Directed logistical requirements for State Department’s fast-paced, largest IDIQ contract (for “The Air Wing”) in five operational locations in four countries. Expertly lead a team of 75 logisticians to sustain over 72K items of equipment, tools and end items valued at $386M. Efficiently and effectively runs a 56K sq ft warehouse facility in Melbourne and 39K sq ft aircraft storage hangar at Sanford IAP managing 78.5K line items of 3.75M rotary and fixed wing parts valued at $525M. Contributes directly to improved corporate P/L.

Directed logistical requirements for State Department’s fast-paced, largest IDIQ contract (for “The Air Wing”) in five operational locations in four countries. Expertly lead a team of 75 logisticians to sustain over 72K items of equipment, tools and end items valued at $386M. Efficiently and effectively runs a 56K sq ft warehouse facility in Melbourne and 39K sq ft aircraft storage hangar at Sanford IAP managing 78.5K line items of 3.75M rotary and fixed wing parts valued at $525M. Contributes directly to improved corporate P/L.

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- Administered firm fixed price, time and material, milestone and progress payment contracts for a fortune 500 engineering firm specializing in communications technology providing a network that provides critical voice, data, and video communications for National Aerospace System (NAS) operations and mission support functions. - Provided program input/direction for subcontractor activities for FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI). FTI securely connects over 4,500 national and international FAA and DoD facilities and supports over 50,000 users.- Managed 9 major telecommunications contracts with companies like ATT, Level 3, Version, Qwest, Sprint, CenturyLink, etc. managing over 22,000 services.- Negotiated and coordinated additions, deletions, or modifications to subcontracts and reviewed, commented on, and approved subcontract deliverables of subcontractor Statements of Work & Specifications.- Drafted RFP and evaluated subcontractor proposals while identifiing and evaluating subcontract risks and risk mitigation approaches and successfully negotiated contract terms and conditions, pricing, and schedule.- Coordinated with Contracts and Legal as necessary for prime contract flow-downs and unique terms and conditions.- Responsible for the procurement of subcontracts including: management of cost, schedule, performance parameters and tracked supplier invoices and payment schedule.

- Administered a variety of fixed-price, cost-reimbursement, incentive, service, supply, technology and construction contracts that contain terms and conditions such as progress payments, quantity options, government-furnished property, and similar provisions. - Administered a wide-range of regulations (including the FAR and DFAR), policies, laws, directives, manuals, and orders, to ensure and promote effectiveness and consistency in the performance of contract administration. Review, evaluate, and approve policies, procedures, and expenses having corporate-wide impact on government contracts. Communicate with contractor for contract progress review.- Maintained contracts for 9-defense contractors worth over $15M.- Spearheaded an IT business case analysis that provided recommendations to responsible agency officials on improvement of current business processes to achieve DCMA St. Petersburg’s customer service matrices. - Successfully led the Command’s Combined Federal Campaign and nearly tripled the fundraising goal.

RECEIVED A MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION with emphasis on Supply Chain Management, Strategy, and Operations Management, in addition to accounting, marketing, economics, managerial finance, statistics, and team leadership.

EXPERT LOGISTICIAN: Department Head for Procurement / Logistics / Quality of Life Services for a forward deployed US Navy warship. Planned, implemented and evaluated LOGISTIC SUPPORT PROGRAM GOALS, OBJECTIVES, REQUIREMENTS, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, applying knowledge of logistics principles, practices, policies and data systems in order to analyze, validate and coordinate requirements of functional areas. Planned, directed and coordinated supply operations, managed all functions such as Materials Management, Food Service and Hotel support for a crew of 200 personnel, paymaster, and Comptroller. Planned, analyzed and reviewed efficiency and effectiveness of logistics concepts and operations.

EXPERT PROGRAM MANAGER: PROVIDED OVERSIGHT, GUIDANCE AND PROGRAM SUPERVISION. Conducted process-driven, value stream mapping, and lean six-sigma methodology in requisitioning, picking, shipping, and receiving to improve transaction time from three weeks to less than 12 hours and shipping from three months to one week. Managed logistical functions and implemented effective talent management to maintain efficiency of programs. Planned, developed, managed and coordinated programs to support continuing, projected, and contingency special tasks and operations. Expert ability to assess and improve complex programs, processes, and systems.