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Kirkland, Wa, Us

London, Gb

Develop and implement a centralized procurement organization delivering value to GTECH Product and Services. Align procurement strategies across multiple groups and build synergies to meet business demands and new technology requirements.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Designed and implemented a global Strategic Sourcing Group delivering a single process focused on driving value to our business partners. Collapse all categories of spend, roughly $14B into the functional sourcing group with new intake and sourcing process to build a consistent approach that will allow for increased souring opportunities across all business groups.Leading a global team sourcing Microsoft’s annual $3.5B spend in Technical Services, Travel, RE&F and Auto. Work with key business group partners to develop and implement sourcing strategies to support business group needs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading a global team sourcing Microsoft’s annual $1.5B spend in Technical Services, Work with key business group partners to develop and implement sourcing strategies to support business group needs. Create and implement new service delivery models to move away from time and material (rate by the hour) to capacity buys (lots of hours), managed services (teams) and global service centers (complete end to end delivery of a project). Successful implementation in six MS business groups and MSIT.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Successfully established, staffed, and trained a new Commodity Management team which integrated the Supplier Manager and Strategic Sourcing Manager roles into a single position for active components, passive components and printed circuit boards. Developed commodity sourcing strategies and supplier management metrics including Key Performance Indicators (KPI) used to manage business activities. Initiated a Strategic Sourcing Center of Excellence training program for continued professional development of entire procurement team.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Evangelized and embedded the strategic sourcing process into the Microsoft Hardware development program. Taught key Development group project managers and other stakeholders in the organization the methodology and tools used in a seven step strategic sourcing project. Personally led the first major teams involved in sourcing key components of a major new game console, resulting in savings of over $100 million dollars in on existing purchases and locking in pricing below budgetary goals.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Developed and implemented thermal solution supply chain to adapt to changes in the market place, cost pressure and supply line. Worked with suppliers to enable the market place to meet the demand projections. Partnered with Pentium and Brookdale chip set development teams to insure supply capacity for thermal solutions.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Managed all aspects of supply chain main memory to support Intel’s computer development center. Led a team of buyers starting up a new plant in Dupont WA to manufacture desktop and server products acting as an OEM. Drove consistent cost reductions over the 2 years during a time of increasing pressure on supply.