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• Responsible for Enterprise Sourcing System Architecture of new and existing systems to build out a more focused end to end IT environment and streamline events. Managing critical enterprise vendor relationships for.
• Improve Sourcing activities; negotiating strategic deals to a close, improving contract terms and conditions, adding penalties and credits, adding specific terms for scorecarding, ensuring development and production.
• Lead Management for System Architecture Projects: 1) Retire systems and tools while replace all functions 2) Integrate Sourcing, Contracts, Procurement Third Party and Vendor Management systems 3) Define, and oversee.
• Consulting on cross-organization Standup of a new Vendor Relationship Management team across the bank. Streamlining processes to reduce overlap and improve effectiveness of the team.

NY, NY, US

• Developed the GTS (Global Technology Services) Verizon Business Group - Vendor Management global team to drive best practices across vendors while ensuring funding and building quality partnerships. Established.
• Created processes for managing outsourced, subcontracted and T&M resources, pre-purchased hours, covering agile application development procedures.
• Improved resource vendor quality through RFP processes, governance, capacity planning, process improvements, performance management issue resolution, and order processing. Reducing costs by 25% and ensuring vendors.
• Drove best practices across multiple GTS CIO organizations through process synergies, standardized tools, dashboards, reporting to leadership, and training to effectively reduce risk across GTS.
• Lead the implementation of automated reporting activities to reduce manual resource time and ensure data integrity. Reduced effort by 52%.
• Champion on the Verizon Learning Portal Focus Skills and Training for vendor management.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US

• Managed Bank wide Vendor Management team responsible for all vendor types. Led design and development of quality control standards, risk assessments, periodic vendor reviews, quarterly business reviews, and business.
• Drove improved policies and procedures, risk controls, contract negotiations, analytics, reporting, performance, vendor selection, redundant spend, synergies between all risk teams, reducing costs by 35% and risk by 30%.
• Revised policies and procedures on managing government regulations (COSO, FFIEC Appendix J, and Sarbanes-Oxley), ensuring 100% compliance.
• Established a procurement policy, procedures, and committee consisting of Legal, Risk Management, Business Continuity, Vendor Management, and Senior Leadership including the CEO.
• Championed a Vendor Risk Awareness Symposium consisting of all risk management teams sharing what activity they do for the bank to all bank leaders. Increased awareness by 60%.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Directed Vendor Management governance policies and practices for the Real Estate division and consumer loans operations. Managed real estate appraiser disputes. Annual Guest speaker at trade shows.
• Drove changes in many processes including building relationships, risk mitigation, strategic planning, performance, issue resolution, scorecarding, senior stakeholder review meetings, analytics, and cross-team risk.
• Championed residential appraisal disputes, resulting in a 38% reduction in escalations and improving customer satisfaction.
• Orchestrated over $200m in cost savings through improved RFP process, contract negotiations, increased product/ service awareness, and extensive knowledge of desired product or service.
• Managed 20+ critical vendors and an additional 5,000 medium or low risk vendors. Improving vendor performance by 20% and reducing costs by $50m.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Lead Treasury Line of Business Vendor Management. Team leader in responding to the 2008 OCC consent order and Department of Justice. Enterprise Vendor Management Program Council Member for 4 years responsible for.
• Championed and created the bank’s first vendor health scorecard template, methodology and philosophy, improving vendor quality and reducing risk by 40%.
• Partnered with risk and legal teams on the acquisition of Meryl Lynch to manage the merging of all vendors.
• Managed 30 critical treasury vendors through the bank’s risk management lifecycle. Improved analytics and reporting, development of KPIs and SLAs, building relationships, ensuring cross second level risk team synergies.

US

• Lead a global team managing software vendors and ensuring the company is compliant with the contracts and regulations.
• Accomplished Sarbanes-Oxley requirements by building an end-to-end license tracking system, and redistribution of licenses. Achieved 99% compliance and $25 million savings a year.
• Formed a risk management team, to assess and resolve compliance related issues.

Reston, VA, US

• Managed worldwide telecom licensing group responsible for assuring compliance with national standards, contract terms and OEM procedures and requirements. Achieved ISO 9000 and CMM (Capability Maturity Model) level 5.
• Managed all licensing contracts, inventory, redistribution & recovery, maintenance and license fees, fiduciary accountability (chargebacks, budgets, and forecasting, and year-end close), producing a savings of over.