Results-driven, highly effective professional Strategic Sourcing professional with extensive experience negotiating multi-million-dollar-dollar contacts for major projects. Expertise includes managing pre-award contract management with an emphasis on prequalification and bid evaluation, request for quotations, negotiating, drafting and placement of contract award. Other areas of contract experience include post-award contract management and administration from in the areas of insurance, performance guarantee change order management, progress measurements and correspondence management for contractual correctness and perimeters. Ensure all contractual issues of scope, cost and on time delivery and fulfillment of services from point of project inception to completion.Core CompetenciesOracle PeopleSoft • Microsoft Office • IBM Emptoris Contract Software • Microsoft Access • Siebel • Effective Negotiation Skills • Risk Assessment • Proposals • Executive Communication • Complex IT Contract Negotiation • Software Renewals: MSA, MSLA, Amendments, Assignments, SOW, Business Requirements, Service Contract Extensions, Staff Augmentation, Executive Risk Assessments, EULAs and NDAs. Specialties: Excellent contract negotiation skills including risk management, risk avoidance, and process improvements resulting in significant costs savings. Experienced with commonly used systems such as: Microsoft Office Suite, PeopleSoft, Adobe Professional. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills• Experience in presenting contract terms, risk statements, risk summaries.