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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Strategic Sourcing - Solid State Drives (5/18 – present)Strategic Sourcing Leader for Solid State Drives, Business Operations Manager, Chief of Staff, for the VP of Global Strategic Sourcing. • Develop supply chain strategies to enable greater than $1B in spend in market driven commodity.• Lead a staff of eight to effectively direct Supplier Relationship Management; contract negotiation, dispute resolution, and Assurance of Supply.• Drive cost reductions and supply efficiency to support Worldwide manufacturing locations.• Measure and present supplier performance internally to leadership and externally to suppliers.

Houston, Texas, United States

Business Operations Manager, Chief of Staff, for the VP of North America Operations. Activities included working directly with VP level HR and Finance for Total Cost of Workforce (TCoW) activities, influenced the organization to enable successful organizational changes, defined KPI’s and team goals. Targeted for this role due to executive presence, advanced business acumen, and the ability to influence others.• Managed the redeployment activities related to labor for support of our Business Continuity Plan and HPE manufacturing restructure activities.• Managed the Executive team to enable TCoW achievement of financial budget targets for FY18.• Created and Presented Factory execution statistics to executive management.

Houston, Texas, United States

Managed the server deployments for the second largest HPE server account. Worked with the various to ensure Servers delivered to meet customer deployments.• Assisted customers to understand requirements and ensure Servers delivered met customer deployments.• Third party customer solution process streamlined to its most efficient and sustainable state, which led to scalability and customer satisfaction. • Effective communication across multiple manufacturing locations to drive Service Level Agreement attainment. • Consistently pursued additional responsibilities outside of my organization for professional growth and customer satisfaction assurance.

Houston, Texas Area

Separation Management Office Program Manager representing Procurement (HP/HPE) separation efforts. • Program managed work stream projects in support of HP Procurement separation efforts. Program management included driving the work streams, goal setting, status tracking, presentation creation and presenting results to management. • Program Management experience with Separation, and Project Management experience with Procurement projects and targeted deal-based cost reductions. Achieved $6.9M (10%) in savings measured against same configuration of previous deal.

Houston, Texas Area

A charter member of a regional Supply Chain team responsible for managing the top growth (Hyperscale/Cloud) server customers. Led and provided direction to internal teams for the execution of customer server requirements. Direct customer contact for Supply Chain execution questions or issues.• Directly managed a team consisting of up to eight individual contributors.• Owned the Americas customer relationship for Supply Chain activities supporting a $500M business and growing this business to greater than $1B annually.• Created, analyzed and presented opportunities and measurements for success internally and externally to our customers.

Houston, Texas Area

An original recruited member for an internal start-up organization challenged with leveraging existing processes, identifying gaps in these processes, and influencing changes required to meet our worldwide customer requirements. Specifically targeted for this team due to Procurement acumen. • Influenced HP teams to qualify or create part numbers to support specific customer requirements and to establish the requirements were the priority.• Identified customer care items to be measured, presented Supply Chain performance to customers, and implemented continuous improvements.• Defined quick turn configuration approval processes to support fast paced start-up organization.• Developed and continued to refine processes for targeting deal pursuit incremental cost savings. Presented incremental savings status to Executive management.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsibilities included the development and implementation of international sourcing strategies that aligned commodities with HP goals for cost competitiveness, operational efficiencies and technological advantages. Managed internal Procurement relationships across all regions, managed supplier relationships, and managed the Procurement relationship with the Design teams. • Continual upward progression through levels of Procurement; Regional Buyer, Regional Buyer/Planner, CDP Commodity Management, GBU Commodity Manager• Completed contract negotiations with multiple Fortune 100 companies• Managed cost strategies, e.g. RFQs, and Reverse Auctions• Commodities managed; PCA’s, PCB’s, Power Supplies, Microprocessors, Super Midas Chassis, Chassis, Capacitors, and Resistors• Internal classes taken: APICS, NAPM, GreenBelt