Derek Schukow Email & Phone Number

Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, United States

In my current role, I handle a range of responsibilities, including overseeing management functions, zoning regulations, and infrastructure maintenance. I’m also involved in code enforcement, environmental initiatives, and managing expenses. My focus is on resolving key issues related to public safety, municipal spending, and community growth to ensure the best outcomes for our township’s residents.Noteworthy Accomplishments: • Lobbied and drafted ATV/ UTV ordinance for local jurisdiction into law. • municipality planning commission and ordinance review committee.

Wisconsin, United States

In my role, I build and nurture strong vendor relationships to support numerous large-scale acute care and ancillary facilities. I design and implement sourcing strategies for medical supplies across 150 clinics, each with its own unique needs. I work to inspire executive leaders to embrace change and achieve significant cost reductions through lean practices. Leading change management, I focus on process improvements and securing buy-in from end-users for product conversions. I also manage project risks by evaluating financial, facility, and patient considerations with every product and equipment decision. Noteworthy Accomplishments: • Contributed to market-level fiscal year savings of $10.07M for FY2024. • Executed large-scale integration cost savings projects, resulting in $5.072M in fiscal year 2023 in Wisconsin. • Secured end-user buy-in through analysis of clinical literature and supported a $4M local savings project. • Achieved a regional cost reduction of orthopedic implants and generated $110K in annual savings for six key hospital facilities. • Maximized local contract pricing and commitment negotiations for purchase services and product suppliers, while optimizing expense margins. • Successfully directed vendor selection, local contract initiations, and purchase spending for four hospitals with an annual expenditure of over $80M.

Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States

In this course, I reviewed monthly financial data, pinpointed opportunities, met company targets, and shared my findings with stakeholders. I also evaluated regional capital requests for the surgical service line, offering budgetary justifications and recommendations for improvements. Noteworthy Accomplishments: • Saved over $1M in supplier costs within fiscal year 2018 by partnering with the Regional Vice President of Surgery and creating a strategic vision. • Accomplished additional $200,000 in annual revenue by implementing processes that recovered missed procedural charges and analytical reviewing chargemaster data.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States

I built community partnerships by organizing live monthly tours, hands-on demonstrations of surgical robotics, and engaging presentations with key surgeons, hospitals, and community members. Noteworthy Accomplishments: • Optimized bottom-line profits and realized a 22% cost savings by negotiating exclusive vendor contracts.• Achieved department savings of over $40K annually by diagnosing equipment failures, supply shortages, instrument malfunctions, and surgical complications weekly.

Neenah, Wisconsin, United States

• Managed capital procurement and contract negotiations, including a $250,000 diagnostic equipment purchase, a $30,000 power system, a new field sterilizer, and a fully equipped operating room ISO unit.• Coordinated a 20-ton medical supply donation to Merewise Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan in collaboration with the Department of Defense, WHO, and the International Red Cross.• Assessed and reported risk factors related to troop movements and field support as a risk manager, while providing detailed risk evaluations to company command. Skills & ExpertiseSkills are particularly important to include because they are also buzzwords/keywords within your industry that will stand out to hiring managers and increase your chances of getting through automated filters. Your LinkedIn connections will have an opportunity to endorse or recommend you based on these skills so be sure to choose carefully.Your top 3 skills are visible before having to click “See More”. LinkedIn by default orders your skills by the number of endorsements (highest to lowest). If there are skills that you would like to highlight that are not listed in your top 3, use the Reorder function to move up those skills you'd like to emphasize.

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Trained to Protect and minimize collateral damage associated with antiquities, public utilities and medical services to protect and leverage for care to local civlilian populations.Build and maintain relationships with local governments, Develop emergency and disaster plans for displaced civilians, Manage and direct civilian and local hospitals with essential supplies and provisions to support missions.Conducted as subject expert in (Trauma casualty Care Course) for Civil affairs deploying troops and 3rd Group Special Forces 1st & 3rd Battalions Support soldiers while stationed at Fort Liberty, NC.

Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, United States

Certificate, Change Management

Ongoing course work retaking the certificate course every three years to stay up to date on changing criteria in change management.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Traditional Business, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Summa Cum Laude

Certificate, Company Trainer Course

12 course credits in business management including, Training, data analytics, risk management, forecasting, training planning and project.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Certificate, Project Management Professional - Lean

Project management professional certificate in LEAN processes.

Certificate, Six Sigma Green Belt

Certificate, Executive Management

Studies included, management of personnel, finances, change management, operational direction, management of facilities and operational.

General Studies, Political Science, History, Theology

Various course studies for undergraduate degree to include course work in required general studies and advanced courses in political.

Higher National Diploma, Civil Affairs

Certificate, Trauma Casualty Care And Surgical Intervention Of Trauma Patients, E-5

Certificate course for CRBRNE, Certificate course sponsored by the US Army Health Sciences Center and School for forward surgical trauma.