Premier Utility Services Contractor providing power delivery construction & maintenance services and storm restoration.

Responsible for managing key supplier diversity initiatives and leading team for Southern Company - Electric - Alabama Power, Georgia Power and Mississippi Power. Lead a hybrid connectional team across Southern by creating strategies and initiatives to substantially develop and grow local and diverse businesses for core business (Power Delivery and Power Generation) in the utility industry.

Responsible for developing and executing supplier diversity initiatives for Alabama Power's service territory. Manage a team that includes supplier diversity concerns, compliance directives for supply chain management organization and supplier relations for our key suppliers. Serve on the Southern Company system wide council to help strengthen our collaborative efforts for advancing supplier diversity in our supply chain pipeline.Responsible for providing strategic direction and oversight for Alabama Power’s supplier diversity department. Ensure company is exceeding diverse company spend goals and compliance obligations as set forth by the General Services Administration (GSA) and Small Business Administration (SBA). Direct a staff focused on accurately reporting supplier diversity spend and submitting compliance performance reports including increasing tier 2 opportunities for the company. Developed and implemented strategy for team to create business opportunities for small and diverse companies, specifically, businesses who are certified and located within a historically underutilized business area (HUBzone), veteran-owned, classified as a small or small disadvantaged business, minority owned, woman-owned small business and service-disabled veteran owned.Leadership: WBEC South Board Member, SRMSDC Board Member, TWENTY inaugural board, Children's Village Board Member and AABE - Birmingham Chapter - President

Provide daily leadership, strategic direction and performance management for a team of contract agents and sourcing specialist responsible for cradle to grave contract focused on procurement, sourcing and contract management of major projects (over $1M) and high risk projects of SNC’s three nuclear facilities as well as A/E work associated with capital construction projects.• A key leader of the SNC Commercial & Compliance guidance– provides leadership and direction to ensure bidding practices & evaluations were consistent with Southern Company Contracts Manual, Supply Chain Policies & Procedures and business processes and negotiations are rigorously pursued and documented accordingly. • Completed major contract modifications and eliminated erroneous long standing business practices that resulted in cost savings for SNC.• Increased major maintenance, major projects and specialty projects bidding by 50% across the fleet.• Led SCM Cost-Savings Initiatives including accountability for aggressive cost-savings goals in the area of contracts & labor services, which produced $10 Million in cost savings.• Subject Matter Expert – commercial contracts T&Cs, including clauses associated with price & payment terms, cost-plus, T&M, firm price, escalation, per diem, and labor mark-ups, legal aspects of purchasing, including warranty, indemnity, insurance, liability, UCC, common law, dispute resolution, damages, and performance incentives.• Review, analyze and test key SOX controls for Compliance with corporate requirements.• Conduct refresher training on the contracting process for business unit customers• Led bidding process for SNC’s largest fleet contract for maintenance and modification services. Led a core team across SNC Fleet & SCS Labor Relations to manage legacy contract transition.• Served as SNC co-load on contractor union labor team.

Provide leadership for Supply Chain Management activities for Vogtle 3&4 and nuclear development projects.

Managed various customer accounts from an IT and 2nd level & 3rd level technical perspective