Manage, Create, & Set the medical and minor equipment capital/operational budget list for major and minor integrated construction projects and routine capital expenditures.Maintaining capital purchases, unbudgeted requests, and manage capital projects.

• Vendor contract compliance and project management. • Audited vendor performance to SOW bringing vendors into process improvement plans. • Identified vendor activity causing budget overruns, worked with national commodity team to rework SOW and investigate vendors AP compliance affecting multiple facilities and regions. • Annual spend management and analysis of over 65 million dollars annually. • Protected my area of operations from critical shortages in holidays by initiating commodity vision and action with critical vendor to forecast proper risks for the holiday season, work with vendor to onboard subcontracted production to support forecast• Leadership role in Covid response, safety compliance and stakeholder reporting. • Vendor on-boarding and sourcing.

Tasked with the creation of a world class vendor management program in this home healthcare financial firm, which assured regulatory compliance, cost efficiencies and standardization. • Created the vendor performance monitoring program in summary: policy, tools, rubrics, and surveys.• Lead the first vendor standardization program seeking cost savings and efficiencies. • Vendor development and compliance for minority disadvantaged diversity requirements. • Developed the subcontractor insurance policy with the corporate governing council and compliance program for same. • Identified risk to ten million dollar contract bid with undocumented veterans owned business, worked with vendor to correct government compliance that prevented the bid being disqualified. • Training of contract managers and development and mentoring of negotiation strategies. • Streamlined vendor on-boarding while using technology to increase visibility and tracking using existing SharePoint resources. • Initiated audit identifying a 300K cost saving and disadvantaged business client compliance risk.

Significant leadership in professionalizing the department with focus on due diligence and compliance as well as cost savings.  Strategically administer procurement activity for all products/services. Project management from purchase through, planning and training.  Key member of the procure to pay software selection and implementation committee. Capital budget writing and spend management for operations and new construction.  Established vendor qualification and risk mitigation process and policies. Active member of the company disaster recovery committee. Recognized for cost savings in contracting company services, such as bio-medical waste service and cable TV service, each by over 100K annually.  Contract analysis, spend analysis and negotiations.  Vendor performance and relations management.

Utilizing purchasing and supply chain expertise in multiple environments via contracted assignments to provide process improvement, training, and cost reductions. Purchasing Manager. Managed supply chain compliance to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations.  Lead investigations identifying internal and external fraud.  Training of staff as well as creating input and output metrics for purchasing department. Extensive work with accounting and legal departments uncovering undocumented liabilities.  Management of five staff, as well as the shipping receiving and inventory departments. Plant Buyer. Training of staff as well as creating input and output metrics for purchasing department. Project Management lead for outsourcing electronics production internationally. Manage a million dollar annual spend vendor managed inventory program.  Vendor on boarding, auditing, and management.  Liaison to accounting department for all invoice discrepancies. Purchasing Manager. Produced over two million dollars in cost savings for medical device manufacturing materials. Managed supply chain compliance to ISO 9001 and 13485. Vendor on boarding, auditing, and management.  Established document control and inventory management procedures and forms.

Significant leadership in both cost reduction and avoidance, as well as process improvement in a manufacturing environment. Recognized for contributions in areas of hazardous materials reduction, recycling initiatives, and cost reductions. Led a team of four direct reports.  Lead cross functional project to install document control process across multiple departments.  Installed formal quality inspection and first article procedures for receiving department. As plant hazardous materials office reduced Hazmat level from small to conditional level. Management of supply chain compliance to ISO and FDA regulations.  58% materials cost reduction on steel for cam production line. Vendor on boarding, auditing, and management.  Wrote policy for vendor outsourcing strategy.  ERP implementation of Visual software. Appointed to the plant safety committee.

Developed and nurtured strong relationships with client base while executing strategies and initiatives that achieved value-building goals. Authored and published four books while a freelance contributor for the St. Pete Times, TBT and Tampa Bay Business Journal.  Negotiated drafts, reviews and vendor agreements as well as service contracts and general business purpose agreements.  Fully responsible for risk analysis of service and partnership contracts while utilizing print on demand technology to limit inventory risk and operational costs.  Extensive research and analysis activity leading to recognized results.  Key clients included: Tampa Club, Tampa Bay Rays, Grand Central Business District and Reax Magazine.

Progressive record of achievements with increasing responsibility leading the strategic and operational growth of the department. Responsible for the buying, sourcing and negotiation of all maintenance repairs and operations (MRO) needs of supply of sea-going research vessels, company headquarters as well as the firm’s museum exhibit.  Performed direct international negotiation sourcing and contracting of all needed goods and services. Created and enforced all policies and forms for purchasing, expense and travel for the company for centralized and then decentralized operations and initiated the use of Kanban inventory systems.  Vendor on boarding, auditing, and management.  Lead investigations of internal and external fraud.