Lead Vendor Manager responsible for oversight of $250M+ annual spend in software and technology contracts for the CIO Office. Partner with IT and business to manage top tier software vendor relationships and lead development for multi-year corporate contract strategies that include Microsoft, Service Now, Salesforce, Adobe, and Workday. Managed Dell’s Chief Security Officer and Security & Resiliency organization software portfolio to plan and manage VMO IT/security vendor portfolio. Advise and align strategic commercial agreements to capture and support business roadmap objectives, provide oversight and management of deals in partnership with business and procurement, manage budget and creation of financial models, strategic vendor portfolio segmentation and governance, excel in internal stakeholder and strategic vendor relationship management.

Manage third party contracts for digital integration offerings, strategic contract management, facilitate due diligence process, lead and partner with internal stakeholders and legal team for modernizing commercial agreements.

Global business capital procurement liaison and leader for Performance Plastics and Performance Silicones business envelopes. Coach and collaborate with business Project Procurement Manager team. Member of Global Capital Procurement leadership team; contribute to employee development, feedback, and management. Procurement Influencer for global procurement technical, digital, and transformational initiatives. Lead M & A strategic site & purchasing activities for outsourced engineering at U.S. sites. Lead M & A strategic oversight for the integration of Dow/DuPont Texas manufacturing sites.

Delivering value through supplier management & stakeholder relationships, contract negotiations, and implementation of strategic sourcing strategies and projects for North American outsourced engineering agreements. Regional Labor & Services Sourcing Leader for Dow Canada - develop market analysis, sourcing strategies, negotiations, manage supplier & stakeholder relationships, and engage in value-added strategic sourcing opportunities and projects for maintenance, expense, and capital labor & services at Dow Canada sites for over $200MM annual spend. Lead strategic sourcing synergy projects delivering over $2.2MM in savings. Houston Dow Center Site Implementation Leader for the Women's Innovation Network (WIN): Lead and implement the core strategies and talent development initiatives for building a diverse and inclusive global leadership and professional community.Passionate Employee Development Coach, JA Volunteer, and Life-Long Learner

Lead cost management team, serve as expert in cost management discipline work processes; develop and maintain work processes; collaborate with project management, engineering, procurement, estimating and scheduling leads for project controls alignment-Promote cost analyst technical knowledge through training, coaching, and providing QA/QC for projects in all businesses ranging in project size from the millions to billion+-Lead cost management team in department meetings, improvement opportunities, and new technical implementations (SAP)-FEED/FEL Front End Loading Cost Manager, support early project budgetary planning, Resourcing, and Global Project Controls initiatives and teams-EPC/outsourced project cost manager-WIN and HDI steering team member-Junior Achievement volunteer

Front End Loading Cost Management: provide consulting and strategic direction on financial and contractual execution for site expense, lifetime extension, and capital projectsSr. Cost Management for Large & Intermediate Capital Site Executed Projects: cash flow analysis, forecast, cost reporting, change management, life-cycle projectsGlobal Project Methodology Metrics, Subject Matter Expert: lead site in global metric objectives, develop and deliver training material, lead investigation and analysis on project metrics, create and improve work processes for GPMM-Texas Operations Engineering Solutions Communications Team: facilitate leadership meetings, publish site newsletter-Managing Implementation Goals Team-Environmental Health & Safety Team -Six Sigma Green Belt Project Leader Certified

Cost Management SME with Front End Loading, detailed design, and project closure experience for Large Global Capital Projects ranging in scale from $25MM-$130MM.• Provides consultation on Accounting/Procurement strategies to support Cost Management.• Develops cost management plans as part of overall project plans for management and control.• Integrates the project cost estimate, work hour estimate, and schedule into the Cost baseline. • Develops and maintains cost reports, cash flow/cancellation curves, and contingency analyses.• Provides estimate of cancellation costs.• Estimates costs of deviations and assesses impact on total project cost.• Ensures accurate reflection of committed/spent funds, project deviation notices, field change orders, and project execution changes in all cost documents.• Leads the project team in deriving an accurate and realistic forecast of all funds required to complete the project within the defined budget and schedule while incorporating own trending and analyses. • Ensures accurate representation of cost data in monthly reporting.• Enables effective cost management by assuring the proper usage of available capital/expense funds by the business. • Provides “what if” analyses to enable evaluation of schedule/cost options.• Applies established cost management practices to ascertain critical cost issues and recommend corrective actions.