Leading the creation of a procurement department and establishing policies and procedures for evaluating products, goods, or services prior to purchase and ensures standards are continuously met after purchase.

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Responsible for managing all facets of restaurant equipment and IT indirect procurement team as well as the associated supply chain processes in order to meet the needs of Wendy’s corporate and franchised locations. Produce and negotiate RFIs/RFPs, SOWs and SLAs with supplier community to ensure uninterrupted availability and accessibility of products and services. Core equipment categories are HVAC, hoods, grills, fryers, ice machines, drink dispensers, toasters, bun warmers, refrigerators, water filtration and stainless-steel fabrication. Core IT categories are managed network services, wireless services, point of sale systems, payment systems, restaurant communications systems and timers, music and sound systems, digital menu boards and cable/satellite systems. Managed relationships with Wendy’s corporate leadership at all levels. Managed relationships with as many as 90 active service vendors and suppliers. Supervised and developed three direct reports.

Responsible for managing all facets of IT indirect procurement team as well as the associated supply chain processes in order to meet the needs of Wendy’s corporate and franchised locations. Produce and negotiate RFIs/RFPs, SOWs and SLAs with supplier community to ensure uninterrupted availability and accessibility of products and services. Core categories are managed network services, wireless services, point of sale systems, payment systems, restaurant communications systems and timers, music and sound systems, digital menu boards and cable/satellite systems. The managed spend is greater than $600 million. Managed relationships with Wendy’s corporate leadership at all levels. Managed relationships with as many as 60 active service vendors and suppliers. Supervised and developed two direct reports.

Responsible for managing all facets of assigned IT indirect facility operations and services spend categories as well as the associated supply chain processes in order to meet the needs of Wendy’s corporate and franchised locations. Produce and negotiate RFIs/RFPs, SOWs and SLAs with supplier community to ensure uninterrupted availability and accessibility of products and services. Core categories are managed network services, wireless services, point of sale systems, payment systems, restaurant communications systems and timers, music and sound systems, digital menu boards and cable/satellite systems. Managed relationships with Wendy’s IT leadership at the CIO, VP and Director levels. Started this position as an individual contributor. Grew this category by nearly $200 million in managed spend and added two members to the IT Purchasing team.

Providing multi-channel retailers business intelligence, product information management, supply chain management and customer experience management solutions. Leads solution implementation delivery and support services for commercial and government lines of business. Profit and loss responsibility for Division. Division responsibilities include business analysis, technical writing, customer services, client implementations and quality assurance. Serves as point of escalation for all customer issues.

Managing nChannel operations for GSA Enhanced Check Out v2 (GECO2) to include store deployments, operations and maintenance (O&M) and enhancement development. Also serving as Requirements Analyst Lead and Post-Deployment Support Lead in deploying GECO2 to 20+ ServMart stores during 2015.

Assisting clients identify solutions for multichannel operations issues. Identifies opportunities to improve business intelligence, supply chain management, product information management and customer experience management. Provides integration opportunities for ecommerce, enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain, marketplace and point of sale (POS) systems. -Serving as Business Analyst and Subject Matter Expert supporting the GSA Enhanced Check Out v2 (GECO2) system implementation.

Lead solution implementation from initiation through delivery for Product Configuration Manager (PCM) application. Managed project budget ensuring profitability to include forecasting, resource utilization, billing reconciliation and occasional sub-contracting purchase orders. Served as liaison between client and Infor to ensure that all requirements and deliverables are met. Coordinated and scheduled customer training, software installations, requirements definition workshops, enhancement development and go-live support. Lead more than 35 simultaneous projects with 2-4 resources with budgets ranging from $50K to $580K.

Leading business development, business and systems analysis and project management in support of client's logistics solutions. Also serves as a logistics systems and solutions Subject Matter Expert.

Supporting IT program and project management, software development, testing and documentation, functional requirements development and analysis, and systems rollouts.Served as Project Manager and Logistics Subject Matter Expert for the development and deployment of a SharePoint based inventory and maintenance management system. This system is currently used by a client to support the CLS efforts for a specialized Marine Corps unit.

Served as a FSMAO Supply Analyst and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with the Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) cell. Also served as Global Combat Support Systems - Marine Corps (GCSS-MC) Training Coordinator for East Coast Marine Corps units. Formulated and executed the training plan transitioning units from legacy systems to an Oracle E-Business Suite (11i) based Enterprise Resource Program (ERP).

Supervised day to day operations of a regional distribution center stocking over 14,000 line items valued at over $12 million. Supervised the operation of the Storage Retrieval Automated Tracking Integrated System (STRATIS) Oracle 11g-based warehouse management system (WMS) to include user management. Established logistics information technology (IT) and continuous process improvement (CPI) training program.

Served as the senior enlisted member for two supply accounts, one containing secondary reparable items, one containing consumable items, valued at over $75M. Served as the retrograde and evaluation site for all Class IX items retrograded from Iraq. Supervised 18 military, government civilian and contracted employees.

Coordinated with internal and external agencies to gather information for Marine Corps Secondary Items “make or buy” decisions. Made decisions and sourcing recommendations in order to support deployed units with Marine Corps managed Secondary Items. Produced budget estimates, to include short and long term forecasts.

Led daily supply operations of the Marine Corps’ largest and busiest training base in Japan. Prepared and executed Base Operations & Maintenance budget to include all materials, services, travel and wages paid for Fiscal Year 2004. Led day to day management of base gas station. This is not normally a base supply function. For a period of three months served as Supply Officer and managed $1.25 million operating budget for the base. Supervised three separate supply accounts valued at over $42 million, as well as a secondary reparable spares account valued at $1.3 million. Supervised 15 employees, consisting of military and local Japanese civilian personnel.

Responsible Officer for assets in excess of $2 million belonging to Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany Information Technology (S-6) Section. Administered base’s cellular phone, pager contracts.

Marine Corps representative for 27 schools in seven counties in northwest Wisconsin. Military Liaison for the 1998 Upward Airshow.