Act as consultant and provide advice to Cost Compliance personnel on the pricing of complex contracts and/or agreements.• Devise new approaches and considers different methods and techniques to analyze, evaluate and resolve issues.• Provide detailed reports that document the results of analyses, audits and recommendations.• Perform analysis and provide advisory services for complex, sensitive, specialized and unique proposals and subcontracts.

Basking Ridge, Nj

Albert Mark3 Dana TerraceBranchburg, NJ 08876Almark9252@yahoo.com(C) 908-507-2614 (H) 908-725-7014 Professional Experience: July 2014 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. Basking Ridge, NJ to July 2015 Senior Procurement Engineer - Performed duties as a hired consultant through Engineering Resource Group, Morris Plain, NJ to Mitshubishi Hitachi Power Systems America, Basking Ridge, NJ Corporate Office.Experienced in power and construction industry with knowledge of project management. Oversee, direct, coordinate and execute procurement activities for goods and services including supplier selection and sourcing on a domestic and international level. Communication with the supply base, management of supplier relations and support/resolution of all commercial and technical matters of internal/external client. Support the procurement process through dialog either by direct and personal communications, including vendor and job site visitation. • Develop RFQ with requirements from home office in Japan.• Source quotations from recommended sources and from own contacts.• Negotiate terms and conditions necessary per Purchase Order requirements.• Evaluate new and existing suppliers and subcontractors. Verify supplier performance.• Implement techniques that ensure supplier performance to schedule.• Expedite and monitor the progress of all orders.• Extensive travel both domestically and internationally to meet with vendors and their facilities where products are manufactured.• Document trip reports, achievements, open issues, etc.Education: Master's Degree in Business AdministrationFairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJBachelor of Science Degree in Business ManagementSaint Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ Computer Government Clearance: Secret at BAE SYSTEMSTop Secret/SCI at Lucent Government Solutions Polygraph Test Passed

Newark, Nj

Performed duties as a hired consultant through Randstad Engineering, Norcross, Ga.to PSE&G, Newark, NJ Corporate Office. Manage the procurement of Materials and Service for assigned areas of concentration by Lines of Business, service types and/or commodities. Duties may include being the procurement Subject Matter Expert for multiple business units or at the Enterprise level where such expertise is useful in leveraging procurement activities. Work is primarily focused on emergent work within a single business unit, although the ability to apply expertise across various business units is often applied. •Purchasing in SAP environment.•Extensive experience in RFP/RFQ preparation•Risk analysis of bids.•Contract negotiations.•Managing P.O.’s and Change Orders•Support remediation efforts of construction sites•Prioritize and handle multiple projects.•Support Internal Customers/Stakeholders where necessary to achieve the required goals of the Procurement Department.

Somerville, Nj

Performing duties as a hired consultant to Hamon Research Cottrell, Somerville, NJ for construction of anti-pollution systems. Responsible for the content of company commitments for material and/or labor supply from vendor selection through negotiated final contract for custom purchase orders in subcontracts including those for steel fabrication and erection and other industrial equipment. Together with Project Management and Engineering, ensures that vendor related project deliverable obligations are met within time and budget constraints.• Selection, qualification and performance monitoring of suppliers.• Ability to recognize and interpret applicable prime contract requirements that need to be included in (flowed down) vendors orders.• Project cash flow and its application to vendor payment terms.• Identify, interpret and focus on critical elements of vendor proposals.• Ability to balance attention to detail and global perspective.• Identify and plan to mitigate risk such as material, labor, rate escalations,etc.• Working in a team environment. • Capacity to work on several estimates simultaneously.• Demonstrate sound basis for conclusions reached.

