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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 Corporate Administration. Architect for the streamline of Third Party management systems including due diligence, contract negotiation and management, ongoing monitoring, and reporting. Recruited by another team to consult on redesigning vendor management into a global governance team.• 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 terms as needed, improving termination terms.• 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 build of Vendor Risk Assessments, Due Diligence, Vendor System of Record, and Ongoing Monitoring.• 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 purchasing financial controls versa $750M budgeted dollars.• 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 quality improvement by 30%.• 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 continuity reviews. • 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 synergies, senior level presentations and reporting. Reducing risk by an estimated 30%.• 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 improved policies and vendor governance to improve the management of all vendors. Recognition of outstanding performance and program leadership skills.• 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.

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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 $20M annually.