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Mantua, OHIO, US

Responsible for leading the charge to promote C.A.S.T.N.E.T.’s mission to empower small businesses by providing them with the tools, resources, opportunities and networks necessary to navigate and succeed in the global market. By focusing on key sectors like Construction, Agriculture, Supply Chain, Technology, Natural Resources, Energy, and Textiles (hence.

• Leading the frontier for peer-to-peer procurement for small businesses, corporate supplier diversity, prime government contractors and small business affiliates. BidLock is a startup organization.
• Designed, developed, deployed, and patented the BidLock™ solution as the first stand-alone SaaS Source-to-Pay platform exclusive to small and disadvantaged businesses, enhancing socio-economic sustainability.
• Pioneered and drove efforts in leading source-to-pay bid engagements (RFQ,RFP, RFB), resulting in significant double-digit percentage savings for its clients against their previous contract prices.

Dayton, OH, US

• Led the implementation of procurement strategies for behavioral and clinical service solutions, defining metrics on vendor performance, negotiating enterprise contracts, and collaborate with executive leaders on vendor.
• Led the implementation of procurement strategies for clinical services, achieving a 30% reduction in costs and $3M in vendor performance savings annually through major IT service partnerships.
• Supervised enterprise IT CAPEX procurement committee to deliver projects on time and on budget.
• Coached, mentored, and developed organizational leaders to leverage procurement best practices to achieve business objectives and build a strong vendor succession planning bench.

Mayfield Village, OH, US

• Governed cost savings and continuous improvement opportunities across the Corporate, IT and Operations Divisions, integrating best practices, conducting data analysis, and supporting business development strategies.
• Piloted the enterprise IT Offshore Labor Strategy Plan reducing COPQ by 60%, influencing $300M in annual spend.
• Drove transformative change by implementing dual enterprise system implementations (Workday & Coupa), realizing $11M in annual savings.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Led strategic enterprise projects for onshore & offshore vendor engagements, telecommunications, category strategy deployment, staffing service solutions and managed services. Led a team of 3 professionals.
• Led enterprise-level category management transformation, reducing annual costs by $30M.
• Effectively directed global sourcing activities for a subcategory with $152M annual spend, including oversight of strategic IT partner located in Bangalore

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Managed and implemented global category management strategies for third-party logistics for constructing retail stores and distribution centers for global warehouse distribution while reducing operating cost & contract.
• Highly recognized for leading the supply chain team in the construction of the largest distribution center in the Northeastern region of the United States in Hazelton Pennsylvania, accruing an aggregate savings of 15%.
• Developed and implemented category management strategies for MRO, QHSE, Facilities, Logistics, and Technical Services achieving over 10% savings on addressable spend year over year.

Cranberry Township, PA, US

• Responsible for overseeing power plant field services suppliers, global labor services, supplier relationship development and compliance for global outage support strategies involving the nuclear power plant.
• Managed global labor services team for small modular reactor development and new construction, handling an annual spend of approximately $700M in vendor management, MRO, and research.
• Coordinated the sourcing, acquisition and logistics of the polymer drones used to seal the containment vessel weeks after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, mitigating further spread of air borne contaminants within a.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Managed the sourcing, FAR-DFAR compliance, and contract execution with selected third-party suppliers to engineer, develop and test flow valves and gauges used for naval safety equipment installed on the Virginia.
• Developed sales and marketing proposals for engineering sales professionals in support of trade efforts in many international markets (EMEA, South Africa and South America);
• Led negotiations for a 10-year contract with prime customer in the amount of $70,000,000 for NRE, logistics, obsolescence, inventory and production management of the Virginia-Class submarine

Charlotte, NC, US

• Supervise contract managers; create process strategies; develop disadvantaged suppliers; and manage outreach programs; Development of mentorship programs & workshops, building cost optimization strategies, managing.
• Developed inclusionary programs for disadvantaged businesses which resulted in an annual cost save and price reduction of $13M
• Led a team of 4 professionals focused on creating strategic sourcing process strategies and national outreach programs supporting an aggregate annual Tier 1 supplier diversity spend over $75M for both products and.

New York, NY, US

• Manage IT labor and software implementation strategies supporting the Global Technologies Division. Direct the planning, defining and controlling the training and upgrades to an internal diversified purchasing and.
• Reduced contract labor cost by 27% through labor resource realignment and project consolidation.
• Managed third-party IT solutions and software licensing, influencing about $200M annually.
• Created the patented "Labor Resource Testing System and Method"

Nieuwkoop, Zuidholland, NL

• Led sales development and consulting engagements to promote eProcurement solutions.Highlights:
• Develop regulatory compliance for offshore procurement and supply chain divisions.
• Implemented processes around Systems Integration architecture, Data/Analysis, Middleware, B2B, B2G and e-Markets, utilizing e-Procurement “best practices”, strategic planning, benchmarking, sourcing and consortium.
• Develop, train and educate major corporations on Disadvantaged Business Development programs
• Performed “Best in Class” Quick Win analysis-adopting savings ranging as high as $400M in both direct and indirect spend.

West Palm Beach, FL, US

• Manage contract negotiations, supply chain and strategic sourcing to support environmental management projects in the State of FloridaHighlights:
• Direct the replenishment of products to maintain acceptable service levels inside the constraints of the inventory budgets, turn goals and a specific inventory target agreed upon by management.
• Work with other regional buyers to create win/win relationships with our vendor partners.
• Coordinate and maintain safety equipment and materials for field and service personnel
• Helped develop contract repository and security policy and practices for all regions south of West Palm Beach based on data storage concerns in lieu of environmental conditions
• Supported both state and federal procurement initiatives working closely with the Army Corp of Engineers on environmental waterway reconstruction

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), International Business Administration

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Business Administration, Management And Operations