Clifton, Nj

Performed duties as a hired consultant to ITT Exelis.Inc., Clifton, NJ for US government military defense contracts. • Managing material cost estimates as summarized in the Work Breakdown Structure for government bids. • Establishing auditable trail for submission to the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). • Developing daily, weekly and monthly spreadsheets for comparisons of financial performance to achieve the goals within budget and schedule.• Analyzes and investigates causes of cost variances within Estimate to Complete (ETC).• Formal closure of Purchase Orders (PO) consistent with FAR regulations.• Provide program life-time support for material requirements for all Business Area Teams within the division. Estimates include cost proposals, customer and government fact-finds/negotiations/audits, work authorization review, contracts limits projections, baselines, performance measurement reporting, estimates to complete, and post-award audits. Maintains the material base budget and provides material base forecasts.

Biomet, Inc. Parsippany, NJPresent Senior Buyer/Planner – Manage the purchase and delivery of components/raw material and finished goods of biomedical implants and instruments per the forecast and production plan• Analyze and review MRP reports, past due reports, expedite materials to support the Production Schedule and Sales Forecast.• Research, establish and maintain good working relationships with suppliers. Monitor performance based on established performance criteria.• Work closely with Accounts Payable to ensure returns and replacements and credits are accurately processed.• Develop buying plans that ensure strategic development od suppliers’ resources and capacity.• Support Quality and regulatory groups to ensure that FDA requirements are compliant within the purchasing scope.

R&D Project/Business Senior Specialist – Support Bell Labs R&D programs. Skill set includes project and business management to plan, schedule and monitor cost and schedule variance.• Interaction with Program Management, Engineering and Contracts to define scope of work and financial schedules.• Provide Management with cost reporting on a monthly basis and as needed.• FAR and CAS knowledge.• Support Business Office on a daily basis, procuring goods and services as needed.• Interaction with all Lucent locations, foreign and domestic, to support projects as required.

Contracts Manager – Developed and generated Requests for Proposals for all phases of U.S. Government defined Federal Superfund Sites for remedial action efforts. ● Interaction with site Engineering, Quality Control, Finance and Operations Supervision to define scope of work to be performed on site. ● Procurement of goods and services as needed to support work site activity. ● Generate change orders as situations dictate to accommodate new requirements. ● Contact with vendors on a daily basis to instruct and clarify activities to be performed. ● Submission of data to senior management for review and approval for transmission to government agencies. ● Interaction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and U.S. Department of Environmental Protection (USDEP) for review of proposals, contracts, funding issues and change orders as needed.

Senior Material Cost Administrator – Researched and developed material pricing for bid proposals utilizing Bills of Materials from central engineering mainframe along with planning and production schedules for multi-million dollar military and commercial contracts. ● Material control through use of inventory computer data, marketing, planning and production schedule outlooks. ● Provided material analysis of buy quantities vs. delivery to senior management. Offerrecommendations as to most efficient method of procurement and rationale. ● Headed up team committees to achieve maximum output and efficiency of Material,Purchasing, and Quality Departments. Achieved cost efficiency through reduced downtime, reduced document handling, reduced loading dock to stock room time. ● Initiated pricing agreements for high volume commodity items resulting in uniform material costs. Developed common material stockroom practices.

Product Manager - Total responsibility for forecasting, pricing, product development and cost/schedule controls for a $5 million dollar line of commercial and military connectors. ● Developed all product requirements and directed technical staff for premier product lines including funding appropriations.● Achieved increased customer Approved Vendor List position through direct customer contact and support. ● Conceived and implemented news releases, sales catalogs and all training materials and advertising programs.

Assistant to the Director of International Marketing - Provided support to the Director of International Marketing in order to develop global positioning of aerospace navigational products.● Managed daily office activities relative to domestic and internal requirements.● Prepared $3million annual budget and monthly reporting of department activities.● Calculated commissions and consultants’ fees in accordance with employment contracts.Senior Pricing Analyst/Estimator - Prepared and presented bid packages to the United States Government and prime military contractors. ● Developed bid packages up to $100 million. ● Prepared cost analysis of current tenders relative to previous offerings. ● Performed fact-finding activities as per government/customer requests. ● Negotiated final product pricing with Program Management, Legal and Engineering staff.

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